The River Foyle froze over in the harsh winter of 2010-11.
Wrap up warm and be prepared for an Arctic winter with temperatures dipping below -10C.
Forecasters have predicted an especially harsh winter with heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures on a par with the “big freeze” of the winter of 2010-2011.
According to the Irish Examiner, meteorologists say that recent solar activity levels, high Siberian snow cover last month, and volcanic emission patterns in Iceland all indicate Ireland is in for a brutal winter.
While temperatures have already started to fall, the worst of the winter weather is likely to occur between December and January.
James Madden, Exacta Weather forecaster James Madden, said the “worst-case and more plausible scenario” could bring something on a similar par to the winter of 2009/2010, which was the coldest in 31 years, or an event close to 2010/2011, which experienced the coldest December in 100 years with the lowest temperature of -18C recorded in Castlederg.
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