Snow Reports/ Thundersnow & Chat - 26/11/2010 onwards

redsteveireland

Solyad wrote: »

Was on the motorway between Galway and Athenry just there. Very heavy snow. Hard to see, flakes were huge.

Traffic at a crawl at 30 mph. Right hand lane completely white and still lunatics bombing past.

That'll be me in 3 hours, hope it's not freezing over by then though

mfdc

Anyone else catch some sheet lightning out in the Irish Sea in the last 30 mins?? Was just out for a short run here in Swords and saw two flashes - first one caught me blinking and scared the bejeezus out of me (didn't know wtf), but the second I was running right toward. Lit up about big chunk of the sky a kind of mustard yellow to the northeast for maybe half a second.

The bizarre thing is there's no cloud over there - stars were clearly visible (just under Auriga if you're curious ). It was low down though so probably a good bit out. Anyone else see this or was the cold playing tricks with my noggin? Looks from the rainfall chart just posted that there's something out there alright.

Harps

whitemocha wrote: »

PISTOLPETES 11 can you give me the link to that chart you posted when i go into will it rain today i only get the orangy one cant find where the red etc is

thanks

You have to pay for that one

Hail shower here just now that only lasted about a minute. Really wish it'd make up its mind already, I'm sick of these 5 minute showers then an hour of nothing.

Pangea

No show here, its been snowing lightly past hour and its stopped sticking ,roads are very wet now.
Hopefully there will be something to report by the morning.
What about the heavy snow in galway, have we had any measurments? what are we talking here, an inch or more?

jimmynokia

bring that snow to dublin now LOL its baltic out my car is frozen over since 7pm this eve

jimmynokia

mfdc wrote: »

Anyone else catch some sheet lightning out in the Irish Sea in the last 30 mins?? Was just out for a short run here in Swords and saw two flashes - first one caught me blinking and scared the bejeezus out of me (didn't know wtf), but the second I was running right toward. Lit up about big chunk of the sky a kind of mustard yellow to the northeast for maybe half a second.

The bizarre thing is there's no cloud over there - stars were clearly visible (just under Auriga if you're curious ). It was low down though so probably a good bit out. Anyone else see this or was the cold playing tricks with my noggin? Looks from the rainfall chart just posted that there's something out there alright.

bring it on going to look out window now to see

Rebelbrowser

Forget your ECMs and GFSs, the key forecast is just out:=

Brian Lenihan has categorically ruled out snow this weekend

sillybird

Pangea wrote: »

No show here, its been snowing lightly past hour and its stopped sticking ,roads are very wet now.
Hopefully there will be something to report by the morning.
What about the heavy snow in galway, have we had any measurments? what are we talking here, an inch or more?

Just slightly over an inch here. Stopped snowing for the moment.

thomasj

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Forget your ECMs and GFSs, the key forecast is just out:=

Brian Lenihan has categorically ruled out snow this weekend

Whiteout it is so

Neddyusa

Quick technical question:

What do you call that white powdery ball bearing stuff thats not quite hail and not quite snow? Just got a nice covering of it from a shower in Roscommon here....

Yrag2E

mfdc wrote: »

Anyone else catch some sheet lightning out in the Irish Sea in the last 30 mins?? Was just out for a short run here in Swords and saw two flashes - first one caught me blinking and scared the bejeezus out of me (didn't know wtf), but the second I was running right toward. Lit up about big chunk of the sky a kind of mustard yellow to the northeast for maybe half a second.

The bizarre thing is there's no cloud over there - stars were clearly visible (just under Auriga if you're curious ). It was low down though so probably a good bit out. Anyone else see this or was the cold playing tricks with my noggin? Looks from the rainfall chart just posted that there's something out there alright.

yeah I caught this too. Saw it from my house actually. Thought I was going a little mad also

DOCARCH

Neddyusa wrote: »

Quick technical question:

What do you call that white powdery ball bearing stuff thats not quite hail and not quite snow? Just got a nice covering of it from a shower in Roscommon here....

Graupel

smellslikeshoes

Neddyusa wrote: »

Quick technical question:

What do you call that white powdery ball bearing stuff thats not quite hail and not quite snow? Just got a nice covering of it from a shower in Roscommon here....

Graupel?

fricatus

ltdslipdiff wrote: »

Delighted :rolleyes: to report the massive snow shield over Waterford is working a treat........

I'm workin' on bringin' it down boy! Just gettin' a coupl'a me butties from Ballybeg an' Lisduggan ta help me boy!

Harps

Finally a good shower here, first one since around 6. Its still only a dusting but everythings all white again and it seems to be sticking

Mars Bar

It's still letting down fairly heavily in Tuam...

nacho libre

light snow here from time to time, everything is sticking at this stage. it's really bitter out there now.

peasant

I'm happy to report about 15 cm of snow ....


...stacked on the windscreen of my car from the wipers upwards

Elsewhere it doesn't even amount to a dusting yet.

(Sligo, btw)

nacho libre

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nacho libre

nacho libre wrote: »

i trust you'll all be logging off to watch the toy show;)

Not me, the joys of PIP on my TV

plein de force

long time reader of the forum, first time to post though, thought i should say thank you to all the weather experts namely su campu, weathercheck, wolfeire, darkman2 and of course M.T. cranium who make it easy for us laymen to understand and in my opinion, give us better forecasts than met eireann.

here, a couple of miles in from the east coast i'm hoping to wake up to some white stuff when i look out the window tomorrow

Rougies

Here we go, all eyes on Evelyn

WolfeIRE

Snow showers will start to move into the east coast off the Irish Sea by 2am. Showers will push further inland as the night progresses.

barnicles

Light snow in North West Cork, lets all hope it sticks

delw

nacho libre wrote: »

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i trust you'll all be logging off to watch the toy show;)

right im off to watch it
hopefully they show a snow machine coz have a feelin im to close to coast for thr real stuff

thecretinhop

yess! heavy snow claregalway again lovely flakes

Tactical

Snow shower this evening at 80m asl while I was driving at about 1930z

This was in West Limerick near Newcastlewest.

It was only a shower but what fell stayed on the road for a while. Unscientific Car thermometer read 1deg C at the time.

talkabout

Snowing heavy now

talkabout

Some pictures of the snow