First Snowfall of the Winter

JCX BXC

Let's have a game, lighten up the forum!

Let's guess when the first snowfall happens, and for bonus points where!

My guess is 4th December, Knock Airport.

Clarification:
The location must be in Ireland, and can be on a hill but not a mountain.

Rougies

25th December, Cork Airport. :eek:

Cul a cnoic

Carnacalla wrote: »

Let's have a game, lighten up the forum!

Let's guess when the first snowfall happens, and for bonus points where!

My guess is 4th December, Knock Airport.

Slieve Snaght in Donegal December 13th!

endacl

Vladivstok. In a fortnight or so.

mountainy man

November 12th at my house.

I think I had the first snow last year on Nov 20th.

Car99

At what altitude are we talking? I can see mountains from my window and they'll get a snowy cap long before we'll see flakes at our level. They've already had first snow on scottish Highlands.
Are we talking first snow at less than 500 ft above sea level or anywhere on the island?

Missymoohaa

I'll go Mountainy Man's house too but the 3rd December.

Supercell

It can easily happen to quite low levels this month - see these pics from seven years ago when I lived in Annamoe in Wicklow - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57727429

M.T. Cranium

Not saying this will be the first snow but I am expecting some widespread light snow in late November as patterns may try to emulate 2010 -- not that intense, but timing will be similar.

droidman123

2 new places in ireland i wasnt aware of,vladivstok and the scottish highlands.

pauldry

First snow November 28th at 0700am knock airport n mountainymans house

arctictree

Supercell wrote: »

It can easily happen to quite low levels this month - see these pics from seven years ago when I lived in Annamoe in Wicklow - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57727429

Lovely October snow! I remember my earliest snow here was 21st October. Think it was 2003?

Gonzo

first likely snow fall anywhere between Kerry and Donegal with atlantic snow showers sometime December. Mountainyman most likely to report first snow fall.

Meteorite58

I'm going to say for the craic The Mourne Mountains , Dec. 9th

Lumi

I'm going with Dec 1st, Knock Airport

pedigree 6

The Great Sugarloaf ,co.wicklow ( I think you could call that a hill) on the 19th of November.

Rikand

Slieve Bawn, Co. Roscommon
1st December

SeaBreezes

I rem in 2009 we got a week of snow down here in the Old head of Kinsale in Nov. A small amount and we were the only place who got it at the time, (didnt even get as far as ballinspittle) but will chance my arm and say Kinsale 29th Nov :-)

Hope springs eternal...

Jpmarn

Probably 20th November at Knock and maybe the 30th for Shannon Airport.

Jpmarn

Probably 20th November at Knock and maybe the 30th for Shannon Airport.

Gonzo

31 October 2008, we had nearly 2 inchs of snow here, I was in Germany at the time, I remember reading much of Leinster had snow that day.

jimbis

I'm gonna take a stab at 29th November as its my birthday:pac: South Dublin foothills (think 3rock might be too high to qualify).

Harry Palmr

March 1st 2017 Derryveagh Mountains for a few hours!

snaps

I ment to post some pictures on the winter thread last week. Just getting around now to doing it. This was last thursday (06/10/16) in Southern Poland in my village@ 1010m ASL. My house had snow (650m ASL) but only about 5-10cm. Above 900m there was over 40cm.

Comhrá

I'll go for December 28th and Donegal.

Nabber

Snaps you are looking for boards.pl

snaps

Nabber wrote: »

Snaps you are looking for boards.pl

Haha, I'm an ex pat that moved over to the eastside 3 years ago. I was a regular poster here before I made the switch.

John mac

another one for nov 28 knock (

Head Wreck

February 8th.

P_1

November 18th, Glencree.

M.T. Cranium

I posted earlier without actually entering the contest, as far as measurable snow at weather stations, I will guess 20 Nov around Ballyhaise, Dunsany and possibly other locations in Leinster. There could be reports of snow on hills before that of course. From current charts it does not look too likely before second week of November.

uck51js9zml2yt

My in-laws have had snow for a few weeks in northern Slovakia. They're at 500m asl.

M.T. Cranium

That's probably a bit earlier than most years too. Same goes around here in southern BC, some big dumps of snow recently in the local mountains, I would say mostly above 800m asl.

