East/west split 14th Dec 2006

Mothman

A very pronounced east/west split today.

Not exactly east west, more like SE/NW, but here I have a windy SW 13C, Dublin AP 35 miles to north a N 8C.

at 15z
Kilkenny, Cork & Rosslare have a mainly dry 12/13C with blustery SW wind, rest of country have light drizzle/rain 5-8C with light wind.

Indeed
Gusting to almost 40mph SW and howling here-Dry but with an occasional splash of drizzle.
Pretty much around 11.9c all day

Trogdor

Any chance of these awful clouds clearing later on, as i'd hate to miss one of the best chances for the northern light in ages

Mothman

WOW!! mighty impressive,
Temp has just fallen 3+C in 10 minutes (12.4C-9.1C), wind has veered from SW to N

Temp now 8.8C...

Mothman

And Kilkenny down to 7C at 18z, Cork and Rosslare at 11 & 12C respectively.

Temp still falling, 8.5C

no such fall here

11.8c down from 11.9c

Wind still gusting loudly to 40mph from the SW

Dry all day and still dry apart from some light drizzle that wont even wet the ground.

No sooner posted than the stone fell.
9.6c thats over 2c in what 20 mins.

Wind veering NW and calmed to just 4mph or so

Mothman

Tristrame wrote:

No sooner posted than the stone fell.
9.6c thats over 2c in what 20 mins.

Wind veering NW and calmed to just 4mph or so

Did you have a drop for a while this morning?

Dropped from 13C to 10C from 08z to 10z, was wet then as well.

Temp now 8.1C

9.2c here now

Dunno about this morning,will check the live graph

No rain here this morning though

Nope no drop in that time.
Min was 11.9 and it went up to 12.2c for a while.
Windy throughout from the SW

Currently Barometer rising like a rocket

1012.8mb

now 9.1c

Mothman

Tristrame wrote:

Nope no drop in that time.
Min was 11.9 and it went up to 12.2c for a while.

So I got (and Kilkenny) got a taste of the other side for a while as a result of a wriggle in the cold front. See attached graph.
Arklow didn't.
If that drop didn't happen it would have been a record min by some margin for Dec as it was above 12C for more than 24 hours.

It was still a record high daily mean though...

sirpsycho

trogdor wrote:

Any chance of these awful clouds clearing later on, as i'd hate to miss one of the best chances for the northern light in ages

didnt hear about this! did u get a clear look skywards?

Trogdor

sirpsycho wrote:

didnt hear about this! did u get a clear look skywards?

No, i stayed up for a while but it never cleared. There's more chance for tonight, tomorrow night and possbly Sunday night, but not quite as big a threat as last night. Temp is 5.2C here, it fell pretty sharply yesterday afternoon and has stayed pretty low since

Only 4.2c here now in moderate rain at lunchtime.
Wind is NW straight down from croghan mt.
It must be getting wintry up on lugnaquilla.

Thats an 8 degree drop on this time yesterday.

Now down to 4c

Casement,Cork airport and Kilkenny are also reporting 4c

And it drops even further

3.8c now

DP is 3.1c

Though the DP doesnt support it well,It must surely be very wintry up on lugnaquilla or even on croghan mt (near me) at 2000ft

Snowbie

Stuck on 5.2c all morning and afternoon.DP 4.1c

Snowbie

Tristrame wrote:

And it drops even further

3.8c now

DP is 3.1c

Though the DP doesnt support it well,It must surely be very wintry up on lugnaquilla or even on croghan mt (near me) at 2000ft

When the clearer colder air digs in at the back edge of your rain,Dp might drop enough to see a little sleet maybe wet snow for you before it clears with your low air temps.

It will be a cold night for sure.

A friend of mine farms beside croghan mountain at about 1500ft and he said there was wet snow falling there in the afternoon.
It has settled on the mountain above 1800ft.
I'd imagine Lugnaquilla and most of the higher hills in wicklow would also have a covering as they are higher.