Winter returns next week

darkman2

So changes are about to occur and a relapse back to wintry weather is a very real posssibility by Monday with frost and ice and a bitter Northerly wind set to return. Where uncertainty arises is in what form snow occurs - showers or a longer period of sleet and snow. But it is a real possibility that many areas will see snow at least for the beginning of next week and possibly through the week but much more uncertain after Tuesday.





More later.

Keep posting!
Everytime you do it lately we get spring [which by the way I'm delighted with].

darkman2

Im a bit more certain this time - though in fairness I did say two weeks ago there was a snow risk next week. How flukey is that?:D

owenc

yes this is great and xc weather have upgraded my max to 3c from monday onwards!!! and snow showers all day too! plz stay to sunday!!! aww and grat the stupid time goes ahead on sunday!! why cant they keep it the same

danni2

Fantastic!! nice to see snow potential at this stage, bring it on:D

Deep Easterly

****e


I want some real warmth at this stage with some big bastard storms.

Snow can go to hell for all I care at this time of year.

patneve2

Latest ECM chart for 120 hours (NE winds with plenty of precipitation)

Su Campu

I think the chances of the GFS scenario verifying are less than we're making out. It always takes cold 850s too far south, so I think we'll see major downgrades over the weekend. The ECMWF and UKMO would suggest this too, though there's huge uncertainty among them all.

Deep Easterly

Positioning and depth of that low seems very uncertain over the last few runs. Will probably deepen, fill and shift location in later runs, but as it stands currently, that chart would bring genuinely nasty feeling weather with cold rain/showers with some sloopy wet sleety type snow at times on the northern edge of the occlusion.

Half weather as opposed to full on.

paulhac

Deep Easterly wrote: »

****e


I want some real warmth at this stage with some big bastard storms.

Snow can go to hell for all I care at this time of year.

LoL Post of the day..... and I couldn't agree more.

nacho libre

Deep Easterly wrote: »

****e


I want some real warmth at this stage with some big bastard storms.

Snow can go to hell for all I care at this time of year.

go to hell paddy1 - oh wait you are already there by living in Tuam:p

Pangea

Trust Darkman for the controversial eye opening thread titles albeit exaggerated

darkman2

There is nothing exaggerated about it, nor any of my posts.

mike65

Jean mentioned nothing about cold. Maybe her presence was keeping the temps un-naturaly high.

Joe Public

mike65 wrote: »

Jean mentioned nothing about cold. Maybe her presence was keeping the temps un-naturaly high.

Her shiny silver ice cold number is in for a polish and shine:D

owenc

well im begging to death that it snows! EDIT: warning out now!

Tom Cruises Left Nut

owenc wrote: »

well im begging to death that it snows!

Owen !! You live !!!

Min

Met Eireann follow in the steps of darkman2.....

Weather warning: Issued at 26 March 2010 - 13:50
Cold Snap
A spell of very cold wintry weather will set in early next week, with frosty nights and some sleet and snow in places. The cold snap is likely to persist until the end of the week.

Valid from: 00:00 29/3/2010
Valid to: 09:00 02/4/2010

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/warnings.asp

cherryghost

Min wrote: »

Met Eireann follow in the steps of darkman2.....

Weather warning: Issued at 26 March 2010 - 13:50
Cold Snap
A spell of very cold wintry weather will set in early next week, with frosty nights and some sleet and snow in places. The cold snap is likely to persist until the end of the week.

Valid from: 00:00 29/3/2010
Valid to: 09:00 02/4/2010

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/warnings.asp

nooooo!!!! its not fair!

it was a nightmare at work. theres no heating in the place. jeez...

ninebeanrows

Should be quite interesting this, hopefully the front will clear and allow for bubbly convective hail/sleet/snow thunderstorms to develop over land

WIZE

No more Ice and snow please . I just planted a load of plants in my garden and put down a load of Grass seed

( Had to rake up all the yellow dead grass from the last Ice Age )

thecretinhop

hi all great to see a sniff of cold again, how about a mad storm and snow DE you like? anyhow anyone know weather forecast or general idea for april 17th in galway,

InKonspikuou2

thecretinhop wrote: »

anyhow anyone know weather forecast or general idea for april 17th in galway,

It will be partly cloudy in the morning with mist clearing by 11:13. Should be bright and sunny by 14:33 but rain will settle in by 17:41 and last for about 56 minutes. The rest of the evening should then be clear skies. Minimum temp of 9c and a high of 15c.

