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Sleet and snow showers - Thursday to Saturday morning (18th - 20th)

  • 18-01-2018 4:00am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,043 ✭✭✭✭


    Mainly in the west and north.

    Showers turning wintry by dawn this morning. Sleet and snow showers from later this afternoon.

    Accumulations likely tonight in the west, north and midlands. 2 - 4 cm generally, more on high ground. Less further east as showers will be lighter, more scattered here.

    Always likely to be more mixed in southwest Munster and on immediate windward Atlantic coasts.

    Elsewhere some places could remain dry but could also get a dusting pretty much anywhere.

    Somewhat less windy than recently so increased risk of icy patches and some frost inland. Overnight lows of -1c - +2c

    Rinse and repeat for Friday and Friday night.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Uthur


    i saw that on the beeb - fingers crossed!! xD ❄️❄️


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,113 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Yes they show plenty of white blobs on their radar over Ireland tomorrow. I see Scotland has issued a do not drive warning till dawn tomorrow.
    Some people in Scotland and the Northern Ireland might be happy it will get milder after Sunday, but not before another possible frontal snow event.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,043 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Met Eireann have a yellow warning for this morning that I don't really understand. I'll leave it to one of the moderators to decide whether to include.

    Early afternoon onward is the safer bet.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Met Eireann have a yellow warning for this morning that I don't really understand.

    Wintry showers will give snow accumulations of 0 to 3 cm this morning, mainly on high ground.

    Yellow warning for 0cm accumulations! :eek::confused::p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭mountainy man


    Heavy snow shower at the moment, huge flakes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,951 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Wintry showers will give snow accumulations of 0 to 3 cm this morning, mainly on high ground.

    Yellow warning for 0cm accumulations! :eek::confused::p
    Criteria for Yellow for Snow:
    3. Snow/Ice Scattered snow showers giving accumulations of less than 3 cm below 250m AMSL. Slippery paths and roads due to accumulation of ice on untreated surfaces; situation improving.

    Met Eireann have been very consistent with their warnings based on the criteria, there is a thread where I can said the criteria may need to change but based on the system in place at present they are being consistent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭beefburrito


    Anything for the Clare or Limerick area ?
    Mostly sleep and hail really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,043 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Heavy snow shower at the moment, huge flakes.

    You'll do well out of this :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,043 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Anything for the Clare or Limerick area ?
    Mostly sleep and hail really.

    Probably wrong side of marginal for Clare. More rain, sleet. Better chance for Limerick though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 314 ✭✭spoonerhead


    Gerry here to crush all hopes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,169 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    I've seen worse than the euro 04 this morning (albeit its somewhat out on its own....)

    6pm today...

    18011818_1800.gif

    Midnight...

    18011900_1800.gif

    6am tomorrow

    18011906_1800.gif

    Noon tomorrow

    18011912_1800.gif

    Lying snow by 9am tomorrow morning...

    18011909_1800.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭dashoonage


    I know this is the weather forum and i know ye lot love this.....but jaysus id love an auld dry day :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,169 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    dashoonage wrote: »
    I know this is the weather forum and i know ye lot love this.....but jaysus id love an auld dry day :(

    That's weather of a sort too I suppose!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,043 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Upgraded title on new Met Eireann advisory

    Snow-ice Warning for Ireland
    Continued risk of scattered snow showers. The showers most frequent in Ulster and Connacht.

    Issued:Thursday 18 January 2018 10:00
    Valid:Thursday 18 January 2018 10:00 to Friday 19 January 2018 12:00


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Some wintry precipitation blowing over in the last heavy shower in Galway City.
    Some faint mammatus on the back of it too.
    Temp moving between 2.5 - 3.5 with the passing showers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,169 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    Temps are dropping and both Knock and Finner are reporting recent snow I note.........


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,255 ✭✭✭joeysoap


    Dundalk sunny but cold at present. No rain, no snow. Breezy. Cooley mountains have some snow, Slieve Gullion (south Aramgh but only outside town) covered in snow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭flc37ie6ojwkh8


    sorry my ignorance, but what are "snow showers"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Limerick has seen passing rain showers and hail, interspersed with sunny intervals.

    Light wind is raw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,169 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    I've seen worse than the euro 04 this morning (albeit its somewhat out on its own....)

    6pm today...

    18011818_1800.gif

    Midnight...

    18011900_1800.gif

    6am tomorrow

    18011906_1800.gif

    Noon tomorrow

    18011912_1800.gif

    Lying snow by 9am tomorrow morning...

    18011909_1800.gif


    Just to say the 6z Euro 04 is very similar to the above still. 6z GFS not without its charms either...

    30-574UK.GIF?18-6


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Very heavy hail here about a hour ago plus sleet. Bitterly cold in the wind.

    Rivers and streams full to top of bank with standing water in fields. Not sure how much more precipitation we can take before there is serious localised flooding.

    130 m asl

    North Cork /Limerick Tipperary border

    Edit: 2.45pm outdoor temp registering at 2.5c


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Edward M


    sorry my ignorance, but what are "snow showers"?

