Snow and other Wintry Stuff

Snowbie

For snow or other wintry precipitation(hail or sleet).

Post here on the likely hood of snow due to occur (within a 24hrs of a forecast) or snow falling in this country.

Please post links to radar images and satelite views when needed.

This is not a thread for forecasting snow for more than one day out as changes do occur.

Keep your posts on forecasts for cold spells/snaps in the relevant thread [thread=2055034256] here[/thread]

Keep your posts on LRFs[thread=2054978404] here[/thread]

This is again to keep our forum tidy.

Please stay on topic.

Thanks:)

Trogdor

The cursed snow symbol is back on my vp2 again . that's just killed my chances of snow this weekend:p

Snowbie

The cursed snow symbol has also shown its jinked head on my VP2 now,any you other VP users got this too.

Temp out 7.6c
Dp 4.3c
Hum 80%

But nice to see it with the onset of snow due.

Danno

Snowfall here. Not sticking as ground is very wet.

redman

Is it coming yet?

homersimpson

Been snowing here in Donegal for about an hour or so:D

CrowdedHouse

Brief snow shower in Roscrea at 11 o'clock

Snowbie

Hail shower here with some sleet mixed in.

ninebeanrows

First snowfalls of the winter across some western areas today..

I had the same sleety hail shower about 25 minutes ago that snowbie had

smashey

Snowing in Donegal. I don't think it will last too long.

ninebeanrows

Some sleet here now

Very nice pic Smashey! Lying snow! Great!

Plenty of lying snow in the North west on the higher ground I hear.

kkontour

Picure taken at 9am this morning. Started snowing about 7:15am
Foothills of Ox Mountains Sligo.
KK

Snowbie

one wicked hail shower here for 10 mins with gusty winds.Temp rose during that shower???? from 5.4c to 5.8c

LookingFor

Can't speak for DonkeyStyle, but we're having a heavy hail shower in D15 right now.

We've had frequent heavy precipitation throughout the day, this is perhaps the wintriest so far. The odd clap of thunder to boot.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Snowbie wrote:

and where is here?

Oop, sorry about that... D11 / 9
It's gotten worse in the last few minutes... hailstones the size of frozen peas. :eek:
Coming down so hard on the attic windows I was afraid they'd crack... that's the worst I've seen in years.

....And now it's stopped.

Snowbie

Back yard is covered in big hail.Lenghty shower ad looks more is streaming across the country towards the Dublin area too

arctictree

Snowbie wrote:

Back yard is covered in big hail.Lenghty shower ad looks more is streaming across the country towards the Dublin area too

Hmm - nothing here for the last few hours. Seems to be hit and miss....

A

Scubadevils

Rain on and off here in Lusk...not a sight of any hail even, which I fear backs up my concerns about snow in this area later

arctictree

Actually, just looked on the radar:

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

Dublin seems to be getting a pounding but Wicklow is missed altogether!!

A

Snowbie

arctictree wrote:

Actually, just looked on the radar:

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

Dublin seems to be getting a pounding but Wicklow is missed altogether!!

A

Looking to my south its clear alright with mamatus cloud above me know.
Just started to hail again.Been no stop showers here all afternoon.

Beautifull down here and a balmy 8 degree's.

Trogdor

I've just got back in from town and by god it's different here, cold and nearly pitch black skies in Dublin to sunny and 8.5C here. I noticed a very large area of hail over Dublin when coming back, the showers seem to be just sitting over Dublin, brilliant mammatus view from here.

SpitfireIV

Damn cold out today, you'd notice the bite in the wind! Just after having a heavy shower of icy rain/hail here in Carlow town, lasted about 15 mins or so. Must have been sleet, or maybe a bit of snow up on the hills.

MetLuver

Large shower just moving into Navan now. Had some sleet earlier today, Must be alot of convective activity around, Met Eireann predicting severe or violent gusts in showers. :eek:

Takeshi_Kovacs

Very heavy shower of rain/hail passing overheard, winds are still very strong, they haven't seemed to die off since Thursday. Too dark now to tell if mountains got a dusting of snow though.

Snowbie

Sleet shower here now,temp at 2.9c and falling.

Danno

Prolonged shower of rain then sleet, v.wet snow. Temp dropped from 4.3 to 2.1c in half an hour.

Uuuh Patsy

Massive snow flakes in south west Dublin.

Dampsquid

Snowing here in Monasterevin, sticking on ground too. currently 2.2c and dropping

SpitfireIV

Snow?? These must be the first reports of actual snow from this current event, right?

Its currently raining here in Carlow town, and has been for the past 30 mins

EDIT: I see Knock has reported a recent snow shower.

Trogdor

Rain, Rain Rain, ahhh. temperature currently 4.2C dewpoint 1.8C, hope you guys are enjoying your snow:D

Supercell

Artictree look out your window!!

Tis absolutely pelting down here right now whoohoo!!
Not sticking of course but bloody brilliant considering I wasnt expecting and sneachta until Sunday night!!

silverski

Greetings all,

Just raining here on the sea front in Bray, I did notice that in the last half and hour that they wind direction changed, the rain is comming from the north now.
perhaps we will see some the snow before morning.


Regards
Silverski

Trogdor

2.9C and still raining maybe a very slight sleety element.

Supercell

Tis settling a bit here , tis fecking great, will try to upload pics soon

SpitfireIV

Longfield wrote:

Tis settling a bit here , tis fecking great, will try to upload pics soon

Longfield you jammy fecker! , stop talking about how great it is, not good for us less fortunates

Cant wait to see some pics!

Trogdor

Shower over here now bottomed out at 2.9C and never changed from rain.
I wonder where arctictree got to he must be in heaven out enjoing it:D

Supercell

Snow stopped here now and turned back to light rain, was nice while it lasted and a great sign of whats to come , never expected snow on Saturday
I'll upload a couple of pics once I've downloaded my camera driver..which is slow on dialup

arctictree

Longfield wrote:

Artictree look out your window!!

Tis absolutely pelting down here right now whoohoo!!
Not sticking of course but bloody brilliant considering I wasnt expecting and sneachta until Sunday night!!

Damn - just got off the phone....

There is a covering of snow on the car...

Currently +0.9c - went down to 0.7 in that shower!!

A

Supercell

And its started snowing again!!

Jaysus I feel like a kid again , whoohoo! bring it on mother nature!!

sleet here
2.8c

rc28

can anyone in louth confirm this?:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0120/rta1.html

arctictree

Stopped here now.

Snow is melting off the car.

The next shower seems to be quite a distance away now:

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

Good sign of things to come though!!

A

Supercell

Melting here too, was nice to see it , and a great sign of things to come imho.
All we need is some precip once the proper cold air starts coming south and it'll get interesting

Anyhow heres the first snow I've seen since March 2005..

My Skoda is smiling..

SpitfireIV

They look like proper big fluffy flakes Longfield, nice! Hopefully I'll be seeing some of that in the coming days too

Trogdor

Showers don't seem to be breaking up as much as i thought they would as they cross the country, it looks to me like this next band is actually intensifiying
http://www.meteireann.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp?ani=y

Danno

Is snowbie's lightning dectector not operational???

Snowbie

Problem with local interference giving me false readings atm.Should be back up in the near future.

Bartronilic

No snow in southwest dublin!

SpitfireIV

I'm having a really heavy shower here now, mostly rain, maybe the obb bit of sleet , pity it wasnt snow as it'd give a nice covering :rolleyes: