Christmas Eve Freeze (Wintry showers in east, temps below -10c tonight)

ninebeanrows

Well no snow here last night just rain, had a big hail/rain shower around 5am.

There should be a feed of showers onto the east coast through today and this evening, so potentially some snow.

Overnight tonight could see temperatures in the midlands dip below -10c :eek:

Continue here, thanks.

Just a reminder to the people posting pictures in this thread, they are very welcome and we want as many as we can get but when you post your pictures could you post them in the Weather Photography thread and then place the link to the thread in here?

It would help in many ways.

Thanks so much.

Villain

what way do you see the breakdown going tomorrow WC?

ninebeanrows

Its hard to believe some places got to -10c last night, when i look out my window, looks like a mild wet morning! No ice at all.

ninebeanrows

Villain wrote: »

what way do you see the breakdown going tomorrow WC?

Think the snow will fall in the north midlands and over Ulster.

Milder air getting into the south and east first.

Pangea

My brother was going through donegal town there and he said it was -9 on the car temperture recorder, and that parts of the sea or harbour were frozen.

holly1

Thanks Villian for the hope and not wanting to sound rude:o,but I wont hold my breath:rolleyes:.We always seem to miss out except for the big snow in the eighties:).

Deep Easterly

Charlestown in Co. Mayo reporting -9.9c at the momemt! :eek:

http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

Pangea

Can someone answer me this question ,the tempertures we hear on met eireann and the likes ,is that air or road tempertures?

Deep Easterly

Pangea wrote: »

Can someone answer me this question ,the tempertures we hear on met eireann and the likes ,is that air or road tempertures?

Air temp Pangea.

Graces7

Ay me; we have abundance of snow already!! Ah well...

White this Christmas certainly is..

Weathercheck wrote: »

Think the snow will fall in the north midlands and over Ulster.

Milder air getting into the south and east first.

holly1

Good morning brother Murf/smurf:),any chance of a few thousand flakes in Kildare today??

Graces7

Wow

Pangea wrote: »

My brother was going through dongeal town there and he said it was -9 on the car temperture recorder, and that parts of the sea or harbour were frozen.

Mc Love

Crazy this morning -5 going to work. Ice was falling from the sky, because it wasnt snow, it wasnt rain and it wasnt sleet.

thought my fingers would fall off. Roads were ok though

Mothman

Speaking of road temps, at what temp is salt ineffective?

Balmy 4.8C here

kleefarr

Kilkenny City outskirts...

Temperature: -2.0 °C
Dew Point: -2.3 °C

And that's as cool as it got, -2.
A light frost on the ground and cars, but nothing like we've seen in the past few days.

Deep Easterly

holly1 wrote: »

Good morning brother Murf/smurf:),any chance of a few thousand flakes in Kildare today??

Good morning sister smurf!

I doubt it to be honest, but anything can happen!

Mothman

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Charlestown in Co. Mayo reporting -9.9c at the momemt! :eek:

http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

Fallen to -10.1C

The plants over here in the balmy EAST are thinking of their dying western cousins...

Supercell

Just back from my morning jog. I have never ever seen such icy conditions. The roads are basically completely 100% covered in pure ice. It seems the crunchy frost melted then refroze overnight into glassy ice. I could barely walk in places never mind jog!

jenzz

WC - on the NRA there bray bypass, Arklow Bypass, Enniscorthy all + figs & the rest of the country miles below.

But I am grateful for no ice this morning. We cleared the drive twice last evening & was still freezing over again & again.. Due to the sickness yesterday I need to get out for shopping today & I didnt fancy a dangerous trek to tescos.

Beautiful morning looking over the Dublin mountains - I must send yee a picture of my view of Catty Gallagher.. Shes lookin pretty today...

holly1

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Good morning sister smurf!

I doubt it to be honest, but anything can happen!

