Snow watch 1

Danno

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/3hour.asp

Quiet...

Felixdhc

Felixdhc wrote:

ah, I was just about to head to bed but if there is some on the way will have to wait up!

ah jaysus go to bed will ya there will be plenty and by the looks of the charts over the coming ten days if it all goes according to them you'll be fed up of the stuff!

Danno

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/radnirl1.jpg

Dublin should be getting/have gotten a pasting from that, bright echos.

billy the squid

wow this page came out of no where :eek:

hard frost setting in here, going to be some dodgy roads in the morning.

Scubadevils

Earthman wrote:

ah jaysus go to bed will ya there will be plenty and by the looks of the charts over the coming ten days if it all goes according to them you'll be fed up of the stuff!

I really cant imagine getting fed up with it! I know my other half will certainly be happy when its really spring, sick of seeing me on the computer all the time and talking about snow!

Just some thick broken cloud around here at the moment, otherwise pretty clear sky, got pretty windy though

Danno

It is hard to call, my guess is that if Wicklow town gets a shower, then Tullow Town should get it, because the wind is coming that way, of course, any precip has to negotiate the Mountains first, which could take alot of the snowfall out of the clouds.

highdef

Well that shower did feck all here in Baldoyle, North Dublin, the one from the 23:00 BBC radar that was supposed to give us a "pasting"! A bit of sleet - barely even wet the ground - Not very impressed at all - might just go to bed - not worth staying up for :mad:

Scubadevils

yeah, I'm going to bed before I get into trouble. Need to keep energy anyway for the real stuff later in the week


Hopefully later in the week we will be discussing how deep the snow is and commenting on how similar it is to '82 :rolleyes:

Wisteria

Hasn't snowed here for hours in Mountmellick Danno nor has it stuck.

Danno

You need to move further inland, anyways, the Dublin City heat island effect would kill any snow!

Danno

Mountmellick has seen nothing for hours?

Gosh, I AM lucky then!

Danno

Nice echos on the BBC midnight radar all down the east coast...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/radnirl1.jpg

Wisteria

I'm actually just beside Rosenallis but not a flake. I HOPE to wake up in the morning to a covering!

Total white out blizzard here now in Arklow

Very strong wind with it

highdef

They must be just missing me Danno. Think I'm a little too far north. No Dublin city heat island effect here - I'm very near the east coast with an easterly so that won't bother me - Only the warm sea can keep the snow away from here - And it's doing a great job of that so far this evening!!!

Danno

Should be snow in North Laois now, big clouds to my north...

More to my east and NE, the 0030z radar is showing more, albeit light showers...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html

highdef

Just got another pathetic excuse for a shower. Started with an orange sky and a bit of hail and sleet. Roads were beginning to turn white and the hail sleet was blowing round. Then it eased a bit and turned to sleet, then stopped. All in all, a shower that lasted about 3 minutes. So much for the barrage of snow showers promised!!! Ground is just plain old wet again and not a chance of that freezing with temps being as high as they are :mad:

Danno

Too much salt in the air.

Danno

Very heavy echo over N wexford

embee

Snowing in Ardee, Co Louth now.

NOT sticking though.

Danno

Is there no frost on the east coast tonight?

It's -1 here and everything is frozen solid.

1 to 2cm lying snow aswell!

embee

Correction, the snow is beginning to STICK!

w00tage!

highdef

Still a couple of degrees above freezing here in Dublin so not a hint of ice - not here anyway - too much salt in the air
Anyway with the wind being as strong as it is, you really do need temps at or below freezing in order for anytype of freezing :cool:

DJB

Ok, snow has stuck!!!! In Navan.... nice blanket of snow covering the roads, paths, etc......



Scoob investigates......

highdef

Oh I'm off to bed - forgot to say. I'm sure I'll wake up to either dry conditions or damp conditions. Not expecting anything more exoctic than that!!

highdef

And just before I log off - It's raining!!!

