“Predicted” being the key word here.
Barely a week goes by without prophets of doom predicting that Ireland is going to experience its bleakest winter for a number of years and this week doesn’t disappoint.
This being Ireland, we’re always wary of forecasts that predict weather for anything beyond a day or two in the future, but a meteorologist from Exacta Weather reckons we’re going to be freezing our asses off towards the end of this month and the start of 2016.
Commenting on what’s in store for Ireland in the near future, James Madden of Exacta Weather said: “There are likely to be a number of quite potent wintry blasts in December that potentially bring the coldest and snowiest spell in some years for Ireland, particularly for two periods around the mid-month point and into the final third of the month and up to the New Year.
“Although we need to allow for some deviations in exact timing, there is every chance that these conditions will arrive prior to Christmas.
“Many parts to the north and east of the country are also likely to see lying snow on the ground for several days at the very least within this period and these conditions will also spread to many other parts of the country, including southern and western areas, as winter takes a firm stronghold.”
We’ll believe it when we see it, especially if by “some years” Madden thinks that this month will exceed the fairly drastic wintry conditions experienced here in the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11.
As somebody much wiser than us might say: “You wouldn’t be long getting frostbit.”
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