Winter 2019/2020 - General Discussion

Graces7

Blessings and peace to all this Christmas morning! So deeply silent out here. Very dark and chill but so peaceful. Tree lights and candle lights shining out over the invisible whispering ocean that has seen more Christmasses than we will ever knows.

May it last! Peace to all . Enjoy the day wherever you are!

West Mayo offshore island

john why

Happy Christmas folks from a frosty D15.

ZX7R

Happy Christmas
Roads are very bad with black ice outside of towns

Comhrá

Happy Christmas to all. Lovely to see white frost on all our roofs hedges and shrubs this morning. The most seasonal and closest to a white Christmas I've seen for many years here in Limerick City.

SleetAndSnow

Happy Christmas all! A wet morning in cork but feeling festive
. It's cold and there was frost on the cars when we woke up! Better then 10 degrees and warm

SeaBreezes

Happy Christmas all. Mild on the south coast wind starting to pick up

Graces7

Very still and chilly, but blessedly dry and calm. A lovely Christmas Day .

west mayo offshore

Graces7

And wind whispering louder in the background. Dark clouds gathering.

silverharp

probably sums up Dublin at the moment, waiting for family to arrive to go for a walk on the beach before din dins

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1209827577134800896

Gonzo

still a few patches of frost on the ground here in Meath but fairly cloudy now.

Today is the second day this winter where frost has lasted most of the day on the ground. I don't think we had that once last winter.

Meteorite58

Happy Christmas to all!

Hope everyone is enjoying the day.

Meteorite58

Twin Storms out in the Atlantic today

Goldfinch8

Dawn breaking in Mayo. Christmas morning 2019. Happy Christmas folks.

Graces7

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Happy Christmas to all!

Hope everyone is enjoying the day.

This is weird! For some reason I decided to take a photo of MY fire but not moved it to computer yet.. I open this thread ! WEIRD !

SleetAndSnow

Strong gusts every so often in cork city with showers every so often aswell. Luckily it was nice during the day and festive feeling with the cold before it got stormy and mild

Graces7

A wild, vociferous night out here. Signature theme is the wind. Yesterday was blessedly calm and still. West Mayo offshore

Logan Roy

Very mild in East Cork today. 12 degrees. It’s not the cold festive period most of us wanted but at least it looks like being mostly dry so great for getting out and about

Danno

Up to 9.6c in south Laois now following 1.4mm overnight rain. Partly cloudy and a few drops of drizzle or light rain blowing in an annoying SWerly breeze. Everywhere damp.

Graces7

Sheeting down out here. Rare I call a day appalling but today earns that title! Grumbling grey, sodden sight, chilly ….. a day to light candles, leave the fairy lights on, pile the stove high and hibernate with youtube and Christmas leftovers...

Oh and did I mention the grizzling, grousing wind! :rolleyes: Snapping and snarling and throwing icy water around.... lol...

West Mayo offshore

Hooter23

We had great weather for Christmas day compared to the disaster we have today...

Oscar Bravo

Certainly wont mind going to the local today. Damp dark and wet here. Watching the horse racing,looks a nice day in the east.

Timistry

Had biblical rain in Kerry overnight. Rain and mist down to the ground today. Rotten

esposito

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Certainly wont mind going to the local today. Damp dark and wet here. Watching the horse racing,looks a nice day in the east.

It is indeed a nice day in the east. Back from a lovely walk and even though I’m not a lover of mild weather, it actually felt pleasant. Dry and mild ain’t that bad after all!
Hoping colder weather arrives at some point in January but we might have to wait ‘til Feb

Naggdefy

With quite a mild outlook it looks like we'll be saving a bit on heating. I don't mind if most of the winter is mild. Just give me a prolonged 2-3 week blast of severe wintry weather between the 20th January and 10th February, ice days, snow, a couple of blizzards, 3 days red warning off work for snow and ice, temp recorded below -10C Without any pipes bursting!!

Gonzo

Naggdefy wrote: »

With quite a mild outlook it looks like we'll be saving a bit on heating. I don't mind if most of the winter is mild. Just give me a prolonged 2-3 week blast of severe wintry weather between the 20th January and 10th February, ice days, snow, a couple of blizzards, 3 days red warning off work for snow and ice, temp recorded below -10C Without any pipes bursting!!

We appear to be locked in to a potentially prolonged mild spell, right now we have just about everything going against us for cold weather. Looks like the first half of January is going to be mild or very mild. The AO and NAO look set to go extremely positive over the next week, helping to keep the Atlantic powered up. The Polar Vortex also very contained over the North Pole. We need something major like a powerful SSW to have a hope of changing the current winter weather pattern. The gfs has been hinting at a SSW for some time now but backs off this idea every few days.

Cork Boy 53

Gonzo wrote: »

We appear to be locked in to a potentially prolonged mild spell, right now we have just about everything going against us for cold weather. Looks like the first half of January is going to be mild or very mild. The AO and NAO look set to go extremely positive over the next week, helping to keep the Atlantic powered up. The Polar Vortex also very contained over the North Pole. We need something major like a powerful SSW to have a hope of changing the current winter weather pattern. The gfs has been hinting at a SSW for some time now but backs off this idea every few days.

So if this verifies basically a repeat of Jan/Feb 2019 then.

sryanbruen

Just give us an extended dry spell, cold or mild (and I don't mean the damp drizzly crap we usually get).

Definitely a very mild signal overall with a cold strat syncing with the trop resulting in an intensified tropospheric polar vortex. Looking like the strongest TPV during this point of the season since at least 2015-16.

Gonzo

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

So if this verifies basically a repeat of Jan/Feb 2019 then.

IF January continues with temperatures in the double digits till the end of the month then January could end up being warmer than November and December. If this pattern with long fetch southwesterlies and plumes up from the Canarys was to continue all the way through winter then a repeat of February 2019 could happen. In the meantime lets hope something major happens over the next few weeks that will disrupt this pattern and the Atlantic.

Billcarson

What the seasonal models were showing back in the autumn for this winter seems to be materialising sadly ,very positive nao.

Clonmel1000

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

So if this verifies basically a repeat of Jan/Feb 2019 then.

Hopefully. Mild weather lower heating bills easier commute to work. Happy Christmas all.