Snow Showers 20-22nd Feb mainly affecting the North, West & Midlands

Kermit.de.frog

Folks,

Tomorrow night snow showers will affect the west and north of the country in particular the north west where up to 5 cm can be expected. 1 - 3 cm can be expected elsewhere at low levels but much more than that on higher ground above 150 m. Showers at these levels are likely to be of snow well before nightfall with some significant accumulations.

Cold and mostly dry in east Leinster and Munster though one or two showers may make it through later in the night in a brisk northwesterly wind. Temps -1 to +2c.

Rebelbrowser

Next Monday looks of interest too with fairly widespread snow shown on gfs especially in the west. As for tomorrow night the euro 4 model does show some snow around especially ca 6 am Sat morning. Worth keeping an eye on.

pauldry

yes a cold blast alright.

Haily snow no doubt in Sligo

Monday looks particularly windy and cold with sleet and snow though hard to know if it will stick or just be visible in the showers

tylercollins

UK Met Office have yellow warning for snow on Monday

pauldry

Whos the naked person in the north sea?

Thatd be cold

fleet_admiral

Warning for yellow snow!

tylercollins

pauldry wrote: »

Whos the naked person in the north sea?

Thatd be cold

I'll sell her to you :pac:

redsky7

Sleeting in South sligo! :-D

ardmacha

redsky7 wrote: »

Sleeting in South sligo! :-D

Is that a tongue twister?

redsky7

ardmacha wrote: »

Is that a tongue twister?

It is with our pronunciation of S's.. Haha

gerrybhoy

redsky7 wrote: »

Sleeting in South sligo! :-D

Bollocks to saying that if you have a lisp

ardmacha

How about "slight sleet in south Sligo"?

mountainy man

Snowing here in S.E. Sligo.

sunbeam

Hailstones here in Achill.

mountainy man

Thunder snow now eek! ground white yet again.

nerrad1983

Up in cavan town for the night and it's snowing at the moment not sticking though

Smidge

SNOW!!!!!!
Well a shower anyway. It stuck to the car and garden table so to me, that counts
North Meath/Cavan

finnharpsboy

a handful of flakes just fell in ballyfermot, light rain now

Macy0161

It was just sleety rain yesterday evening, but woke up to a dusting here near roundwood. Not enough to get me out of my pit yet though!

Rock Lesnar

Snowing in meath and i just cut my grass yesterday.

It can get lost as quick as it can now.

redsteveireland

Took the eye off the ball, it appears we had some form of snow here. There is a layer of what looks like frozen wet snow on everything.
More coming by the looks of the radar.
Edit: Proper, heavy snow here now!
Gotta love the ninja snow!

gerrybhoy

was light snow here in Castleknock for a few minutes there

kaltz

Snowing in Mullingar. And I have to go to an u-10 match!!!

Macy0161

Enough to write in. Bitter wind, but lovely bright morning, so its melted or melting anywhere in the sun.

Pangea

Covering of snow on the hills here.
Random question : I was just wondering, statistically what is the windiest month of the year?

sunbabe08

There's some sort of white stuff falling in cork city

Rock Lesnar

Snow all gone, replaced by some nice warm enough sunshine, garden here i come.

Kermit.de.frog

Could be interesting tomorrow night

sunbabe08

:eek::eek: wow

icesnowfrost

Heavy wet snow in drogheda

q85dw7osi4lebg

Snow sitting in Collon, just outside Drogheda. Out of the blue!

lapua20grain

Very heavy hail shower here

Xenji

Quite a lot of laying snow around Longford last night when I was coming back from Dublin.

Kermit.de.frog

Moderate sleet and wet snow with some hail here in north Dublin.

Saganist

Light sleet / snow here in D11.

Kermit.de.frog

I wonder would a moderator be kind enough to change the thread title to reflect the snow risk for later tomorrow, overnight, Monday and Monday night? Thanks.

Snow could occur anywhere during this period but mostly in the midlands, west and north. The winds will be picking up quite a bit too with gales likely in exposed locations.

Kermit.de.frog

Things looking very favourable for tonight. A lot of the variables are conducive to snow fall and don't be surprised to wake up to a covering on Monday morning. The wind is going to carry the showers a good bit inland.









The air mass layer thickness is also highly conducive with very cold upper level air propagating downward through much broader layers in the atmosphere to the surface than is normal. In other words dilution of milder air at lower levels is very restricted and unlikely to stop snow falling at the lowest levels.

Showers may turn back to hail and sleet for a time Monday evening. Further snow showers on Monday night.

JanuarySnowstor

Certainly looks interesting tomorrow morning when snow could be lying on high ground.

Although this winter hasn't delivered it certainly was chilly at times. Quite a lot of frost and 2 separate days of lying snow here sofar.

downwiththatsor

Latest Euro4 still looks interesting but with the strength of the winds i think it will be hail unless well inland imho.
I put more trust in the Hirlam.

Pangea

STATUS YELLOW

Snow-ice Warning for Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo
Wintry showers will develop early tonight, with a mixture of hail, sleet and snow with accumulations of up to 3 cm likely, larger values are possible on higher ground. With strong winds forecast, driving conditions could become poor. The showers will continue into Monday morning.

Issued:Sunday 22 February 2015 10:00
Valid:Sunday 22 February 2015 22:00 to Monday 23 February 2015 12:00

Kermit.de.frog

downwiththatsor wrote: »

Latest Euro4 still looks interesting but with the strength of the winds i think it will be hail unless well inland imho.

That's a good point and important to remember that on Atlantic coasts at low levels things look messy with hail, rain and sleet more likely.

Inland, particularly in the second half of the night, is good for snow right now.

Kermit.de.frog

The colder air is starting to arrive in to the west with temperatures taking a bit of a tumble in the last couple of hours down to mid single figures in Atlantic counties. Temperatures in the east still up to 10 or 11c in some places but not for much longer.

Pangea

Very windy here in Donegal, temperature only 3c at present.

Kermit.de.frog

Knock airport reporting snow @ 6 pm.

mountainy man

A few schleet and snow showers, temps falling quickly,not very windy yet. 1.2C dp -1.2C

Hooter23

Heavy hail shower in Galway with blustery winds

redsteveireland

Showers passing through here now . Hail mixed with sleet and a few big gusts.

delw

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Certainly looks interesting tomorrow morning when snow could be lying on high ground.

Although this winter hasn't delivered it certainly was chilly at times. Quite a lot of frost and 2 separate days of lying snow here sofar.

Only if you live on high ground :pac:

Kermit.de.frog

The showers will turn more to snow after midnight - some beefy ones coming in the next few hours should really make it a good way across the country. Always more hit and miss further east and more likely staying as hail or sleet at ground level on Atlantic coasts. Wouldn't be surprised to get a dusting.

highdef

Moderate snow here....north Kildare/South Meath border @ approx 90m.

Kermit.de.frog

highdef wrote: »

Moderate snow here....north Kildare/South Meath border @ approx 90m.

That's headed for west Dublin now. A small shower but might get a flurry in the big schmoke in the next 30 minutes.