Lainey

in athy.. snow is pelting down and sticking well.. think i go out throw snowballs at my dog...........

DJB

Lainey wrote:

in athy.. snow is pelting down and sticking well.. think i go out throw snowballs at my dog...........

I went out and threw some at the wall just in case there is no snow tomo! LOL

Danno

Hi Lainey, keep the Athy reports coming! What goes over Athy, goes over me in a half hour or so!

Lainey

DJB wrote:

I went out and threw some at the wall just in case there is no snow tomo! LOL

haha.. reason i throw them at dog is cos i'm a coward and am ****e at snowball fights.. ;-( ahh well.. snow lovely snow.. no college tomorrow

Danno

Thanks for the report Lainey!

The red light on the mast on the hill five miles away is not visible, so snow is on the way!

Did it last for long in Athy?

Astro1996

Just had a passing sleet shower here in Tallaght.

Temp 2.2c DP -0.6c

Lainey

Did it last for long in Athy?[/QUOTE]

ahh its stopped now..

Danno

Snowing here now.

Was -1.3c now 0.4c.

Danno

Quite heavy snow now.

Danno

Just looking at the rain rate radar on Metcheck, there is a constant shower line from here right back up to Dublin!

If the wind stays the same direction, then an hour of snow is on for me!

It is following the N7/N8 line perfectly!

Danno

1 INCH LYING. Still snowing very hard.

Villain

Carlow only got another light shower, but the estate in carlow is white, anyone up yet with reports in kildare?? 'm going to drive, well at least try, to leixlip.

DJB

irish1 wrote:

Carlow only got another light shower, but the estate in carlow is white, anyone up yet with reports in kildare?? 'm going to drive, well at least try, to leixlip.

Navan is currently getting hit with a good snow shower. It's heavy enough and beginning to stick again!

Mothman

Looking at radar, it looks like plentyshowers in greater Dublin region.

A couple brief hail showers in Wicklow overnight. Min temp was a high 3.0C

Currently temp is 4.3C
Dewpoint -0.7C
Grass temp 1.7C

Cloudy.

billy the squid

Shannon Airport

32 °F / 0 °C
Scattered Clouds

Windchill: 22 °F / -6 °C
Humidity: 87%
Dew Point: 28 °F / -2 °C
Wind: 15 mph / 24 km/h from the NNE
Pressure: 30.09 in / 1019 hPa
Visibility: 7.0 miles / 10.0 kilometers
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL): Few 1500 ft / 457 m
Scattered Clouds 1200

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/radnirl1.jpg

hopefully something will become of it

http://expert.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/geturl/daten/profi/en/basis00.22022005/rart_05022318_2200.gif?5d62b35c66fc83575d429a9a14d2915d

wednesday looking pretty good for everyone aparantly

ninebeanrows

A little bit of hail on the grass that's about it :rolleyes:
Some showers approaching now, i notice they seem
to get heavier just on land

On second inspection must have been snow, some showers now
beefing up in the Irish sea again very gusty here now

I feel a tummy ahce coming on...

AlienGav

Wahoooo!

Weathercheck, you think Dublin might see some snow today?

ninebeanrows

Anvil approaching from the east, rain,hail or sleet only expected
with a temp of 2.9c!

ninebeanrows

When were here the latest is the cold spell to last well through
the weekend and into next week

Wednesday looks good for snow and Thursday..

AlienGav

Lovely! I wanna go skiing!

Occidental

Snowing in Athlone and Mullingar at the moment.

Scubadevils

poxy rain / sleet / hail here this moring :mad: Are we on a downgrade? thought the east cold would have kicked in by now.

sorry Danno, only saw your last night post this am, I'm in Lusk. Was asking you as I used to Live in Portarlington.

Mothman

Anvils here as well being illuminated by the rising sun. Temp was up to 4.7C at 0730, but fallen back to 3.8C with Dp above zero.

Sferic recorded on southern coast.

ninebeanrows

Just to mild Felix, if these showers are heavy and continuos they'll turn to
snow in minutes