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Strange that Ireland looks as green as ever.
I know, a lot of people thought it was a hoax...once I found a legitimate news organization, and not a blog, I posted it.
I'm a bit of a weather geek and being a Brit I know a little about the weather patterns.
This particular cold/warm front that precipitated some much snow followed up with a severe cold front is a result of air masses and weather systems flowing east to west. As in from the northern European land mass, blowing in a SW pattern. These invariably bring arctic weather systems which are usually challenged by NE temperate weather from the warm Atlantic gulfstream.
In this case due to convection, the SW fronts condensed over the British high ground of the Pennines and Grampians etc, falling as snow before they could get as far west as Ireland. This is a less than usual weather pattern but easily explained. Ireland stays green because of British hills!
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