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IN THE WORDS of Father Ted…
We’re not exactly New York.
Sure.
Sure, of course we’re not.
Residents of the northeast US are expecting around a metre of snow over the next few days (three feet, as they’d put it).
While we’re not expecting ANYTHING on that scale here, we’ll still see smaller accumulations of the white stuff in some areas.
Met Éireann issued a yellow alert snow-ice warning for the country at 7am.
According to the weather service:
“Wintry showers will bring snow accumulations of up to 3 cm at lower levels during Wednesday and through Thursday, all areas at risk.
Showers will be most frequent in the west and north and over hills and mountains with higher accumulations expected there.
It’s not going to be cold and ‘crisp’ either. There’ll be strong winds to deal with.
According to the yellow wind warning, also issued at 7:
“Southwest to west winds will reach mean speeds of between 50 and 65 km/h with gusts between 90 and 110 km/h during Wednesday.
Strongest at the coasts of the west and northwest.
Further snow showers are expected on Thursday, turning to rain by Friday.
Looking ahead to the weekend… Well, there’s not much respite in prospect:
On Saturday and over the weekend, it will continue very cold as the airflow turns northerly. Wintry showers will continue, mainly in exposed northern and western areas with good spells of sunshine and severe frosts and icy roads by night.
Still. It could be worse…
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I’m disgusted with Met Eireann , no drizzle warning issued this morning , I went for a walk in the Phoenix Park and wasn’t prepared at all . Now I’m mildly damp . I’m lucky to have survived .
I’m still waiting for that “polar vortex” they promised. My tins of beans are starting to go off.
I have a vacuum cleaner in the house you can have if it’s any help as it’s just gathering dust.
Next we’ll be getting warnings about the warnings. Someone in Met Éireann loves their new toy far too much.
Was thinking same thing. Some one having way too much fun with theses warnings. It will soon be a case of the boy who cried wolf !
Loved the headline, “HISTORIC STORM EXPECTED TO HIT NEW YORK”.
As I said to my missus, “How can it be historic, it hasn’t bloody happened yet”.
“HYSTERIC HEADLINE TO HIT IRELAND” would be a good forcast for this winter. We have had our share.
Weather’s not been bad though.
Let’s cut to the chase. Is it gonna be in Dublin?
Hopefully for you not in Kildare as you won’t be able to find your sheep
Actually more likely to be Horses as there are a large amount of Studs in Kildare….
There mustn’t be too many studs, all the women come up to Dublin.
@Stephen…Are those studs the two legged version or the four legged version?
Hey ewes
Sno snice to snee snow.
3CM …..OMG thats over an inch in fact worse nearly an inch and a quarter rounded up were in for two inches of snow YIPPEE
Unfortunately many industries that rely on accurate weather forecasting don’t use Met Eireann. While I like the idea of having our own forecasting system and enjoy the presenters we need to move on towards a much more accurate and localised weather forecasting service for Western Europe and that is best achieved by integrating our Met Eireann service with the UK and Europe. I know many will not appreciate these thoughts but when vital industries subscribe to international weather services its time to overhaul our own inaccurate service. Btw does anyone know how much Met Eireann costs and how much does it earn from subscribers.
There full of wind.
Where?
Der! Can yew naught sea dem?
Ok….so they’ve given us a snow/weather warning….me thinks I’ll just get my shorts ready…normally opposite happens so I’m expecting a HEATWAVE!!!! Woo hoo. Getting the BBQ out now as I speak!!!
And we will still panic just as much as the ppl of New York! The cheek of us!
If we got what they got in New York we would be talking about it for 50yrs – and at a standstill till next week
3CM versus 3 FEET?
We as a nation can’t cope with snow…
Seems like the amount of snow due for New York was slightly exaggerated but get this. We have just had 4 inches in just 2 hours ! 4 inches of peanuts eaten from the feeder that is, plus a full days ration of sunflower hearts and the fat/seed mixture is getting some welly from the birdies too. Caught two mice in traps last night so they are heading in for a bit of heat too and I guess we are in a little cold spell of our own, never mind NY NY :-)
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