Happy Christmas Freeze Discussion

ninebeanrows

Iced over and rock hard here now.

-5c

The weather charts also indicate the cold clinging on for the forseable future, could this just be the start of things?

Hope everybody has a great Christmas.;)

Villain

Happy Christmas all, hopefully some will see snow for a time today. As for after this weeeknd well it looks good maybe really good but its still FI

Graces7

Just walked down the lane to leave some sweeties for the children and the road is solid ice; crept along the crunchy snow at the side. No water at all here now...

I owe you guys a big thank you as it was your warnings that had me buying in water before this started.

Would be melting snow else...

So I am heeding what you say now

But it is so utterly beautiful and will be sorry in some ways to see it go; not in others though!!!

snaps

According to the met radar rain belt just to the west of me now, going to be interesting to see what happens here, air temp -5.1c and ground temp -9.3c! No sign of any cloud yet either!

Pangea

Merry Christmas to all!
Just seen the bbc forecast ,it was very good, showing a good deal of snow for ireland , 2inches and double that in the hills ,she said it will snow for several hours!
And the forecast for the next week is delicous just look at met eireanns site

Agent Smith

Yeah, Its Cold out. i dont have any fancy gizmos, but the ass imprint on my driveway is proof that its icey and slippy.




Stupid ice

DOCARCH

Shannon reporting light rain at 9am and -2c! Just shows you probably how thin the cold layer is.

Mothman

DOCARCH wrote: »

Shannon reporting light rain at 9am and -2c! Just shows you probably how thin the cold layer is.

Was just about to post the Shannon obs.
Driving conditions may the worst in many peoples memory with everything ice with rain falling on frozen surface.
-3C here and sunny

snaps

now cloudied up here, very dark skys as well. No percip yet, interseting, still -4.9c

JJJJNR

Sky news seems to think the east coast massive are going to get a good bit of snow today.

BoardsRanger

Happy Chrsitmas folks! Mothman- what are the chances of that band of percipitation approaching the east falling as snow in wicklow later?

Graces7

Is there the opposite of a "thanks to" sign please?

We need some break up here; fine for those who have been able to get out and restock etc..

Thank you!

Graces7

:mad: :eek:

Pangea wrote: »

Merry Christmas to all!
Just seen the bbc forecast ,it was very good, showing a good deal of snow for ireland , 2inches and double that in the hills ,she said it will snow for several hours!
And the forecast for the next week is delicous just look at met eireanns site

ninebeanrows

Christmas morning.

Dublin Airport -6c

Casement -8c

All at 9am :eek:

Reason why this precip will turn to rain is if 850hpas go above say -1c, which they are expected to over the south and up the southeast.

Snow from Meath northwards i would say.

Also shows how wrong even the meso GFS can be, illustrating temps should be +2c here now,

so it shows to take them always with abit of salt

ninebeanrows

Met Office for NI, upgraded

Flash Weather Warning

Issued 09:00 25/12/2009

Heavy snow is forecast to affect many areas today, 5 - 10 cm is possible with more over high ground.

Snow will continue into this evening then clear to leave icy conditions and wintery showers these may be of rain or sleet in the south and west.

Sponge Bob

The thaw has just set in here in the wesht in the past hour , thank God

falling as rain/sleet and not in large amounts.

Leeside

Heavy rain in Cork. Surprised at how quickly it came after such a severe night frost.

Lumi

-4.1C & raining. Pity, was hoping for a few flakes before my winter wonderland melts

Sierra Oscar

Persistent rain here at the moment.

snaps

snowing here in mayo, nothing to get excited about, the real small fine flakes. Still -4.9c here

Leeside

Should the title of the thread be "snow turning to rain" rather than the other way around?

nacho libre

snaps wrote: »

snowing here in mayo, nothing to get excited about, the real small fine flakes. Still -4.9c here

it should get heavier after a while

nacho libre

Sponge Bob wrote: »

The thaw has just set in here in the wesht in the past hour , thank God

falling as rain/sleet and not in large amounts.

if you don't mind me asking, where are you exactly?

snaps

wind is getting up and strangely coming from the east now?

nacho libre

Leeside wrote: »

Should the title of the thread be "snow turning to rain" rather than the other way around?

yes, because it will turn to rain everywhere bar ulster and high ground further south

billy the squid

-3 degrees here and it is chucking it down with rain. never seen the like of it when the rain hits the ground it freezes. its like walking on glass while wearing rollerskates.

nacho libre

nacho libre wrote: »

if you don't mind me asking, where are you exactly?