    Showers of snow I presume:).
    Bright and cold here in south Cavan, lots of snow visible still on the higher hills and cuilcaghs, but all gone here.
    Can see showers passing to the north and west but we've had none as yet, don't know what form of precipitation they are.
    Currently 3° in a slight but cutting breeze.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,241 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    5.5 degrees (car) in Naas. Tends to be alarmingly accurate.

    Big drops in temp needed.

    Would imagine it’s even warmer in Dublin


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    4.6C in D14 at the moment, had a few grains of snow/graupel blowing in the wind at about 1pm.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,981 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    this could be more of a classic north-westerly. I am not expecting anything like what happened on Tuesday. Sunny here for most of the day and ground starting to dry up after last night's rain.

    Showers on the radar are having a tough time making it past the Shannon. Very few showers have so far made it into Leinster with the exception of county Louth, Kilkenny and Laois/Offaly. Maybe we will have more luck later on if showers become more organised.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Mixture of hail/graupel in the last shower.

    Dashcam still from an intense double rainbow on the way out the Monivea Road.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Very strange sky at the moment in Co Limerick/Cork border. Really bright?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Again i would question the accuracy of the Netweather radar "weather type" feature.
    It currently shows snow over Galway Bay.
    Does it work off forecasted data or locally measured data? I must look it up myself...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,687 ✭✭✭Rougies


    Again i would question the accuracy of the Netweather radar "weather type" feature.
    It currently shows snow over Galway Bay.
    Does it work off forecasted data or locally measured data? I must look it up myself...

    A combination of both supposedly. There's a paragraph at the bottom of the page radar page.



    "The weather type detection uses a combination of hi-resolution model data, along with ground observations to show whether rain, sleet, snow, hail or freezing rain is falling. It's an excellent guide, but bear in mind that in very localised situations some variation may occur. "


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Rougies wrote: »
    A combination of both supposedly. There's a paragraph at the bottom of the page radar page.



    "The weather type detection uses a combination of hi-resolution model data, along with ground observations to show whether rain, sleet, snow, hail or freezing rain is falling. It's an excellent guide, but bear in mind that in very localised situations some variation may occur. "


    Cheers, guess I never had to scroll that far.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭jambofc


    rain in Kilkenny City 4c


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,875 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 48 Irishsneachta


    Snow getting down to low levels across the NW now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,043 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Not bad for the northwest later tonight, parts of inland Munster.

    The land track probably too long for Dublin.

    18011906_2_1812.gif

    We'd need the very outside chance of that trough in the northwest being just a little further south. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    There has been no snow reported by any Met Éireann stations so far today, except for one (erroneous) report from Finner at 1 pm. Knock has had sleet showers up to now but it's just now on the brink of being cold enough for snow from now on. The high stations in the North also reported rain all day but have now turned to snow in the past hour as wbt comes down close to zero.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Not bad for the northwest later tonight, parts of inland Munster.

    The land track probably too long for Dublin.

    18011906_2_1812.gif

    We'd need the very outside chance of that trough in the northwest being just a little further south. :D

    Just a little bit further south and i'd be more confident of some lying snow here but the shower intensity just isn't there today either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,169 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    There has been no snow reported by any Met Éireann stations so far today, except for one (erroneous) report from Finner at 1 pm. Knock has had sleet showers up to now but it's just now on the brink of being cold enough for snow from now on. The high stations in the North also reported rain all day but have now turned to snow in the past hour as wbt comes down close to zero.

    Cork reporting snow now and 1 degree


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Cork reporting snow now and 1 degree

    No, it's sleet in both the metars and synop. The Met ie site reports Recent Snow for synop code 26, even when it's been only sleet. I'd expect snow at 8 pm though as the wbt is now 0.0.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Soccarboy11


    Cork reporting snow now and 1 degree

    cork airport? Basically right next to that and its been dry for a while :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭kilsmum


    Where in Cork is the snow?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Very light sleet/wet snow mix here now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 48 Irishsneachta


    Snowing in Donegal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    Cork city suburbs (blackrock) 2°c as per car, surface wet, no precipitation of any kind.

    The car did get a splattering of salt from a corporation truck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,212 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Nothing but cold in dublin no snow again me thinks


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,981 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Nothing but cold in dublin no snow again me thinks

    Unlikely to be snow through most of the eastern half of the country. The Showers are dying back towards the west coast and even there the intensity is weakening. Still a few big showers around Galway, Mayo, Kerry and Cork. Leinster may see some showers tomorrow during daylight hours but most likely sleety rain by that stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Temp hovering close to zero now in Cork.
    Roads are really saturated so widespread ice is very much a reality as the night goes on.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 48 Irishsneachta


    Shower activity will pick up in the wee hours and push east across the Northern half of the country in particular. Heavy sometimes prolonged snow showers in the North West.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,169 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    lots of showers on radar heading for cork city but I note no one here saying its snowing in nw Cork........😶


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Soccarboy11


    lots of showers on radar heading for cork city but I note no one here saying its snowing in nw Cork........��

    theres frost on the cars alright, or its starting to form on the roof at least. Snow gods please.

    EDIT: And as I say that it is sleeting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    There was evidence of a frost forming on the cars here but the melted snow that just fell washed it off.


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