Risk Of Heavy Snow Showers As It Turns Extremely Cold Sunday Night/Monday

fred funk }{ · 11-03-2013 11:59am

Folks, is this proper snow? All I'm seeing today is small dusty snow.

paddy ocon · 11-03-2013 12:00pm

Sacramento wrote: »

Confirming this, very heavy snow.

double confirming

Elmer Blooker · 11-03-2013 12:00pm

dopolahpec wrote: »

Enjoy it for what it is, certainly don't expect any depth of snow lying at low levels today, it's violent, squally, short-lived and messy, and exactly what I would have expected for mid March.

I'll take it! It's more than I got in the entire winter of 2011-12 and Dec, Jan and Feb this winter. I think there's a few more hours of this from what I can see on the radar but anyone who compares this to Dec 2010 will be inevitably disappointed. I'm not sure what you mean by "what I expect for mid March" when we can't get anything in Jan and Feb?
(not saying you dopolahpec compared this to '10)

Batesy · 11-03-2013 12:02pm

red_bairn wrote: »

Just washing powder blowing around my back garden - here in Greystones.

Yeah, my missus just said. "That stuff blowing around just looks like fake snow, if you saw that on a film you'd piss yerself laughing at how fake it looks!"

finnharpsboy · 11-03-2013 12:02pm

Nice proper heavy shower of real snow lasted bout ten mins now the dam sun is back out grrrrr

sunbabe08 · 11-03-2013 12:04pm

leahyl wrote: »

Miniscule flakes falling in Cork City....

although something is coming as i type

Speak Now · 11-03-2013 12:04pm

Squally shower just hitting Waterford city now, horizontal snow with the wind :cool:

dopolahpec · 11-03-2013 12:05pm

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

I'll take it! It's more than I got in the entire winter of 2011-12 and Dec, Jan and Feb this winter. I think there's a few more hours of this from what I can see on the radar but anyone who compares this to Dec 2010 will be inevitably disappointed. I'm not sure what you mean by "what I expect for mid March" when we can't get anything in Jan and Feb?
(not saying you dopolahpec compared this to '10)

Really what I am skirting around is that if I had just read the Met Eireann forecast for snow showers I would have expected what I am seeing now, short lived graupel fest that is melting almost as fast as it is falling. I am comparing that expectation to what I might have expected from MT's forecast which was significantly more detailed and substantive on the issue of lying snow, of some depth, explosive developments, great lake effect, etc etc...

stephen8wood · 11-03-2013 12:06pm

And....it's over. Ah well. In a couple of months the rainy season starts again.

Am I wrong in saying that for a decent dollop of snow we need colder ground temps, sustained snow and a hell of a lot of other things to boot...which we don't have today or for therest of the year for that matter. Save's one the lecky bill anyway lads. Cheer up.

Duggys Housemate · 11-03-2013 12:06pm

The "real snow" claims are amusing. Proper cold sticky snow is small and fluffy not big. Big means wet.

PauloMN · 11-03-2013 12:07pm

I see ME have dropped from "Orange" to "Yellow" warning status also.

mike65 · 11-03-2013 12:07pm

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

You jinxed it

Sorry about that!

Very small dry flakes on the wind.

Duggys Housemate · 11-03-2013 12:08pm

stephen8wood wrote: »

And....it's over. Ah well. In a couple of months the rainy season starts again.

Am I wrong in saying that for a decent dollop of snow we need colder ground temps, sustained snow and a hell of a lot of other things to boot...which we don't have today or for therest of the year for that matter. Save's one the lecky bill anyway lads. Cheer up.

I just think it had to have happened last night. The sun is hot in march. If some had stuck last night then the cover would be added to today.

lucernarian · 11-03-2013 12:08pm

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

The "real snow" claims are amusing. Proper cold sticky snow is small and fluffy not big. Big means wet.

Not really, it's a crude rule of thumb.

dopolahpec · 11-03-2013 12:10pm

Next March we will be praying for -16 uppers if anything is coming from the east, it seems -12 aren't delivering the wow factor.

Apart from WOW -12 uppers ha ha

Wonder will it thicken up in the late afternoon? For some reason I always remember streamers beefing up after 3pm. Empiric as that may sound and all

Duggys Housemate · 11-03-2013 12:10pm

To_be_confirmed wrote: »

Not really, it's a crude rule of thumb.

Generally. Watch a movie of a proper blizzard - like in the American mid west. There are no large flakes falling slowly.

And this:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2008/01/the_cause_of_big_flakes.html

cowana · 11-03-2013 12:11pm

The weather station Shows -1.1 degrees with wind chill of - 7.2 degrees.
NNE 34kph wind. I can see the streamers coming in from the Irish sea from North of Dublin right the way down to central/ South Dublin.

dopolahpec · 11-03-2013 12:11pm

The orientation of the streamers is changing all the time, they are moving further south.

DOCARCH · 11-03-2013 12:12pm

dopolahpec wrote: »

Wonder will it thicken up in the late afternoon? For some reason I always remember streamers beefing up after 3pm. Empiric as that may sound and all

Problem is that pressure is rising all the time, so I would not be surprised if this is as good as it gets?

Just had a blizzard of fine powder snow. -0.6c DP -2.6c atm.