National: Cold spell Charts/ Media/ Forecasts (Strictly no chit-chat) (15/12/2010)

Musicman2000

I can guarnatee Met Eireann will play it down till a few hours before an event, It will nowcast all the way:)

Aiel

It said on one forecast that there would be frost despite the fact that it will be very windy.I always thought if there was wind it greatly reduced the chances of frost.Is it because the wind will be extremely cold given its origin?

pauldry

Tomorrow will start off mild at 7 or 8c here in Sligo and then dip to 3c by midday and stay around this level until about 230 or 3pm. Then it will dip again to 2 and 1 and oc by 6pm.

In the meantime there will be regular precipitation falling starting off as rain then after midday it will be sleeting but not sticking but perhaps by dark the roads will begin to get a white appearance.

Then during Thursday night a blanket of about 3 to 7cm of snow will cover Co Sligo lowest values near the coast with perhaps as much as 15cm on some of the highest hills and near 12cm in snowtraps like Tubbercurry which always gets a good dumping.

Firday will be cold but less snow showers perhaps hail and sleet but Saturday will see a renewed threat of snow for Sligo. Adding to existing accumulations.

This is my current forecast for the Sligo area.

lucy2010

roryc1 wrote: »

Sweet jebus look at the low on sat http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf.php

Is that a latest chart ? Just looks much nearer to East Coast than earlier

Musicman2000

Evelyn and ME are on board at last:)

cherryghost

Friday night looking delicious now

leahyl

WHAT a forecast!! Evelyn mentioned another front coming down from Scandinavia! Sounded very good/bad (depending what side you're on!)

th3 s1aught3r

roryc1 wrote: »

Sweet jebus look at the low on sat http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf.php

Maybe silly question, but what does it mean for us when we are close to the centre of a Low ? is it colder, or stormier ?

maquiladora

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

Maybe silly question, but what does it mean for us when we are close to the centre of a Low ? is it colder, or stormier ?

Heavy precip, windy. Combine that with snow being the precip...

goodies

hello all, just a very basic question but I have been watching the sat24 images all afternoon and this front if that is the correct term appears to be moving very very quickly...any chance it could hit us earlier than predicted? Apologies if this is chit chat!

redsteveireland

Musicman2000 wrote: »

Evelyn and ME are on boards.ie at last:)

fixed your post;)

ninebeanrows

ECM is nothing less than exceptional, buckets and buckets of snow for many.

Dublin would be snowed under from Friday night through until midweek.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Weathercheck wrote: »

ECM is nothing less than exceptional, buckets and buckets of snow for many.

Dublin would be snowed under from Friday night through until midweek.

Hey WC

Could you post up a chart ?

jimmynokia

the weathermen seem to be getting worried issuing warnings they must be coming here for the good advice.....

leahyl

Weathercheck wrote: »

ECM is nothing less than exceptional, buckets and buckets of snow for many.

Dublin would be snowed under from Friday night through until midweek.

And the rest of us?! (national thread..:p)

Aiel

Weathercheck wrote: »

ECM is nothing less than exceptional, buckets and buckets of snow for many.

Dublin would be snowed under from Friday night through until midweek.

Can someone put up a link for the latest chart please?

ninebeanrows

ECM at 72hrs, low will have developed crossing Ireland



UKM at 72hrs - similar

When these charts start coming within the T48hr timeframe expect to see severe warnings issued.

mickger844posts

Looking at the latest models for the weekend its like a dream set up for snow lovers. Simply amazing stuff, what a weekend we are going to have

leahyl

mickger844posts wrote: »

Looking at the latest models for the weekend its like a dream set up for snow lovers. Simply amazing stuff, what a weekend we are going to have

Palpitations here! I'm not kidding! Even my mother is getting worried - even though i warned her of this the other day and she totally fobbed me off! (sorry about chit chat!):)

force eleven

mickger844posts wrote: »

Looking at the latest models for the weekend its like a dream set up for snow lovers. Simply amazing stuff, what a weekend we are going to have

Well, I am old enough to remember 82 and going back to February 78' I recall a big snow event. But this POTENTIALLY will top everything in terms of snowfall since, I guess, 1947. Lets see, going to be a lot of time wasted spent in here :pac:

th3 s1aught3r

force eleven wrote: »

Well, I am old enough to remember 82 and going back to February 78' I recall a big snow event. But this POTENTIALLY will top everything in terms of snowfall since, I guess, 1947. Lets see, going to be a lot of time wasted spent in here :pac:

Haha, someone should tell Met Eireann, in case they are looking at the wrong charts :cool:

cjmcork

hang on Joan Blackburn played it down at 6.30 - Evelyn said, at 6.50, that Saturday's driving conditions would be dangerous - which is it? sorry, are ye saying that Dublin will be snowed under on Saturday morning?

TheInquisitor

Musicman2000 wrote: »

I can guarnatee Met Eireann will play it down till a few hours before an event, It will nowcast all the way:)

Aiel wrote: »

It said on one forecast that there would be frost despite the fact that it will be very windy.I always thought if there was wind it greatly reduced the chances of frost.Is it because the wind will be extremely cold given its origin?

Musicman2000 wrote: »

Evelyn and ME are on board at last:)

cherryghost wrote: »

Friday night looking delicious now

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

Maybe silly question, but what does it mean for us when we are close to the centre of a Low ? is it colder, or stormier ?

goodies wrote: »

hello all, just a very basic question but I have been watching the sat24 images all afternoon and this front if that is the correct term appears to be moving very very quickly...any chance it could hit us earlier than predicted? Apologies if this is chit chat!

redsteveireland wrote: »

fixed your post;)

jimmynokia wrote: »

the weathermen seem to be getting worried issuing warnings they must be coming here for the good advice.....

To be fair all of these posts from page 13 deserve deleting.

Including this post which is also pointless. They have nothing to do with model discussion/ forecasting for this event.

leahyl

force eleven wrote: »

Well, I am old enough to remember 82 and going back to February 78' I recall a big snow event. But this POTENTIALLY will top everything in terms of snowfall since, I guess, 1947. Lets see, going to be a lot of time wasted spent in here :pac:

Do you really think this could get to the levels of 1947 (POTENTIALLY;))?? My dad said it was really bad too in 1945 (the year he was born) - my grandparents were taking him to get christened and they barely made it to the church (they were lucky to get there). I never hear anybody mention that year for snow though. Not as bad as 1947 obv

th3 s1aught3r

TheInquisitor wrote: »

To be fair all of these posts from page 13 deserve deleting.

Including this post which is also pointless. They have nothing to do with model discussion/ forecasting for this event.

My post was a question about the chart. How is that not relevent to a Charts thread ?

goodies

I would disagree with you regarding my post which in fact has to do with forecasting and charting as I was asking about satellite images from today which I wanted assistance with interpreting. I do not think anybody needs to be unfriendly or rude...thank you I am sincerely trying to learn here

Mmcd

This forum makes me feel bi-polar with the up and downs with each chart release!

Mr.Boots

I hate when these threads turn elitist.

TheInquisitor

Back to forecasting.

Models are really starting to show some serious countrywide snow on Saturday night/Sunday morning. This is when the bulk of the country should see snow but obviously it will be heaviest in the West and North. After that snowfalls should be more localised.

Birdnuts

Weathercheck wrote: »

ECM is nothing less than exceptional, buckets and buckets of snow for many.

Dublin would be snowed under from Friday night through until midweek.

Certainly better then GFS for next week:)