GSF

thecretinhop wrote: »

anyhow anyone know weather forecast or general idea for april 17th in galway,

given that it rains 360 days a year, I'm guessing it wont be dry!

thecretinhop

InKonspikuou2 wrote: »

It will be partly cloudy in the morning with mist clearing by 11:13. Should be bright and sunny by 14:33 but rain will settle in by 17:41 and last for about 56 minutes. The rest of the evening should then be clear skies. Minimum temp of 9c and a high of 15c.

is this for real or piss pull, either way:D

InKonspikuou2

thecretinhop wrote: »

is this for real or piss pull, either way:D

No it's accurate. I seen a frog swimming upside down and backwards in the pond out my backyard. So i put him in the microwave and then used a formula based upon length of time to explode and volume of left over residue to calculate a 100% foolproof forecast for April 17th in Galway.

Graces7

Most Haunted wrote: »

No more Ice and snow please . I just planted a load of plants in my garden and put down a load of Grass seed

( Had to rake up all the yellow dead grass from the last Ice Age )

Saw the met weather warning as I was about to plant out my 80 broad bean plants. ....carefully grown indoors in trays and hardened off.

Thank you met...

Needless to say am keeping them in. Back in the house they will come now too.

Thankful I got diverted by finding frogspawn here.

Else I would have been digging them up again..That is too much to lose. It really is. We need spring now and warmth.

Anyone who seeks snow and ice at this time of year needs help... Or a plane ticket to somewhere different. Or maybe both.

The trees are still bare and it is nearly April; snowdrops only just fading.

It has been so beautiful not to be cold.

May the cold snap be short. And warmth blossom the land.

Pangea

darkman2 wrote: »

There is nothing exaggerated about it, nor any of my posts.

I take it back ,let the snow fall and us all have a white easter :pac:

Atavan-Halen

I'd love a bit of snow Although just for a few days then it would be nice to have sunny weather again.

owenc

atavan-halen wrote: »

I'd love a bit of snow Although just for a few days then it would be nice to have sunny weather again.

Yea I agree would love an inch or two of snow, snow showers inbetween sunshine and then temps around 2-3c at day and -4 or so at night so cool by day and cold or so at night

arctictree

Graces7 wrote: »

Saw the met weather warning as I was about to plant out my 80 broad bean plants. ....carefully grown indoors in trays and hardened off.

Thank you met...

Needless to say am keeping them in. Back in the house they will come now too.

Thankful I got diverted by finding frogspawn here.

Else I would have been digging them up again..That is too much to lose. It really is. We need spring now and warmth.

Anyone who seeks snow and ice at this time of year needs help... Or a plane ticket to somewhere different. Or maybe both.

The trees are still bare and it is nearly April; snowdrops only just fading.

It has been so beautiful not to be cold.

May the cold snap be short. And warmth blossom the land.

Your broad beans should be OK. I planted mine out this week and they are doing fine. They are very frost hardy.

Might get a day or two of surprise snow next week!

Graces7

owenc wrote: »

Yea I agree would love an inch or two of snow, snow showers inbetween sunshine and then temps around 2-3c at day and -4 or so at night so cool by day and cold or so at night

Thankful, young person, that you are not in charge..

Those kind of temps almost killed some of us. Fingers here still recovering from frostbite. Not joking... Fuel poverty means spring is really welcome and needed.

And we need to grow food if we are to eat.

Have you tried estivation? You might enjoy it...

NB pangea is still on ignore.. it made life easier...

Graces7

arctictree wrote: »

Your broad beans should be OK. I planted mine out this week and they are doing fine. They are very frost hardy.

Might get a day or two of surprise snow next week!

Sounds grand to have them in; we are high up here and temps tend to be lower.. and my seedlings are tiny still as the house is cold. Often feels warmer outdoors...

Deep Easterly

Graces7 wrote: »

Sounds grand to have them in; we are high up here and temps tend to be lower.. and my seedlings are tiny still as the house is cold. Often feels warmer outdoors...

