New Years Day/Monday Snow Discussion

eskimocat

The road between Sligo to Dromahair had rain, sleet, snow, sleet, rain... in that order as I travelled. Really feel like going back to the snow bit lol. Nothing sticking so far.
Temp 1.7c and dewpoint 0.2c here at the minute.

There was some frost earlier when I went to Sligo, had to defrost the car first..

Good forecasting there boys

Pangea

LATEST IRISH WEATHER REPORTS
ON 2-JAN-2012 for 02:00
DUBLIN AIRPORT SW 13 RECENT SNOW 2 95 0.9 999

MULLINGAR(A) SW 09 RECENT SNOW 1 94 0.2 998

tylercollins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Jzb24mfFg

highdef

Here's my 2 cents!

Interesting Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFuN1N7bj-0

Jesus Wept

Few miles from Dublin Airport, no snow. :-/

talkabout

Light coating of hail/sleet and snow in the last twenty minutes. Previously, we had heavy sleet most of the evening.

Senna

Brave coating of snow and hail from about 10pm in east Donegal. There was heavy snow first, then hail then sleet at an elevation of 50m. Up at my house at 150m, about 10 miles inland, was just a short hail shower, but ground still white.

vickers209

Latest from aa roadwatch this morning

Last Updated: 02/01/2012 06:47:04
National Summary Report

*CONDITIONS* * Snow and hail showers have affected roads in Ulster, particularly in Co. Donegal where the Barnesmore Gap, Meenaroy and Binbane areas are all impassable. Gardai are also advising motorists to take extra care on the N56 Donegal/Glenties Rd and the N13/N15 Donegal/Letterkenny Rd due to icy conditions. * Conditions are also icy on roads in Ennis, Co. Clare, Westport and Castlebar, Co. Mayo, around Wexford Town and Mullingar in Co. Westmeath and Cavan town. * Black ice to contend with in Thurles in Co. Tipperary and in parts of around Longford Town. * Slushy conditions around Navan, Co. Meath following earlier snowfall. *

Planet X

As mentioned earlier, well called Darkman2, despite all the knockings.

ch750536

half an inch os snow on the floor this morning, have had hail, sleet snow, rain, snot, slain, heet & raet since then. Still got anout half an inch of something on the floor.
Oh, and the sun is out.

MiNdGaM3

In south Tipp since last night and the Galtee mountains are completely covered, but just sleet showers closer to see level. Can't see the snowline, but I'd guess around 150m.
Skies are beginning to clear so hopefully some decent pics soon.

derekon

ch750536 wrote: »

half an inch os snow on the floor this morning, have had hail, sleet snow, rain, snot, slain, heet & raet since then. Still got anout half an inch of something on the floor.
Oh, and the sun is out.

On the floor?!! Surely you should be moving that snow out of your house before it melts?! :D:D

D

Deep Easterly

Had nothing but the odd rain and hail shower in NE Galway at 39m asl.

DoneDL

Hail and sleet in NW Donegal, not looking forward to tonight if MT is right about the high winds

sunbabe08

snow shield firmly up in cork:(

MiNdGaM3

Taken with my phone, so not the best quality I'm afraid. Galtee Mts.

Min

The hills around here are white with a dusting of snow, it is amazing that the snowline always seems to be around the same altitude.

It is not much, just enough to look like someone got the icing sugar out to give the place a certain look.

No thaw yet with temperatures at 1.4C here.

BLIZZARD7

Was sitting outside in a hot tub at about 8.40AM here in killarney, it started lashing rain but quickly turned to SLEET/SNOW/HAIL!!  :D:D

The shock I got when I saw/felt that! A small bit of snow stuck for about 5 mins, enough to make a big slush ball anyway. :eek:

Currently partly cloudy and calm. Seems to be another shower heading way atm.


Mountains around here are white from about half way up.


Dan :cool:

YouTookMyName

Croagh Patrick.



Not too bad. It was more covered a few weeks back.

gbee

MiNdGaM3 wrote: »

Taken with my phone, so not the best quality I'm afraid. Galtee Mts.]

What's wrong with the quality? I don't see anything wrong with it, it's got the tonal range that many a professional camera would envy and it's very clear for a tiny sensor, imagine that scaled up to 'professional' standards?

iPhone IMO, is a perfect weather cam, no need to apologise.

MiNdGaM3

gbee wrote: »

What's wrong with the quality? I don't see anything wrong with it, it's got the tonal range that many a professional camera would envy and it's very clear for a tiny sensor, imagine that scaled up to 'professional' standards?

iPhone IMO, is a perfect weather cam, no need to apologise.

Cheers! Turned out alright I guess. Was the first pic I'd posted up using the phone (an xmas present) and I left before I'd even seen my own post so presumed it would be standard phone quality.

Gonzo

still little bits of snow & frozen slush on the car here and in sheltered areas of grass.

Pangea

Roads were bad here this morning from persistent hailstones which made for dangerous driving conditions. There was quite an accumulation of hailstones. Still plenty of the white stuff lying around too.

Harps

Same here, no snow but plenty of hail, still plenty lying even though the last real shower was an hour ago. Snow on the hills down to around 300m, the usual places like Barnesmore, Meenaroy etc were supposedly pretty bad this morning

irish1967

Same here. Hailstorms are pretty intense. Windy too.

NickDrake

Met Eireann should have given more warning of the hard frost we got all over the country last night. 0 to -1 was the worst they forecast.

They have forecast no snow for tonight. Only rain.

Su Campu

NickDrake wrote: »

Met Eireann should have given more warning of the hard frost we got all over the country last night. 0 to -1 was the worst they forecast.

They have forecast no snow for tonight. Only rain.

And they were bang on. The lowest recorded was +0.3 °C.

Minima overnight to midday today

1 Connaught Airport (Ireland) 0.3 °C
2 Cork Airport (Ireland) 0.3 °C
3 Mullingar (Ireland) 0.4 °C
4 Claremorris (Ireland) 0.9 °C
5 Gurteen (Ireland) 0.9 °C
6 Casement Aerodrome (Ireland) 1.2 °C
7 Dublin Airport (Ireland) 1.3 °C
8 Ballyhaise, Cavan (Ireland) 1.5 °C
9 Johnstown Castle (Ireland) 1.7 °C
10 Malin Head (Ireland) 1.7 °C
11 Finner (Ireland) 1.9 °C
12 Roches Point (Ireland) 2.4 °C
13 Shannon Airport (Ireland) 2.8 °C
14 Valentia Observatory (Ireland) 3.3 °C
15 Mace Head (Ireland) 3.6 °C
16 Belmullet (Ireland) 3.7 °C
17 Sherkin Island (Ireland) 4.5 °C

It's going to get much midler tonight so there will be only rain.

NickDrake

How come there was black ice in parts and my car was totally frozen this morning in county Cork?

Roads were lethal

Su Campu

That was ground frost. Horizontal surfaces, especially car rooves, will radiate heat away to space very efficiently, and will be a lot colder than the air above them.

Minimum grass temperatures fell to -2 °C at Cork Airport overnight, while +1 C at Roches Point and +3 C at Sherkin Island.

BLIZZARD7

NickDrake wrote: »

How come there was black ice in parts and my car was totally frozen this morning in county Cork?

Roads were lethal

That is because your car gets colder than the air, as do the roads. Su campu just showed you the minimum air temps around the country. Measured at 2M asl I believe?





Dan :cool: