The Big Freeze!!!!

[Hurler on the Bitch]

Met a guy today who told me that the weather in the next few days will be like 1963. He says that every year though, not that I can recall 1963. We really have it too easy here with that old tropical wind etc. Over on the continent or New York, now that is really cold at this moment. Met a guy who brought his Missus to Prague in November and couldn't walk 20 yards through fear of freezing to death. It's all balls here (warm ones) - we don't know what a winter is. The worst one I remember is 1979 .. football pools panel (who?) sitting every Saturday - matches postponed 30 times etc. They say we need a good old winter here to kill off them wasps / rats etc, but I don't think we're gonna get it this year. Can anyone recall the last decent snow we had here? (Please don't suggest that global warming bollix)

Ah the memories

Yeah the Football Pools Panel ... if you saw Football Focus on Grandstand that lunchtime and there were shots of the Pools Panel arriving at the FA then you knew that MOTD that night was Friar Tucked! They were fecking useless - in that it was not in their interest to award draws logically as then the jackpot would be lost (or won) each week... Always some pipe-smoking guy (Major Such and Such) was the chairman... I think 1979 was the year that the Scottish Cup tie was postponed about thirty times ... also the last year that I can recall hay on the pitch etc - Arsenal were okay though as they had undersoil heating and their game was a cert for tv that night...

[Square Ball]

may as well use this thread.

Is it snowing where you are?

not in Belfast at the minute

[The Real Laoislad]

Confirmed sighting of snow in Lucan..I know because the girlfriend wouldn't go out to the line to bring in the washing because it was to cold so i had to bring them in

[ziggysego]

Not a flake, but it's bitter cold.

[ONeill]

Hailstones in Derrylaughan earlier.

[fearsiuil]

It´s a warm 33C here in Rio de Janeiro.......heading for Ipanema beach, Posto 9 ¨where Rio´s most lithe and tanned bodies tend to migrate¨  .

[aontroim]

Was in Deadwood, S. Dakota a few years back for NYE - never felt cold like it - but the drinking and all night gambling helped matters greatly!

[J70]

Its the middle of the day in NYC. Temperature is -9 celsius. With the windchill, its -13. Was -20 this morning.

[5 Sams]

Ta neart sneachta i nDeisceart an Duin

[his holiness nb]

Kids are throwing snowballs outside in East Meath.
Good old sprinkling, sticking too.

[Farrandeelin]

Not a cloud to be seen over my head today, but twas awfully cold.

[Square Ball]

snowing in Belfast now, back later

[FL/MAYO]

Has not snowed here since 1977 so no chance.

[The Real Laoislad]

Place is covered white now....A bit like Hill 16 during the summer 

[Square Ball]

snowing in Belfast now, back later

still snowing in to get changed and out again.brilliant