First sub zero temps of the winter. . . .when?

thetonynator

Anyone want to make predictions for the first sub zero temps of the winter?

We came very close in August, just 0.6 of a degree off . . .

Im going to say the night of the 24th October . . .round 5a.m.

No prizes for the winner!


P.s. defining sub zero as -0.1 or below . . .


*at a met eireann station

maquiladora

Early hours of Wednesday 20th October.

Deep Easterly

Only going by the 5 stations used in the IMT analysis, the first airfrost of the autumn in 2009 was on the 7th October, when -0.3c was reached at Mullingar.

In 2008, the first airfrost of the season did not occur until the 28th October, despite that particular month being particularly cool throughout. -3.0c was achieved at Casement on that date, and -1.1c at Mullingar.

Mothman

-0.6C was recorded at Mount Dillon Co. Roscommon on 30th Aug.
This is one of Met Eireann's Tucson stations (Automatic Weather Station such as at Sherkin, Gurteen etc)
I don't know if this info can be seen in print anywhere, it was mentioned on radio at the time and may be mentioned in Monthly Weather Bulletin when it comes out

thetonynator

Mothman wrote: »

-0.6C was recorded at Mount Dillon Co. Roscommon on 30th Aug.
This is one of Met Eireann's Tucson stations (Automatic Weather Station such as at Sherkin, Gurteen etc)
I don't know if this info can be seen in print anywhere, it was mentioned on radio at the time and may be mentioned in Monthly Weather Bulletin when it comes out

We'll exclude that one cos i didnt know about it!!!

isle of man

had ice on the car 1 week ago and this moring. wasent frost just where the dew had frozen over night
god knows what the temp was

Deep Easterly

I wonder will tonight see a frost? Down to 4c at both Gurteen and Dub Apt already on the 8.00pm met reports:

http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp



Edit: Down to 3c at both Gurteen and Dublin Apt on the 9.00pm reports:

http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

4c at Mullingar, 5c at both Ballyhaise & Claremorris. In contrast, still 11c at Mace Head!

pauldry

tonight the temps are predicted at 0 to 5c. So i think a minus may happen

thetonynator

Evelyn cusack predicting -1 tonight just there now, so bit of a thread fail here!!!

thetonynator

1.4 in tullow, 1.2 in baltinglass . .not met eireann but probably right . . .

Oscar Bravo

A cool 2 Degrees in Mullingar(Met reports 2300).

thetonynator

I couldnt actually have picked a worse date to start this thred could i???!!!

Lumi

thetonynator wrote: »

I couldnt actually have picked a worse date to start this thred could i???!!!

Promise you'll start a 'first blizzard of the year' thread in mid December

WolfeIRE

-0.5c at gurteen

Min

No, you couldn't, thanks for the frost :mad:

thetonynator

Fionagus wrote: »

Promise you'll start a 'first blizzard of the year' thread in mid December

December 24th I'll start a first snow of the year thread!!!

Su Campu

WolfeIRE wrote: »

-0.5c at gurteen

You sure? Met Éireann are reporting +3, DP +2 at 2300

thetonynator

Min wrote: »

No, you couldn't, thanks for the frost :mad:

There goes any chance of decent grass growth . .

Su Campu

Not really related, but I've just noticed that of the 22 stations reporting on the Met Eireann briefing site, all are on 1027hPa, except for three (Malin Head, Belmullet and Finner), which are on 1026hPa.

Just thought it was interesting......ok, I'll get my coat...:rolleyes:

Oscar Bravo

Mullingar now at 1 Degree.(Met 0000).

Su Campu

Mullingar is +1°C at midnight, with a dewpoint of -0°C (ie. 0.0 to -0.4), so looks like we'll see it maybe hit zero or below.

Gurteen following on +2°C

eskimocat

According to NRA table at 11.20pm Sat, coldest road temp -1.9c on Mitchelstown NE. Reporting the air temp there to be 3.5c.

Harps

0.4°C in Geashill according to irelandsweather.com, looks like it will go below at some stage

Dark_by_Dezign

Sometime in June :pac:

Mothman

Mullingar bottomed out at -0.1C
Ballyhaise +0.1C

Villain

I had -1.5c this morning, not as low as the 12th though when it hit -1.7c

gothwalk

My station in the back garden hit -0.2C around 07:00 this morning. I was up at 08:00 to go for a walk in the frost.

The electronic thermometer by the front door only went down to 1.4C; it's amazing the difference the bit of shelter makes.

Danno

Got down to -1.8c here last night in the screen.

Su Campu

I got -1.1°C here this morning.

Here are the minimima to 7am

1 Casement Aerodrome (Ireland) -0.7 °C
2 Gurteen (Ireland) -0.4 °C
3 Mullingar (Ireland) -0.2 °C
4 Dublin Airport (Ireland) 0.6 °C
5 Ballyhaise, Cavan (Ireland) 0.7 °C
6 Claremorris (Ireland) 0.7 °C
7 Oak Park, Carlow (Ireland) 1.1 °C
8 Shannon Airport (Ireland) 1.5 °C
9 Finner (Ireland) 2.0 °C
10 Connaught Airport (Ireland) 3.1 °C
11 Cork Airport (Ireland) 3.2 °C
12 Valentia Observatory (Ireland) 3.2 °C
13 Johnstown Castle (Ireland) 3.5 °C
14 Mace Head (Ireland) 4.5 °C
15 Belmullet (Ireland) 5.2 °C
16 Roches Point (Ireland) 5.5 °C
17 Sherkin Island (Ireland) 5.5 °C
18 Malin Head (Ireland) 5.8 °C

up for anything

First frost of the year here in KK. Don't know the temps but the car windscreen is frozen over this morning. Brrr.

