Snow for some Cold for all (2)

darkman2

Snow showers coming into the north:) :http://www.ipswichweather.co.uk/rainfallradar.htm Grey is snow.

darkman2

Before I hit the sack:

Tuesday 18:00

Wednesday 18:00

Friday 18:00

Sweet dreams:D

Pretty good chance of snow then for most on the 18z run for the next couple of days especially from tomorrow pm.

darkman2

Earthman, someone from Bangor, County Down just had a hail shower that turned to 'heavy snow'...........game on:D

LookingFor

Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but the Met Eireann 3 hour precipitation forecast shows "something" stretching all the way down into the northern half of leinster. I'm a lay person, though, so don't get too excited, I may be reading something into nothing.

SpitfireIV

Me likey very much ........

TheHairyFairy

We had a light dusting of snow overnight here in Co Fermanagh. Its just now started snowing again, though the flakes are very small.



Fairy

Villain

This I like :

Downtime

Firsttime poster (here) longtime reader.

http://www.met.ie/recentweather/

Clones, Malin Head and Knock - recent snow - I too am getting excited. Hopefully it will start to shift to the east soon

irish1

irish1 wrote:

This I like :

Computer generated with little knowledgeable human input for Ireland so I wouldnt take it as gospel,though its nice.
Today:
Risk of lying snow: Ulster,North and West Connaught -locally a few inches.
Risk of regular snow showers probably extending into North Leinster settling at times locally.

Elsewhere mainly dry and sunny with the odd snow flurry or rogue shower.

Risk extends further southwards tomorrow but the SouthEast is likely to remain dry unless something big passes through-chance of that is low at the moment but increases through the week.

LookingFor

Earthman wrote:

Today:
Risk of lying snow: Ulster,North and West Connaught -locally a few inches.
Risk of regular snow showers probably extending into North Leinster settling at times locally.

I think this is true. I'm in Dublin, when I walked out this morning after 9, it was very still, the sun was out - and there was warmth off that sun, even though the air was very cold. If any snow does fall, or even settle in showers, it won't be long before it's taken care of after any sun reappears. Although since I've come in to college the wind has picked up a little bit, and it feels a lot colder, even in the sun.

That said, we have to get any showers first to see what'll happen, if anything..I don't think I've seen the sky so blue in a while!

Villain

FI is crazy on the latest GFS charts, there is no end in sight for this cold spell, I reckon those charts have a snowball chance in hell of coming off though, pardon the pun

LFCFan

from inside it's a reall stunner of a day here in Blanch. The sun is shining and there's no wind. Of course when you go out it's a different story as it would freeze the ass off Satan himself. Do you think there's any chance that the Ireland game could be in jeapordy tomorrow?

Villain

Can't see Lansdowne getting enough to cancel the game, be lucky to get a few showers maybe.

Gonzo

things certainly dont look too threatening around here, wall to wall sunshine, nice crisp sunny day.

Well theres a light snow shower here at present! and its gone cloudy

Pretty impressive for a temp of 5c.
The dewpoint is -3c though and rel humidity is 57%

The dryer air and low dp's favour snow which is why any system coming up from the south against that will cause snow for a time in places I think.

Merrick

We got a small amount of sleet about an hour ago, but now the sun is shining!

darkman2

Big shower coming here. Will report back.

kaizer

Just keep gettin hail showers on east coast of antrim. They only last bout 2minutes then wall to wall sunshine. All the heavy showers are passin over the north and west..
Maybe change tomoro when the wind swings north west

Scubadevils

Heavy hail with bits of snow mixed in But then again I'm on high ground and its 2am.

Scubadevils

Now full on snow, coming down heavy enough too and wind picking up a lot. Not sticking though

LFCFan

some light fluffy stuff in Blanch.

darkman2

Just got a darn heavy snow shower. Looks like Dublin is getting a hammering just now:rolleyes:

Scubadevils

Sure is getting hammered, what a pleasent sight

...its actually sticking now too

DMC

Just started, nice steady flakes here in St. Stephens Green

darkman2

Met Eireann already wrong, typical;)

DMC

And stopped. Damn and blast.

redman

1st Snow shower in Leopardstown just arrived:D

darkman2

Weird, were all talking about the same shower:rolleyes:

Scubadevils

easing off now here and the sun is trying to make an appearance

Scruff

snowing quite heavily now in dublin city centre!!

ninebeanrows

Missed that shower by like 3 k's

My hands are numb we were playing pe absoluyteky freeezing:eek:

kaizer

Just had another heavy hail shower and lookin out over the Irish sea another one is comin. Big dark clouds. Could be an interestin afternoon.

Wonder is Gerry Murphy loking out the window in Glasnevin??

High ground and at night like...

We have had a few light snow showers here too , they seem to be fringing the coast from the sea too and others coming straight down from the wicklow mts

Scubadevils

All stopped now and back to a sunny afternoon

darkman2

Showers have really gotten there act together across Ireland. One particularly big one in the midlands:D

Gonzo

think im too far west, the sun just keep shining, altho we did have a few snow grains in the wind about half an hour ago, I could see that big shower over Dublin in the distance a while ago.

Scubadevils

I have to drive to Portlaoise now and back to Dublin this evening, is it likely to be a troublesome journey?

Villain

Felixdhc wrote:

I have to drive to Portlaoise now and back to Dublin this evening, is it likely to be a troublesome journey?

Nah Motorway will be grand.

darkman2

darkman2 wrote:

Showers have really gotten there act together across Ireland. One particularly big one in the midlands:D

Oh I see that,it seems to be heading south east

Scubadevils

irish1 wrote:

Nah Motorway will be grand.

cheers, meant to go to Birr too but I might skip that bit

Calibos

Snowing heavily in Bray for the last 20 minutes. Big Fluffy flakes. Starting to stick

Calibos

Blue sky now

Gonzo

i think we need a proper organised band of snow lasting afew hours if anythings to stick properly. Looks like the cold snap could last up to Wednesday March 8th judging by the charts.

LookingFor

darkman2 wrote:

Met Eireann already wrong, typical;)

I was in Glasnevin about an hour ago, and there was a good 20-minute long heavy shower of snow there (the same everyone else is mentioning, no doubt), yet guess what they were saying on the lunchtime forecast?

Words to the effect of: "away from northern and western parts, these showers are more likely to be of sleet of hail, or maybe even rain", whilst pointing toward the east and dublin :rolleyes:

In fairness to them, though, they did issue a warning finally, "very cold, some snow showers".

While it did push south, that shower seemed to be fairly localised though - a couple of miles west in D15, my Dad told me they'd just a few flakes in the air, nothing major.

LookingFor

darkman2 wrote:

I think there is a shwer heading for west dublin. Looks snowy.;)

It's clouding up here alright, I'm back in D15.

darkman2

I think there is a shower heading for west dublin. Looks snowy.;)

darkman2

A big looking convective type shower coming into North Dublin now:D

LookingFor

You should go to Met Eireann and show them how it's done There's a little snow in the air just now, here, hopefully it's getting started

Gonzo

once again im on the very edge of that shower, a few big flakes falling but the shower is passing to the other side of me this time so its heading towards blanchardstown area.

Villain

I'm in Leixlip and ain't see any flakes, just passing cloud.