Fierce Cold Spell from Sunday (February 1st)

morgana · 03-02-2009 4:46pm

Sunny, all snow gone for hours in North Cork (near Mallow)

ibarelycare · 03-02-2009 4:47pm

Starting to sleet in Blanch

garytuohy · 03-02-2009 4:47pm

snowing in lucan last 20 mins...very very heavey! heavier than last night about 4" on top of all the sludge that was..everything completely covered

munsterlegend · 03-02-2009 4:49pm

getting worries that all these showers are going west rather than south...can any of ye experts have a look at the bbc forecast radar as to whether that is fog/snow as both are white on their radar for the south tonight(over cork)? found the bbc to be very reliable thus far particularly their radars.

aassddff · 03-02-2009 4:49pm

still nothing around the IFSC

CianRyan · 03-02-2009 4:49pm

Been having some great snow in Tallaght the past two days.
Its still coming down really heavy here. Lovely it is.

Pics to fallow shortly.

holly1 · 03-02-2009 4:49pm

Just started here in Clane again,hugh big flakes but the sun is still shining,weird!!!!!

slavetothegrind · 03-02-2009 4:51pm

Here in rathcoole it has dropped over 30mm in last half hour and still at it!
If you are in town heading home west go, for chrissakes go!:D

bennyx_o · 03-02-2009 4:51pm

Sunny here now

Shzm · 03-02-2009 4:51pm

dumping down snow in clonsilla

Brainz · 03-02-2009 4:51pm

absolutly pegging it here in leixlip - rang the OH and she said it is blizzard like in clondalkin -how i love the excitement !!!

shamwari · 03-02-2009 4:54pm

Have a look at this: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

It looks like the east coast from Dub to Wex is about to be dumped upon. Substantial stuff brewing off the coast at the mo

Scubadevils · 03-02-2009 4:54pm

Eased off here now and I can see the clouds about to move away.

Heroditas · 03-02-2009 4:54pm

garytuohy wrote: »

snowing in lucan last 20 mins...very very heavey! heavier than last night about 4" on top of all the sludge that was..everything completely covered

Hmm, looks a bit like sleet falling in Lucan now. Just wait until it gets dark and the temperature falls a degree or two - could get even more treacherous!

roryc1 · 03-02-2009 4:54pm

M50 is a big no no:eek:

ninebeanrows · 03-02-2009 4:55pm

Brightening up here now and the big shower clouds move west and north and south.

pokerface_me · 03-02-2009 4:56pm

Absolute blizzard conditions in Tallaght, 40-50mm in the past 40 minutes around the kiltipper hill area, roads are lethal, skies are black

Sierra Oscar · 03-02-2009 4:56pm

Some lovely dark clouds moving in here now.

DOCARCH · 03-02-2009 4:57pm

Just measured - 2 inches of fresh snow on pavement (where snow had melted) and 3.5 inches on grass (on top of unmelted snow).

ninebeanrows · 03-02-2009 4:57pm

Apparently hell around blanch, at a standstill.

3 inches under foot.

darkman2 · 03-02-2009 4:58pm

Surely that's gonna be it now...Dew Points must be past the snow mark at this stage.

passinginterest · 03-02-2009 5:00pm

pokerface_me wrote: »

Absolute blizzard conditions in Tallaght, 40-50mm in the past 40 minutes around the kiltipper hill area, roads are lethal, skies are black

I can confirm it's amazing and no sign of stopping masses of cloud overhead. :eek::D

holly1 · 03-02-2009 5:00pm

Oh ! my god this is just brill,I cant see the house across the road

Mr Benevolent · 03-02-2009 5:00pm

Depends where you are Darkman! Big lump on it's way up from the southeast at the moment.

Cionád · 03-02-2009 5:00pm

It's glorious.

Gonna cause mayhem for the commuters!

embee · 03-02-2009 5:01pm

Still spitting down crappy snow in Ardee, has gotten very dark and gloomy in the last hour or so.

It still isn't sticking though

Supercell · 03-02-2009 5:01pm

Gonna be rain/sleet from now on.

garytuohy · 03-02-2009 5:02pm

very fine snow in lucan(not sleet) damage is done now, I reckon traffic is gonna be nuts at 5pm

temp -1c

03-02-2009 5:02pm

DOCARCH wrote: »

Just measured - 2 inches of fresh snow on pavement (where snow had melted) and 3.5 inches on grass (on top of unmelted snow).

I'd expect that out your way,nice bit inland but I wasnt expecting it to settle in balls bridge

Thats a snow downpour for you!

Meanwhile very dark here now - expecting sleet at best at first here anyhow with a 0.7c dp

@DM I'm finding dp's flutuate near showers -rising as they leaving and dropping under the shower.
All part of the evaporative cooling.

I hope I havent jinxed this.

Supercell · 03-02-2009 5:02pm

Confab wrote: »

Depends where you are Darkman! Big lump on it's way up from the southeast at the moment.

Unles you live higher than 300 metres that's going to be rain or sleet at best.
Temperatures are going to rise overnight, not fall unfortunately.

Fierce Cold Spell from Sunday (February 1st)

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