Sponge bob is in limerick city area.

meanwhile brilliant sunshine here ..
Temp up to -1.6c
dp -2.3c

snaps

snaps wrote: »

wind is getting up and strangely coming from the east now?

Thats why you have snow.
Once it goes SW,you will start to see the change.

nacho libre

Deleted User wrote: »

Thats why you have snow.
Once it goes SW,you will start to see the change.

yes sadly:(

though at least before it changes the snow should be fairly heavy

nacho libre

meanwhile it has just started snowing lightly...:D

clouding over rapidly here.
Sun now obscured.

-1.1c
dp -1.8c
Flat calm

owenc

im getting worried now as temps are -10.4c but people are saying it is raining will it turn to rain after snow here would be awful because dont want any snow or ice melting!

G-Money

Some pics from Armagh. Currently minus 3 outside when I took these:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63647483#post63647483

Pa ElGrande

10:15 West Limerick raining heavily @ 10:15 am
The white stuff is thawing, slush on the roads through the hills.

snaps

can confirm even how strange this is, its now raining, temp still -4c as well. Ive never witnessed anything like this, Very low temps but rain! Rain freezing instantally on anything it touches. Even the outside of the window its freezing on!

ltdslipdiff

-4.1c here in Waterford, foggy and cold obviously.... Awaiting the rain.....

Leeside

Really nice pics Grandmaster. Thats the type of scene I've been hoping for the past three weeks. Pity, its gonna be gone very quickly.

nacho libre

owenc wrote: »

im getting worried now as temps are -10.4c but people are saying it is raining will it turn to rain after snow here would be awful because dont want any snow or ice melting!

don't worry
it will start off as snow with you, it could even stay as snow the whole time in Ulster - which it definitely won't do for the those of us further south

owenc

snaps wrote: »

can confirm even how strange this is, its now raining, temp still -4c as well. Ive never witnessed anything like this, Very low temps but rain! Rain freezing instantally on anything it touches. Even the outside of the window its freezing on!

surely of temps -7c downwards in ni it couldnt rain wouldnt this not push the uppers down?:mad::(

nacho libre

snaps wrote: »

can confirm even how strange this is, its now raining, temp still -4c as well. Ive never witnessed anything like this, Very low temps but rain! Rain freezing instantally on anything it touches. Even the outside of the window its freezing on!

damn your dew points to hell

billy the squid

zero degrees here, still raining

Lumi

snaps wrote: »

can confirm even how strange this is, its now raining, temp still -4c as well. Ive never witnessed anything like this, Very low temps but rain! Rain freezing instantally on anything it touches. Even the outside of the window its freezing on!

Rain is freezing where it lands here also. The ground is a sheet of ice atm

Bumble32

Heavy rain at the moment here in Cork.:mad:

owenc

owenc wrote: »

im getting worried now as temps are -10.4c but people are saying it is raining will it turn to rain after snow here would be awful because dont want any snow or ice melting!

yes it will turn to rain with you but you should have piled up quite an extra blanket by then.
The thaw will be slow up there probably.For a while later today you should have a white out.

snaps

snaps wrote: »

can confirm even how strange this is, its now raining, temp still -4c as well. Ive never witnessed anything like this, Very low temps but rain! Rain freezing instantally on anything it touches. Even the outside of the window its freezing on!

That didn't last long!

/ awaits hearing from nacho.

Should be snowing at knock airport?

Morning all.
Very foggy morning in Lucan. The whole place is snow white. its lovely. Its hard to tell where the ground ends and the sky begins.Its just pure white.
I think we will get some snow here today

snaps

its freezing rain, like hail but pure ice balls, coming down the chimney at quite a rate, still -2.8c out there, so strange this!

owenc

Deleted User wrote: »

yes it will turn to rain with you but you should have piled up quite an extra blanket by then.
The thaw will be slow up there probably.For a while later today you should have a white out.

so 10cm that should be good how long should it rain for?:( meto arnt mentioning any rain! ahhhhhh worried to hell! why is going to turn to rain anyway!:mad:

*eadaoin

it started off at -8 here at about 8am, lovely clear skies. it's -4 now and the skies have clouded over with big grey clouds, looks like somethings going to come out of them soon but i'm sorry to see from reports that it might be rain

i'm in tipp by the way!

snaps

owenc wrote: »

so 10cm that should be good how long should it rain for?:( meto arnt mentioning any rain! ahhhhhh worried to hell! why is going to turn to rain anyway!:mad:

Thats if it gets up to you, the further inland this is getting its getting much weaker.

nacho libre

thank god there'll be few people driving today