Tuesday 12th - Strong winds, Heavy Rain & Surprise Snow

kkontour

It looks the the pink on the chart refers to snow in mm

maquiladora

WolfeIRE wrote: »

Irish snow (big wet blobs of misery).

Thats true of the wet snow yesterday but the snow I saw in Kilkenny earlier in the week was a different affair: dry, powdery stuff. Ive never seen snow like that before in these parts so it was something special.

WolfeIRE

maquiladora wrote: »

Thats true of the wet snow yesterday but the snow I saw in Kilkenny earlier in the week was a different affair: dry, powdery stuff. Ive never seen snow like that before in these parts so it was something special.

i had that powdery stuff last night too. Did a great job in increasing the depth of the snow quickly. Sorry for being a snow whore with my depth addiction.:o

maquiladora

18Z GFS will start rolling out in about 20 mins, not sure how useful it will be with this rapidly developing system in the short term but will be interesting anyway...

WolfeIRE

Here Comes The Blob - do do do do.

Look at those intense precip colours. This front may make landfall earlier than expected, probably about 3-4am in SW. By the way, I love MT's latest post where he clearly feels that tomorrow is going to be a lottery in terms of what type of precip falls and where.

JanuarySnowstor

Just to answer your question munsterlegend in the other thread, I think freezing rain is very likely early tomorrow between 6 and 9 am
Clashing with rush hour could make things chaotic for the South.
You also wondered about snow, no chance for us but quite likely in the Northeast. As I also metioned in the other thread freezing solid here at the moment along with most of the roads nationwide.
Not sure about the East, they seem to be basking in it of late....

Scubadevils

WolfeIRE wrote: »

Here Comes The Blob - do do do do.

Look at those intense precip colours. This front may make landfall earlier than expected, probably about 3-4am in SW. By the way, I love MT's latest post where he clearly feels that tomorrow is going to be a lottery in terms of what type of precip falls and where.

Wow, pretty colours! Scary looking... :eek:

What time do you reckon it will arrive into Dublin?

munsterlegend

WolfeIRE wrote: »

Here Comes The Blob - do do do do.

Look at those intense precip colours. This front may make landfall earlier than expected, probably about 3-4am in SW. By the way, I love MT's latest post where he clearly feels that tomorrow is going to be a lottery in terms of what type of precip falls and where.

whats that hirlam model website you have again wolfe? i thinks its danish met office site.

maquiladora

Felixdhc wrote: »

Wow, pretty colours! Scary looking... :eek:

What time do you reckon it will arrive into Dublin?

12pm - 3pm. Probably wont be as intense that far north, would still be bucketing down though.

WolfeIRE

Felixdhc wrote: »

Wow, pretty colours! Scary looking... :eek:

What time do you reckon it will arrive into Dublin?

don't think anyone really knows how slow or fast moving this fron will be felix. sorry.

By the way, here is a pic of my crew in the back garden last evening.

jenzz

kkontour wrote: »

think its 30mm ( 3cm)

Generally 1mm of precip is 1 cm of snow.. So 30 mms of pink precip.The colour on the chart blue for rain, pink for snow. so 30mms of pink would = 30cm of snow... Now you see why I had a lil panic there lol:D

WolfeIRE

munsterlegend wrote: »

whats that hirlam model website you have again wolfe? i thinks its danish met office site.

here you go munster
http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/danmark/vejrkort.htm

click on nedbor. a lot of precip heading Mallow way

hotwhiskey

Tomorrow is going to be very interesting with Met Eireann predicting major floods for the south also with this system moving over land meeting the cold air turning to snow which it will.

This morning it was snowing here heavy it all stopped around midday and moved further North and the Temp was 1.8dg. Tomorrow snow all depends on were you live and how high you are above sea level.

My personal feeling is from the midlands i would say Meath,W Meath,Longford and Offaly that is were the battling line well take place, Cavan Monaghan and N.I will definitely see further snowfall it might only be a half hour or three hours who knows, i wonder do Met Eireann know:rolleyes:

jenzz

IMO they are just afraid to call it after the weekend. 30 minute queues at every checkout in Tescos, schools closed for a week & then.. it rained... They prob in a bit of hot water over the panic there wasnt which amounted to nothing..

owenc

so can we expect any snow tomorrow.. hopefully it wont be sleet like last night but meto forecasted rain sleet and snow and tomorrow night they are just forecast heavy snow all night turning to rain on wednesday night.

maquiladora

jenzz wrote: »

IMO they are just afraid to call it after the weekend. 30 minute queues at every checkout in Tescos, schools closed for a week & then.. it rained... They prob in a bit of hot water over the panic there wasnt which amounted to nothing..