I am sticking to my snow guns and saying at least half-measure repeat of 2010 shaping up, it may not be the epic event we saw then, but remember how mild it was in the first half of November? The mean temperature fell from about 10 C after first week to 4 C end of month and the last week averaged below zero in places.

If we can just get a bit of that pattern snow should be a formality.

leahyl

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

That's probably a bit earlier than most years too. Same goes around here in southern BC, some big dumps of snow recently in the local mountains, I would say mostly above 800m asl.

I am sticking to my snow guns and saying at least half-measure repeat of 2010 shaping up, it may not be the epic event we saw then, but remember how mild it was in the first half of November? The mean temperature fell from about 10 C after first week to 4 C end of month and the last week averaged below zero in places.

If we can just get a bit of that pattern snow should be a formality.

:eek::eek::eek::D:D:pac::pac:

Reckless Abandonment

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Snow must be close if leahyl is back

Meteorite58

Are we allowed to put in a second guess :rolleyes:

Well I did pick the Mourne Mts but read Carnacalla's first post properly this time and see he mentions allowing Hills so I better pick another . Looking at the charts it would seem to cool down a fair bit around the 6th for a few days at least and purely by looking at the charts I am going to say a chance of snowfall at Lough Fea in the early hours of the 8th Nov

blackbird99

first dusting on the galtees today

Head Wreck

blackbird99 wrote:

first dusting on the galtees today

Thats frost not snow

Mech1

jimbis wrote: »

I'm gonna take a stab at 29th November as its my birthday:pac: South Dublin foothills (think 3rock might be too high to qualify).

Ha, We share the same birthday!

So 29th Nov for me too, reported at Dublin airport. (promise I wont edit the feed to suit).:D

Clonmel1000

blackbird99 wrote: »

first dusting on the galtees today

Not snow that's frost!!!!

ninebeanrows

A decent wedge of snow possible for the Scottish highlands late Tuesday

Cosmo Kramer

Weathercheck wrote: »

A decent wedge of snow possible for the Scottish highlands late Tuesday

Yep - snow warning out for us for tomorrow, don't know if it will go as low as where I live (near Glasgow, about 130m asl) but parts of my commute are up around 200m so it could be interesting tomorrow evening. Had to scrape the ice off the car for the first time this year this morning.

BBC forecast looks hopeful for Tuesday evening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2650405

Gonzo

today struggled to get much past 7C here. Very sharp frost last night which stayed around till 11am.

Could be an early frost tonight but milder and wet later in the night. Not sure even our high ground will see any wintryness. Next weekend is looking quite mild with temps possibly reaching 16C.

dacogawa

Bit late to this but I'm going for 5th Dec at Knock, a perfect way to start a Monday

The_A

November 14th, dunno where

RobertKK

Rain tomorrow will initially fall as snow in some places before turning back to rain according to Met Eireann.

Moonbeam

hmm with any luck the 24th December in Kildare:)

I grew up travelling north on Stephens day ,when I was very little I thought that Ireland always got snow then!

Irish Steve

Batten down the hatches, the forecast on RTE has just mentioned the "snow" word,:D:D:D as the warm front comes in and meets up with the cold air that's over the country at the moment.

As for where, or how much, that was left somewhat vague, but it would seem that almost anywhere on the east side of the country could possible see some flakes, but not for long.

Wasn't expecting to be seeing flakes quite this early, but there will be some that will be happy to see it. The forum mods probably won't be so pleased to see things go mad here this early in the winter, March is still a LONG time away

Alun

I'm going to be standing around up in the hills around Glendalough on Saturday night marshalling a charity walk, so if it does snow I'll be sure to take a few photographs for you all if I don't freeze to the spot.

JCX BXC

Sadly the Temps haven't gotten down anywhere near as low as expected, so no snow likely, unless of course you live on top of the Wicklow mountains or something to that accord. Lowest temperature a Met Eireann weather station is recording is 2c at 1am, highest is 10c at Mace Head!

Gonzo

JCX BXC wrote: »

Sadly the Temps haven't gotten down anywhere near as low as expected, so no snow likely, unless of course you live on top of the Wicklow mountains or something to that accord. Lowest temperature a Met Eireann weather station is recording is 2c at 1am, highest is 10c at Mace Head!

not a chance of snow, it's several degrees milder than what met eireann predicted earlier.