Winter storms lash Ireland as big freeze begins

jacersagain - DROOL! My wife and I went to Perkin's Restaurant after Church this morning and I had their Farmer's Omelette (3 eggs wrapped around sausage, bacon, sauteed green peppers and onions covered in cheddar) with hashbrowns and three fluffy buttermilk blueberry pancakes washed down with a quart of hot black coffee. The blueberries make everything else healthy because they are "Antioxidants." Its now almost dinner time here, I wonder what my wife has planned? Its really strange, for all my life, every time I eat a good meal, I get hungry again about five or six hours later. Go figure! Well I have to go see to our water pipes as the bottom is forecast to fall out of the thermometer tonight and for the next couple of days so it wouldn't due to let them freeze. I hope the match was to your liking.

Can we come round to watch the Match ... or the Heart Attack ... whichever comes first?

I dunno about other parts of Ireland but despite weather warnings that Nth Dublin and Nth-east Ireland were going to be hit with freezing weather, I’m looking out my windows and seeing nothing of the kind. It’s dry, windy and no rain, freezing fog or sleet or snow. And that’s at 5.30am Irish time. Time to get breakfast of barista-style coffee, fruit juices, Irish sausages, rashers, mushrooms & onions, left-overs from last evening’s dinner potatoes and delicately-fried eggs going to get me going for the rest of the day… and Man Utd’s match on TV later. Mmmph… I can already get the cooking smells in me nosies.

What!? - Cold weather in in Ireland the middle of Winter? -Hold the front page!

I just learned that the waters off of Maine and the Grand Banks have had deep water temperatures increase by 3 to 5 degrees F over the last couple of years. As a result of this "GLOBAL WARMING," the lobster catch is one tenth of what it was just TWO years ago. The shrimp harvest has been limited by the government to prevent the extermination of the declining species. Believe the oil company propaganda if you want but I think mother nature is ringing alarm bells around the globe and we ignore them at our own peril. Seagreen, don't you get TIRED of trying to explain to these uneducated folks that "Global Warming" does cause some areas to warm abnormally but also causes others to cool abnormally? My ninth grade science students seemed to catch on right away. Every year, all agreed that there was ample evidence that the earth WAS warming and only disagreed on whether there was sufficient evidence that it was being caused by human activity, natural cycles or a combination of the two. I guess that some folks here are NOT smarter than a ninth grader!

My mistake, Donegal will have the first ski area.

The Gulf Stream is beginning to fragment on the north exposure, not the western U.S. part. Fresh water from the Arctic is changing the salinity, and the fracturing has begun. It going to get colder. Galway will have the first ski area.

Global Warming?

It dropped to 66 degs F. and it snowed?

I heard from my likely distant cousin in Northern Ireland that they had had their first snow there on Friday. Hope my third cousin and his family in Wicklow Town are not having troubles with the wintery weather there. Al Gore? How about doing simple things to fight global warming like not owning or driving SUV's?

Another case of global warming run amuck, let's get Al Gore to clean it up.