Heavy rain and strong winds Monday night -Wednesday night

Not

What's with the thread title, heavy rain and strong winds Tuesday night into Wednesday, should it not be Monday night into Tuesday, or is this going to keep up for another 24 -> 36 hours ?

Su Campu

Not wrote: »

What's with the thread title, heavy rain and strong winds Tuesday night into Wednesday, should it not be Monday night into Tuesday, or is this going to keep up for another 24 -> 36 hours ?

You're dead right! How did none of us spot that??!! :rolleyes:

Corrected it now.

rhonin

Not wrote: »

What's with the thread title, heavy rain and strong winds Tuesday night into Wednesday, should it not be Monday night into Tuesday, or is this going to keep up for another 24 -> 36 hours ?

Apologies, for some reason I think its Wednesday today

Su Campu wrote: »

You're dead right! How did none of us spot that??!! :rolleyes:

Corrected it now.

Thanks for that!

mayo.mick

Recorded 44.7mm of rain here yesterday in east mayo (approx 4 miles from knock airport) 14.5mm sofar today.

WolfeIRE

Hail reported at Valentia and Belmullet

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

Sponge Bob

Gust 46 at Mace, sunny but coooooooold out there.

maddogcollins

Heavy Hail shower in Ennis just now also.

Su Campu

Going on the 12Z Valentia sounding, the snowline would appear to be at around 300 m in the southwest, and that should be the case right up through Connaught and west Ulster too, spreading eastwards during the afternoon.

Very steep mid level lapse rates and high deep layer speed and directional shear are generating the hail showers reported.

JJJJNR

tssh: Massive temp drop in Tallaght over. :tssh

Su Campu

There was a very notable change at Dublin Airport as that squally front passed through between 09:30 and 10:00 this morning, with the wind swinging from southerly to northwesterly, and the temperature/dewpoints plummeting from 12/10 to 7/6 °C. There should be some interesting observor's notes in the 10 am synop when it becomes viewable on ogimet at 6 pm.

METARS
EIDW 291300Z 26017KT 9999 FEW012 SCT040 BKN100 06/04 Q0995 NOSIG
EIDW 291230Z 28019KT 9999 FEW012 SCT022 BKN040 05/04 Q0995 NOSIG
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 291200Z 28023G33KT 9999 -RA FEW012 SCT022 BKN040 05/04 Q0994 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 291130Z 28016KT 9000 -RA FEW008 SCT016 BKN030 05/04 Q0994 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 291100Z 28018KT 7000 -RA FEW008 SCT020 BKN030 06/04 Q0993 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 291030Z 29019KT 9999 -RA FEW008 SCT020 BKN040 07/06 Q0991 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 291000Z 30023KT 7000 RA FEW008 SCT020 BKN040 07/06 Q0990 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 290930Z 19015KT 9000 -RA FEW015 SCT020 BKN050 12/10 Q0989 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 290900Z 19017G27KT 9999 -RA FEW015 SCT020 BKN050 12/10 Q0989 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 290830Z 21018G30KT 9999 -RA FEW015 SCT020 BKN050 12/10 Q0990 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 290800Z 20020G30KT 9999 -RA FEW015 SCT020 BKN070 13/10 Q0990 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 290730Z 19019G30KT 9999 -RA FEW015 SCT020 BKN060 13/10 Q0990 NOSIG[/FONT]

redsteveireland

Heavy hail shower near Craughwell, there's a real bite in the wind now!:)

gavkm27

I left Galway this morning 6am and it was bucketing down with rain and 7c,got to base of Croagh Patrick about 7.30am and it was still coming down and 5.5c,about 200m from the top it turned to snow,felt like -10c on the peak,nice scramble,was great to see some snow,was back down by 10.30am,not a sinner around:D

snaps

Sleet and wet snow being reported also around Knock airport. Where has this cold blast come from? Currently 3.8c here??!??? (In a shower)

Deep Easterly

Potential for some gusty winds ahead of a sharp cold front that is forecast to cross the country tomorrow evening:




Tight pressure gradient close to the front and a sharp temperature gradient along it could make things interesting.