dbyrne

Ok wife just range me and told me a car passed her with snow on it out by Malahide. Before anyon launches an attack on me and tells me not to be drinking this hour of the morning I can only say this is what she says.
The beeb said that they were expecting snow in scotland above 300m over the coming days, Nevis Range has 14cm new snow forecast in the next 48 hours, but I didnt think we would see any here. Either it did snow or there is some evil person in the malahide area being cruel to the local kids by driving around with fake snow on his car.
If you ban me I completly understand:D

irish1967

Well. Had to de-ice the windscreen here for the first time this year

WolfeIRE

here is a pic of my front garden this morn

Su Campu

dbyrne wrote: »

Ok wife just range me and told me a car passed her with snow on it out by Malahide. Before anyon launches an attack on me and tells me not to be drinking this hour of the morning I can only say this is what she says.
The beeb said that they were expecting snow in scotland above 300m over the coming days, Nevis Range has 14cm new snow forecast in the next 48 hours, but I didnt think we would see any here. Either it did snow or there is some evil person in the malahide area being cruel to the local kids by driving around with fake snow on his car.
If you ban me I completly understand:D

It's probably just someone who scraped the ice off their windscreen and it gathered around the edges. You know what women are like for exaggerating...... :pac::pac: (just kidding, ok!!)

snaps

-.9c here this morning, everything frosty!! There was some sleet in the last shower of the day yesterday here, as it was coming onto the kitchen window as its a North facing window.

eskimocat

Frosty frosty, this lovely crisp morning... Had to yank the car door open. Hadn't time to check what temp it fell to during the night, will do it this evening.

Interesting to see a mention of sleet above in Mayo

Dirk Gently

maquiladora wrote: »

Early hours of Wednesday 20th October.

Good call.

Rebelbrowser

Su Campu wrote: »

I got -1.1°C here this morning.

Here are the minimima to 7am

1 Casement Aerodrome (Ireland) -0.7 °C
2 Gurteen (Ireland) -0.4 °C
3 Mullingar (Ireland) -0.2 °C
4 Dublin Airport (Ireland) 0.6 °C
5 Ballyhaise, Cavan (Ireland) 0.7 °C
6 Claremorris (Ireland) 0.7 °C
7 Oak Park, Carlow (Ireland) 1.1 °C
8 Shannon Airport (Ireland) 1.5 °C
9 Finner (Ireland) 2.0 °C
10 Connaught Airport (Ireland) 3.1 °C
11 Cork Airport (Ireland) 3.2 °C
12 Valentia Observatory (Ireland) 3.2 °C
13 Johnstown Castle (Ireland) 3.5 °C
14 Mace Head (Ireland) 4.5 °C
15 Belmullet (Ireland) 5.2 °C
16 Roches Point (Ireland) 5.5 °C
17 Sherkin Island (Ireland) 5.5 °C
18 Malin Head (Ireland) 5.8 °C

Interesting to see those figures. I live very close to Cork Airport and had thick ice on the car this morning. The 3.2c figure accordingly is hard to understand.

Danno

Grass frost can still occur despite air temps being slightly above 0c by a few degrees. Car surface being metal will loose its heat even faster than grass, so ice can form on that.

pauldry

Sligo minimum was 2.0c (lowest of the season here so far) just like Finner but think -9c in SE Mayo is a bit off

Danno

I am sure the Mayo figure is -0.9c, not -9.0c. You must have missed the "."

irish1967

WolfeIRE wrote: »

here is a pic of my front garden this morn

Don't want to alarm you Wolfe but there appears to be a giant leaf like creature in your garden !!

WolfeIRE

frost is making a pure mess of my cannabis plants irish :pac:

snowstreams

Here is a link to the cairngorm ski resort in Scotland. Looking nicely wintery there now alright.
Though it is at 1097m, so a bit higher than any mountain here.

http://www.cairngormmountain.com/webcam/ptarmiganCamLarge.html
You might need to try refreshing this link since its a webcam.

TheMilkyPirate

First frost in wexford town this morning was fffffrreeezin bringin the young fella to creche bout' 8. The woman said it was like it was after snowing with the frost about 6.

Bring on the winter

snaps

pauldry wrote: »

Sligo minimum was 2.0c (lowest of the season here so far) just like Finner but think -9c in SE Mayo is a bit off

- . 9c (just above -1c)

thetonynator

up for anything wrote: »

First frost of the year here in KK. Don't know the temps but the car windscreen is frozen over this morning. Brrr.

It was the third frost in kk!!! maybe you weren't up early enough for the last two :P

Danno

Frost less likely in the west and midlands as a vail of cloud has pushed over...

lord lucan

The frost seemed quite late to Lucan. I left for work at 03.30 and it was 3c and no frost but by 07.00 the wife said the garden was white and nearer 0c!

Danno

Same here Lord Lucan, in fact, the air temp stayed above freezing until after sunrise!

See here... http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ICOLAOIS2

Note how the wind scuppers temperature drops throughout last night (scroll down the page) and only a lengthy calm spell allows the drop... keep in mind that the wind data is 10 metre above ground now.

pauldry

snaps wrote: »

- . 9c (just above -1c)

Excuse me for the error my eyes were frozen:eek: