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Snow in March?

  • 24-02-2015 11:13pm
    #1
    dublinbusdude
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭


    Can anyone picture Snow for March coming??

    I think it will!!


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  • #2
    ole ole
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭ole ole


    no chance


  • #3
    dublinbusdude
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭dublinbusdude


    ole ole wrote: »
    no chance

    Why??


  • #4
    JanuarySnowstor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Both Sunday and Monday night look likely.
    Indeed Monday could see frequent snow showers across the country.


  • #5
    Saganist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Didn't we have snow last March ? I remember a small covering in North Dublin, around mid month.


  • #6
    bpmurray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    Monday & Tuesday look like a possibility, although no more than a sprinkle.


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  • #7
    mike2084
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭mike2084


    Not in Ireland, but back in 1987 the Cheltenham Gold Cup was delayed by 45 minutes due to a snow storm. Note how white the back straight is.

    http://youtu.be/UXBlsEesDtw


  • #8
    vandriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭vandriver


    March 29th/30th 2010 were snowy.


  • #9
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,968 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    We get snow in March almost every year but it's usually just night time dustings or snow showers that melt on impact. It's very rare to see lying snow for more than a day in March. Parts of Northern Ireland saw an exceptional event 2 years ago but those are once in a life time style of events and certainly something Ive never seen around here.


  • #10
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    vandriver wrote: »
    March 29th/30th 2010 were snowy.

    That was 2013. Last year was lovely that weekend. I know for certain as I was cycling to/from Galway at the time


  • #11
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    There are indications on tonights models that the POV is about to start breaking down. That could spell a rather wintery March for us.


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  • #12
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,934 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Two charts OP

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    archives-2013-3-12-0-0.png

    Brought very heavy snow showers to the east.

    To put it in perspective that is colder air than we had throughout both record winters in 2010. Of course the sun delivers that bit more energy in March so whilst at night snow settles quickly during the day it melts quickly.

    Could happen again...eventually.


  • #13
    gerrybhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭gerrybhoy


    Snowed around Paddys day a couple of year ago


  • #14
    vandriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭vandriver


    Orion wrote: »
    That was 2013. Last year was lovely that weekend. I know for certain as I was cycling to/from Galway at the time

    It may well have been snowy in 2013,but the photo I have of my kids pelting each other with snowballs is dated 30/03/10.


  • #15
    ThaitaniumM
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭ThaitaniumM


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    March 2013, Blanchardstown.


  • #16
    sparrowcar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭sparrowcar


    ThaitaniumM wrote: »
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    March 2013, Blanchardstown.

    I remember this pic/back garden from a few years ago. That mannequin put the fear of God in half the weather boardsies in a snowy night pic you posted... Would you not hide that creepy thing :-)


  • #17
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I remember being forced off the Maamturks on March 18th 2013 by a snow storm.

    This was Lugnaquilla on 1st March 2014 too ...

    z008k.jpg


  • #18
    Sunny Dayz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    vandriver wrote: »
    March 29th/30th 2010 were snowy.

    You could be right there. We went to the Giant's Causeway that Friday (which was 2nd April and was Good Friday). We were travelling from Donegal across to Giant's Causeway and we encountered some high snow piled up along the side of the road in the North and we were near turning back.


  • #19
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,947 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    We had snow in March in 2006. I remember coz I was in 5th year and we had exchange students in our class. One of the girls had never seen real snow before so the teacher let us out to play in it. I can't find the pictures I had now!


  • #20
    Iancar29
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    March 27th 2013 , D11 :)
    340100.jpg


  • #21
    Saganist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    March 27th 2013 , D11 :)
    340100.jpg[IMG][/img]

    Great photo, used to live just around the corner.


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  • #22
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    Gonzo wrote: »
    We get snow in March almost every year but it's usually just night time dustings or snow showers that melt on impact. It's very rare to see lying snow for more than a day in March.
    You don't remember the first week of March 2001? (too young? :eek:) There was a very decent fall on Feb 28th, about 10-15cm maybe?, and it lay for the best part of a week and only thawed in places that got the sun all day as far as I can remember. I also remember recording temps as low as -8c that week.
    http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/2001/brack/bracka20010228.gif


  • #23
    hotwhiskey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭hotwhiskey


    I posted this a couple a years ago, But I decided to post again as some people think snow in march is rare has hen's teeth.

    I started on a new building site first week in May '97. Only the steel work of the new factory was in place I started the block work that week. Never forget it. We had no cover from the heavy snow showers that pounded us all day especially on the 6th in a biting North wind. Wind chill was -4 -5 that day if I can find the data again I will post it.

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  • #24
    WheatenBriar
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    There was a good 6 to 8 inches of snow that stayed on the ground for a week in March 1978 across South Dublin,Wicklow and at its worst in East Wexford at sea level
    I'll let anyone who has the time to dig out the charts as I don't have the date,I just know it fell over 2 or 3 days and on the second day it was awful heavy
    Ice days aswell,yes in March that lasted a week.


  • #25
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,968 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    WheatenBriar wrote: »
    There was a good 6 to 8 inches of snow that stayed on the ground for a week in March 1978 across South Dublin,Wicklow and at its worst in East Wexford at sea level
    I'll let anyone who has the time to dig out the charts as I don't have the date,I just know it fell over 2 or 3 days and on the second day it was awful heavy
    Ice days aswell,yes in March that lasted a week.

    I take it that during that spell of 1978 the IOM shadow played hell on North Dublin, Meath and Louth:)?


  • #26
    WheatenBriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭WheatenBriar


    Gonzo wrote: »
    I take it that during that spell of 1978 the IOM shadow played hell on North Dublin, Meath and Louth:)?
    'Twas possibly a weather front,so not sure-I was too young to note the wind direction but there was no drifting,just a solid fall
    I can remember the tv news had footage from Gorey co Wexford and it was plastered,similar to here


  • #27
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    St patricks day 2013 we had snow in balbriggan,it didn't stick for too long but its certainly possible to have snow in march


  • #28
    M.T. Cranium
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    Current charts are showing thicknesses around 520 dm over much of Ireland on Tuesday in strong westerly winds. This could lead to blizzards over higher ground in the northwest and widespread snow showers elsewhere.


  • #29
    pauldry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,183 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Personally I reckon wer in for a cold march until the last week

    Snow on occasions but mostly blowy non impact stuff starting sunday night


  • #30
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    I think today answered all the earlier questions.
    Yes it is snowing in March:)


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  • #31
    Schadenfreudia
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    Snow in March is common! In fact, it snows more frequently in March than in December.

    https://weatherspark.com/averages/28818/Dublin-Leinster-Ireland

    I think 2010 with the extremely rare November snow has skewed people's view of the normal pattern.


  • #32
    youreadthat
    Registered Users Posts: 761 ✭✭✭youreadthat


    The data you posted suggests that the chance of snow on the ground is far less than in December though.


  • #33
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,968 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    also the temp can quite regularly get below -2C. Night time temps are -1 to -4C are quite common here in winter. -6C and beyond is a bit more extreme alright.

    In the summer I would change 22C to 24C with 25C+ temps very rare in Ireland, some summers we don't make it past 24C at all.


  • #34
    redsteveireland
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    Snow in March? How much do you want?


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=94532838&postcount=687


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