The latest HIRLAM also shows potential for mean wind speeds to reach gale along the Atlantic coast as the front approaches:



Gusty winds overland too during any heavy rain / showers . Might be something to keep an eye on

km79

Much rain coming in with that cold front ?

Deep Easterly

km79 wrote: »

Much rain coming in with that cold front ?

Expected to swing through fairly quickly but the rain could be heavy as it does so.

Wild Bill

Between 8am and noon we got 16.0mm of rain; breezy, but top gusts just above 30kph.

Most interesting event; temperature dropped from 12.0 at 9.30am to 5.3 at 11.30am!

That's what a cold front should be like

Currently dry, breezy and 5C.

vetstu

A friend just put on fb that its snowing in Clones. Hope he is taking the piss

Wild Bill

Could be.

I was down in the city this afternoon but have just been told there was a snow shower here at 3pm; non-stick as the temp was +5C.

Sorry I missed it though!:(

Su Campu

Wild Bill wrote: »

Could be.

I was down in the city this afternoon but have just been told there was a snow shower here at 3pm; non-stick as the temp was +5C.

Sorry I missed it though!:(

Snow in Sandyford? Not a chance. It was probably melting hail or something. I was in Dundrum shortly after and there was definitely no chance that there was or would be snow. The mountains were all clear too. It was +5.5 °C along the higher part of the M50.

EDIT: Actually, I was confusing Sandyford with Stillorgan, which is around 80 m lower than Sandyford (130 m)! :rolleyes:

Wild Bill

Su Campu wrote: »

Snow in Sandyford? Not a chance. It was probably melting hail or something. I was in Dundrum shortly after and there was definitely no chance that there was or would be snow. The mountains were all clear too. It was +5.5 °C along the higher part of the M50.

EDIT: Actually, I was confusing Sandyford with Stillorgan, which is around 80 m lower than Sandyford (130 m)! :rolleyes:

Su, I'm at - yes -130m! I didn't see it but my source maintains that at 3pm there was a mixed hail/snow shower. :cool:

And how could anyone confuse Sandyford with (ugh!) Stillorgan?

Su Campu

Wild Bill wrote: »

Su, I'm at - yes -130m! I didn't see it but my source maintains that at 3pm there was a mixed hail/snow shower. :cool:

And how could anyone confuse Sandyford with (ugh!) Stillorgan?

I think it was the initial S.....too much for the brain to process!

If it was mixed hail and "snow" I would imagine the snow was actually some smaller hail stones that were melting quicker than the larger ones, so would give that icy splat on a windscreen. I was in Tallaght all day (105 m) and didn't get anything resembling snow.

NIALL D

there was a heavy shower here earlier with lots of sleet mixed with it.. was around 6 o c.. temp was 4.3

Wild Bill

So...that was it?

Temp is back up to nearly 8C in a fresh SW breeze.

Any more storms on the horizon? Do we need a new thread or do we just add a few more days to this one?

M.T. Cranium

I expect there will be some active weather later today and this thread should probably be renamed to continue discussion, or have yet another thread. Squall line around five to seven p.m. across the north and central counties would be the basic concern.

munsterlegend

I see where meteoalarm have a warning for Ireland for strong winds yet nothing apart from a gale warning to date from met eireann...

http://www.meteoalarm.eu/index2.php?country=IE&day=0&lang=

tylercollins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q62vyKBiJqE

Thunder & Lighting over Letterkenny / Buncrana direction last night.

suitseir

On 30th. November 2010 I was flying out from Dublin Airport to the UK. Because of the frost and ice and heavy snow, our flight was delayed 2 hours. Coming back 4 days later our flight was the last to land in Dublin Airport, once again, because of the snow and ice.

So for those of you waiting for this SNOW.....I reckon it ain't going to happen!

Wind and rain and on Friday 2nd. Dec 2011, mild weather forecast. Yippee....

munsterlegend

munsterlegend wrote: »

I see where meteoalarm have a warning for Ireland for strong winds yet nothing apart from a gale warning to date from met eireann...

http://www.meteoalarm.eu/index2.php?country=IE&day=0&lang=

better late than never...

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

Deep Easterly

GFS wind forecast showing strongest winds just ahead of the front as it pushes eastwards later this evening:



with winds veering westerly and easing considerably once it moves through.