Saturday/Sunday Wintry Potential

MidMan25

Stunning morning in East Cork. Had one heavy shower pass through quickly around 9am but it's been clear blue skies since. Feeling very pleasant out of the wind too.

typhoony

Very heavy hail shower here in South galway

Tacklebox

Heavy sleet in North Clare now, there goes my day up the coast.
No way will i chance a drive, can get treacherous on some of those roads after heavy hail etc

daheff

munsterlegend wrote: »

But what’s the weather like?

its nice & sunny. windy & cold

one short sleet shower... back to sunny & wind

cnocbui

I went for a short walk outside with the camera and it feels colder than the last snow event. The wind is fierce and goes right through you. My hands were in pain after just 5 minutes.

SleetAndSnow

Cork airport TAF now forecasting light snow showers from 4pm, first time there hasn't been rain next to it. Oooh

munsterlegend

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Cork airport TAF now forecasting light snow showers from 4pm, first time there hasn't been rain next to it. Oooh

I would be surprised if it snows down here but wait and see.

Jimbob1977

Driving hail outside Limerick City

An Ri rua

Heavy hail near Mountmellick. Would be tricky driving conditions. Weather quite erratic.
Snow flurries last night around 1230, after heavy sleet. Snow flurries again at 830am.
Slieve Bloom moderately covered in snow.

An Ri rua

An Ri rua wrote: »

Heavy hail near Mountmellick. Would be tricky driving conditions. Weather quite erratic.
Snow flurries last night around 1230, after heavy sleet. Snow flurries again at 830am.
Slieve Bloom moderately covered in snow.

Addendum:-

Squally snow now

GoneHome

Very blustery here in South Co Limerick, there's a fierce wind chill with it, the sky looks to be threatening some sort of precipitation whatever form that will take as the day goes on

Mam of 4

An Ri rua wrote: »

Addendum:-

Squally snow now

Same here in Portlaoise now .

Oscar Bravo

Midday, very windy.


Mace head gusting 55 knots
Finner gusting 49 knots
Casement gusting 46 knots

aisling86

munsterlegend wrote: »

I would be surprised if it snows down here but wait and see.

Friend driving from Macroom to Millstreet, it's snowing up Mushera.

SleetAndSnow

Nicely raining in cork city.. sigh

munsterlegend

aisling86 wrote: »

Friend driving from Macroom to Millstreet, it's snowing up Mushera.

I meant on lower levels. Can’t see anything sticking anyway.

GoneHome

Very light snow flurries here now in South Limerick

pistolpetes11

Blustery white gold shower in Newbridge

mallards

Snowing constantly now near the Wicklow gap. Graupel type snow, turning the place white with the wind behind it. Only the mountain tops above 300m were covered this morning. That's changing rapidly.

pad199207

It’s snowing and it’s 5c so that’s grand

Cw85

Thunder and heavy hailstones in Carlow Town

aidanodr

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Cork airport TAF now forecasting light snow showers from 4pm, first time there hasn't been rain next to it. Oooh

As per this:

https://www.wxcharts.com/?panel=default&model=gfs,gfs,gfs,gfs&region=europe&chart=overview,850temp,wind10mkph,snowdepth&run=12&step=027&plottype=10&lat=51.500&lon=-0.250&skewtstep=0

Scroll to 3pm .. ( horizontal scroll bar under map )

Samsgirl

Snowing now in South Tipp

Cw85

Cw85 wrote: »

Thunder and heavy hailstones in Carlow Town

Has now turned to light snow and its 7 degrees

munsterlegend

Cw85 wrote: »

Has now turned to light snow and its 7 degrees

Science going out the window!!

Cw85

munsterlegend wrote: »

Science going out the window!!

Most definitely, very strange

pad199207

Those big convective cells really dragging down the precipitation. Snowing at stupid temperatures.

Cw85

Big snow flakes falling in Carlow town now the ground is very wet after all the hail showers so not sticking as of yet

Elmer Blooker

If only we could get a direct northerly blast rather than a watered down WNW'ly.
All those charts than Sryan posted in the statistics forum show that in past winters even an average winter (1950s and 60s) could deliver potent northerlies but it seems those days are gone, we haven't seen winter high latitude blocking in years as the Arctic ice shrinks and as ridiculous as this might sound I would almost write off next winter already. It seems to me that as the Arctic warms North America winters are getting more severe which of course fires up the North Atlantic. I feel that we need to see a recovery of Arctic ice in order to get an old fashioned winter!
Moan over and time to turn on the telly to get an update on Tuesday's storm on the week ahead forecast.

vickers209

gone very dark here and a mix of wet hail snow sleet falling
Ashford co wicklow