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First Heavy Snow of Winter
The sun rises over a snow-
In the distance,
Lough Allen and Ballinaglera.
Drumkeeran has experienced the first heavy snowfall of the winter.
The snow started on Tuesday morning, 13 January,
and continued falling throughout the day
and throughout Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
As a result there was a 3 to 4 inch carpet of snow
in the village and in the surrounding
areas.
Schools were closed for the day and,
for a while in the early morning,
road travel
was quite hazardous.
Drumkeeran Church, photographed during a break in the snowfall
around 11.00 pm on
Tuesday.
However, a slightly increased temperature combined with heavy rainfall
brought about
a rapid thaw of the snow
during Wednesday afternoon.