The Weather Thread

They did their own thing. I do that on the Subway.

On the Luas the other night on the way to Arcade Fire and it was rammed packed… This couple just about squeeze in at one stop and your man nice and loudly says ‘jaysus fucking Japan or wha’ before turning around to see a Japanese tourist staring at him… ‘Ah sorry luv’ is all he could say . It wasn’t too bad a comment but I was pissing myself behind him.

I think pissing on a Luas is awful behavior bro.

Only when you get caught bro…

Bucketing down snow in the mid-west now…

Really???
Where?

Sun is shining in the city mush.

Out in the sticks…

Sure Tournafulla has snow all year round.

What way is the wind blowing Dunph ?

Looking at that it’s not completely out of the question that we get more snow in Limerick this evening.

Ah Jesus am I the only one that won’t see snow?!

Hmmmmm

:unsure:

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/2010/12/severe-weather-alert-ireland-and-uk.html

towards what may become an epochal cold spell for Ireland and Britain in the next 20-30 day interval.

bring it on

Time to start stocking up on tinned food and bottled water.

A polar hurricane, WTF?! I never even knew such a thing existed.

This is a post from the weather forum on boards:

Originally Posted by M.T. Cranium View Post
The 00z GFS run is a bit of an upgrade (so far) and yet there’s still room for development. The thing that I find truly staggering is the scale of this arctic outbreak, it basically reverses the normal southwesterly flow over the North Atlantic and changes it to northeast everywhere north of about 47 deg by next Friday. We have to keep in mind that we’re looking at maps that very few people have seen in real time, maybe if you were working in a met office in late 1962 or early 1963, or in Feb 1947. That’s how dramatic this pattern is, now as to the details, those will come into focus better when we know for sure how robust the cold surface layers will be once the inevitable push back comes. The theme keeps developing towards the theoretical energy peak on the 20th (full moon is 21 Dec 08z). This is really exciting me as a researcher and forecaster, to see how this is evolving towards a winter storm scenario, but before that happens there will be on-shore streamers forming in various coastal areas moving some distance inland, so I think the way this is evolving at present, we should be fairly confident of a widespread snow cover developing in Ireland during the four days Thursday to Sunday before a two to three day storm window of opportunity. That snow cover of course would play into the development potential by further cooling the surface air masses.

As for conditions over in Britain, that looks positively frigid with the slack gradient that follows the initial onslaught of very cold air, they are bound to get enough of a snow cover to guarantee extreme cold under those sorts of upper conditions. Could see local -16 to -24 C overnight lows in parts of Scotland and northern, even central England, inland Wales on those maps, and that should equate to potential for lows similar to the last cold spell in Ireland.

This signal is so robust and long-heralded on the models (even more so elsewhere ) that I feel like the general idea is a done deal now, it’s down to the details. The key event will be the pushback of low pressure around the south in the time frame of Mon 20th to Wed 22nd. This could very well turn out to be a snowstorm. This may sound like backwards logic but a very cold winter should have snowstorms, and snowstorms should occur when the cold has stopped advancing.

Looks as though I may have to deliver these babies myself.

Homer: [rolls up his sleeves] Step aside. I’ll deliver this baby.
Dr. H: Uh, why don’t you let me handle it, Homer?
Homer: [confrontationally] Oh, a college boy, eh?

I’ll call down and give a hand.
I’ll bring the jack

Kweer.

Flano, please tell this weather to fuck off.