Severe Weather Snow / Ice Weds 28 FEB ( Onwards ) READ MOD NOTE POST#1

DominoDub · 02-03-2018 2:34am

The storm is tracking very slowly unlike our normal Atlantic ones.

Possible ideas in running my late night head before bed are:

Emma is having a great old battle with the east wind and the Jetstream.

The east wind is slowly grinding away at her outer bands ..holding her in position.

Thus why the main precipitation belts are slow in making it to the Irish Coast.

Will the East Wind or Emma win out ..or is the freak Jetstream the joker in the pack.

Looks like It will be a long game

sryanbruen · 02-03-2018 2:35am

I just had lightning! :eek:

jay0109 · 02-03-2018 2:35am

D6W here. Been snowing since 6pm but different to the snow of the past few days. This stuff is wet but still building up nicely

d'Oracle · 02-03-2018 2:35am

Lissavane wrote: »

It's not an accident. Professional forecasters were sceptical about this fiasco. Yes, it's cold. The government have sought to amplify the thing in order to manipulte public opinion. Met Eireann have capitulated.

Nope.

Spanish Eyes · 02-03-2018 2:35am

So it didn't snow in your own back garden/village/town/whatever. Be happy with that, you won't have to deal with it and the aftermath.

I know some are disappointed so far, but it ain't over yet, just starting really.

The Red Alert could in no way be confined to every town and village in the path of the weather system could it?

Personally I think it was a good call. Got most people in safe and sound.

And tonight some places have been downgraded to Orange alert.

Forecasting is not infallible, but I think a good job was done all round.

Assetbacked · 02-03-2018 2:35am

Holy ****! Power blown all around our apartment block and the others I can see. That’s a huge lot of apartments by 3Arena now without power. Alarms going off everywhere.

Ray269 · 02-03-2018 2:36am

Just lost power. Near bakers corner

NMB · 02-03-2018 2:36am

Electricity just went out !!

snowstorm445 · 02-03-2018 2:36am

Lost power in Ringsend.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 02-03-2018 2:36am

budgemook wrote: »

It was late but this is definitely not over hyped in Dublin 7 / Ashtown. Just went outside there, could barely get the porch door open and at the rate the snow is accumulating beside my car it will be covered by morning. Snow is pelting on side ways and showing no sign of slowing down. I'd love to go for a proper walk but I may go to bed! Setting the alarm for 6am as I don't want to miss too much of this.

The differences across Dublin are amazing. Coastal area here and not much happening.

SleetAndSnow · 02-03-2018 2:37am

wow dublin looks to be taking a serious hammering, keep reports coming!

Anybody able to forecast anything for us down south? Debating going to bed, if I do and I wake up there the chance it will be raining and gone

laugh · 02-03-2018 2:37am

Wow did the whole city go down?

Rala_ · 02-03-2018 2:37am

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

RAW data from multiple permutations on the GFS , ECM , its the mean ,

Another words outside of 2-3 days there pretty useless in normal weather ,

Type of complex systems were having now , 12 hours :pac::pac::pac:

Gonna understand I knew what that meant

Subutai · 02-03-2018 2:38am

Lost power here in Pearse Street, only for a few seconds though.

Rougies · 02-03-2018 2:38am

sryanbruen wrote: »

I just had lightning! :eek:

Assetbacked wrote: »

Holy ****! Power blown all around our apartment block and the others I can see. That’s a huge lot of apartments by 3Arena now without power. Alarms going off everywhere.

You're in that area sryan?

StringerBell · 02-03-2018 2:38am

Not much happening here in Waterford either where I am, thinking we are gonna miss the worst of it which is both good and bad.

Assetbacked · 02-03-2018 2:38am

This is insane. From whatsapp and here it appears most if not all of Dublin is now out of power.

Aspiring · 02-03-2018 2:39am

Still power here in D4 luckily

ricero · 02-03-2018 2:39am

Power gone in sallynoggin

sryanbruen · 02-03-2018 2:39am

Rougies wrote: »

You're in that area sryan?

I'm in Dublin 13, Donaghmede/Baldoyle/Clongriffin general area.

No power cut.... yet for me.

Daniel2590 · 02-03-2018 2:39am

Still have power in my area, my friend lost power around Johnstown Rd. (D18)

wyndham · 02-03-2018 2:40am

Ifsc all powered down. Talbot St area all down. Seems everywhere is gone

Sephiroth_dude · 02-03-2018 2:40am

Flurries of snow here in ballincollig, cork, -2, no real wind yet anyway, hopefully it stays like that.

wazzer1 · 02-03-2018 2:40am

Gremlin wrote: »

Seeing lightning flashes in North Dublin, no thunder tho.

Power outage I think

P.lane78 · 02-03-2018 2:40am

Trump did this ðŸ˜Œ

prinzeugen · 02-03-2018 2:40am

NMB wrote: »

Harold’s cross road

Did you go as far as the Maxoil garage? Wonder if its open. Running low on smokes!

Trebor176 · 02-03-2018 2:41am

Power is still here in Clondalkin. Though, the lights flickered a few moments ago.

otherfrog · 02-03-2018 2:41am

I wonder if these are lightning strikes people are seeing or whether they're the transformers in substations tripping / other mains shorts? They can cause huge bright arcs.

No strikes are showing on the lightning map I use, but it's by no means perfect.

random_banter · 02-03-2018 2:41am

Grand Canal Dock ESB gone too. 3 signal is terrible here so can’t check the PowerCheck app.

Spanish Eyes · 02-03-2018 2:41am

Flickering lights here. Hate that. Just boiled the kettle in case it's all over and I think I might just throw a shot of brandy into the coffee now. I'm worth it!

Chin chin.

spoonerhead · 02-03-2018 2:42am

Power gone in D12, Road still bright with the snow

pad199207 · 02-03-2018 2:42am

Lights just flickered here in Naas. Feck

YanSno · 02-03-2018 2:42am

Gales with snow grains in swords. Lights been flickering the last few mins.

davidsr20 · 02-03-2018 2:42am

Blizzard light snow Galway east. Epic. Our red warning extended too.

sicknotexi · 02-03-2018 2:42am

I think we are in an ice storm here, a ****ty mofo ice-storm. I like snow, kill me.

sabat · 02-03-2018 2:42am

D4 is like a scene from The Road

RiseToMe · 02-03-2018 2:42am

Still have power here in Santry, but with a baby I've gotten up and filled two flasks of hot water in case we see power loss

Calibos · 02-03-2018 2:42am

ThaitaniumM wrote: »

Still a long way to go yet, Emma's main band has yet to give us her heavy load :pac:

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Which is the main band? My in Bray precipitation has gotten a lot less intense the last half hour when I was expected it to get more intense. Also, its still just snow grains that are simply not accumulating in my corner of Bray. 5 hours in with literally a cm to show for it

grenouille1966 · 02-03-2018 2:43am

The snowfall in West Dublin is more overall than 2010....a lot more now with some spectacular drifts forming and driving snow.

Where are you, Kerry??

SleetAndSnow · 02-03-2018 2:43am

As if this night in cork city couldn't get sadder, some idiots came into my garden and knocked my snowman, just saw them do it and all. took the hat too.

coffeepls · 02-03-2018 2:43am

Assetbacked wrote: »

This is insane. From whatsapp and here it appears most if not all of Dublin is now out of power.

On the powercheck esb app it’s saying there’s a outage in ringsend at 1.34am estimated restore @ 5am

hawkwing · 02-03-2018 2:43am

Still power in D7. Has not changed since 6pm from ice pellets,long night but far from an '82 yet...

sdanseo · 02-03-2018 2:44am

The Temple Bar Webcam went down at the same time as the reports from Ringsend/IFSC

Looks like a really major blackout in the city

ps200306 · 02-03-2018 2:44am

Power just gone in Dalkey. Using the last of my phone juice to post this

Donegal Storm · 02-03-2018 2:44am

Dublin Airport tonight

https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/status/969368265662267393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rte.ie%2Fnews%2Fireland%2F2018%2F0301%2F944318-live-weather%2F

david75 · 02-03-2018 2:44am

Central Dublin is power out. Even the light on the spire is out.

Rougies · 02-03-2018 2:44am

sryanbruen wrote: »

I'm in Dublin 13, Donaghmede/Baldoyle/Clongriffin general area.

No power cut.... yet for me.

I meant what you saw as lightning was probably power grid related.

beefburrito · 02-03-2018 2:44am

RiseToMe wrote: »

Still have power here in Santry, but with a baby I've gotten up and filled two flasks of hot water in case we see power loss

Oh I remember those days, you'll have a heart warming story for the grandkids...

My boy's 17 now, he was out making a snowman with his dog earlier today....

novemberbravo · 02-03-2018 2:44am

I called it rain earlier. I was wrong and I admit that now. Dublin 18 is under a lot of snow. A lot

hawkwing · 02-03-2018 2:44am

grenouille1966 wrote: »

The snowfall in West Dublin is more overall than 2010....a lot more now with some spectacular drifts forming and driving snow.

Where are you, Kerry??

No it is not,yet.

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