Turning progressively colder through the week, Very cold with snow showers later

nacho libre

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Mixed signals continue, by no means would I rule out another significant cold spell around the second week of February. But it's not a sure thing either.

The strength of the projected high in northern Russia (above 1060 mbs) means that it can weaken somewhat and still make its presence felt a lot further west. And this is pretty much what the ECM and GFS hint at, around the 7th to 9th of February. But the Atlantic has at least woken up slightly, so the path is not quite as smooth as it was in early January.

There may be another snowfall event of some significance before the month of February is done, let's put it that way.

yes as was neatly put earlier fi is if backwards. So despite what the models might show the atlantic, even at this time of year, can spoil the party. as you say the high could easily weaken more than anticipitated.
that being said you went for a cold winter overall in your long range forecast, so with februrary usually being our snowiest month of the year, i think it's safe to assume we'll see snow at some point during this February.

however, it's unlikely to be anything significant- unless it's unforseen. it's just the way significant falls of snow tend to occur in Ireland. When it's forecast, as we saw yet again in the last cold spell, it rarely pans out.

smashey

So far today in Strabane, we have had sleet, a 10 minute snow shower that obviously didn't stick, and a hail shower. Right now, it's windy and the ground is drying up pretty quickly.

nacho libre

smashey wrote: »

So far today in Strabane, we have had sleet, a 10 minute snow shower that obviously didn't stick, and a hail shower. Right now, it's windy and the ground is drying up pretty quickly.

just wait till evening time, i'd say with the temperature dropping steadily during the day, it should start to accumulate up there by that stage

smashey

nacho libre wrote: »

just wait till evening time, i'd say with the temperature dropping steadily during the day, it should start to accumulate up there by that stage

Is that an invite to the rollercoaster?

nacho libre

smashey wrote: »

Is that an invite to the rollercoaster?

Sure is:D

DOCARCH

Graupel shower here atm. 4.8c DP 0.7c

Drapper

heavy hail in the City Centre of Dublin!

John Mason

snowy showers in Dublin 2

Do you think i should leave work now?:rolleyes:


Edit: oh, its stopped

Pangea

nacho libre wrote: »

however, it's unlikely to be anything significant- unless it's unforseen. it's just the way significant falls of snow tend to occur in Ireland. When it's forecast, as we saw yet again in the last cold spell, it rarely pans out.

In other words stop wasting your time looking at weather forecasts and go back to the looking out the window method :pac::pac:

Deep Easterly

Day one of this cold snap and so far it is a load of bollix. Hopefull day 2 will be better.

Pangea

Theres a covering of snow here in the hills of Donegal. Just rain and sleet in lower levels.

nacho libre

the wintry showers were not due to set in till the evening further south. in any case the north will always be favourite to get them. Ony a few showers will likely make it to south connacht today. There is a chance of a shortwave feature tomorrow, which will affect a wider area, but what's the betting things will turn marginal tomorrow evening at lower levels;)

nacho libre

Pangea wrote: »

Theres a covering of snow here in the hills of Donegal. Just rain and sleet in lower levels.

i'm fairly confident you'll see snow later on this evening and into tonight.

delw

lovely sunny but chilly day in d17,on another note thanks to all the lads who post their forcasts&have us checking in daily for the banter,keep up the gud work guys

Scubadevils

Heavy hail in Lusk, dark and windy...

Not

Hail, sleet/snow shower just passed in Meath. Good to see flakes of white dancing around in the wind again.

Pangea

nacho libre wrote: »

i'm fairly confident you'll see snow later on this evening and into tonight.

Really, The ground is pretty wet now with the hail and rain, cant see it lying much unless its heavy.

Deep Easterly

Big, dirty Mayo shower just passing through. Temp has dropped 1.5c in the last 10 mins.

Not

Just raining here now.

DOCARCH

Not wrote: »

Just raining here now.

Where's here? First rule of weather forum - put your location on. Second rule is there are no other rules.

Sleet, rain, hail and graupel here in the last half hour. 3.4c DP 0.9c

Not

DOCARCH wrote: »

Where's here? First rule of weather forum - put your location on. Second rule is there are no other rules.

Sleet, rain, hail and graupel here in the last half hour. 3.4c DP 0.9c

Look a few posts back. Here tends to change quite a bit. Meath atm.

Not

Snow !!! Near Rathoath ! Belting down for a few seconds then just stopped.

DOCARCH

Just had proper snow flakes out of the back edge of that shower. 2.8c DP 0.9c now.

delaad

Sleet/snow shower east Cavan now

owenc

Pangea wrote: »

Theres a covering of snow here in the hills of Donegal. Just rain and sleet in lower levels.

Same here except it's snow down low and very heavy!!! 0.9c aswell I think I might have a covering in the morning as after 10 mins there is alreaddy another shower coming!!

Not

Sleet here now, but that last shower started with a dense cloud of big snow flakes.

Not

What is the difference, definition wise, between sleet and snow. How do I know the difference between light snow, and sleet ? There's a lot of 'whatever that is' coming down here now.

Joe Public

Not wrote: »

What is the difference, definition wise, between sleet and snow. How do I know the difference between light snow, and sleet ? There's a lot of 'whatever that is' coming down here now.

It doesn't matter when you're neither here nor there:D

Not

Not wrote: »

What is the difference, definition wise, between sleet and snow. How do I know the difference between light snow, and sleet ? There's a lot of 'whatever that is' coming down here now.

www.freedictonary.com :

Sleet

Precipitation that falls to earth in the form of frozen or partially frozen raindrops, often when the temperature is near the freezing point. Sleet usually leaves the cloud in the form of snow that melts as it passes through warm layers of air during its descent. The raindrops and partially melted snowflakes then freeze in the colder layers nearer the earth before striking the ground as pellets of ice, which usually bounce. By contrast,hail forms by the accumulation of layers of ice on the hailstone as it moves up and down in the cloud, and hailstones can become much larger than sleet pellets. The word sleet is also used informally to describe a mixture of snow, sleet, and rain.

Supercell

Nice moderate snow shower here now, settling on car roofs and grass, will melt as soon as it stops, but is nice to see.