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What a year of weather !!
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The past few months have certainly been fascinating, obviously there was the late and extreme winter but the way we essentially skipped Spring and went straight from winter to summer was also interesting, from no growth and snow on the ground to everything in full bloom within a few weeks. There's probably been more clear sunny days since late April than in the past 5 years combined and an almost total lack of wet days.
Now if only we could get a massive slow moving supercell to travel across the country when this spell ends it'd cap things off nicely
In my 30 odd years living here I've yet to see a truly impressive thunderstorm 0 -
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Artane2002 wrote: »I wonder if we'll see a notable tornado this year. I hope not because tornadoes scare me!!
I've always been utterly fascinated by tornadoes (anyone else watch the Nature's Rage videos from Readers Digest as a kid? ) but they now scare me a lot less than they used to. Not because they're any less dangerous or powerful, but because science has come so far since the 1990s. In both that RD documentary and the film Twister, also made in the mid-90s, the point is repeatedly made that tornadoes were so deadly in part because the average tornado warning was in the region of 3-5 minutes for a given location. NOAA now cites 13 minutes as the average, which is close to the "holy grail" of a 15 minute warning which is cited in both the documentary and film from the 90s.
It also feels like they're now able to give much broader, "macro" tornado forecasts, less in the sense of "A tornado is going to hit Cabra in the next twenty minutes" and more so "A dangerous supercell is forming over the Northwest inner city, we advise evacuation as tornadoes are a major likelihood throughout the day". That seems to be the approach taken in Tornado Alley in the US these days - they differentiate between a "tornado watch" and a "tornado warning", which is definitely a newer development.
I imagine the smartphone era also makes it a lot harder to miss or fail to notice a tornado warning - I don't know this, but I'd be incredibly surprised if there wasn't some kind of local message service in those regions which allows the local government or met office to beam urgent alerts directly to peoples' phones.
In short, tornadoes are still an extremely dangerous force of nature, but the "turn up suddenly and entirely unannounced" nature of them has diminished somewhat with modern science.0 -
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Billcarson wrote: »The icing on the cake would be if we could get a white Xmas 2018.
I vote we start ramping the minute this heatwave is over 0 -
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Donegal Storm wrote: »The past few months have certainly been fascinating, obviously there was the late and extreme winter but the way we essentially skipped Spring and went straight from winter to summer was also interesting, from no growth and snow on the ground to everything in full bloom within a few weeks. There's probably been more clear sunny days since late April than in the past 5 years combined and an almost total lack of wet days.
Now if only we could get a massive slow moving supercell to travel across the country when this spell ends it'd cap things off nicely In my 30 odd years living here I've yet to see a truly impressive thunderstorm
Had a 72 hour one in Donegal some years ago..0 -
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M.T. Cranium wrote: »I was just thinking, from Ophelia's visit in mid-October of 2017 to the current heat wave, we have seen quite a year of weather in Ireland (and it's not even a year in total yet).
Perhaps I am forgetting a few other events, but certainly the cold spells in late February, the record snowfalls around 27 Feb to 1 Mar and now this heat wave threatening to set new records, all in one period of less than a year, rather unusual in total. I guess from Debbie (Sept 1961) to the winter of 1962-63 was not a lot longer interval but there was no notable heat wave anywhere in that time frame.
Would you consider any other events from August 2017 on to be worth including, since otherwise this year can collect more notoriety all the way to October 2018.
I think that windstorm where Knock had the 84 knot gust was rather unusual too, on 2 Jan if I remember right, then later in January came Frederike but that was more of a blast in eastern England and especially the Netherlands.
MT - in terms of excitement and weather around the globe, could not have gone far wrong with Ireland the last 9 months.
Extraordinary. Even the British are jealous.
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The Cold spell at the end of 2009/start of 2010 was worse than the year later for me.
The lake at Hodson bay in Lough Ree froze over so that we could hit golf balls out onto the lake. I'll never forget the sound of the balls as they bounced off the ice. We did it a few times in and around the Christmas period and it was so much fun. One day, the Athlone Sub Aqua club were practicing ice dives and re-emerged from the ice about 300 yards out into the lake. They encouraged us to hit golf balls at them and then slid around the ice trying to catch them as they approached. They then gathered up a few dozen balls and brought them back to us....... only for us to hit them out again
the cold spell at the end of 2010 did not freeze the lake for nearly as long or as far out. Only one or two days was it frozen enough for us to hit balls and even then, the balls were breaking through the ice as they landed on occasion.
I think the second spell lasts in the memory longer as it was more recent, but the first spell was bitterly cold.
Athlone golf club closed early in Autumn because the flooding was so severe it rose the levels of the lake to record highs. And as soon as the rains subsided, the cold hit. We had no golf for 4-5 months that winter between that autumn/winter. (which would be unheard of for Athlone as the drainage is typically excellent and it rarely closes for rain events)
This golf related story is especially for you M.T as I know you play
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The Cold spell at the end of 2009/start of 2010 was worse than the year later for me.
The lake at Hodson bay in Lough Ree froze over so that we could hit golf balls out onto the lake. I'll never forget the sound of the balls as they bounced off the ice. We did it a few times in and around the Christmas period and it was so much fun. One day, the Athlone Sub Aqua club were practicing ice dives and re-emerged from the ice about 300 yards out into the lake. They encouraged us to hit golf balls at them and then slid around the ice trying to catch them as they approached. They then gathered up a few dozen balls and brought them back to us....... only for us to hit them out again
the cold spell at the end of 2010 did not freeze the lake for nearly as long or as far out. Only one or two days was it frozen enough for us to hit balls and even then, the balls were breaking through the ice as they landed on occasion.
I think the second spell lasts in the memory longer as it was more recent, but the first spell was bitterly cold.
Athlone golf club closed early in Autumn because the flooding was so severe it rose the levels of the lake to record highs. And as soon as the rains subsided, the cold hit. We had no golf for 4-5 months that winter between that autumn/winter. (which would be unheard of for Athlone as the drainage is typically excellent and it rarely closes for rain events)
This golf related story is especially for you M.T as I know you play
Seen the Shannon freeze at Lough Ree, have seen it flood to its highest in Athlone & looking at the Shannon today I have never seen water levels so low for this time of year0 -
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