Snow watch 1

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

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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

Scubadevils

mild / if, hate those words at times like this

ninebeanrows

Got the edge of a big hail showers, say it was tasty
for rush hour traffic in Dublin Center

Villain

Carlow roads are very bad people, not gritted at all, if your travelling this morning be careful. I met some very bad patches and the back roads looked even worse. I also met a few showers nothing major do. Theres more cloud cover than I expected.

Earthman, Weathercheck whats the latest outlook from the charts, is that easterly behaving as it should?

irish1

irish1 wrote:

Earthman, Weathercheck whats the latest outlook from the charts, is that easterly behaving as it should?

More or less.
I'm curious as to whats happening further north with this "rain" as I'm on the coast here and all showers that I've seen have been either hail or snow or a mix of both and some have been nasty.

Colder air digging in further tonight and a pepping up of showers through to tomorrow.
Still watching that low.

Villain

Latest 3 day outlook from Met, looks liek there starting to accept the cold snap will be here for a while:

3 Day Outlook:
The weather will remain very cold up to and indeed over next weekend with brisk easterly winds continuing. Temperatures during the day will only reach 6 or 7C at best but will always be a few degrees less than that along the East Coast. From Wednesday night onwards temperature values at night will still be around freezing or a few degrees below and severe frosts will continue to occur. Where road surfaces remain untreated driving conditions may be hazardous. Wintry showers will still occur. They will develop on the Irish Sea and be carried onshore by the prevailing wind. Most of them will fall near the Coast but at times several of the showers will penetrate more inland. And at times too the showers may merge into longer periods of activity. Apart from these showers though rainfall amounts for the week will be fairly small. And often during the day the skies will be bright and sunny.

Gonzo

i dont think this easterly is behaving at all.. our frost of last night melted during the night and rain/hail showers are about. to me its gone all pear shaped, despite the wind chill the temperatures are gonna be well up on yesterday, they cud reach 6 or 7c by the afternoon. i think we can forget about snow unless your up in a mountain.

Scubadevils

Gonzo wrote:

i dont think this easterly is behaving at all.. our frost of last night melted during the night and rain/hail showers are about. to me its gone all pear shaped, despite the wind chill the temperatures are gonna be well up on yesterday, they cud reach 6 or 7c by the afternoon. i think we can forget about snow unless your up in a mountain.

leaning that way too, never going to announce snow to family etc again!

ninebeanrows

The darn thing isnt even 1 quarter of the way through!
Many people could 3 hours or more of snow yesterday!

Chin up they'll be alot more through the coming days and today

Darwin

Laois...Heavy snow shower now clearing Mountrath. Current temp 1C. Here's a bandwidth friendly pic

Scubadevils

Darwin wrote:

Laois...Heavy snow shower now clearing Mountrath. Current temp 1C. Here's a bandwidth friendly pic

Swear I'm not jealous.

Will have to go to work soon with chin held firmly up

Well I did say it would be hit and miss.
I had 2 inches for a time yesterday.
Theres lying snow at sea level in inland parts of north wexford from last nights showers.
And here in south wicklow I havent seen any rain in a shower since yesterday afternoon.

The other thing of note is that the strong wind is pushing the showers well inland, some have got to the west coast.

M2 temp is 4.9c so air temps over the Irish sea simply arent falling yet and thats why some of these showers are hitting the coast as sleet or rain.

Scubadevils

Earthman wrote:

Well I did say it would be hit and miss.
I had 2 inches for a time yesterday.
Theres lying snow at sea level in inland parts of north wexford from last nights showers.
And here in south wicklow I havent seen any rain in a shower since yesterday afternoon.

The other thing of note is that the strong wind is pushing the showers well inland, some have got to the west coast.

M2 temp is 4.9c so air temps over the Irish sea simply arent falling yet and thats why some of these showers are hitting the coast as sleet or rain.

when you say "yet" are they likely to fall?

Felixdhc

Felixdhc wrote:

when you say "yet" are they likely to fall?

they have been quite literally up and down like well a ....

Yes they will fall a degree or two which should be just about enough I've always expected the most activity to be tuesday night wenesday and thursday.

DMC

Dublin 7 report:
This morning at 6am, there was a light dusting of snow around, but with the ground so wet from yesterday, and no frost to speak of, it went as soon as dawn broke.

At the train station earlier, I caught site of this wee begger on the phone's camera.......



As I passed through it on the train, it was nothing, a sqaul, and now in the city centre, I can see a lot of clouds, but no real menace in them.

Villain

Just rang home, and I'm lucky I stayed in carlow town last night, plenty of snow around tullow, the father counted 5 car accidents between Tullow and Killerig (5 miles apart).

Think I might have to stay in tullow tonight, but known my luck it will be heavier in carlow then!!

The wind speeds are higher than I expected earthman, if we could get some decent showers coming in off the Irish Sea I'm sure they woudl make it well inland, the biggest issue is the Sun, it will thaw anything very quickly, so even if we do get decent ammounts of snow fall over the next few days I can't see it staying for long.

Gonzo

looking at met eireann, the east is now the mildest part of the country with temperatures of 3 to 5c already and rain showers, its in the midlands and west were temperatures are at freezzing and below and snow showers are falling.

kleefarr

Kilkenny City outslirts (E)

The light covering we had at 8:30 last night is still there. There must have been another light shower, as the roads have a thin layer. The sun comes out every few mins and snow is slowly disappearing where the sun gets to it. It's still cold though, haven't got an outside thermometer, but it can only just be above freezing.

Any reports on the North Dub area? Airport?

Scubadevils

Earthman wrote:

they have been quite literally up and down like well a ....

Yes they will fall a degree or two which should be just about enough I've always expected the most activity to be tuesday night wenesday and thursday.

thanks, will keep some hope so.

Scubadevils

kleefarr wrote:

Kilkenny City outslirts (E)

The light covering we had at 8:30 last night is still there. There must have been another light shower, as the roads have a thin layer. The sun comes out every few mins and snow is slowly disappearing where the sun gets to it. It's still cold though, haven't got an outside thermometer, but it can only just be above freezing.

Any reports on the North Dub area? Airport?

Wet here in nth Dublin, mixture of sleet / hail / rain this morning

Gonzo

temperatures are currently around 3 and 4c around north dublin area and i presume as the day goes on and if the sun comes out that they will rise further. Met Eireann have thunderstorm down for Dublin Airport and temperature of 3c.