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white christmasses in ireland

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  • 30-10-2013 6:23pm
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    s.m
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    need some help with this i know since 1961 we've had 17 white christmasses in ireland ( 1961,1962,1964,1966,1970,1980,1984,1990,1993,1995,1998,1999,2000,
    2001,2004,2009,2010 )
    but can anyone think of ones prior to this ?


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    maquiladora
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    1950, 1956.


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    Hal1
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    2013 :pac:.


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    Calibos
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    I take it those stats for the most part represent bookmakers definitions or the top of lugnaquilla?

    I certainly don't remember more than 2 in my 40 lifetime, one of which being 2010. (60's events excepted of course)


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    maquiladora
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    Calibos wrote: »
    I take it those stats for the most part represent bookmakers definitions or the top of lugnaquilla?

    I certainly don't remember more than 2 in my 40 lifetime, one of which being 2010. (60's events excepted of course)

    Page 4.

    http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/SnowfallAnal.pdf


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    Mesut Ozil
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    I remember 2004, it only really hit the north east. Had a nice drunk snowball fight on Christmas Day.


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    Calibos
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    Page 4.

    http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/SnowfallAnal.pdf

    I'm such a NIMBY ! :D


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    s.m
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭s.m


    Calibos wrote: »
    I'm such a NIMBY ! :D

    well i can agree with your original stament as i can't recall christmas day in 1990 having any snow but it was very stormy and 1998 was mild
    apart from 2004,2009 and 2010 the only other white ones i remember were 1980,1993 and 1995


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    mickmackey1
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    SnowfallAnal

    interesting...


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    Mesut Ozil
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    mickmackey1 wrote: »
    interesting...

    I've heard of yellow snow. but I don't want to guess what colour anal-snow is.


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    s.m
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭s.m


    Mesut Ozil wrote: »
    I've heard of yellow snow. but I don't want to guess what colour anal-snow is.

    you could say mr brown came to town with jack frost


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    Blizzard 2010
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    Page 4.

    http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/SnowfallAnal.pdf
    Good find


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    Danno
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    1994 was technically a white Christmas as snow laid on the ground past midnight going between the 24th and 25th. It was all melted however come Christmas morning first light.


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    s.m
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭s.m


    Danno wrote: »
    1994 was technically a white Christmas as snow laid on the ground past midnight going between the 24th and 25th. It was all melted however come Christmas morning first light.

    1994 ?
    i could swear it was a mild one


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    snowstorm2013
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    I dont recall Christmas 1994 being white, well not in north Co. Sligo anyway. In fact recollection is of a mild wet spell. There was a short spell of heavy snow in early March here in 1995... could that be where the confusion is coming from? 1995 had a light snowfall on Christmas Eve afternoon that was followed by bitterly cold weather for a number of days. The next white Christmas Day here wasn't until 2010, although it was lying snow not fresh snow falling on the day itself. A heavy snowfall on the 27th December 2000 was a tad to late for a white Christmas that year.


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    pauldry
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    odds on a white christmas for 2013 only 3/1 at present

    usually 7/1

    paddy power prices

    I think its coz its cold this last week

    about to get a good bit milder though overall with just a few cold snaps

    next week could see 15 or 16c


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    amen
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    There was a white christmas in Galway in 2004. Snowed around 07:45am and it stuck on the ground until mid afternoon.

    Enough to make a snowman.


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    Danno
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    s.m wrote: »
    1994 ?
    i could swear it was a mild one

    Apologies, 1993 it was... as the years go on, they tend to blur into each other! :o


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    Blizzard 2010
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    pauldry wrote: »
    odds on a white christmas for 2013 only 3/1 at present

    usually 7/1

    paddy power prices

    I think its coz its cold this last week

    about to get a good bit milder though overall with just a few cold snaps

    next week could see 15 or 16c
    Ladbrookes are offering 5/1 on a white christmas in dublin


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    DellyBelly
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    2013 :p Ha Ha


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    s.m
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭s.m


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    2013 :p Ha Ha

    yeah of course it'll be :rolleyes:


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