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Snow 1982

  • 22-01-2009 12:19pm
    #1
    MrBosco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭MrBosco


    1st post people here :-)

    This is my back garden in Blanchardstown 1982.

    Great days :-)
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  • #2
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Real nice snaps, but there's a weather pictures sub forum, this really should of went in there.


    I think there's some pics of the same snow in Tallaght around my house somewhere, if i can find them I'll scan 'em in and post them.


  • #3
    MrBosco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭MrBosco


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Real nice snaps, but there's a weather pictures sub forum, this really should of went in there.


    I think there's some pics of the same snow in Tallaght around my house somewhere, if i can find them I'll scan 'em in and post them.

    Oops....newbie :-)


  • #4
    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,626 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Great photos:) I hope i get to experience a snow event like that one before my time is up.


  • #5
    forkassed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭forkassed


    :eek: wow


  • #6
    Supercell
    Registered Users Posts: 15,319 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Now THIS is what I remember as proper snow from my youth.
    Most people these days dont have any idea of the kind of snows this country can really get at this time of year.
    I remember that cold spell like it was yesterday.
    Two weeks of lying deep snow at sea level in Dalkey..hasnt happened again since and may not again in my life time..hope springs eternal though!!
    Moving to pictures forum for everyone's enjoyment :)
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



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  • #7
    sillybird
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭sillybird


    Great pics! I guess we can only hope and dream of snow like that again :)


  • #8
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Great pics - thanks for sharing.

    As Supercell said, this too is how I remember snow. Jumping off walls into snow drifts, etc. Our road was amazing in 1982 beacuse all the front garden walls (about 4 foot high), shrubs, cars, all disappeard under snow drifts so you simply had a lumpy blanket of snow house to house!

    Having experinced that, it is sometimes hard to get excited about a couple of mms of slushy wet snow.


  • #9
    homersimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭homersimpson


    Now thats a proper snowfall :eek::eek:


  • #10
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    You lucky son of a........ Just wow, now thats exactly what i dream of:D:D:(


  • #11
    B.E.S.T.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭B.E.S.T.


    Was that during the Christmas holidays?
    I think we got an extra week off because of it. Snowdrifts 6` high. It was mad.


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  • #12
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    B.E.S.T. wrote: »
    Was that during the Christmas holidays?
    I think we got an extra week off because of it. Snowdrifts 6` high. It was mad.

    It was at the begining of January, I think it started on a Sunday night/Monday morning just before schools were due to re-open. Schools closed for an extra week.

    One memory I have is that my parents had friends over the day before it started and I think the TV must have been on and there was mention of easterly gales, my parents friend said, oh we might get a bit of snow.....understatement of '82!


  • #13
    jonnner
    Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭jonnner


    Fantastic pictures! I must check if there are any photo's in my family.


  • #14
    Regina Witty Weirdo
    Posts: 0 ✭ Regina Witty Weirdo


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    It was at the begining of January, I think it started on a Sunday night/Monday morning just before schools were due to re-open. Schools closed for an extra week.
    It started on a wenesday night actually and the schools had opened[at least down here] on the tuesday.They didnt open on the thursday thats for sure or the friday or the whole of the following week :D
    It snowed here non stop untill saturday lunchtime complete with thundersnow.
    By the thursday night my 6ft tall Dad was waist deep in drifts.
    By friday morning our road had disappeared as the snow had blown over the ditches completely filling it in.
    The phones were working down here but no electrictity as the snow had frozen on the lines the thickness of a mug and just weighted them down.

    Up on the hills in the croghan area the drifts were up to the tops of the tree's,thats over 30ft high.
    Part of me was wishing it wouldnt be a once in a lifetime event but so far it has been.

    Having witnessed it,I'd agree it's hard to get excited over a few cm's but hey we do dont we!


  • #15
    forkassed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭forkassed


    I wasnt even born but i guess this chart shows the easterly gales that docarch refers to, so i'l be looking for charts like this one for the rest of my life.

    Rrea00119820109.gif


  • #16
    spadder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 985 ✭✭✭spadder


    Great pics, the "big snow" as it was known for years after. I remember building igloos, happy days.


  • #17
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Just checked - 9th Jan '82 was a Sunday - I'm still think snow started that night/on the Monday morning? BB could be correct, but that's my rcolection.


