Snow/Ice warning: 26 / 27 / 28 Jan 2020

Xenji

Wet sleet falling currently in Castlebar.

pad199207

Xenji wrote: »

Wet sleet falling currently in Castlebar.

Yeuck!

TTLF

Sunny, Blue skies in Dublin

Not really expecting anything but hopefully something later tonight? Wicklow Mts will probably take that away though.

Gonzo

sunny here in Meath, didn't get any frost last night.

Kermit.de.frog

Very knife edge later today and early tonight. Could go either way between rain, sleet and snow in the midlands, east and north.

Monkeynut

TTLF wrote: »

Sunny, Blue skies in Dublin

Not really expecting anything but hopefully something later tonight? Wicklow Mts will probably take that away though.

If it's a northwesterly would it not be coming to Dublin in that direction. So the Wicklow mountains would not come into the equation. Or is precipitation coming from South-southwest.
Really idk. Can anyone advise. If anything was to happen.

Interesting to see what that area of predicted precipitation in Galway does in the early evening. The 6Z HIRLAM output has it transitioning to sleet/snow around 6/7pm and moving NE towards midnight. Seems to gain in intensity during that time.

kegg

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Very knife edge later today and early tonight. Could go either way between rain, sleet and snow in the midlands, east and north.

Any update on the west for this evening/night?

Kamili

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Very knife edge later today and early tonight. Could go either way between rain, sleet and snow in the midlands, east and north.

Hoping for some Ninja Snow in the East.. but doubting it will happen.

davidsr20

I don’t like terms like knife edge as we normally get the blunt side lol

Kermit.de.frog

richiekdj1 wrote: »

New to boards.ie here. Have been a “lurker” as you’d call it the last few years. Usually great weather threads so I said I’d sign up to give my 20 cents worth. Last 30 minutes in cork (airport/Carrigaline) it started raining heavily, gradually turned to sleet and then for 5 minutes, heavy hail which coated the roads. Now back to rain. Temperature was at 5 and dropped rapidly to 3 now.

Welcome to the nut house :pac:

SeaBreezes

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Thanks. Just to add that contrary to what someone else said earlier, Ive seen us in Cork do ok from these westerly set ups a good few times over the last 7 or 8 years.

Fingers and toes crossed for this evening..

Goldfinch8

I see Cork reporting recent snow and 4c at 1pm on Met Éireann updates.

pauldry

Snowing and sleeting here.

Grass gone whiteygreen

Car rooves white.

Micheal H

Sleeting fairly heavily here in Sligo now. Not quite sticking yet though

Oneiric 3

pauldry wrote: »

whiteygreen

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Sounds like a name that would have a 'sir' in front of it. 'Sir Whitey Green'. Has a kind of natural sounding ring to it.

eskimocat

Just a nice little white shower of sleet/snow outside Sligo but it's not sticking... And quickly turning into rain again.

Pangea

The heavy rain has all of a sudden changed to snow here in SW Donegal. Ground very wet though

joujoujou

...and keeps falling.





Mayo/Roscommon border.

TTLF

Monkeynut wrote: »

If it's a northwesterly would it not be coming to Dublin in that direction. So the Wicklow mountains would not come into the equation. Or is precipitation coming from South-southwest.
Really idk. Can anyone advise. If anything was to happen.

This direction of showers is coming SW so mainly the rain gets caught and dies over the midlands or over the Wicklow mts. Unfortunately, maybe we will get something later tonight if we’re lucky.

JCX BXC

Knock airport reporting light snow showers at 2:30pm, temperature 0°c, dewpoint -0°c.

TTLF

As of right now, Cloudy In S. Dublin, although I kinda hope it doesn’t rain currently because it’s 6C out there, much rather dry ground and proper snow showers then wet muck not sticking to wet ground

JCX BXC

JCX BXC wrote: »

Knock airport reporting light snow showers at 2:30pm, temperature 0°c, dewpoint -0°c.

The 13.00 flight from LGW to Knock seems to be in a holding pattern over the North Midlands at the moment. Starting at least its 3rd loop currently. Showers causing disruption there maybe?

Kermit.de.frog

Precipitation gathering in the west for early tonight. Some will get a few cms out of it but it all depends on exactly where it is going over the country and how it holds up which is not certain even now.

:cool:

JCX BXC

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The 13.00 flight from LGW to Knock seems to be in a holding pattern over the North Midlands at the moment. Starting at least its 3rd loop currently. Showers causing disrution there maybe?

Yup, the 2:30pm METAR reports wet snow on 51-100% of the runway, 2mm thickness and poor breaking action.

lcasey90

JCX BXC wrote: »

Yup, the 2:30pm METAR reports wet snow on 51-100% of the runway, 2mm thickness and poor breaking action.

Flight looks to be diverting to Dublin now

dmc17

TTLF wrote: »

Pic of Dublin, the suns gone!!!

Strange looking clouds :pac:

JCX BXC

JCX BXC wrote: »

Yup, the 2:30pm METAR reports wet snow on 51-100% of the runway, 2mm thickness and poor breaking action.

Diverted to Dublin I'm guessing. Now heading SE.

EDIT: considerable disruption it seems. Flights from Liverpool & the East Midlands, UK were diverted to Dub too.

Gonzo

starting to rain here in Meath, temperature of 5C, dewpoint 1C.

nthclare

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Precipitation gathering in the west for early tonight. Some will get a few cms out of it but it all depends on exactly where it is going over the country and how it holds up which is not certain even now.

:cool:

Ninja snow so