In fairness though, in the south where I was, snow was falling all day and into the night Sunday, it was just more the wet type that doesnt tend to accumulate much.

maquiladora

Our low at noon tomorrow :

jenzz

maquiladora wrote: »

In fairness though, in the south where I was, snow was falling all day and into the night Sunday, it was just more the wet type that doesnt tend to accumulate much.

I dont blame them at all - They forecasted according to the models & charts like everyone on here did. I think they maybe afraid now just in case ....

jenzz

maquiladora wrote: »

Our low at noon tomorrow :

Could one of you lovlies possibly put those colours ,lines & numbers into english for us commoners lol. Appreciated - before I hit the hay - school is backso snow watch over lol:D

nacho libre

i think it will be rain and sleet over the midlands, with snow at lower levels over ulster for a while. it's interesting to see the fronts that make their way across us on friday will be all rain in the north of england according to the latest bbc precipitation chart.

irish1967

I watched an item on Bbc 2 a few nights back where the met office in the uk were being asked would they consider the American system of forecasting by 'percentage chance of'. E.g 'there is a 60% chance of snow effecting' wherever. Would this help with tomorrows maginality?

owenc

irish1967 wrote: »

I watched an item on Bbc 2 a few nights back where the met office in the uk were being asked would they consider the American system of forecasting by 'percentage chance of'. E.g 'there is a 60% chance of snow effecting' wherever. Would this help with tomorrows maginality?

If you don't mind me asking do they have a irish bbc chanel for The Republic of Ireland or is this picking up signal for the ni one? im confused...

Queen-Mise

I cannot say how happy I am to see that thread title 'Strong winds, heavy rain.' I have enough of cold and freezing conditions.

Snow I am ok with - 3 weeks of freezing condition is a massive no.

irish1967

owenc wrote: »

If you don't mind me asking do they have a irish bbc chanel for The Republic of Ireland or is this picking up signal for the ni one? im confused...

Satelite transends international , national and imposed borders

hotwhiskey

Missed the weather after the news what did the say are they confident.

munsterlegend

owenc wrote: »

If you don't mind me asking do they have a irish bbc chanel for The Republic of Ireland or is this picking up signal for the ni one? im confused...

hehe i think you need to go to the political channel owenc! we get bbc nireland on satellite well i do! bbc is british and is for britian only although they do have a world service channel. the republic of ireland being a separate country has its own national tv - rte.

nacho libre

yes, it would be handy if we didn't need cold weather for snow. i wonder is there a parallel universe where snow falls at 15 degrees celsius???

owenc

munsterlegend wrote: »

hehe i think you need to go to the political channel owenc! we get bbc nireland on satellite well i do! bbc is british and is for britian only although they do have a world service channel. the republic of ireland being a separate country has its own national tv - rte.

yea i thought it was to do with satellites we can pick up rte and tv3 and i think another one... but that is because donegal was near i just thought it was weird people in galway watching bbc uk lol... also was also wondering if you had a bbc ireland like the uk has bbc ni bbc wales bbc scotland etc.... and as for politics don't even bother with that im sick of hearing it here.... you lot are lucky you don't have diffrent colours on streets or people correcting you and asking your religion it really is crap! ugh!

Our man in Havana

owenc wrote: »

If you don't mind me asking do they have a irish bbc chanel for The Republic of Ireland or is this picking up signal for the ni one? im confused...

Sky supplies it's customers in the Republic with BBC NI.

munsterlegend

owenc wrote: »

yea i thought it was to do with satellites we can pick up rte and tv3 and i think another one... but that is because donegal was near i just thought it was weird people in galway watching bbc uk lol... also was also wondering if you had a bbc ireland like the uk has bbc ni bbc wales bbc scotland etc....

is this an ali g type wind up?!