Thanks,I wont get my hopes up then,so wont be dissapointed:rolleyes:.
I couldent open the car door this morning:D.

owenc

temp here is -10.5c and it got down to -11.5c so it was cold!!!!!! how high should we expect and i notice met ie are forecasting rain for us tomorrow i wonder hopefully not!

jenzz

Graces7 wrote: »

Ay me; we have abundance of snow already!! Ah well...

White this Christmas certainly is..

Morning Grace - Hope your feeling better & a bit warmer...

Nada snow here so I think ill be getting you to post some

Fek,

I've to drive from Galway to Monaghan later and it's -6 down there.. Effort in an old rear wheel drive bmw that definately has no traction control.

Dickerty

Mothman wrote: »

Fallen to -10.1C

Seriously? That is a savage temperature for daytime...

Dickerty

jenzz wrote: »

WC - on the NRA there bray bypass, Arklow Bypass, Enniscorthy all + figs & the rest of the country miles below.

It's like a band across the country - Dublin, Wicklow, Waterford and Wexford all above 0. There is a 13.2 degree difference between Mayo and Wicklow!!!!

ninebeanrows

6z GFS indicates reasonable period of snow continuing over the northwest, midlands and Ulster during Christmas day, even parts of inland North Leinster.

Increase of risk as band slips slightly further south.

mike65

Its sun bed weather down here, hasn't been this warm at 10 am or indeed at any time for nearly a week.

ch750536

Just driven from Abbeyfeale to Listowel & back, all major routes treated & are fine. Other roads deadly.

Went down a hill backwards into a ditch yesterday, that was fun.

inabina

there is not much action out in the irish sea anyway. unless something starts bulbling up soon?

Mothman

I've 4 to 5C all night with a bit of rain and part of my drive in shade is a sheet of ice.
5cm soil temp has risen to 1C.

I can't estimate how long the ground will be frozen for in the west. It must be nearly a permafrost there. There could be black ice throughout the less cold period.

jenzz

well the only bit of good news is with the temp risen .......... We actually get to do that snow job !!! ( in recession work is desperate !)

So all the easterlys who never got to see snow... Bray Seafront later - ................................................. A big surprise for all the kiddies ........

Mothman

Dickerty wrote: »

Seriously? That is a savage temperature for daytime...

This is at 9am, the sun scarcely up yet and if there is any sort of shade from morning sun, temps may still drop further after 9am.

Supercell

Supercell wrote: »

Just back from my morning jog. I have never ever seen such icy conditions. The roads are basically completely 100% covered in pure ice. It seems the crunchy frost melted then refroze overnight into glassy ice. I could barely walk in places never mind jog!

You are sheltered from that East wind which helps.
All the ice that was still here yesterday evening here is pretty much gone.Theres no new ice.
My davis is completely sheltered from it too but by a hedge alas and not by mountains.

owenc

still around -9c now and we are the coldest place in the uk should our high stay at -7c?!

gothwalk

-1.6C in Maynooth now, from a low of -2.2 overnight. A layer of ice on the roads I can see from last night's rain, which is going to make the necessary driving later on lots of fun. Patchy cloud drifting over. After I do a few bits and pieces here, I'm going to go out and get some holly, so I'll get some up-close-and-personal experience of the ice.

Graces7

All is well.

Woke to frozen taps.. but then found it is only the kitchen cold tap and the bathroom is still working...:)

Much colder than y;day; wee dog can now run atop of the frozen snow whereae y;day she was falling through it... we are very unscientific up here..

And even the dogs wanted in again

All the bird food and water freezes fast.

All is very quiet and very still.

Enough fuel for a few days yet and maybe by then we will be able to get out for more.

All is well and so lovely....

Sorry no snow elsewhere... and next time I see the postman will ask him re posting snow!!!

jenzz wrote: »

Morning Grace - Hope your feeling better & a bit warmer...

Nada snow here so I think ill be getting you to post some

owenc

Graces7 wrote: »

All is well.

