Cold Spell - Feb 7th to 13th 2021 - Chat

John.Icy

Larbre34 wrote: »

Really coming down with dry powder on the Dublin, Meath and Kildare border.

Ooooooh look at me with 3 borders AND heavy snow.

:D

Davaeo09

MT did mention some areas are seeing more than was expected already
I will sleep better after the CBlive update

queue the 9am heart attack with the inevitable downgrade posts :D

mickger844posts

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Where did you watch it back Mick?

I can rewind back up to an hour on certain channels.

United road

A lot of excitement after Michelle on CB live
Heck i was delighted with what i heard

Then remembered MTs very recent post here tonight!
Totally conflicting (he’s leaning other direction)
Who is right?
Time will tell!
My worry is its MT!! Feckin MT!! Anyone else and I would have slept well

gerrybhoy

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

That was a very encouraging update from Michelle on Claire Byrne, things could get very interesting from Wednesday night!

Wife was like a kid on Christmas eve listening to it

Brendan offaly

United road wrote: »

A lot of excitement after Michelle on CB live
Heck i was delighted with what i heard

Then remembered MTs very recent post here tonight!
Totally conflicting (he’s leaning other direction)
Who is right?
Time will tell!
My worry is its MT!! Feckin MT!! Anyone else and I would have slept well

Nobody knows until the day before and even at that mistakes can be made. Everything with snow in Ireland is marginal.

ongarboy

Larbre34 wrote: »

Really coming down with dry powder on the Dublin, Meath and Kildare border.

Same here in Ongar, west Dublin, roads, rooftops all white and grass getting there. They've changed our street lights from orange halogen to white LED since last significant snow in 2018. Cool seeing the eerie white reflection that lights up the snow better with the LED!

redsteveireland

United road wrote: »

A lot of excitement after Michelle on CB live
Heck i was delighted with what i heard

Then remembered MTs very recent post here tonight!
Totally conflicting (he’s leaning other direction)
Who is right?
Time will tell!
My worry is its MT!! Feckin MT!! Anyone else and I would have slept well

You know when you will know what's going to happen on Thursday? Thursday.

Fingers crossed the car starts after the frost, regretting not changing the battery after it let me down in the last cold spell:(

Gaoth Laidir

A nice dusting here in Celbridge now, around 0.5 cm.

Danno

Briefly dropped to -0.2c here in south Laois.

lucernarian

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

There isn't really any shadow in the Irish Sea this evening. These setups will form streamwise streets of showers even without any terrain interference. Look at the radar animation of the showers getting into northeastern England.

Maybe this is the end of the IoM boogieman, I know I've overestimated it in the past.

Davaeo09

lucernarian wrote: »

Maybe this is the end of the IoM boogieman, I know I've overestimated it in the past.

he does say "these setups"
There was a shadow on some previous events for sure!

Nqp15hhu

kerrycork13 wrote: »

Probability says it will. We probably needed a longer spell on colder weather to be in place and the low coming from the south more so than the south west.

Based on recent events. I expect this system to fizzle out over south Ulster.

mickger844posts

Light snow again in Waterford City and the wind has really gained strength.

TheMilkyPirate

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Where did you watch it back Mick?

Rte player
CB live goes up immediately
Its near the end

Tyrone212

Clear sky, almost calm and -1.

Drumpot

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The activity building across England is quite enhanced at this point. It's even snowing just south of Manchester and Liverpool now.



And the first tentative echoes are getting in to the Irish sea. Seems to be a number of convergence zones in there. A surprise coming maybe?

Anyhow night all.

That red plum on that radar was over my house for most of that model and we got nothing but a few flakes. You wouldn’t know we even got a few flakes. Somebody said they are from east Meath (which I am) and they got a decent dusting.

This tends to happen a lot but is it prob cause I’m right on the coast? Like I am only a few hundred metres from the beach.

Tyrone212

AuntySnow wrote: »

Rte player
CB live goes up immediately
Its near the end

I seen that. I thought she almost said without saying that cold would win. Or maybe I just saw what I wanted to see ha

Pipmae

Drumpot wrote: »

That red plum on that radar was over my house for most of that model and we got nothing but a few flakes. You wouldn’t know we even got a few flakes. Somebody said they are from east Meath (which I am) and they got a decent dusting.

This tends to happen a lot but is it prob cause I’m right on the coast? Like I am only a few hundred metres from the beach.

That might have been me. I'm East Meath approx 2/3km from the coast and we've a decent dusting as at 7pm. I've had f all since.

Drumpot

Drumpot wrote: »

That red plum on that radar was over my house for most of that model and we got nothing but a few flakes. You wouldn’t know we even got a few flakes. Somebody said they are from east Meath (which I am) and they got a decent dusting.

This tends to happen a lot but is it prob cause I’m right on the coast? Like I am only a few hundred metres from the beach.

I think that radar is waaaaay over cooked

bassy

very light snow falling now in north kilkenny

highdef

Larbre34 wrote: »

Really coming down with dry powder on the Dublin, Meath and Kildare border.

Same here West of you. Was big flakes a while ago. Coming down moderately for over an hour now.

bassy

light snow falling now in north kilkenny very near crettyard.

Rougies

AuntySnow wrote: »

Rte player
CB live goes up immediately
Its near the end

I presume that means it will be up at 2:25 am? Who knows.

Arduach

Maith an fear MT!

bassy

Arduach wrote: »

Maith an fear MT!

where are you based?.

The chan chan man

So “beast from the east 2.0” now has potential for 2-5cm of snow... Sensationalist headlines strike again.

Still snowing here in saggart but barely sticking at all.

RobertKK

bassy wrote: »

very light snow falling now in north kilkenny

Yeah a light dusting on the car here.

John.Icy

Drumpot wrote: »

That red plum on that radar was over my house for most of that model and we got nothing but a few flakes. You wouldn’t know we even got a few flakes. Somebody said they are from east Meath (which I am) and they got a decent dusting.

This tends to happen a lot but is it prob cause I’m right on the coast? Like I am only a few hundred metres from the beach.

Yes it's pretty common that areas closer to the coast get less out of these setups. You'll see on radar how the showers and streamers fan out as they travel inland and get more intense (better seen on ME radar than the red one quoted). I've had on-off precip most of the evening in D9 but it was mostly very light. Further to my west people have dustings and reporting bigger flakes and heavier snow.

If convection was better these showers would be heavier out to sea already so it would be less of an issue but the bulk of things this time round is of the light to moderate variety.

Rougies

Rougies wrote: »

I presume that means it will be up at 2:25 am? Who knows.

Its up on my version of rte player
Lg tv