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

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    #4262
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    Goose81 wrote: »
    That's exactly what it like outside my gaf, it's rain

    It's exactly what it's like for me here, too, but there's been a steady - but minimal - accumulation of snow on ground and cars. Getting heavier too (south Dublin)


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    #4263
    piplip87
    Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭piplip87


    My girlfriend annoyed because of my cover of Purple Rain..... Yellow snow yellow snow I only want to see eat my yellow snow yellow snow


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    #4264
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Started here again just now. Fairly heavy as well


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    #4265
    Rock Lesnar
    Registered Users Posts: 11,880 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Finally stopped snowing here, more sleet/rain here now


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    #4266
    policy75
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭policy75


    mickmackey1 wrote: »
    Understand your frustration but places in Offaly and Longford seem to have been plastered. Very strange weather system.
    We have about 12 inches of snow here. It was suggested on the technical thread on boatds.ie and happened. But then the 4om watershed of utter catasprophe didn't quite happen


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    #4267
    sicknotexi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭sicknotexi


    I underestimated my thirst. Could do with another few cans.


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    #4268
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Times like this I wish had one of those Dermot Bannon houses with floor to ceiling windows, massive solid fuel stove, giant tv, one of them massive corner couches... and the money to heat it all and enjoy the spectacle! :)


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    #4269
    Daniel2590
    Registered Users Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭Daniel2590


    Visibility has been <200m for the last 2 hours or so with heavy pellets falling


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    #4270
    aidanodr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    https://twitter.com/EoinBearla/status/969345031311167488


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    #4271
    Mobhi1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Mobhi1


    The snow seems to be less like snow now. Some of the snow seems to have disappeared. It's now -0.4C/-2.2C which is a higher dewpoint than I've seen for a while. D11.


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    #4272
    DaithiMa
    Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭DaithiMa


    Dublin 15 taken by my sis. Can't believe I am stranded out West for this haha!! Hopefully we will get some action later


    p68ygFm.jpg?1


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    #4273
    konman
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭konman


    MJohnston wrote: »
    It's not necessarily evaporating - more likely it is getting blown away to a place where it will get stuck (up against a wall or fence, etc.) and that's what snowdrifts are.

    If the snow doesn't melt and it's light snow (as it has been for most of the snowfall over the last couple of days), then it'll act just like sand or whatever with the wind. Heavier, wetter flakes of snow would take a lot more effort to budge, but the light stuff just blows away.

    My back garden is like a demonstration of this in action - one side has a snow depth of less than 1cm, the other side has a depth of about 15cm - the wind is drifting it from one side to the other.

    I was looking at it outside actually evaporate on hitting the ground, very little wind and no drifting, mostly 1.5 inches all over. Should have recorded it. thanks for the reply.


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    #4274
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    bigger flakes starting to appear now mixed with the pellets
    checked the waterfordweather page and temp is dropping along with dew point


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    #4275
    NMB
    Registered Users Posts: 314 ✭✭NMB


    Dublin 6 we have lift off and if I walk 12 meters over a bridge so does Dublin 8 !!


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    #4276
    sicknotexi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭sicknotexi


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Started here again just now. Fairly heavy as well

    Here is a great place.


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    #4277
    Paddycrumlinman
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Paddycrumlinman


    Aspiring wrote: »
    Hopefully it's not too cold for snow
    This drives me mad, tell that to the folks living in North Dakota who, when it's -30 degrees C at any given time in winter and they wake to 6 ft of snow and are totally snowed in.


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    #4278
    KingBobby
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭KingBobby


    Apologies for the o/t but whats the best way to upload pictures and video?

    Its starting to howl here in D16 at 260m


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    #4279
    mickmackey1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,288 ✭✭✭mickmackey1


    policy75 wrote: »
    We have about 12 inches of snow here. It was suggested on the technical thread on boatds.ie and happened. But then the 4om watershed of utter catasprophe didn't quite happen
    Yeah sorry, misread your post. The 4pm deadline was a farce.


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    #4280
    JJayoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Could imagine a lot of roof damage if we get this metre of snow. Huge amount of weight


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    #4281
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,518 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Latest snow depth charts still saying dublin will have huge totals but still just ice pellets here. How could this possibly come anywhere close to a metre even if these ice pellets keep coming down until 6pm tomorrow it'll only be 3 or 4 inches Id say

    Please try reading the explanations people are posting - the snow is drifting to extremes because of the high winds, meaning if you aren't seeing accumulations in your garden - sorry but you'll have to hope for some heavy, wet snow instead. Those accumulations will be somewhere nearby, probably burying some poor house with an end wall or something.