Woke to frozen taps.. but then found it is only the kitchen cold tap and the bathroom is still working...:)

Much colder than y;day; wee dog can now run atop of the frozen snow whereae y;day she was falling through it... we are very unscientific up here..

And even the dogs wanted in again

All the bird food and water freezes fast.

All is very quiet and very still.

Enough fuel for a few days yet and maybe by then we will be able to get out for more.

All is well and so lovely....

Sorry no snow elsewhere... and next time I see the postman will ask him re posting snow!!!

how cold did you get too?

Graces7

:rolleyes:



I can't estimate how long the ground will be frozen for in the west. It must be nearly a permafrost there. There could be black ice throughout the less cold period.[/quote]

Mothman

owenc wrote: »

still around -9c now and we are the coldest place in the uk

10am obs
Loch Glascanoch (264 m) -13.2°
Aviemore (228 m) -12.8°
Tulloch Bridge (236 m) -12.7°
Altnaharra (80 m) -12.5°
Strathallan (35 m) -11.0°

peasant

Sligo Airport, which is right by the sea, practically in the sea, still reporting -4 at 10.30

kkontour

Cold in Sligo this morning. The frost is so thick on the trees!

Deep Easterly

Going by the combined daily means of Met stations: Shannon, Oak Park, Casement, Claremorris and Mullingar, yesterday was the coldest day in Ireland so far in 2009.

A daily mean of -1.7c (this is for the midnight to midnight period which met eireann use on their Daily Data page).

The second coldest period was during January, when a daily mean of -1.6c was recorded.

Crude chart giving a sum up of this 5 station daily mean up from Jan 1st to 23rd Dec 09:


Despite this cool snap, it may not be enough to lower the 61-90 yearly mean of the 5 stations above. Last year it finished around 0.4c above this average; this year I would guess it will finish nearer 0.5c above.

All data used C/O Met Eireann.

holly1

gothwalk wrote: »

-1.6C in Maynooth now, from a low of -2.2 overnight. A layer of ice on the roads I can see from last night's rain, which is going to make the necessary driving later on lots of fun. Patchy cloud drifting over. After I do a few bits and pieces here, I'm going to go out and get some holly, so I'll get some up-close-and-personal experience of the ice.

If you dont find Holly in Maynooth,Im in Clane:D!!
Mind yourself out there:)

Mothman

Mothman wrote: »

Fallen to -10.1C

No 10am report from Charlsetown, maybe the thermo broke
The trend at the other stations is upwards

Graces7

Hmmm... How to answer that!!

If you mean in scientific terms, as in thermometers? No idea. few of us have this high tech stuff...

In human terms; very, very cold indeed.

The sun had melted some of the snow on the car so that was sheet ice also.

Outside pipes are frozen and the snow also.

Eyeballs cold....

Anyone;s guess; we are very high up here and above the snowline.

A three hot water bottle and two cat night...:)

Would actually love to know. In scientific terms;)

it is all very fascinating indeed and wondering what next!

owenc wrote: »

how cold did you get too?

Deep Easterly

Mothman wrote: »

The trend at the other stations is upwards

Certainly is in my back yard at the mo. up to a balmy -5.8c currently.

Sierra Oscar

The Met Eireann charts are a bit of a downgrade . . .

Deep Easterly

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

The Met Eireann charts are a bit of a downgrade . . .

Done, it came out way bigger than it looked on Excel

Edit, sorry, misread your post, I thought you meant the Chart needs downgrading in size.

irish1967

In cold conditions brain function may slow there DE

Graces7

Just what I was thinking too:)

First sign of hypothermia is that..

Just had a visitor; on foot for the last half mile. Their car is not a 4 wheel drive and the road is only cleared part of the way downwards. Is impassable now it seems.

Only vehicle seen today is the 4 wheel drive of the farmer and a "cat".

irish1967 wrote: »

In cold conditions brain function may slow there DE