Friday Jan 2nd onward, very cold with snow potential: Event buildup/discussion

JanuarySnowstor

Everything is frozen over here in Cork this morning still. I see ppn is just hitting the Western suburbs. Freezing rain for an hour or so is a small possibility

Moore Park up by Fermoy minus 2 at 6am.

JanuarySnowstor

Macroom bypass closed off, reports its like an ice rink after freezing rain

Hearing there's been 8 crashes on this road this morning, a complete sheet of ice

Rebelbrowser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124121788#Comment_124121788

yeah I can imagine. Wasn’t expecting rain for another couple of hours

Rebelbrowser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124121764#Comment_124121764

But -4s not enough surely? Or are you relying on the intensity here to make up the difference with evaporative cooling?

redsteveireland

Freezing rain this morning in Athenry, how lovely.

Condor24

Yup freezing rain Co Offaly. Lethal. Its only light rain but it won't take much for back roads and sheltered pavements to turn to glass. Main roads should be OK but watch out.

redsteveireland

Actually glad the heavier rain has arrived to help thaw it out, nearly fell when i went out the back.

Storm 10

Lashing rain in Galway 6 degrees

munsterlegend

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124121804#Comment_124121804

It will be rain except very high ground.

YanSno

Tipperary 1600hrs Soundings for both GFS and ECM supports wet snow

Cluedo Monopoly

Went to bed with a hard frost forming and woke up to mild rain. All the frost and yesterday's dusting of snow is gone. How quickly it ends.

leahyl

The Macroom Bypass is closed apparently, such is the level of icyness this morning. Multiple collisions.

typhoony

GFS 06z has decided so show wet snow for the south and then into the south east not quite as far as Dublin

SleetAndSnow

my estate in cork city is deadly at the moment, rain falling on ice causing more ice, kids walking to school slipping everywhere and a few cars abandoned on the hill out of the estate until it thaws!

WolfeEire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124122050#Comment_124122050

ICON even more so. Most of Munster and southern half of Leinster. Would likely be high ground only though due to marginal marginal temps. A complete flip from from yesterday. Could divert south again in later runs.

ClimateObserver

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124122050#Comment_124122050

ICON going for a decent spread of snow.

Decent snow depths following on - similar spread to the snowfall of January 2025.

Itssoeasy

I was in work in 8am and Christ footpaths in the city that yesterday if they weren’t white you could walk on grand are really slippy. Also, paving at traffic lights(the red slabs) were very slippy. It’s raining now so hopefully that remove the slush.

ClimateObserver

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124122065#Comment_124122065

Snap!

Gonzo

raining here in Meath, frost melting.

tabby aspreme

0 degrees still here in WW 200m asl

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and raining for the last ten minutes road are lethal in places.

This day last year

Apothic_Red

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124122050#Comment_124122050

There's some amount of flip flopping going on here

E36Ross

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124121889#Comment_124121889

Yeah mine was the same..... Frost last night but raining this morning at 6am.

The roads are a LOT worse than yesterday though!! Accidents all over Cork city and county.

SleetAndSnow

rain stopping in cork city now, a few puddles but plenty of ice still around. Mad that is just wasn’t melted!

pureza

rain here in Arklow too onto frozen ground

Air temp of just 2.9c

I’d imagine snow is falling locally above 300 metres

John.Icy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124121804#Comment_124121804

Those uppers are enough in isolation (operating on the assumption that other factors are in favour too) in a frontal event with lower pressure/thickness.

This was the January snow last year, and there was no mad entrenched cold in the days building up to that one. You do need other things like dew points etc. to be the right side of marginal too. They look knife edge. But these can end up being the best snowfalls, big heavy wet snow chucking it down! ICON looks nice enough, given the big moves away from a snow chances yesterday.

For the likes of Dublin, yeah just move on. With the eternally above average SSTs persisting, the depth of cold we need in place before a front bringing in strong easterly winds is probably just…unobtainable in the current setup. Maybe on the wrap around if the precip. is still going when the wind goes more offshore, you get a little window. Last year by the evening on the 5th, I believe it transitioned to wet snow as far as the likes of Maynooth, Dunshaughlin etc. once the wind became favourable.

Parts of the mainland UK are going to have a proper snowy spell out of this. Even on the ECM, there's chances the following front Saturday/Sunday is now going to produce heavy snow for them too (for a time at least).

sryanbruen

Météo-France have named Thursday/Friday's low as Storm Goretti.

Rebelbrowser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124122282#Comment_124122282

Thanks.

Likewise these events rarely work out for Cork city. The areas that got the heavy January 2025 snow are most favoured (so in Cork terms, Mallow northwards).

Im following this and following fronts for two reasons. Firstly, lest they generate snow imby (unlikely) and secondly so they hopefully generate lots of snow in the snow-starved NW Alps where Im going in two weeks (very likely)…..

Arruabarrena

The back roads in Donegal today are just ice rinks.

Gonzo

Ice/Frost well and truly gone here in Meath, washed away by the rain in less than 10 minutes. Rain clearing now.

Rebelbrowser

Just when I thought I was out…

6z UKMO