Temps can actually be colder, and usually are, in low lying locations by night under such set ups. Having said that, they are usually warmer by day once the sun kicks in.

darkman2

The forecast remains pretty much as is for the moment. An active depression with associated frontal systems will approach from the South on Sunday and Monday and possibly hang around into Tuesday. This will bring heavy rain to Southern and Eastern parts but will have to be watched as it will be coming up against very cold air to the North. It could well turn to snow in these areas through Monday or Monday night. The far North of the country may remain dry. Sleet and snow showers following for Tuesday and Wednesday. So definately turning much colder with a risk of snow. Higher ground pretty much a cert.

Supercell

I better charge the camera batteries..

owenc

Supercell wrote: »

I better charge the camera batteries..

dont bother the bbc has downgraded it already and its going to be wet snow then rise quickly to 9c on wednesday (cry) (cry) (cry)

force eleven

owenc wrote: »

dont bother the bbc has downgraded it already and its going to be wet snow then rise quickly to 9c on wednesday (cry) (cry) (cry)

That's rather pessimistic 5 days out is it not ?? (sigh) (sigh) (sigh)

darkman2

The 18z GFS illustrates perfectly the risk for the South and East of the country in particular as these fronts meet the cold air on Monday







It's still far from certain but it's at 72hrs out now and getting closer and the main event of the Winter as a whole could well be the last.

Thomas828

Snow? Augh! No!! I hate snow at any time of the year. The snowdrops and daffodils have only just come up and we're waiting for the rest of the spring flowers. You know how the old rhyme goes: April showers bring forth May flowers. Snow doesn't. I don't want to see it again, ever!

Elmo5

Bring it on!

200motels

No I don't want any of this cold weather.

pauldry

about as much chance of snow next week as hving nearly 2 months freezing weather in the Winter in Ireland!

snow ghost

Should be interesting, although I'm over the snow at this time of the year... it comes it will be a bit like getting a free pint of guinness that has been sitting around for an hour; if I'd got it a while back would have been great but now it will just be a sloppy taste of what could have been.

A short while back after the warmth had arrived there was a persistent slither of white stuff clinging to the top of the Reek for ages. I was assured by the old people who live beneth it that it was a definite sign the snow would return as it always does when they see that. And there was me thinking they were wrong.

I doubt I'll see any but it would be nice to see a bit on top of the mountains.

snow ghost

Graces7 wrote: »

Those kind of temps almost killed some of us. Fingers here still recovering from frostbite. Not joking... Fuel poverty means spring is really welcome and needed.

And we need to grow food if we are to eat

Graces, Frostbite! Have your fingers turned black? :eek: Have you any pictures???

If they drop off, watch 'my left foot' - then you'll still be able to type here with your toes.

dfbemt

snow ghost wrote: »

Graces, Frostbite! Have your fingers turned black? :eek: Have you any pictures???

If they drop off, watch 'my left foot' - then you'll still be able to type here with your toes.

Cop on. Graces has been here all during the winter and provided many vivid insights into her often precarious situation.

You sir are an idiot with no respect.

Can we get back to the weather. This is what we are on this forum for.

nacho libre

Phil Eden had an interesting article two weeks ago, which was about a guy who predicted this years cold winter. This man also maintained, based on the weather pattern for the first couple of weeks in March, that we'd get a brief northerly to start off April before a more mobile pattern with the customary April showers and average temperatures.

snow ghost

dfbemt wrote: »

Cop on. Graces has been here all during the winter and provided many vivid insights into her often precarious situation.

You sir are an idiot with no respect.

Can we get back to the weather. This is what we are on this forum for.

Only an idiot would call an idiot with no respect 'Sir'.

As for the weather at the moment it's dour - not unlike some peoples' sense of humour. :rolleyes:

loup

Noooooo! Have just planted out my potatoes and strawberries as dictated by gardeners world..i'll be devastated if they are wrecked..:D

snaps

Oh no thought this rollercoaster ride had been put away for another 10 months!

owenc

snaps wrote: »

Oh no thought this rollercoaster ride had been put away for another 10 months!

no and theres another upgrade hurray!:D:D even accu weather are following it.. im starting to think low levels have a chance aswell! http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/26713/disruptive-snow-to-hit-the-uni.asp