Active Cold Front - 17th October 2011

Iancar29

WOOOOO!! ITS OFFICIAL! :D:D:D:D

Elmer Blooker

PauloMN wrote: »

From 13.7C just a few hours ago to 5.4C now.... and it feels it!

A few hours!! One hour is more like it.
Dublin Airport was 13c at 1500 and at 1600 its 6c
Surely it's unusual to get such an active front so early in the season? The Arctic is relatively warm as its only mid October. A cold front like this is more like one you would see in March (mad March!) when the Arctic is at it's coldest

PauloMN

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

A few hours!! One hour is more like it.
Dublin Airport was 13c at 1500 and at 1600 its 6c
Surely it's unusual to get such an active front so early in the season? The Arctic is relatively warm as its only mid October. A cold front like this is more like one you would see in March (mad March!) when the Arctic is at it's coldest

Yes you are right, I just hadn't looked at my weather station for a few hours. I just looked at the graphs... my temp graph is like a profile of the Cliffs of Moher! :eek:

leahyl

Lads rain seems to be moving out towards the Irish sea - I'd say Cork won't get any action will it? Well not much anyway

Speak Now

Still a balmy 13.1c here in Waterford.
Looks like the tail might it us in the next hour.
Looks like it's hit Carrick on Suir on 4.15 radar. Expect us to have a drop of rain soon.

leahyl

Iancar29 wrote: »

WOOOOO!! ITS OFFICIAL! :D:D:D:D

Behold, the snow gods have returned:D

gaius c

Did I hear right when I heard that we have snow in Ireland in mid-October?

Heroditas

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Casement and Dublin airport dropped from 13c at 1500 to 6c at 1600.

Casement 5.8mm of rain.

I wouldn't have believed you regarding the temperature but I just stuck my nose outside and it's quite nippy out there!
Herself will be delighted. I may have to put on the heating this evening.

rhonin

Wind only starting to pick up here now. Heavy showers.

Rougies

Iancar29 wrote: »

WOOOOO!! ITS OFFICIAL! :D:D:D:D

Where's that Ian and what's the source?

Speak Now

Good calls in opening posts made by Deep Eaterly and M.T.
It's not the temps that are usually for the time of year but the change in temps associated with the heavy squall (RED LINE) constant on the radar!
Any short lived snow has been on high ground i assume.

leahyl

From RTE website!

snaps

Winds have completely died down here since this morning. Bitterly cold, 6.8c on the weather station and was reading 7c and 7.5c in the car. No snow on the Connemmara mountains yet!!

ednwireland

snow on high ground round donegal town but pretty sparse (i'd photo it but you prob would see it on the phone camera) and its seems to be disappering fast as the sun comes out

temps rising as well
17/10/2011 16:00 6.1 °C 98 % 1002.2 hPa 0.0 mm 1.0 km/h
17/10/2011 15:00 4.6 °C 98 % 1002.2 hPa 2.7 mm 0.2 km/h
17/10/2011 14:00 3.7 °C 97 % 1003.1 hPa 6.2 mm 0.2 km/h

current daily total
26.8 mm

Iancar29

Rougies wrote: »

Where's that Ian and what's the source?

Mount Errigal, County Donegal ... Twitter friend


Edit: Credit to Catherine McGlynn http://twitter.com/#!/DaisyCottageIRL

Speak Now

The rain has arrived at last in Waterford
Time to watch the mercury fall :cool:

gbee

Passed through it a while ago, very weak. Will post later!

mickger844posts

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

The rain has arrived at last in Waterford
Time to watch the mercury fall :cool:

You can watch it fall live here http://www.waterfordcityweather.com/ That's what i'm doing here in Taiwan. Today is the first day i miss the weather back home

Speak Now

mickger844posts wrote: »

You can watch it fall live here http://www.waterfordcityweather.com/ That's what i'm doing here in Taiwan. Today is the first day i miss the weather back home

I already am Mick

Again looks like most of the rain has petered out. Amazingly our worst weeks weather this year was during the late September/Early October heatwave. Been a dry enough year outside of that week :pac:

gbee

leahyl wrote: »

Lads rain seems to be moving out towards the Irish sea - I'd say Cork won't get any action will it? Well not much anyway

We missed it, blink and it was gone, vid later but poor.

achtungbarry

Flying home from Paris tonight. Due to land at 22.50. Has anyone any indications of conditions expected at Dublin airport around that time? Thanks in advance.

Speak Now

achtungbarry wrote: »

Flying home from Paris tonight. Due to land at 22.50. Has anyone any indications of conditions expected at Dublin airport around that time? Thanks in advance.

Blustery showers, coolish about 5c i'd say.

Caitriona

leahyl wrote: »

From RTE website!

Where on the site? I can't find it and need proof for disbelievers!

Sorry, never mind, found it.

HURRAY : )

Su Campu

The drop at Dublin Airport was even more remarkable than outlined above, dropping from 13 to 6 °C in less than 30 minutes, and dewpoint fell from 10 to 5 °C in this time too. Big shift in wind too.

[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 171500Z 31019G29KT 8000 RA FEW005 SCT010 BKN017 06/05 Q1002 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 171430Z 22028G40KT 9999 -SHRA FEW015 SCT020 BKN040 13/10 Q0999 NOSIG[/FONT]

keithm1

I wish I understood what you lot are talking about.
When did we get snow last year early or late November ?

DOCARCH

keithm1 wrote: »

I wish I understood what you lot are talking about.
When did we get snow last year early or late November ?

End of November (in Dublin).

5.8c here atm after a high of 14.9c at 1300.

dublinbusdude

Midnight on Saturday 27th November 2010, Dublin got ThunderSnow

ongarboy

I think most of the country got snow at the end of last November (I was in Kerry and woke to a couple of inches Saturday morning with more falling that night. Even snow free Waterford got a dumping!

Caitriona

dublinbusdude wrote: »

Midnight on Saturday 27th November 2010, Dublin got ThunderSnow

Ooh, I'd forgotten that word

dublinbusdude

Caitriona wrote: »

Ooh, I'd forgotten that word

How did you forget that word!!!