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The weather's set to be snow joke this week*

*Sorry.

THE ‘TEMPESTUOUS’ WEATHER is set to continue, but maybe some people might get to distract themselves by building a few snowmen.

According to Met Éireann, we can expect the weather to be cold and dry tonight, with some frost, but we’ll have rain falling as wet snow in some northern areas.

By tomorrow, which is described by the national weather forecaster as one that will be cold and ‘raw’, there will be more hail, sleet and snow.

A ‘dusting of snow’ is likely almost anywhere, with some isolated thunderstorms.

Temperatures? They will reach as high as, ooh, five or six degrees near southern coasts.

Sadly, like our own temperaments, the rest of this week will be rather ‘cold, changeable, and unsettled’, with windy or possibly storm conditions likely on Wednesday, with some local flooding.

It’s enough to make you want to hibernate.

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    Mute David Smith
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:40 PM

    Rain in between showers with a slight risk of snow. Only in Ireland.

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    Mute Larry Smith
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    Feb 10th 2014, 8:43 PM

    Why did frosty the snowman want a divorce? because he thought his wife was a flake :-)

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    Mute Martin Ryan
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:22 PM

    Bring on the snow it’s good for buisness.

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    Mute Murph11
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:34 PM

    Rumour has it Larry she filed for divorce cause he had snow balls

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    Mute Steve M
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:23 PM

    Over reaction me thinks. Doubt we will see much if any snow

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    Mute John S
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:39 PM

    It’s too cold to snow

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    Mute Caroline Dunlea
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    Feb 10th 2014, 10:33 PM

    ‘… rain falling as wet snow…’ I’m intrigued!! Is this a new meteorological concept??

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    Mute Amphroaí Ó hAipilbí
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    Feb 10th 2014, 11:23 PM

    Perhaps they misspelt “sleet” and typed “snow” into the Google machine instead?

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    Mute alanobrien
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    Feb 10th 2014, 8:35 PM

    What’s new with Ireland !!!

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    Mute Brian Keelty
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    Feb 10th 2014, 8:55 PM

    33 degrees in Kualar Lumpur. .. think I’ll stay for a few more days so…..

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    Mute dr_samoflange
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:15 PM

    Ram it

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    Mute IrishSoviet
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:33 PM

    far queue you poxy bollox

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    Mute P daddy
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    Feb 10th 2014, 8:39 PM

    Ahhh if only we could put a roof over it…

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    Mute Stephen McMahon
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:30 PM

    Anyone still gonna seriously argue that climate change doesn’t exist?

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    Mute Simon Barnes
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    Feb 10th 2014, 10:08 PM

    why because we have changeable weather

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    Mute Stephen McMahon
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    Feb 10th 2014, 10:50 PM

    Hotter summers and wetter winters, it’s exactly as predicted.

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    Mute ipsum oleum
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    Feb 10th 2014, 10:51 PM

    The climatrologists like Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, said that ‘within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”

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    Mute Daniel Dunne
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    Feb 11th 2014, 12:31 AM

    Really Stephen McMahon. Those summers of 2007-2012 were woeful hot and them same years the winters woefully wet and stormy. Sure the ice of 2010 and the six washout summers were only a figment of our imaginations. Hows them “predictions” looking now? Enjoy paying your carbon taxes you tree hugging fool.

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    Mute Fergal Reid
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:14 PM

    Working from home tomorrow, thank Christ.

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    Mute Gus Sheridan
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    Feb 10th 2014, 10:45 PM

    Climate change does exist……man made climate change? Dont think so

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    Mute ipsum oleum
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    Feb 10th 2014, 10:59 PM

    Its been changing since the world began. When I was a kid the last winter that it was this wet and stormy was about 1953 but it was like this in 1860 according to the records of the time and several times since. The Dail have discussed the problems associated with this type of weather several times but then the sun comes out and life goes on as before.

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    Mute jimmy john jimmy
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    Feb 10th 2014, 8:36 PM

    Gioengineering

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    Mute Foxys Bicycle
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    Feb 10th 2014, 8:53 PM

    Don’t start HAARPing on about that

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    Mute IrishSoviet
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:39 PM

    Putin actually said in a recent statement that russia would not stop its experiments in geophysical engineering, he said this in a live interview, yet people think that i am a conspiracy freak when i mention messing with the weather.

    The Chinese have built 200 cities of 1 million capacity, all inland, because china believes that the HAARP ain’t no research centre. The Chinese believe that they will have to move hundreds of millions of its citizens away from the ocean.

    Are the Chinese mad conspiracy nuts? I don’t think so.

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    Feb 10th 2014, 10:15 PM

    Naw I don’t think your a freak
    If memory serves me I remember watching a documentary on how Russia built the first earthquake machine and then sold it to the US
    The logic behind this device was to create small earthquakes to ease tension so essentially the ” big one ” never happens
    China’s ghost city’s are a feckin ” tin foil hats wet dream ” and yes they are very real, google earth away it’s actually nice to look at
    Irishsoviet .. Careful now!

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    Mute Sinead Fox
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    Feb 10th 2014, 11:35 PM

    What’s that about it being dry tonight!? I’m expecting an ark to float past any minute!

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    Mute ipsum oleum
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    Feb 10th 2014, 11:03 PM

    I have me first seedlings up and might even plant some broad beans at the weekend. Good job I didn’t put them in in Nov/Dec or they would have rotted in the ground, anyone ever tried Basmati ?

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    Mute Lynn Ridgeway
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    Feb 10th 2014, 9:40 PM

    Was thinking the climate change issue when I saw Clare on the news, it’s sinking & getting destroyed from weeks only, of bad weather..

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