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Severe cold weather is uncommon in Ireland with the majority of winter precipitation coming in the form of rain, although hills and mountainous regions in the country can commonly see up to 30 days of snowfall annually: the Wicklow Mountains region sometimes experiences 50 or more days of snowfall each year. Most low-lying regions of the island ...
Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island. ... The storm has its origins in the recent U.S. Gulf Coast winter storm.
The winter of 2010–11 was a weather event that brought heavy snowfalls, record low temperatures, travel chaos and school disruption to the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. It included the United Kingdom's coldest December since Met Office records began, with a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F), breaking the previous record of 0.1 °C ...
The winter weather brought widespread transport disruption, school closures, power failures, postponement of sporting events, and 25 deaths. A low of −22.3 °C (−8.1 °F) was recorded in Altnaharra, Scotland on 8 January 2010. Overall it was the coldest winter since 1978–79, with a mean temperature of 1.5 °C (34.7 °F).
The January 1987 snowfall (also known as the Big Freeze of 1987) was a very heavy lake-effect type snow event that affected the United Kingdom, mainly the areas of East Anglia, South-East England and London between 11 and 14 January [2] and was the heaviest snowfall to fall in that part of the United Kingdom since the winter of 1981/82.
Pages in category "Winter weather events in Ireland" ... Winter of 2009–10 in Great Britain and Ireland; Winter of 2010–11 in the British Isles
The winter of 2009–2010 in Europe was unusually cold. Globally, unusual weather patterns brought cold, moist air from the north. Weather systems were undergoing cyclogenesis from North American storms moving across the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and saw many parts of Europe experiencing heavy snowfall and record-low temperatures.
The extreme weather was reminiscent of the winter storms of 2009/2010, which were the worst in recent Irish history. [17] Met Éireann said the areas worst affected by the overnight snow were eastern parts of Leinster , County Donegal and Connacht and said the bad weather was expected to last for up to a week, with depths of up to 10 ...