Snow Ice Warning for Ireland 29 Jan to 03 Feb 2019 *See Mod Note in OP *

RobertKK

Met Éireann, John Eagleton: threat of serious snow on Wednesday night and Thursday.

Graces7

WELL!

Done my inspection and not venturing out ever again!

Mountains are naked. Wind is so strong all but blown away...

The ocean! OH MY! an utter rough rippling stormy raging glory.

Bitter cold... icy air.

Glasfield

And we're off! Snow shower has just ended here in Knock village, Co Mayo. All cars and gardens have a good dusting

pad199207

The eagle must have said something good on the radio

Snowbiee21

Pissing out here d17

sryanbruen

I’m not sure on what the Eagle said especially after what he said about the BFTE and Emma last year.....

BLIZZARD7

Low dam levels (sub 516), Uppers ~ -6C on UKMO 0z for Thursday -





Hmmm... can't see precipitation charts but that's an interesting scenario for the midlands/south/east of the country - Anywhere with elevation would likely receive a serious dumping, I'm not sure on lower down just yet. It's academic still at this range when all the models disagree on position and track of the low but certainly needs monitoring. If you want any model on board at day 3, it's the UKMO...

KingJeremy

Graces7 wrote: »

WELL!

Done my inspection and not venturing out ever again!

Mountains are naked. Wind is so strong all but blown away...

The ocean! OH MY! an utter rough rippling stormy raging glory.

Bitter cold... icy air.

Oh Grace I wish you had a camera to give us some pictures to go along with your fantastic discriptions

pad199207

Beginning to change over to wet snow here pretty rapidly now. But mainly due to intensity

bazlers

munsterlegend wrote: »

You’d think alright he would have learned to be more guarded in his predictions!! Every year the same....BOOM on a GFS chart.

A stopped clock and all that...he maybe proved right.

Graces7

KingJeremy wrote: »

Oh Grace I wish you had a camera to give us some pictures to go along with your fantastic discriptions

so do I but .... Need a simple point and click one! Mine died last year.. had some on the phone but never managed to get them onto the computer. I have the tech skills of a retarded mouse!

sryanbruen

Graces7 wrote: »

so do I but .... Need a simple point and click one! Mine died last year.. had some on the phone but never managed to get them onto the computer. I have the tech skills of a retarded mouse!

We can’t all be good at everything . Tech may not be your thing but creative writing certainly is if your posts are of any reflection.

mumo3

Lashing here in D22...not even a sniff of sleet, just bucketing rain.... Had a seriously disappointed (and grumpy) teenager this morning after been woke for school

guil

Snowing now the last few minutes in blessington.

pad199207

guil wrote: »

Snowing now the last few minutes in blessings on.

Yes. Sleet and wet snow in Naas

1.6c

ZX7R

pad199207 wrote: »

Beginning to change over to wet snow here pretty rapidly now. But mainly due to intensity

Same here on the curragh back to cold rain now.
Temperature also dropped during the heavyest rainfall

guil

pad199207 wrote: »

Yes. Sleet and wet snow in Naas

1.6c

Every time you have posted I was baffled wondering where here was haha. Now I know.

SEPT 23 1989

Rain and sleet few flakes of snow

Newcastle Dublin

EdgeCase

Same in Cork City. The temperature seems to have dropped to 4ºC with light and intermittent cold rain. No sleet though. Lightly overcast and definitely brightening.

KingdomRushed

Bit of hail falling in Sligo town. Bruised clouds.

DOCARCH

Some sleet in the rain here now in Dublin 16. 2.7c atm.

munsterlegend

The snow depth charts on the ECM for Thursday are as big if not bigger than Storm Emma down South. I can see why the Eagle was getting excited.

aisling86

munsterlegend wrote: »

The snow depth charts on the ECM for Thursday are as big if not bigger than Storm Emma down South. I can see why the Eagle was getting excited.

Does the windy app work off ECM because the cm's are insane!!

konman

Moderate snow here and sticking, 5 miles south of Tuam.

sryanbruen

munsterlegend wrote: »

The snow depth charts on the ECM for Thursday are as big if not bigger than Storm Emma down South. I can see why the Eagle was getting excited.

I gave up on those charts after 10 December 2017.

leahyl

munsterlegend wrote: »

The snow depth charts on the ECM for Thursday are as big if not bigger than Storm Emma down South. I can see why the Eagle was getting excited.

Is Cork included in this?

ffarrell7

munsterlegend wrote: »

The snow depth charts on the ECM for Thursday are as big if not bigger than Storm Emma down South. I can see why the Eagle was getting excited.

A westerly wind however rarely brings and decent snow and the temperatures are never usually low enough for lying snow away from hills and mountains.

The East wind is the one we need.

Having said that places in the South well away from coasts and at higher altitude could do well here. The strong easterly breeze is not good news for the east or south east of the country though.....

Nuno

Sleet in south Cavan

munsterlegend

aisling86 wrote: »

Does the windy app work off ECM because the cm's are insane!!

Saw that too! Anyway will wait until tomorrow before I get too excited. These Atlantic fronts working out are like hens teeth but good to see the professionals treating it seriously.

kod87

The hills to my west here in Tipp are snow covered at the top, snow line aprox 300m asl