The weather thread

Yep, still snowing away here and has been for the last couple of hours at least, non-stop.

I've a lot of driving to do tomorrow - I'm hoping for a gloriously sunny afternoon to melt it all, though...

In the style of jonhfás, the view from a bedroom window...

And from another window. Not sure if the rams are visible - poor feckers. Apparently they are happy enough in this weather.

Very heavy rain here now.

johnfás wrote:

Very heavy rain here now.

Same here. It's very dispiriting. All the lovely morning snow has been washed away and the roads are covered in water which'll freeze over tonight.

Finally, that post all you global warming sceptics have been waiting for... Jan 0.7oC colder than average (Dublin airport), coldest since 2001 country wide.

Average for feb so far... 1.3oC. Average: 5oC.

Admittedly, this will probably change... it can only get warmer???

expat girl wrote:

Finally, that post all you global warming sceptics have been waiting for... Jan 0.7oC colder than average (Dublin airport), coldest since 2001 country wide.

Average for feb so far... 1.3oC. Average: 5oC.

Admittedly, this will probably change... it can only get warmer???

"Coldest since 2001" isn't exactly a record-breaker...I'm slightly surprised it's not a colder average, although snow doesn't require very low temperatures.

You generally get snow when a cold front hits a warmer front (carrying rain), right? Asks me who did actually get an A in leaving cert geog .

The weather's been pretty so-so today. I hate the way the snow has turned to slush and the roads are freezing over to ice. Snow would be so much better.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

The weather's been pretty so-so today. I hate the way the snow has turned to slush and the roads are freezing over to ice. Snow would be so much better.

The pavements of Merrion Square are a mosaic of frozen lumps. Slippery and ankle-twisting.

The Irish independent says today that the winter is the coldest for 30 years. That seems pretty straightforward to me. Maybe Papal Kmight will explain how it is really warm like he does when polls refuse to show FG rising.

Overcast - lots of cloud and moisture, low breezes from west and north ...