Sleet and snow overnight and morning south Ulster and Leinster

mfceiling

Don't see why anyone would get excited for snow.

Makes travelling treacherous. Roads are lethal. Now it's turning into a mucky slush where the footpaths are now dangerous to walk on. Leaves nothings behind only dirty water everywhere. And all for what? So we get a few nice pictures?

Speak Now

Rain has arrived in Waterford, temperature dropped from 7c to 3c in the last hour as a result.

dacogawa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837333#Comment_121837333

Down with this sort of thing!

Peter Flynt

€45m a year is what Met Eireann receive from the state. This money could be better spent elsewhere.

dacogawa

It was lovely on Sandymount Strand earlier!

https://twitter.com/DavidCostelloDC/status/1763553508098199977

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837105#Comment_121837105

The Connemara mountains look very white in the distance. I'd say Galtymore will have a decent snowfall.

lolie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121836222#Comment_121836222

Snap

Rocky very hungry along with the rest of the birds outside.

Gonzo

The weather gods really don't like me. Nothing but rain all night and into this morning here at Dunshaughlin, not even a single flake of snow fell here. Nothing but cold rain since last night and roads now flooded. Time to start talking about the Meath snowshield I think!

Billcarson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837520#Comment_121837520

Just mostly rain here aswell. I suppose at least it isn't the middle of winter which would have made it much more annoying to miss out. Not quite as annoying now that we are in March now anyway.

giveitholly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837105#Comment_121837105

Wet snow/sleet falling at low levels near the galtees so should be a good covering on them by now. Can't see anything because of low-level cloud at the moment

Only miserable cold rain here in Dundalk this morning. There was a Monaghan reg car in front of me with a bit of snow on the back window though.

Slashermcguirk

Is it just me or does March seem to deliver more snow than the likes of January? I can think of about 4 or 5 years since 2005 where we have had snow during or approaching St Patricks weekend. Equally you can get very mild St Patricks but i can remember several good snowfalls now in early March. Even beast from the east from memory was a February / March blend.

Gonzo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837576#Comment_121837576

yeah the BFTE was primarily a March event, it started final days of February but the real snow didn't fall until Storm Emma came along and that was in March. Snow again a few weeks later around 17th of March 2018 which is the last time I've seen a covering of snow here in Meath.

Elmer Blooker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837445#Comment_121837445

I’m going to defend Met Eireann, this morning I noticed in latest observations it was 4c at Dunsany and 0c at both Casement and Phoenix Park, that’s not a great distance.

It’s next to impossible to predict where exactly snow will fall at sea level in Ireland.

DellyBelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837169#Comment_121837169

If it isn't essential I'd leave it until tomorrow. Roads could be lethal

sparrowcar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837445#Comment_121837445

Oh ffs the drama.

They provide an exceptional service for many industries including aviation, fisheries, transport, tourism etc etc.

Every so often they get it a bit wrong as it's still not an exact science.

nacho libre

The snow has all gone. I hope we get a bit more in the next couple of weeks, I don't want to wait another nine months for some. I wonder how much snow fell on mountain tops.

Leg End Reject

I woke up to a winter wonderland in South Kildare this morning, and it snowed consistently until about 12.30.

I didn't get a chance to take pictures this morning, but here's 2 looking across to The Curragh Camp, this was at lunchtime and it was both thawing and raining,but still snow is lying. I'd imagine The Curragh looked great earlier this morning.

Crap photos, but I pulled in quickly to take them. It's going to be lethal later when it freezes.

pad199207

25mm in the gauge from the snowmelt in Kildare

Chris_5339762

Was 9c in Cobh, now down to 3c. No snow of any description but a teeny bit of sleet.

Thewife

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837333#Comment_121837333

yes for anyone travelling it’s an inconvenience and dangerous but I love it because it means I don’t have to travel anywhere and because myself my husband and our kids take a unplanned impromptu day off and not to take picture s but to have fun and spend quality time together that we probably wouldn’t have otherwise and yes I know we can take a day off and have fun whenever we want but let’s be honest there’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of being forced to take a day off when schools or work is cancelled 🤩 and it’s a change from the normal windy rainy weather !

Supercell

38.6mm of rain and I think it's still melting in my rain gauge so a pretty impressive total, must be massive amounts of snow in the Wicklow mountain peaks.

kazamo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837445#Comment_121837445

RTE wouldn’t say no to it 😹

BolloxChop

Had to drive from Limerick to Arklow this morning. Got to Naas and decided to turn back. Was chaos on the M7/M50 and i was not going up over the mountains like Google maps was directing me to do.

And the amount of people driving around with no lights on was staggering...

Dazler97

All snow has melted here in carrick but there was snow as far as Longford still on the ground , hope its gone by Monday when I'm travelling back up to Dublin

Bishop of hope

Thawing fast here in North longford now.

I got out to the shop thanks to a few tractors clearing our narrow lane by driving through it and compacting tracks te car could travel on.

Had to shovel the drive to get the car back in. Still about 6 inches of depth anywhere its not driven on or trampled. Its very wet snow at this stage for shoveling and heavy hard work.

Bishop of hope

At least the grandkids enjoyed it

Supercell

@sryanbruen Hope you share some more pics here, just seen your one on X from the Hellfire Club, wow, is all i can say!!

tartetatin

Near Blessington

Dazler97

I don't think met eirrean knew the extent of the snow today , although its hard to predict perhaps orange warnings may have been issued but it would have been extremely short notice