Current Weather Conditions - October 2008

Supercell

Snow tapering off, about 3cm or so on the ground. A perfect October's day.
Current temp 0.7°C

highdef

Sleet now with literally the very odd stray flake. Temp down to 2.5c again. DP must be rising so.

Snowbie

Supercell wrote: »

Snow tapering off, about 3cm or so on the ground. A perfect October's day.
Current temp 0.7°C

Super.

Wind into SE off the sea and temp rising also too.
Back upto 3.1C
Dp 1.9C

nacho libre

Wind backing northerly now. The temperature has fallen to 5.4c

Supercell

Snow really picked up again, pretty heavy heavy.
Just went out and took some pic, will post once warmed up !

Supercell

Snow gave way to sleet and now moderate rain, oh well was far better than I exepcted of an event.

DOCARCH

4.5c here atm. Sun's out now. 997mb - really falling fast (down from 1019mb at 9pm last night - that's nearlly a 'bomb'!).

Had sleet here earlier - was up in Enniskerry in the snow - will post photos later.

arctictree

Arrrggh - Drizzle here now but temp still at 1.1c - thats a bit strange...

nacho libre

winds gone north easterly now. it's quite chilly(4.2) now

Supercell

Temperature rising rapidly surprisingly, currently 2.7°C and rising fast.
Perhaps the sensor was snow covered earlier causing artifically low readings?
Thought it would fall after dark, hopefully some sneachta left tomorrow, might go on a hike up Scarr for some proper powder stuff

arctictree

Supercell wrote: »

Temperature rising rapidly surprisingly, currently 2.7°C and rising fast.
Perhaps the sensor was snow covered earlier causing artifically low readings?
Thought it would fall after dark, hopefully some sneachta left tomorrow, might go on a hike up Scarr for some proper powder stuff

Nope, your reading is accurate. I'm at 2.6c and rising (I have a mercury thermo which concurs). I think its the SW wind has started to pick up. Its been dead calm here for most of the day.

I'd say the mountaintops here have some serious snow depth now...

Supercell

Yep 3.7°C outside now, warmest of the day, popped outside and my nose agrees with the rising temp.
In fact this would have gone down as an epic event in my days living in Rathgar!
Can't complain, loads of time left for a second run this autumn/winter/spring !!

DOCARCH

Current temp. here 5.4c - peaked earlier at 7.1c

994mb atm - 1019mb at 10pm last night - that's a 25mb drop in 19 hours! Anybody else record similar?

As far as I can remember, a drop of 24mb in 24hours is termed a bomb?

PILOT

heavy snowfall here in east cavan. Bailieborough has been badly hit, all roads in and out of the town have been classed as "impassible", RTE are comin 2 see, so i hear !!!

Supercell

Up to 4.6°C now, the snow is still everywhere though, hope it starts cooling soon!

LEIN

Still bitter cold.

Had a Christmassy drive home with all the white mountain tops.

Prob in for a bad frost as the sky is now clear.

Mothman

Temp went up to 5C after the sleet, then dropped to near 3C at dusk, and now rising again.
3.8C atm
Dp 3.4C
Clear

Mothman

4.2C
Looks like I'm playing catch up and will be 6C in about an hour.

Supercell

Mothman wrote: »

4.2C
Looks like I'm playing catch up and will be 6C in about an hour.

Yep up to 4.7°C now here, thought the cool stuff on the ground would counteract the stuff above but wind picked up again so prolly feck all left by morning
I bet Lug aint bothered though, must be masses of the sneachta up on top there.

Snowbie

Max of 6C today and my coldest max temp for an October day.
Dropping away again now under partly cloudy skies.

5.6C
Dp 4.7C
Wind WSW.

Mothman

Mothman wrote: »

4.2C
Looks like I'm playing catch up and will be 6C in about an hour.

In fact half an hour there already.
6.4C

Snowbie

Snowbie wrote: »

Max of 6C today and my coldest max temp for an October day.
Dropping away again now under partly cloudy skies.

5.6C
Dp 4.7C
Wind WSW.

Bit premature that,
Clouded over and temp up.
6.2C
Dp 5.7C
Wind WNW

LEIN

Just back from the shop and it feels some what milder.

More like an average evening for October!

Danno

No snow event to speak of here or in Portlaoise either. Some sleet on the drive to work this morning, but quickly turned to rain by 1030am. Temps shot up in the afternoon to 9.2c and a total of 9.9mm fell today. Dewpoints hit a high of 8.3c also.
At work today I noticed what I thought was the low pressure centre pass overhead. So I guess it was 30 miles too far east.

Currently 6.8c with 5.2c DP.

Congrats to all in the Snowbound east and northeast. Weathercheck got it right.

Snowbie

Temp falling again now
5.4C
Dp 4.3C
Wind NW.

Max eventually of 6.5C at 8pm.

Snowbie

Partly cloudy
4.1C
Dp 3.1C
Wind NW

Danno

5.6c with 5.0c DP. Damp cold abound. It feels colder than this time last night! I wonder will there be snow showers tomorrow?

Mothman

Very damp morning.
6C, overnight min 2C, not as low as yesterday afternoon's min.

arctictree

3.7c here ATM. Cold Rain. Windy NE

Overnight low of 1.7c. All snow gone!

A

Snowbie

Temp rose sharply at 0230 when changed NE and is now bowing in off the sea.
It will feel colder again with the windchill added today.

Wind NE 12-15mph gusting over 20mph
6.0C
Dp 3.0C
1.0mm from showers