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LAST UPDATE | 18 Nov 2024
A LOW TEMPERATURE and ice warning will be in place across the country tomorrow.
As of 7pm this evening, the northern half of the country is under a Status Yellow alert for snow and ice, with a similar warning issued by the UK Met Office across Northern Ireland.
The Met Éireann alert for counties Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo is in place until 8am tomorrow, with snowfall accumulations possible this evening and overnight and possible impacts including poor visibility and difficult travelling conditions.
The UK Met Office alert across Northern Ireland meanwhile is in place from 3pm until 10am tomorrow.
Tomorrow evening, all of the Republic will be under a Status Yellow low temperature and ice warning from 8pm Tuesday until 10am Wednesday.
There is a further nation-wide Status Yellow low temperature and ice warning in place from 8pm on Wednesday to 10am on Thursday.
⚠️Yellow Low Temp/Ice Warning⚠️for Ireland
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) November 18, 2024
➡️Very cold with widespread frost & icy stretches🥶
❗️Possible impacts:
➡️Hazardous conditions on roads & paths
➡️Some travel disruption
In effect from 20:00 Tue 19/11/24 until 10:00 Wed 20/11/24
Stay updatedhttps://t.co/lvQFgW8DsS pic.twitter.com/gpM2JI4mOq
It follows a weather advisory put out by Met Éireann last week which warned people are in for “quite a shock” this week as temperatures plummet from the relatively mild weather seen so far in November.
The forecaster added that the northern half of the country can expect some sleet and snow this week during the first “cold snap” of the season.
Local councils and the Road Safety Authority have issued warnings to road users to exercise caution while travelling after Met Éireann issued the warnings.
Cavan County Council has advised that its crews will be on standby to salt the roads in the case of ice, but that road users are advised “that rain and sleet in particular can wash away the salt, limiting its effectiveness.”
“Extreme caution should be exercised at *all* times on *all* roads, regardless of whether they’ve been treated, and all motorists should reduce speed accordingly,” the council posted on X.
Extreme caution should be exercised at *all* times on *all* roads, regardless of whether they've been treated, and all motorists should reduce speed accordingly. 3/3https://t.co/daz5CZwId5 pic.twitter.com/rATjbqqwTs
— Cavan County Council (@cavancoco) November 18, 2024
Monaghan County Council has also advised people to exercise caution.
The RSA highlighted the warning from Met Éireann, and said on X that possible impacts could include poor visibility and difficult travelling conditions.
The authority said the public should “prepare for hazardous conditions on roads and footpaths”.
The RSA has advised rivers to “remove all snow and Ice from your vehicle before commencing your journey”.
“Snow left on the roof will become loose and can drop onto the windscreen during braking, thereby causing sudden and severe restriction to your vision. It can also fall off during your drive and cause injury to pedestrians or a reflex action by another driver.”
The RSA also said drivers should clear windows and mirrors before setting out.
“Do not use hot water on the windscreen as it can crack the glass,” the RSA said.
In terms of driving itself the RSA said:
“Slow down, use all controls delicately and leave extra distance between you and the vehicle in front. Avoid over steering and harsh braking and harsh acceleration. Use the highest gear possible to avoid wheel spin. Select a low gear when travelling downhill especially if through bends.”
High sided vehicles like trucks and buses are particularly at risk, the RSA said.
Other RSA advice includes:
Meanwhile, it will be a cold, wet day today across much of the country as temperatures drop significantly.
According to Met Éireann, rain in Munster and Connacht will today spread northwards and become widespread later this afternoon.
The rain will turn heavy at times, and may fall as sleet or snow in parts of Ulster and north Connacht later this evening.
There will be highs of three to six degrees over the north of the country, with higher temperatures of seven to 12 degrees elsewhere, in light to moderate breezes.
Tonight will see further spells of rain, with some snow accumulations possible in Ulster and north Connacht, especially in hilly areas.
It will become drier by morning, with some frost and ice developing.
Temperatures will drop further to between -1 and +5 degrees.
Tomorrow will be cold again, with falls of rain, sleet and snow clearing south during the afternoon.
The rest of the day will be a mixture of showers and sunny spells, with highest temperatures of 3 to 6 degrees generally and from 5 to 8 in Munster, while the rest of the week will remain cold with frost and ice forming in many places.
- With additional reporting from Diarmuid Pepper
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We all knew winter would come along. Perfectly normal weather.
@Marvin Dollery: It will be now. It hasn’t been up to now, with all kinds of flowers in bloom unseasonally due to freakishly mild weather.
@Brendan O’Brien: It’s cyclical Brend, the weather has always had a mind of its own.
@Brendan O’Brien: yes I have had many flowers bloom 2/3 time now that were spring summer plants my young blossom tree has pink flowers on it.
@Brendan O’Brien: Yep I’ve seen dandelions flowering, have oriental poppies that would be in flower in May throwing out a flower stem, my geraniums are still in flower as are some lobelia but they are in polytunnel. We need cold weather and my prediction that this will be a cold winter. The air stream over Ireland has definitely changed this year with more easterly and north winds …..fine in summer cold in winter.
