Snow alert: Weather warning in effect with risk of blizzards [Ireland]

Irish Times ^ | 01/11/2017 | Rachel Flaherty, Elaine Edwards

[Olog-hai]

Met Éireann has issued two new snow and ice warnings as the national forecaster also warns of some thunderstorms and “blizzard conditions”.

An orange alert, the second highest warning, is in effect until 6pm on Friday.

Heavy showers of hail, sleet and snow are expected to hit Ulster and Connacht.

The alert warned there is a “risk of drifting and blizzard conditions” and scattered thunderstorms during the two days.

There is a yellow weather warning for snow and ice in Leinster, Munster and counties Galway and Roscommon from Thursday at 5am until 6pm on Friday. …

[Olog-hai]

Ireland has mostly heavy rain and high winds during the winter.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

In one 4 hour period in Derry in the early ‘90s, I experienced snow, rain, sleet, hail, freezing rain.

All, before noon.

And then, the wind started to blow about 50 MPH.

[Berlin_Freeper]

In December I bought a new winter coat with a pretty fur lined hood for my daughter at Primark. Yesterday it snowed a lot here. When my wife and daughter came home from school I asked them if the snow shrank my daughter because her coat looked at least three sizes too big.

Turns out an older girl must have the exact same coat.

[soycd]

May any islam scum die from the fate.

[NorthstarMom]

Cute story, though that older girl must have been freezing on her way home from school yesterday ;).

After searching through the tables of lost and found hats and mittens at school when my boys were young I swore off black mittens for good. Three long cafeteria tables of black hats, gloves and mittens. I never found the one we were missing. Heck-we homeschool now and we still lose gloves/mittens.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I hope not. A lot of kids get picked up by car. It's a Catholic school so kids come from afar. For us it is one bus stop and then one or two train stops (depending on what bus is caught).

[nutmeg]

Blizzard conditions in Ireland??

[Berlin_Freeper]

A new girl started this month and is from... Peru.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I told my wife to clip something to the zipper.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Awaken - Iceland

[Berlin_Freeper]

My wife got back and said as soon as they entered the school the mother, child (half black) and school secretary were there waiting.

It all turned out alright. Everyone was pleasant. The mix-up happened after choir where they went into separate rooms.

Secretary said there are two boys who mix-up at sports because they have the same shoes.

[Mark17]

Blizzard conditions in Ireland??

I wonder if global warming is the cause? 😊

[NorthstarMom]

I really did think it was a cute story-hope I didn’t come across as critical about the problem of the other girl. I just had a picture in my mind of her trying to get into a coat that had “shrunk “.

[evilC]

Ireland is around the same latitude as parts of Canada (around 52° to 54° North). It usually has mild winters for its given latitude (I doubt the Canadians ever worry about a ‘snow blizzards’ and an inch or two of accumulation).

This is probably what Boston would call a ‘mild dusting.’

[Daffynition]

LOL

**This is probably what Boston would call a ‘mild dusting.’**

Boston literally shuts down with 1/2” of snow. :D

[Olog-hai]

The mild winters are usually attributed to the Gulf Stream.

[Berlin_Freeper]

But of course. I wouldn't mind a bit of critical anyway, when justified.

You should see some of the invented critical I get around here - LoL!

Tomorrow is Friday, have a great weekend!