COLD SPELL Jan 28th Onwards: Wintry Showers/Frosty, Some Snow Accumulations

Graces7

South Kerry 400 ft asl.... same old, same old as yesterday but more vicious and bitter in cold. Wet white out from the west, and we now have some atop the mountains, then sun...The wind is a scimitar, slicing at face and hands. Range lit and stuffed with as much fuel as I can fit in it but making little impact on the cold in the house. I have on a thick, thick serious navy sweater I was given.. YOU know the type with leather shoulders and elbows and am still cold. The power has flickered once but I am fine if it goes as I have the range and gas,, PLEASE seek out elderly neighbours; hypothermia is insidious. My two , each over a mile away, have folk to go in and I am fine.. OH WOW! Serious snow for a minute there... sideways on! Just seen a wee yellow bird coming down to seek food...awwww....No photo yet until something worth it...sleety stuff now... dark dark dark! Serious white out,, sending this before power goes

Luckycharms_74

Graces7 wrote: »

South Kerry 400 ft asl.... same old, same old as yesterday but more vicious and bitter in cold. Wet white out from the west, and we now have some atop the mountains, then sun...The wind is a scimitar, slicing at face and hands. Range lit and stuffed with as much fuel as I can fit in it but making little impact on the cold in the house. I have on a thick, thick serious navy sweater I was given.. YOU know the type with leather shoulders and elbows and am still cold. The power has flickered once but I am fine if it goes as I have the range and gas,, PLEASE seek out elderly neighbours; hypothermia is insidious. My two , each over a mile away, have folk to go in and I am fine.. OH WOW! Serious snow for a minute there... sideways on! Just seen a wee yellow bird coming down to seek food...awwww....No photo yet until something worth it...sleety stuff now... dark dark dark! Serious white out,, sending this before power goes

Thats like a post from Lost
Enjoy the snow :P

Super-Rush

Temp has dropped from 4c to 0c in the last hour here in Carlow.

justy182

The Met have updated warnings for NI today. Yellow warnings each day till Monday. Slack on detail though and seems to be that there will like the update to Amber at times ( hopefully ). They were spot on yesterday with the Amber warning. Newry and the surrounds got a good few inches last night and heavy again this morning. Driving through Ravensdale was like being in the Frecnh Alps.

Oneiric 3

A big, black Mayo shower as seen from NE Galway just now. Really moving in fast.

laois gael

Blue clear sunny Sky in Portlaoise here it's cold tried to snow a little earlier but came to nothing...

Lithium1376

Coming down nice and heavy again in Roscommon. Earlier snow shower all melted but the ground is starting to turn white again! )

Graces7

First photo is the same view as the second.. wet- out!

Graces7

Zzippy

Graces7 wrote: »

South Kerry 400 ft asl.... same old, same old as yesterday but more vicious and bitter in cold. Wet white out from the west, and we now have some atop the mountains, then sun...The wind is a scimitar, slicing at face and hands. Range lit and stuffed with as much fuel as I can fit in it but making little impact on the cold in the house. I have on a thick, thick serious navy sweater I was given.. YOU know the type with leather shoulders and elbows and am still cold. The power has flickered once but I am fine if it goes as I have the range and gas,, PLEASE seek out elderly neighbours; hypothermia is insidious. My two , each over a mile away, have folk to go in and I am fine.. OH WOW! Serious snow for a minute there... sideways on! Just seen a wee yellow bird coming down to seek food...awwww....No photo yet until something worth it...sleety stuff now... dark dark dark! Serious white out,, sending this before power goes

Grace, wearing layers will do more to keep you warm than the sweater - by all means wear the sweater too but put on a good few layers underneath. Layering helps keep warm air close to your skin and prevents heat escaping much better than a heavy sweater.

Graces7

Mountains to the west

Reckless Abandonment

Some impressive showers across the mid West.

cyclops999

Blizzard in Athlone

RobertKK

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Gorgeous view looking to the hills. Absolute eye candy. Think i'll go for a cycle

Yeah that's where I live.

I have to agree, was in the city yesterday and it looked beautiful.

From about an hour ago...

https://twitter.com/Kilkenny_Met/status/560760911179567104

The12thMan

its snowing in west cork......

chris2007

Will Dublin get hit again in the next hour?

Graces7

Zzippy wrote: »

Grace, wearing layers will do more to keep you warm than the sweater - by all means wear the sweater too but put on a good few layers underneath. Layering helps keep warm air close to your skin and prevents heat escaping much better than a heavy sweater.

Many thanks but believe me the sweater is atop several layers! Lived in cold place a loooooong time And a a veteran market trader...Warming up now and with a brace of HWBS.. I have ME and we have poor temperature control.

Smidge

Glorious snow day here(Nrth Meath/Cavan border). Have about 4/5 inches lying.
Slight thaw with blue sky about 12pm but snowing now again and the sky is full of it.
Got a half daycint snowman built and the kids got a snow day.
Can't ask for more

Reiketsu

I went to bed last night with a couple of centimetres on the ground and woke up to around 3 to 4 inches of snow this morning . The roads have gone pretty slushy but it's lasting well (Dungiven, Derry).

Trogdor

FWVT wrote: »

Ulster really got the bulk of the action, with 26 cm of lying snow at Lough Fea (225 m) and 17 cm at Glennane (161 m) this morning. Their automatic stations continually reported snow in their hourly synops. The instruments are pretty accurate, so the Ballyhaise report was probably correct at the time of observation. If there was snow between observation hours then that will have been missed. We don't know at what time that person was at Ballyhaise so we can't check.

Out of interest, where do you get these values, FWVT?

KizzyMonster

Was raining really hard here in Athlone and then went quiet.
I presumed it was just that the rain had stopped but just now I looked up at the sky light and it;s covered over with snow
Will check at a proper window what it's like outside now at lunch but I doubt it's sticking based on how much rain fell just before it...

highdef

cyclops999 wrote: »

Blizzard in Athlone

Any photos as the radar returns are fairly impressive. I presume it's sticking?

RobertKK

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Gorgeous view looking to the hills. Absolute eye candy. Think i'll go for a cycle

I live on those hills...

I was in the city yesterday and it made the place look even more beautiful with the backdrop of the snow covered hills.

From about an hour and a half ago or so..
https://twitter.com/Kilkenny_Met/status/560760911179567104

cyclops999

Sorry can't post pics, just starting to stick now

vistafinder

Zzippy wrote: »

Grace, wearing layers will do more to keep you warm than the sweater - by all means wear the sweater too but put on a good few layers underneath. Layering helps keep warm air close to your skin and prevents heat escaping much better than a heavy sweater.

Yes start off with a Merino wool base layer. I use them for cycling and they are great.

Might have them in the outdoor shops in Kilarney

Joe Doe

Batch in coming for just N of Dublin (Airport) in the next hour, maybe also one heading towards the Wicklow Hills.
These two streams may just skim past either side of the town centre though...

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

RED L4 0TH

Thunder here in Murrisk, West Mayo. Odd sleet/snow flurry as well.

Strangegravy

Saturday looks a lovely cold day all day, not a massive amount of precipitation around unfortunately, maybe some in the north and west in the evening time, but what does fall would fall as snow in most places.

Missent

Snowing very lightly in South Wexford at the moment but not sticking.

highdef

Joe Doe wrote: »

Batch in coming for just N of Dublin (Airport) in the next hour, maybe also one heading towards the Wicklow Hills.
These two streams may just skim past either side of the town centre though...

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

The radar overlay looks wrong in your image. the precipitation is much further west in reality. Sorry Dublin but it's going to deliver little or nothing in Dublin city and suburbs