    This isn't our usual snowstorm where it falls with little-or-no snow and comes straight down, and you get basically even distribution.


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    #4282
    FizzleSticks
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    #4283
    kn2k10
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    DaithiMa wrote: »
    Dublin 15 taken by my sis. Can't believe I am stranded out West for this haha!! Hopefully we will get some action later

    Is that a cat or a snow spirit on the inside of that window?


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    #4284
    topcat72
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭topcat72


    Slow gradual accumulation here, suburban Limerick city, snowing softly since 9pm. No wind at all...


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    #4285
    Goose81
    Registered Users Posts: 4,171 ✭✭✭Goose81


    I better get at least 12 deep inches before I hit the hay tonight or il be fierce cross tomorrow am


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    #4286
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    aidanodr wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/EoinBearla/status/969345031311167488

    And that folks is why a red alert was called and people told to stay indoors. Puts all the "what's the fuss" posts into perspective.


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    #4287
    ZeroSum76
    Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭ZeroSum76


    Calibos wrote: »
    compsys wrote: »
    It feels like you're over exaggerating. You just need to relax a bit.

    I'm right beside the sea too in Monkstown and it's been "crappy ice pellets" for the past three hours also.

    However, when I look out closely at the road and the cars I can see that it's definitely leading to accumulations. Even if "proper" snow didn't arrive at all tonight I'd say the level of accumulations would be quite high.

    Also, if you look close enough, you'll see that it is (very fine) snow that's falling. Admittedly it would be nice to see a few big, proper flakes falling. But this is Ireland after all and we're beside the sea and it's already into spring.

    The wind alone would almost warrant a warning at this stage.

    I'm not complaining about warning levels or anything like that. Simply frustrated at literally zero accumulation in my corner of Bray after 3 hours of this on top of frustration at that damn easterly wind shift meaning we only got 5cm on Tuesday night and nothing at all on Wednesday.

    I genuinely am going to take a xanax now LOL :D
    People need to try to understand what it's like scrolling through thousands and thousands of posts about EPIC snow when there is none in their area and the promise of 1m is 6hrs late and apparently passed overhead (with folks further east reporting whiteout) and still nothing. As a fellow snow lover Calibos, I stand with you in solidarity! 😀. Peeps we are not looking for symapthy please be gentle with us and understand our disappointment and frustration! I'll chuck a virtual snowball at you in the morning hopefully Calibos!


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    #4288
    NMB
    Registered Users Posts: 314 ✭✭NMB


    sryanbruen wrote: »
    Wikipedia article on this cold spell. :p

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_UK_and_Ireland_windstorm_season#Late_February_2018_European_cold_wave

    Sy you are so multitasking!! 😊😊😊😊


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    #4289
    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    JJayoo wrote: »
    Could imagine a lot of roof damage if we get this metre of snow. Huge amount of weight

    I'd imagine the strong wind would blow most of the snow off the roof


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    #4290
    nomdeboardie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭nomdeboardie


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Go out with a black jumper on and come back in and look at your sleeves, its snowing everywhere in dublin

    Its very strange acting precipitation though, the ground is clearly accumulating in D14 (only by a little bit, mind) but the car outside my house which was cleared of snow earlier in the day is still snow free now.
    Maybe blowing off?


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    #4291
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    MJohnston wrote: »
    Please try reading the explanations people are posting - the snow is drifting to extremes because of the high winds, meaning if you aren't seeing accumulations in your garden - sorry but you'll have to hope for some heavy, wet snow instead. Those accumulations will be somewhere nearby, probably burying some poor house with an end wall or something.

    This isn't our usual snowstorm where it falls with little-or-no snow and comes straight down, and you get basically even distribution.

    Our front garden is very exposed, walls are quite low, so accumulations huge just inside the walls but depth on the cars is only reducing due to the wind.

    Back garden on the other hand is much more sheltered and has a level accumulation of nearly a foot at this stage over the grass. This afternoon's footprints are nearly covered even though all we've had is the constant shnizzle since 4pm.

    The Temple Bar webcam needs a windscreen wiper :( - moisture all over the lens and snow building up on it.


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