Icy cold snowy night means a day of school for the kids

in Photography Lovers6 hours ago

Snow in Ireland

We've had an exceptionally mild autumn this year. The summer started off ok with the odd bit of warm weather, but then mainly we were getting rain, rain and more rain.

Once the kids went back to school in late August though, things took a turn for the better and it's been pretty dry and unseasonably warm since then.

So warm in fact that my golf course was having qualifying competitions up until last week, which is unheard of. These tend to end in mid October usually.

Anyway the weather took a turn a couple of days ago, with temperatures dropping down to zero and last night we got a good covering of snow.

Here is picture from out on the farm in Conamara taken earlier today.

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There was great excitement when the text landed in around 7:30am this morning saying that school would remain closed!

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Once they woke up and looked out the window they were praying that this is what would happen!

There was a nice bit of snow as can be seen from the view from my home office window.

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As you can see the skylight window left a cool little sculpture. Thanks nature!

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I got snap happy quickly before it fell back in the window making a mess.

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Pretty cool, though eh...

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as you can see from the roof of my house, there was a decent fall of snow.

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and here's a look at the garden and field next door.

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I know for some of you in other parts of the world that this is laughable levels of snow, but we don't tend to get much in Ireland, so when we get it, there tends to be great excitement like sledding down the nearest hill.

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Right, I'm off to build a snowman with the kids. I'll let ye know how we get on with a post tomorrow or soon after.

Any snow where you are?

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Wow, that was indeed a quick turn. We haven't had any accumulating snow yet. It usually takes quite a bit for us to cancel school here. Ice is a different story though.

Ya winter just flicked a switch and BAM snow and frost. I've the range on 24/7 at the minute.

I'm so surprised we had our first touch of snow this week, we're by the sea and often it doesn't snow even when it's very very cold. I hope it's not going to be a freezing cold winter this year

I hope not too, but you really wouldn't know what to expect now the way the weather patterns are so erratic. I remember a few years back, maybe 2017 or thereabouts we got crazy heavy snow.