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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 ...
21 December – A total lunar eclipse during sunrise occurred on the winter solstice. [224] 22 December – A Galway pensioner died in Ireland's first case of death by spontaneous combustion. [225] [226] 25 December – December 2010 was the coldest on record, with a temperature of -17.5 °C recorded in Straide, County Mayo. [227]
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 winter of 2010–2011 in Europe began with an unusually cold November caused by a cold ... in Llysdinam, and Northern Ireland recorded its lowest ever November ...
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 global weather activity of 2010 includes major meteorological events in the Earth's atmosphere during the year, including winter storms (blizzards, ice storms, European windstorms), hailstorms, out of season monsoon rain storms, extratropical cyclones, gales, microbursts, flooding, rainstorms, tropical cyclones, and other severe weather events.
Ireland was the first country in the euro zone to enter recession and its GDP sank 7.1 percent last year. Ireland officially left recession, with gross domestic product rising 2.7 percent in the ...
Pages in category "2010 in Ireland" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Winter of 2009–10 in Great Britain and Ireland