Winter 2018/2019 - General Discussion

Very frosty and cloudy in Dublin 5.

Cold and damp here in Laois, no frost.

Dark and cold Galway/Tipperary border. Not a scrap of frost...again. I’m really counting on (hoping that) February brings some decent winter weather. Even a few good hard frosts would be something. Getting desperate at this stage.

davidsr20 wrote: »

Wtf is hoar frost lol

http://www.letmegooglethat.com/?q=Hoar+frost

:P:p

Nice sunrise this morning

KingJeremy wrote: »

I always thought of it as a “super” frost. Very heavy and thick. Could be wrong though. Whatever it is I wouldn’t mind seeing some of it around my way!

It's basically frost which picks up moisture,and it's almost like a frizzy plant....
Just grows and grows

Graces7 wrote: »

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Kind of three dimensional rather than flat...

Exactly, I remember it in 2010 it was amazing.

highdef wrote: »

As the streetlights are LED, the colour is so much nicer looking than the horrible orange sodium lamps that are slowly being replaced.

I very much disagree, am saddened to see the end of the Low pressure sodium lamps.

My god what a horrible day, just raining in Galway with no let up, and none any time soon. Met Eireann are saying "patchy light rain and drizzle", which is a fairly sizeable understatement.

highdef wrote: »

As the streetlights are LED, the colour is so much nicer looking than the horrible orange sodium lamps that are slowly being replaced.

Agreed. Our Snow photo's around the house at Christmas 2010 would have been so much nicer if the snow wasn't orange, especially the 3 inches of icing sugar snow capping the hedges around the perimeter. Our Sodium streetlamps were replaced with nice white LED's a year or two later and I looked forward to some day taking shots of the house with white instead of orange snow. Thought that day had come with the snow of Feb/Mar 2018 but it was not to be. 99% of the time living literally on the Seafront in Bray is the best place to be for so many reasons but in terms of the Snow its more often than not disappointing even compared to a few hundred metres further into Bray. The gales blew in salty sea spray with all that snow that acted as antifreeze up to about 500m inland so it never accumulated where I am beyond a dirty slushy 2 inch deep mess which also meant zero icing sugar accumulation on top of the hedge. Cousins 500m in from the Seafront and 50m higher that avoided the salty sea spray had 12 inches on the level and 3ft snow drifts in their gardens! Grrgghh!!

Heres my Orange snow capped hedges from Xmas 2010.

Looks like we got away with okay weather in Dublin 5/9 then, mostly cloudy with the odd sunny spell.