Cold Spell (of depth and duration uncertain!) starting Tuesday 7th March

.Donegal.

Tomorrow morning, rain, sleet and snow will spread northeastwards to all areas, with some small accumulations possible in parts of Connacht, Ulster and Leinster. Rain will clear to scattered showers in the west and southwest through the afternoon and evening. Cold in Ulster, Connacht and Leinster with afternoon highs of 1 to 5 degrees.

Billcarson

A few cms here in Ashbourne. Beautiful morning. The March sun will make short work of the snow but lovely morning.

Autosport

Beautiful morning here in south Kilkenny. No snow, no ice, just sunshine ☀️

AnFearCeart

Much of the country avoided a severe frost in the lead up to this winter storm which didn't bring soil temperatures down enough. The current soil temperatures are mid enough (around 5c to 7c) and these are running around 0c to 2c above average.

The reports of quickly melting snow are being caused by these mild soil temperatures as heat has to rise out of the ground somehow. If this storm had to arrive after the last cold blast in December then we'd all have had a fairly memorable and deep snow cover.

Also, we've a much higher sun angle now and this will melt snow even through shallow cloud cover.

First image: Soil Temps presently

Last image: Anomaly from normal

rolling boh

The usual scaremongering from RTE and the weather team drove to Cork this am roads were fine from Just outside Dublin .These colour warnings need to be a lot more specific instead painting everywhere as being hazardous and only go out if you have to .Of course hilly areas and back roads will be tricky but no need for the dire warnings .

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339133#Comment_120339133

Main news bulletins are a joke. How did we ever survive years ago walking to school in half an inch of snow with no orange weather alert

Niall145

Snow on Stephens Green this morning, gorgeous to see it

glightning

A wee measurement from this morning

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339041#Comment_120339041

It did look pretty though.

DellyBelly

Dublin 8 a real winter winterland this morning. Looks great with a nice blue sky. Melting very quickly though...

glightning

The gritters are on strike up here this week! Main roads are well covered with snow

Steve F

Louth- About half inch of snow,got down our lane fine...main roads are just wet but imagine some areas have black ice.

Absolutely delighted we didn't get the amount of snow everyone was predicting,no disruption,can get about just fine. RESULT!!

Cluedo Monopoly

The Connemara mountains look absolutely fabulous this morning. White from top to bottom.

Still snow on the grass here. Roads are tricky. Yesterday was fun. Galway West

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120338865#Comment_120338865

That's very impressive given it was the late run. Well done and enjoy!

esposito

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339181#Comment_120339181

Try and post a pic if you can!

celt262

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339163#Comment_120339163

Mine is bigger.

circadian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339198#Comment_120339198

Aye but he's cold like.

Supercell

Fabulous pics , thanks to everyone. Even managed a cm or two here which is melting fast but lovely to see. Kids delighted!

gerrybhoy

That was some snowfall we got in D15,I would have loved to have seen the snow depth IF it hadn't been pissing ice rain all day

Supercell

Spot the change from rain to snow, and then the melt! Wish I was awake to see it at its finest around 5AM

weatherfiend

Went to bed at 2am because it really didn’t look like anything meaningful was happening and was woken by kids (adults) to see this. So beautiful. Melting fast but still nice to see. That’s 2 sessions this winter - yay!!

Graces7

If I could find the USB camera to computer cable... I was out for the dawn and sheer beauty on ocean, sky and mountains..

Just has vanished...

West Mayo offshore

Macy0161

Maybe 15cm, but thaw on near Roundwood

Rock Lesnar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339187#Comment_120339187

Ah yeah, it was really heavy stuff for a few hours and its grand to see it at the time, but then ya remember its march, and the thaw has set in just as quick

Furze99

Well at least we have a better guide on how to interpret Orange warnings from RTE.

Yer man in Carlow Weather had it more accurately - he pinpointed Thursday as the main likelihood for snowfall.

pauldry

Nice to see all yer snow.

Rebelbrowser is the new Kermit.

Just snow on mountains here. Spring greens everywhere else and dazzling light.

Another chance of snow tonight for us here but could be ugly sort snow sleet slush and rain!

cfresident

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339145#Comment_120339145

Firstly maybe you want to go back and read the weather warning. It was for the period when it was snowing.

secondly you drove down a motorway. Of course the roads were fine, they should have been. You didn’t happen to go off on any side roads for example did you? Suppose you want Met to plot your route exactly do you?

they had their forecast spot on for Dublin anyway.

Gonzo

Managed to get about 1 to 1.5cm of snow from this which is melting fairly rapidly now in the strong March sunshine. I basically gave up last night around midnight when it was still a mixture of rain and sleet. This is the most amount of snow I've seen since March 2018.

If this had happened a month earlier with possibly colder uppers and lower daytime temperatures we could all triple the snow depths, some places more than 4x. This probably would have been close to Storm Emma for snow depths if it was earlier and we didn't have as much mild influence from the Atlantic with all the rain instead.

rolling boh

Nothing like as hazardous as being painted on the news headline news item way overboard.Of course back roads hilly areas etc can be dangerous that is nothing new .

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339598#Comment_120339598

I am glad you got snow Gonzo. And I think we all know at this stage that you would have preferred this event to be earlier in the year. Beggars can't be choosers.