Significant snow Thursday Night/Friday/Saturday

gollyitsolly

It has just snowed in Blanchardstown for approx 2.38 minutes. Does this count as significant snowfall?

JackieChan

Sleet rain turning more to snow in D8.



Not a hope of it sticking though

darkman2

gollyitsolly wrote: »

It has just snowed in Blanchardstown for approx 2.38 minutes. Does this count as significant snowfall?

No it would have to be much more then that.:)

Mobhi1

Snowing in Dublin near city centre now.

missloulou

Sleety snow in Ballsbridge!:)

Paddy.1

Temp now 5.3c, rising bigtime, it seems that shower activity is dying out somewhat. I am getting less hopeful about getting decent snow down here. However, with force 11 winds forecast for the Northeast, along with the latest fax chart posted above, it could well be more interesting further north and east of here in the next 24hrs. Tense times.

Kur4mA

Gonzo wrote: »

had some rain/sleet/snow all mixed in together a while ago, blue skys and sun again now tho.

Exact same here in Dublin 15. It was quite mental for a couple of minutes but clear bright skies now.

http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=view&country=gb&sat=ir

As you can see from that sat pic,we're really in only a very modified polar maratime westerly at the moment.
When that low sinks further south we should be in true artic air.

Thats when the fun begins.
It's also when the showers will stop in my location though.

ninebeanrows

Good day all,

Gonna catch my 3pm lecture and skip home!

Just had a sleet shower rash through the city centre there and totally soak me.

I'll show ya where we are to be looking for tomorrow mornings snowfall.

Latest Met Office Sat pic shows the area west of Scotland, kind of attached to the main low, watch this closely to see if a circulation develops, it is this that will being the snow to many areas tomorrow.

ninebeanrows

Although maybe i am wrong as that is treking abit too fast, probably reaching us this evening.....

arctictree

Heavy sleet shower there. Temp dropped to 3.0c. Radar looks clear enough for the next couple of hours. Hope that wasn't it!!

A

maquiladora

13:00 :

BIRR(P) W 11 Gust 24 RECENT SNOW
MULLINGAR(P) SW 10 Gust 28 RECENT SNOW
SHANNON AIRPORT W 24 Gust 38 RECENT SNOW

John_Mc

Ok, can I get a rough guestimate on whether Dublin's gonna get any snow this evening or Tomorrow?

nacho libre

the radio 1 forecast, at lunchtime, was disappointing, it said the showers would be confined to northern half of the country tonight. i guess that rules out any trough coming down over the country.

ninebeanrows

nacho libre wrote: »

the radio 1 forecast, at lunchtime, was disappointing, it said the showers would be confined to northern half of the country tonight. i guess that rules out any trough coming down over the country.

Current Indications suggest that the activity to the north will organise itself tonight and push into Ulster around 4/5am and push south reaching Dublin by 10am.

Showers tonight for a time but dying out from 10pm.

Thats just a guess by the way, i havent seen enough satellite imagery to be able to make a more precise judgement.

peasant

Is it just me or have met eireann downgraded their Connacht report on the snow side of things? More wind instead?

Today

Very cold and very windy for the afternoon with sunny spells and scattered heavy wintry showers.


Tonight

Very cold and very windy tonight with clear spells and scattered showers of hail and snow. Icy roads.


Tomorrow

Bitterly cold with sunny spells and scattered hail, sleet and snow showers. Snow will accumulate in some places.

Planet X

Nice n sunny now.

maquiladora

nacho libre wrote: »

the radio 1 forecast, at lunchtime, was disappointing, it said the showers would be confined to northern half of the country tonight. i guess that rules out any trough coming down over the country.

Yeah....

TONIGHT
Further sleet and snow showers overnight, these mainly over the northern half of the country, where some will be heavy. Mostly dry elsewhere with just the odd wintry flurry. Very cold and windy, as temperatures fall near or below zero, with icy patches or lying snow in places.

nacho libre

ah it's time to move to Scandinavia for the winter!

you get your hopes up only for them to be dashed:(

ninebeanrows

Okay after having a good luck around i believe that things are more progressed than first thought.

I would expect the occlusion to move into Ulster around 10pm tonight and to reach Dublin by 5am in the morning.

Regards,

nacho libre

nacho libre wrote: »

ah it's time to move to Scandinavia for the winter!

you get your hopes up only for them to be dashed:(

According to GFS FI,it might be moving here*

*2% probability

Planet X

Where's me sun tan oil?

maquiladora

Deleted User wrote: »

According to GFS FI,it might be moving here*

*2% probability

How deep in FI are you seeing that?

Gonzo

sod all here today so far, mainly sunny and some cloudy spells moments.

IvyTheTerrible

I hope it doesn't snow...the SO made a 100 euro bet with me that it would snow here (south Leinster) before Friday... :rolleyes:

odyboody

Dont know where the downgrade from met.ie comes from. Their own atlantic for tomorrow show this


Midday Tomorrow - Isobars Midday Tomorrow - Rainfall

maquiladora

maquiladora wrote: »

How deep in FI are you seeing that?

About as deep as you can get..

maquiladora

Deleted User wrote: »

About as deep as you can get..

Ah, I didn't think you were looking that far ahead. I see what you mean about 2% now

squonk

Blue sky here but I see the shower activity is starting to ramp up again... fingers crossed!

kerry1960

just had a more organised soft hail/sleet shower .....lasted about 5 mins...temp drop from 6.2c to 2.8c