@Marvin Dollery: That may be your feeling, but facts matter more. ‘The weather has always had a mind of its own’ does not come close to overriding scientific fact.
@Brendan O’Brien: Sure thing Brend, why don’t you just remain in your bunker forever so. Hide away at the sight of colder weather and rain. Spend all your days online on this pointless platform trying to “get one over” on the next person. What are your thoughts on soon-to-be-redundant Joe Biden jetting off to the Amazon to make a 20 minute appearance? Tell us, was he in an electric plane?
@Marvin Dollery: An odd question, from someone who doesn’t do logic. What have Biden’s actions got to do with me?
Meanwhile, climate change is real, and really dangerous, regardless of the whims of denialists.
@Marvin Dollery: “We all knew winter would come along. Perfectly normal weather.”
Talk about the definition of stirring the pot.
@Brendan O’Brien: I could have guessed you’d refer to The Guardian rag. Playing dumb doesn’t suit you, even if most people think you are regardless. Joe Biden flew to Brazil to announce world conservation day, an action that took all of twenty minutes. I’ll help you out here – if things are so dire from a climate perspective then why are world leaders not adhering to the doom and gloom climate cults advice? It’s called hypocrisy, as their draconian rules only apply to the little people. You literally only appeal to a handful of deranged people – I’m wondering what your motive is behind the facade.
@Brendan O’Brien: the guardian?? Mmm, enough said. Haven’t you been the huge cheerleader on here these last few years for biden & then ‘kamila is the real Messiah’ crowd……. Very troublesome that biden is now, in the dying embers of his awful tenure, egging on Ukraine to escalate that proxy war to bring the world to the very precipice of WW3 once again
@Marvin Dollery: Again, your question is illogical. World leaders should be doing much better, of course, as should big business and the super-rich. Musk could pretty much solve the climate crisis single-handedly if he used his wealth for prosocial rather than antisocial purposes.
Can you point to anything in the Guardian article that is untrue? Of course you can’t.
@Marvin Dollery: I agree, how dare they report those big scary facts.
@Kevvy kerrr: I’m not generally interested in engaging with the site’s multi-ID troll, thanks.
@Brendan O’Brien: I actually get a kick of of prodding the supreme troll, lol
@Brendan O’Brien: there is nothing more pro social and climate than musk, electric cars, reusable rockets, and pro free speech. We need more of musk not less, fired 80% of the wokesters and ended up with a better platform on X. The man is a genius, he will be remembered like newton or Einstein :)
@Paul M Doe: As I already told you, I’m not generally interested in engaging with the site’s multi-ID troll, thanks.
@Brendan O’Brien: You mean you’re not generally capable. You’re the champion of deflection. Doesn’t reflect well on your self-proclaimed “logic”. To you, any opinion that differs to your own is “illogical”. Age old tactic used to discredit your opposition. It isn’t working, and never has.
@Marvin Dollery: ‘The weather has always had a mind of its own’ No it hasn’t. The weather does not have a mind. It’s a system, a large and complex one, but one we’ve got verry good at understanding. And we can see where our input affects that system, But you keep believing the nice lies big oil and the Koch foundation keep telling you.
@Marvin Dollery: ‘To you, any opinion that differs to your own is “illogical”.’
No – many aren’t – but it so happens that you don’t understand logic. For example, you think that if someone prefers Biden to Trump it means that they must support everything that Biden says and does. That is illogical.
Your contributions to this site could best be described as ‘angry fluff’. No substance.
@Marvin Dollery: Not normal weather at all, you know they have been keeping records for 170 years? So your opinion means nothing as per usual Marv
@Brendan O’Brien: hahaha, brenny, calling your nonsense & cheerleading the proxy wars & death ‘ angry fluff’ would, by any metric, be kind,lol
@Brendan O’Brien: The Guardian…… that far-left propaganda rag, must be true!
@Brian Hunt: Tell me you’re far-right without telling me you’re far-right.
@Frank Mc Carthy: I’m not generally interested in engaging with the site’s multi-ID troll, thanks.
@Marvin Dollery: “if things are so dire from a climate perspective then why are world leaders not adhering to the doom and gloom climate cults advice?”
The democratic political system is set up for short term goals, appeasing the electorate on an 4–8 year election cycle. As a result, democratically elected politicians do not think about what might happen after their term in 20 years time, never mind 50 years; that far out is beyond their comprehension or care. As a result, the climate change mitigation strategies are piecemeal and short term in most Western nations.
This why it is arguable that dictatorships, like China, are better suited to combating climate change, which takes decades of sustained collective action.
Instead, the West uses punitive incentives such as carbon taxes, carbon credits, emissions trading, to force a long term transition to renewables, by penalising the use of polluting energy production, whereas in China, the Dear Leader says so, and it gets done.
So… China now make 93% of the polysilicon for solar panels, and 60% of the World’s wind turbines are made in China. In one year, solar farms in China increased production by 78%. In one year wind generation increased 5%. In one year, Gas generation fell by 4TWh (16%) and coal dropped by 16TWh (4%).
This single Solar Farm in china generates enough electricity to power 50% of Ireland’s electricity needs.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/06/06/worlds-largest-solar-plant-goes-online-in-china-2/
All this without carbon taxes, the Dear Leader said so.
@Freda Peeple: One hundred and seventy years doesn’t even show up as a blip on the great age of the Earth!
@Brendan O’Brien: Try broadening your horizons!
@Brian Hunt: “One hundred and seventy years doesn’t even show up as a blip on the great age of the Earth!”
We do have proxy temperature records however that go back millions of years.
These that show the current global average temperatures (1.53 Celsius above the pre-industrial average) is currently the highest temperature the Earth has experienced in about 130,000 years.
The last time global temperatures were this warm was Eemian interglacial period, before the Last Glacial Period (115,000 – 11,700 years ago). Also, present CO2 levels, currently 420 ppm, and are the highest in about 14 million years.
Here’s 2000 years of temperatures:
https://imgur.com/gallery/co2-levels-global-temperature-last-2000-years-e1tioJ2
Here’s an excellent paper on the subject, showing (figure 3) that the current global average temperature (1.53 Celsius above the pre-industrial), is warmer than at any any time in the last 12,000 years, and by extension, the last time temperatures were this high was the preceding Eemian interglacial.
Kaufman, D., McKay, N., Routson, C., Erb, M., Dätwyler, C., Sommer, P.S., Heiri, O. and Davis, B., 2020. Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach. Scientific data, 7(1), p.201. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0530-7.pdf
@Brian Hunt: Yea but if you listened in school you will know the industrial revolution (human activity) caused massive warming putting a relatively quick end to the 500 year LIA (little ice age) and it’s been warming unnaturally since. But you know it all Brian, should have stayed in school that day. Not so bad here Ireland, but we will have all the world eyeing up habitable countries in the near future, it’s already begun.
@Marvin Dollery: Yes it’s called winter it happens every year
@Marvin Dollery: Of course you bring Biden into. Trumptards like you deserve nothing but scorn and abuse. Cultists the lot of ye
@Brendan O’Brien: it’s true. My entire garden is still blooming. You might get one or two flowers in bloom late into the year but you’d swear it was still summer to look at the garden. Though I’m sure this week’s weather will change things a bit.
@Stanley Marsh: staring what pot all he said was. Winter is here normal weather but as usual it’s been blown out of proportion.
@Paul M Doe: degluter yors bizi life online, becouse it bullsitooo for duuummies
@David Jordan: Now that’s a response that deserves commending and I’m going to say …excellent.
@David Jordan: and the excellence continues.
@Gearoid MacEachaidh: It will although whatever happens this week air side the ground is still very warm…within a foot of the surface its 6c in my garden, I bore to 12inches , a good fall of snow then ice/frost on top will actually help the perennial plants in the garden as the 4c temperature of the ground will help the roots and seeds propagate….and rest rather than them thinking it’s time to grow…
@Brian Hunt: Try posting intellectual material, because the stuff you’ve posted is ignorance personified.
@Paul O’Mahoney: How could you appreciate intellectual material? you’re just a paid grifter posting what you’re told to!
@Paul O’Mahoney: Are you Cabbage-Head Ryan, you seem to be obsessed with lettuces!
The journal are doing more weather forecast than met eireann.
@John finn: They are literally just reporting what met eireann said.
@francis devenney: Since when has weather been news in Ireland, O yea, since the green scam took hold.
@francis devenney: Pure gold with the various climate crews tho, guaranteed Ad revenue, for free!
@087 bed: Nothing to do with the invention of of social media and hourly news updates? You paranoid uneducated folks hate weather forecasts, it’s actually hilarious
@Freda Peeple: haha,, sure they are never right,, it’s only clic bait.. won’t be much snow it any at all today
@087 bed: What TV and radio programs have weather reports and forecasts traditionally been an integral part of? Oh yeah the news.
@087 bed: they have been doing weather forecasts in Ireland along side the news since RTÉ was in its infancy. Jesus christ man
@087 bed: Actually talking about the weather to each other has been around long before anyone even knew burning fossil fuels had an environmental impact. Hard to pin that one on environmentalists.
Is the butter spreadable? If not then it’s winter.
@Uí Braonáin: hmmm…the butter spread straight from the tub this morning…real butter mind kept on the counter not the fridge…..so maybe not so cold yet.
Ah you would be frostbit
@Trump24: not particularly cold here. A small bit of rain.
@Trump24: some people will freeze
@Buster Lawless: yes, the very ones the government should be looking after, don’t worry tho, they promise to do it next time around
@Trump24: Haha, is that guy still around?
@Buster Lawless: talking to yourself again buster
Now, don’t get my hopes up.
There had better be plenty of snowman building materials on the ground when I wake up tomorrow!!!
A years worth of snow to fall
This cold weather spell will affect the general election because all the hospital A&ES which we know at the moment are full will become like war zones.
Typical
It’s winter folks who knew the weather would get cold and icy nobody thought we’d have highs of 28°c did we. If anyone is really shocked at the weather don’t get up tomorrow.
Yeah baby, the more snow the better….
So praying to the far right gods makes good weather and far left gods bad. Humanity hasnt really changed much in the last 12k years i guess
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