  • #18
    MrBosco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭MrBosco


    Glad you all enjoyed the pics....

    ah yes...if you notice...socks for gloves...socks for gloves :D

    Bullet proof!!!


  • #19
    Regina Witty Weirdo
    Posts: 0 ✭ Regina Witty Weirdo


    My recollection is of it starting on the wenesday night around 10pm here and then all that night,all day thursday,all night thursday night,all day friday,friday night untill it cleared around lunchtime on the saturday.


  • #20
    Regina Witty Weirdo
    Posts: 0 ✭ Regina Witty Weirdo


    And indeed here is the chart for the 10th which shows the artic high coming down.There was no blizzard that day-so I'd put it at wenesday night the 5th through to the 9th

    Rrea00119820110.gif


  • #21
    Regina Witty Weirdo
    Posts: 0 ✭ Regina Witty Weirdo


    http://www.hf.rim.or.jp/~kaji/cal/cal.cgi?1982

    Also according to that the 9th was a saturday not sunday meaning the artic high pushed down on the sunday which ties in with my recollection :)


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  • #22
    Woden
    Registered Users Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Woden


    Hehe. I was born on the 2nd Jan 82. Have heard a few times the story of the parents coming home from the hospital and the weather at the time.


  • #23
    soccerc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭soccerc


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It started on a wenesday night actually and the schools had opened[at least down here] on the tuesday.They didnt open on the thursday thats for sure or the friday or the whole of the following week :D
    It snowed here non stop untill saturday lunchtime complete with thundersnow.
    By the thursday night my 6ft tall Dad was waist deep in drifts.
    By friday morning our road had disappeared as the snow had blown over the ditches completely filling it in.
    The phones were working down here but no electrictity as the snow had frozen on the lines the thickness of a mug and just weighted them down.

    Up on the hills in the croghan area the drifts were up to the tops of the tree's,thats over 30ft high.
    Part of me was wishing it wouldnt be a once in a lifetime event but so far it has been.

    Having witnessed it,I'd agree it's hard to get excited over a few cm's but hey we do dont we!


    Snow started on the night of Thursday 7 Jan and by Friday mornig Dublin was a white out. Very vivid recollection of that day considering I recieved my first redundancy notice, still have the letter.


  • #24
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    Cool photos, hard to find any of the big snow. Might take a look at home for some photos.


  • #25
    I Love Tea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭I Love Tea


    I was only 7 at the time but I remember it. I remember my father having to open the front door with a shovel in his hand ready because as soon as it was opened the snow drift that had built up in the porch would just fall into the hallway


  • #26
    Steo46
    Registered Users Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Steo46


    there's no business like snow business,


  • #27
    cca13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭cca13


    Hello Mr. Bosco,

    I am working on a television commercial. We are looking for photos of kids in snow from the blizzard of 1982. We would like to license one of these photos to use in the commercial. Can you contact me as soon as possible at cca13@sbcglobal.net

    I am on a really tight deadline, so I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.
    Best,
    Colleen


  • #28
    jambofc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭jambofc


    was 12 and liveing in shankhill south dublin,what can i say never seen the like of it we were cut off from the world for a week shops ran out of stock esb was gone,have been liveing in hope of another 82 ever since and i get a feeling we are in for a snowy winter i can just feel it.
    heres an old boards thread on it

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054920482


    ah the memorys...........


  • #29
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    cca13 wrote: »
    Hello Mr. Bosco,

    I am working on a television commercial. We are looking for photos of kids in snow from the blizzard of 1982. We would like to license one of these photos to use in the commercial. Can you contact me as soon as possible at cca13@sbcglobal.net

    I am on a really tight deadline, so I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.
    Best,
    Colleen

    I'm guessing thats the Vodafone ad thats on now.


  • #30
    amdublin
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 20,644 CMod ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    And looks like they didn't use Mr Bosco's snap :(

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1xQ3A7Ze0

    Personally I think the pic they went with is not half as good as Mr Bosco's.

    And why reference the average snow in 81 compared with the Big Snow in 82 :confused:


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  • #31
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    amdublin wrote: »
    And looks like they didn't use Mr Bosco's snap :(

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1xQ3A7Ze0

    Personally I think the pic they went with is not half as good as Mr Bosco's.

    And why reference the average snow in 81 compared with the Big Snow in 82 :confused:

    Yeah, every time that ad comes on we're all saying "wasn't that 82?" How could they get that wrong!?


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