Cold: Snow/Ice - Sat 17th March Onward - READ MOD NOTE POST #1

sicknotexi

It's only getting interesting now, anyone who was expecting snow earlier was misinformed. Main snow will be next 12 hours.

mancduff

Hammering it down in D14.
2 to 3 inches already.

Kermit.de.frog

John.Icy wrote: »

The difference a mile makes! My part of D9 near Santry too is seeing absolutely nothing - just have a mostly wet front garden.

More or less persistant here. Building up too.

I wonder will we see a transition to longer moderate snow soon.

KingBobby

If i'm feeling lazy and dont want to look out the window, I just check out the nearest traffic cam. I can confirm theres snow Dublin 16

https://m.webcams.travel/webcam/1450199181-rockbrook-west?hl=en

Birdnuts

Staying with the folks just outside Kill Village on the M7 and its been snowing steadily at varying intensities over the last few hours with 3cm on the ground, with all roads now covered including 2 lanes of the M7 itself.

piplip87

Sitting in having a few drinks. My woman asked me how did Cheltenham go...
I stripped off, ran out the back and made a snow angel........ I think she found my stash before the festival

mancduff

https://imgur.com/a/2CEsc

Stopped now for moment.

Kermit.de.frog

Looks like more persistent snow building in the Irish Sea.

sicknotexi

Easily two inches lying here in monasterevan already and it's milling down, sky is red.

mancduff

sicknotexi wrote: »

Easily two inches lying here in monasterevan already and it's milling down, sky is red.

Same s h 1 t here, check my pic.
https://imgur.com/a/2CEsc

JCX BXC

mancduff wrote: »

Same s h 1 t here, check my pic.
https://imgur.com/a/2CEsc

You posted it 3 posts up too!

I see you're enjoying Paddy's day anyway

mancduff

Eyes are dropping, sorry lads and lasses can't keep up. Bolloxed so will catch up on the morrow. Drowned too many shamrocks.

Happy Snowdrifts.

Kermit.de.frog

Heavy snow and drifting near Santry. Visibility awful.

mancduff

JCX BXC wrote: »

You posted it 3 posts up too!

I see you're enjoying Paddy's day anyway

:D Night all.

Rougies

Decent blizzard video from about an hour ago on the Firhouse road.

https://streamable.com/2cubn

Kermit.de.frog

Longer stuff building in the Irish sea. To be honest i'm not sure if it impact us directly. Could be sharp increase in coverage if it does.

M.T. Cranium

Seems like some steady snow associated with the upper low is working its way west from Britain to southeast Ireland and so these small to moderate amounts may increase gradually to mid-day, but may have a better idea with some new guidance coming in soon. The main thing I am getting from reading all these reports is hit or miss and some hits are significant. Not quite into the predicted range but at the same time hardly a non-event like some of the 2013 snow chances.

Jury remains out at this late hour.

Kermit.de.frog

Rougies wrote: »

Decent blizzard video from about an hour ago on the Firhouse road.

https://streamable.com/2cubn

Some will be disappointed they went to bed! :pac:

Kermit.de.frog

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Seems like some steady snow associated with the upper low is working its way west from Britain to southeast Ireland and so these small to moderate amounts may increase gradually to mid-day, but may have a better idea with some new guidance coming in soon. The main thing I am getting from reading all these reports is hit or miss and some hits are significant. Not quite into the predicted range but at the same time hardly a non-event like some of the 2013 snow chances.

Jury remains out at this late hour.

The precipitation north of Wales seems to have a baring on Dublin (and north too) at the moment. Icy here. Anything that falls stays.

Rougies

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Some will be disappointed they went to bed! :pac:

I wish I could stay out in it all night, but had to come back to base to upload footage before I died of exposure :pac:

Sam Quentin

I was caught in a raging blizzard couple of hrs ago, Inniskeen/Hackballs Cross Louth/Minaghan area a couple of hours ago. Couldn't see 10'ft in front of me... Snow was lying and getting very dodgy indeed... Glad I eventually made it to main Dundalk Castleblayney rd, it wasn't much better but I felt a bit safer.

M.T. Cranium

Quite a well organized system over Wales now, moving steadily west. Seems to be a reflection of the upper low like a backwards frontal system only the warm and cold fronts don't delineate a warm sector. Think this could reach Leinster within three hours and unleash heavy snow for most of the morning, if it stays intact. It seems to have formed over top of streamers which are trying to continue on with their business, so the net effect is "enhanced sea effect." This is the sort of thing that dumps 3-4 inch an hour snow in New England sometimes.

We may just be getting started here.

sicknotexi

3 inches now and heaviest it's been all night, a sight to behold. Emma was a big disappointment for this part of Kildare but this has made up for it.

daheff

sicknotexi wrote: »

3 inches now and heaviest it's been all night, a sight to behold. Emma was a big disappointment for this part of Kildare but this has made up for it.

Celbridge has nothing more than a dusting still

sicknotexi

daheff wrote: »

Celbridge has nothing more than a dusting still

You got buried in the first beast though.:)

Kermit.de.frog

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Quite a well organized system over Wales now, moving steadily west. Seems to be a reflection of the upper low like a backwards frontal system only the warm and cold fronts don't delineate a warm sector. Think this could reach Leinster within three hours and unleash heavy snow for most of the morning, if it stays intact. It seems to have formed over top of streamers which are trying to continue on with their business, so the net effect is "enhanced sea effect." This is the sort of thing that dumps 3-4 inch an hour snow in New England sometimes.

We may just be getting started here.

Looks more organised then I noticed on the models. Very disruptive IF it does. Totally primed for large amounts here with any persistent falls.

Mount Vesuvius

sicknotexi wrote: »

3 inches now and heaviest it's been all night, a sight to behold. Emma was a big disappointment for this part of Kildare but this has made up for it.

What part of kildare are you based

Mount Vesuvius

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Looks more organised then I noticed on the models. Very disruptive IF it does. Totally primed for large amounts here with any persistent falls.

Yes looks to be getting more oooomph now but in a few hours the upper low starts to pull away south west so it better do all it can before then.

OneEightSeven

Mount Vesuvius wrote: »

What part of kildare are you based

He's in Monasterevin.

Savage Tyrant

Teeming down in Blessington.... 2inches on the flat where I am.
Some chance of the Wicklow gap being passable to head back to Wicklow in an hours time?