WARNING:Risk Of Disruption,High Ground Snow/Ice Likely For Northern Regions, Sat/Sun.

Harps

Dew point is set to drop by 8C over a 3 hour period here tonight and by even more than that by tomorrow morning, currently 7.1C, by 12am tomorrow, its projected to be -6C which is an extremely impressive drop as the cold front passes through.

Still unconvinced that I'll see any real snow here tomorrow but a really interesting day ahead regardless, some nice heavy showers about with potential for snow, hail and thunderstorms anywhere across the north. Dewpoint as low as -6C during the day tomorrow

irish1967

First shower of sleet here at the moment. Not far off snow.

davidsr20

Where's here?

km79

Deep Easterly wrote: »

First signs of the actual cold front showing up along the western seaboard now with Belmullet gusting up to 41kts on the 12am reports. This cold front passage may actual be of more interest for those of away from the north than anything that tomorrow has to offer with the potential for some sharp bursts of rain and squally winds in places as it passes over the country later tonight.

http://mathsci.ucd.ie/met/mcc-rain-d2.html

redsteveireland wrote: »

Ha, some people have great memories!

or great imaginations.. !!!

Camera at the ready

redsteveireland

Showers seem quite weak at the moment. Plenty of snow reports from the north of the country on twitter.

boatbuilder

Brief but heavy hail shower followed by brief snow shower here near Shercock Co. Cavan ~110m asl

Su Campu

Here's the comma system north of Donegal, heading southeastwards towards Scotland and Ulster. Much of Ulster should see some action from it, which could be interesting for places like the Glenshane Pass, etc.

Eastcoastryan

Su Campu wrote: »

Here's the comma system north of Donegal, heading southeastwards towards Scotland and Ulster. Much of Ulster should see some action from it, which could be interesting for places like the Glenshane Pass, etc.

Hi Su,

Any chance of it getting anywhere near this neck of the woods.. Dublin / Wicklow or is it on route to Scotland and N. England?

Su Campu

Eastcoastryan wrote: »

Hi Su,

Any chance of it getting anywhere near this neck of the woods.. Dublin / Wicklow or is it on route to Scotland and N. England?

We could see something from it, though it may be more of a sleety mix. Keep an eye on radar and satelllite.

MiNdGaM3

Dew points at both Malin Head and Finner Camp below 0C now, the dry polar air gradually pushing south.

thomasj

Hail shower currently in west dublin

snowstreams

Brief sleet shower here in castlebar. It feels cold in the wind but not cold enough for snow yet. Hopefully later on.

irish1967

snowstreams wrote: »

Brief sleet shower here in castlebar. It feels cold in the wind but not cold enough for snow yet. Hopefully later on.

Same here in Donegal Town.

darkman2

I think if the showers in your area are not sleet or snow at this stage you don't have long to wait. Conditions increasingly good for snow through the day. It's not really a forecast situation anymore. Just keep an eye on radar and satellite like Su says. A decent chance that many will see at least a flake. In the north heavier and frequent snow showers.

pauldry

heavy hail in sligo 4.6c

but temp climbs to 7c between the shwers. already back up to 5.3c in the sun

JanuarySnowstor

Is the title of this thread not slightly over the top.
Cool with sun and showers, some of hail not more accurate?

redsteveireland

Brief shower with large hail. Hard to tell if there is sleet/snow mixed in as the wind gets quite strong in these showers and it could be just hail getting blown around.
Everything is melting on contact as the the sun is warming the ground between showers.

davidsr20

darkman2 wrote: »

I think if the showers in your area are not sleet or snow at this stage you don't have long to wait. Conditions increasingly good for snow through the day. It's not really a forecast situation anymore. Just keep an eye on radar and satellite like Su says. A decent chance that many will see at least a flake. In the north heavier and frequent snow showers.

Any chance we might see something in Galway darkman?

Pangea

Its SNOWING here and Windy

snaps

yes, same here. Hail which looks like sleet, snow in the showers, but the ground so warm from the stronger sun its melting on contact. soon as showers pass, air temp straight up to around 8c. Fingers crossed for tonight, but it seems as soon as the sun will sink it will be clear and frosty with no percip.shoot

Deep Easterly

redsteveireland wrote: »

Brief shower with large hail. Hard to tell if there is sleet/snow mixed in as the wind gets quite strong in these showers and it could be just hail getting blown around.
Everything is melting on contact as the the sun is warming the ground between showers.

That last shower just brought rain here though with some blustery winds, but can see another biggish looking shower up Mayo side which is heading this way. Taken about 5 mins looking NNW:



Edit 2.01pm: Shower arrived, started off as hail but turned quickly back to rain and was never at any stage particularly heavy. Passed through very quickly.

cyclops999

Just got caught in an unholy sleet shower on Croagh Patrick very cold .

rilz

Snowing quite heavy here at sea level. Hope match aint called off for 3.

Lucreto

Heavy hail shower here in Naas. The ground it white at the moment.

Its turned to sleet now.

JJJJNR

Just got sunburnt while outside doing odd jobs. :eek:

Harps

Snowing here for the past 20 minutes Ground is all white

Guess I'll take a quick video

TheMilkyPirate

Heavy hail shower all the way down here in the sunny south east about ten minutes ago, Was surprised by that.

littlebug

we had snow here in south Mayo about half an hour ago... lovely big chunky snowflakes. Sun shining again now

Deep Easterly

A dewpoint temperature of -1.0c at Valentia on the 2pm reports, which is the lowest of any of the reporting synoptic stations. -0.5c at Oak Park and -0.2c at Dublin Apt.

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

Macy0161

Heavy hail shower here in the wicklow mountains, with a few small flakes beginning to be in the mix. Lovely day up to now, so pretty much melting on contact.