Cold Snap,Frost,Ice,Snow Showers - Saturday December 14th -16th

Danno

We had a slight dusting of snow here in south Laois this morning. Settled well on nearby hills above ~200m.

Donegal Storm

Plenty of wintry showers in Letterkenny all day, I think 'wintry mix' best describes it as there's random intervals of rain, hail, sleet, graupel and snow

nthclare

Cold in Ennistymon Co Clare, getting cloudy now.
6 Celsius but with cloud cover coming in that will probably cool things down.

All the paths are dry, drying for snow as they say.

But more than likely just hail rain and sleet here, too close to the ocean.

Tazio

Well technically it's snowing here near Riverstick Co Cork since 1405h. It's not sticking but it's cold and wet..

igCorcaigh

Tazio wrote: »

Well technically it's snowing here near Riverstick Co Cork since 1405h. It's not sticking but it's cold and wet..

Rain in city centre

kod87

Does not like there is much if any meaningful precipitation on the way from this so even if conditions were favourable for snow it would not amount to much.

pauldry

Cold wind in Sligo but not cold temperature and 7c

Wind still far too strong for snow

leahyl

Snowing on northside of cork city but not sticking obviously - still, so pretty :-)

Itssoeasy

Looks like it's been making a token gesture to snow on the northside of cork city.

pauldry

Rain coming in off Atlantic now that will fall as rain in Western half of country but snow in midlands and East and North.

JCX BXC

1°c and sleet in Cork Airport at 2:30.

Gaoth Laidir

Just checking how the observations are matching the GFS model soundings. For Knock at midday the 06Z forecast run sounding matched the observed surface temperature and dewpoint (3.6/-0.5 C) very well. For Casement, the forecast temperature (3.9 C) was correct but the dewpoint (-1.6 C) was about 2-3 degrees too low compared to observed (0.9 C).



The forecast for 18Z is better, showing light-moderate precipiation in the form of snow, but it edges back out to marginal in the 00Z forecast. Again, this is the GFS, so a lamppost watch may prove to be more useful later on.

aidanodr

Wet sleety rain in carrigaline for about 15 mins around 2.20pm.

Blue skys now though and dry

JanuarySnowstor

Very cold today in Cork only between 1 and 3C now.
Was hill snow around early though just sleet on lower ground. Strange day who would have thought we would max out at 3C under a southwesterly wind!!

JanuarySnowstor

Looking at the 12z run what really stands out to me is a serious ice risk on Sunday night!! Everything comes together....saturated ground, winds easing and upper temperatures very low!! The gritters will have their work cut out I would think.

In the meantime further hill snow tonight for some areas with plenty reports of snow I would have thought. A line East of Galway through the Midlands after 10pm looks a good fit!

squarecircles

Falling as sleet now readily over the ocean, snow showers tonight in the west/northwest, fizzling out as it reach the Midlands and the east later tonight.

kod87

Not much precipitation forecast for tonight, just light showers that will fizzle out quickly, might be a dusting for a few areas though.

sryanbruen

Slight dusting at Wicklow Mountain peaks but a little red sky to go along with it.

Meteorite58

3.8C here in Tralee, Dp 0.6C. No recorded precipitation during daylight hours. Good coating on the mountains.

As squarecircles said above looks like the W, NW. N Midlands this evening, cloud bank showing up on the radar making it's way to the coast. Don't know if it will make it's way towards the E .Might even get a shower here in Kerry, I'll let ye know if we do

Meteorite58

ECM not showing much precipitation from the occluded front set to pass up over the country tomorrow. Colder air the more North up the country.














Cold on Monday.

Meteorite58

Model map - Temperature Min 2m, 6h (°C)
This map shows the minimum temperature forecast by the model over a 6 hour period at an elevation of 2m (6 feet)

Donegal Storm

Still plenty of showers piling in here but mostly of hail and sleet, even in higher parts of the town around 150-200m asl its nothing more than sleet so not expecting anything too intestesting here

Meteorite58

Moderate rainfall here now in Tralee, 4.1C

JCX BXC

Moderate rainfall West Clare, with a sleety element.

An Ri rua

Slieve Bloom (Ridge of Capard) has a white dusting since morning.
Nó precipitation of note falling at all down at mortal levels.

fletch

Winter Wonderland up around the Hellfire Club and Cruagh Woods today.

Meteorite58

Some recent sferics off the W coast from the area of heavy rain. Some big convection out there , could produce big localized falls if it made it's way inland.

Meteorite58

Precipitation seems to be making it's way well inland turning more wintry around Tipp , kilkenny, Laois ?

Comhrá

Storm 10 wrote: »

We have a dog cloud down South now ����

That means a cold snap on the way maybe.

Kermit.de.frog

I have some hope for Dublin later on