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    Spring 2017 - General Discussion

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    • #602
      mountainy man
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      A few showers of grauple during the night, fairly hard frost with a low of 0.3C. I'm hoping there is not too much damage done in the garden. Currently 0.8C.


    • #603
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      It's snowing here :).

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    • #604
      NMB
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      South Dublin CC - rumble of thunder and some hailstones.


    • #605
      DOCARCH
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      Stuck in my car in Dublin 6 being pelted by monster hailstones! Thunder and lightning too!


    • #606
      highdef
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      sryanbruen wrote: »
      It's snowing here :).
      Definitely not graupel or hailstones???


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    • #607
      iLikeWaffles
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      sryanbruen wrote: »
      It's snowing here :).

      Only in Ireland. It will be sunny later no doubt.


    • #608
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      highdef wrote: »
      Definitely not graupel or hailstones???

      It was hailstones,not snow.


    • #609
      sryanbruen
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      highdef wrote: »
      Definitely not graupel or hailstones???

      If it was graupel or hailstones, I would say so. Since the "graupel" incident in February 2016, I think I know how to differ graupel and hailstones from snow.

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    • #610
      sryanbruen
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      iLikeWaffles wrote: »
      Only in Ireland. It will be sunny later no doubt.

      It was, 15 minutes later.

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    • #611
      Danno
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      Alternating between sleet and wet snow here in South Laois. Dew point hovering around 1c and air temps just below 5c.


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    • #612
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      Danno wrote: »
      Alternating between sleet and wet snow here in South Laois. Dew point hovering around 1c and air temps just below 5c.

      Trying to remember, are you on high ground in south Laois? I know some parts go to over 300m in the south of the county.


    • #613
      Gonzo
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      had a short shower with some flakes of snow in it.


    • #614
      Gaoth Laidir
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      sryanbruen wrote: »
      If it was graupel or hailstones, I would say so. Since the "graupel" incident in February 2016, I think I know how to differ graupel and hailstones from snow.

      No chance it was snow. Nearby Dublin airport reported 8.9 °C (dp -2.5 °C) and rain a rain shower at 1 pm. At 2 pm it reported recent hail showers. It's not possible for snow to fall in that temp/DP combination. It may have been melting hail but not snow, sorry.


    • #615
      Gonzo
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      very heavy hail shower here now


    • #616
      highdef
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      Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
      No chance it was snow. Nearby Dublin airport reported 8.9 °C (dp -2.5 °C) and rain a rain shower at 1 pm. At 2 pm it reported recent hail showers. It's not possible for snow to fall in that temp/DP combination. It may have been melting hail but not snow, sorry.

      I agree....I would go with melting hail. It can often look a bit like snow. Also, sryanbruen is situated very close to the coast and almost at sea level so would be one of the least likely to have seen any sort of falling snow in the east. Even IF there were a few snow flakes mixed in, you still couldn't call it "snowing" - that would be sleet. "Snowing" means that the precip is all snow, not a mix or rain/snow (sleet).


    • #617
      DOCARCH
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      At the start of a heavy hail shower earlier, it was definitely melting/melted hail that fell first. White, soft and splodgy.

      Dry here in Dublin 16 since lunchtime/1pm. 8.6c atm.


    • #618
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      highdef wrote: »
      Trying to remember, are you on high ground in south Laois? I know some parts go to over 300m in the south of the county.
      Nope, 89m ASL here in the valley by the Nore HighDef. There was a mix of everything in that 3pm shower, rain, sleet, wet snow and graupel. Deffo a few white flakes! :)


    • #619
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      141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »
      Big graupel balls coming down in KK City
      Knowin yea lads down over the border yea'll belt them with hurls! :pac:


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      Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
      No chance it was snow. Nearby Dublin airport reported 8.9 °C (dp -2.5 °C) and rain a rain shower at 1 pm. At 2 pm it reported recent hail showers. It's not possible for snow to fall in that temp/DP combination. It may have been melting hail but not snow, sorry.

      I live literally down the road,it was definitely hailstones.people come on here and exaggerate all the time,a heavy shower is called " biblical rain" a few days of humid weather is called "amazonian tempertures" makes a mockery of people genuinely interested in the weather and it's very annoying


    • #621
      Clonmel1000
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      What a **** day for the end of April cold showery crap.


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    • #622
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      It's windy out, and not very warm (hovered between 8-10c all day) but it's not truly awful, not as bad as I expected. Sunny most of the day, and no rain at all surprisingly (bar a few small drops, certainly nowhere near enough to register on the rainfall gague)

      West Clare


    • #623
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      Last shower of hail/ rain knocked 4C off the temperature down to 4.8C now here near Tralee. Cold night in store and looks like the NW,N, W and maybe parts of the E and SE getting a few showers ( Met Eireann saying mostly rain and hail in coastal counties of the N and NW ) overnight .

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    • #624
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      Dry in Waterford bar one hail shower and the odd blustery "pseudo shower" but it was the gusty wind that was the main feature esp mid afternoon when it suddenly became pretty violent for a while. And yet when the wind died down and the sun was out it was grand! Irish weather :pac:


    • #625
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      So much for the Mayo drought, we have had nearly 10mm of rain today, gusty at times with heavy hail showers as well.


    • #626
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      Not the worst day here in Dublin 7 - it's amazing how much more the sun does to warm you up even with a very chilly wind in April vs January. I'd imagine it'll get very cold tonight though.


    • #627
      Buffalobill29
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      Clowds looking fuzzy and its cold rn, think i will snow later.


    • #628
      LEIN
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      Had a few showers of grauple here today, nothing too exciting....


    • #629
      Meteorite58
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      Met Eireann saying timing of weather this weekend uncertain at this stage. Models are differing but one feature I see is what I think is a Negative Tilted Trough, associated with the potential for more inclement weather and unstable atmosphere showing up on Sunday . The ARPEGE is showing the potential for strong winds in the S on Sunday. This is very uncertain but interesting to watch it develop or not. ( (IMO )

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    • #630
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      Looking like conditions for the Great Limerick Run on Sunday could be nasty for running, am doing it myself, wish it was last weekend!
      https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

      Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



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    • #631
      Clonmel1000
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      Syran I know you've done this before but am I right in thinking the weather at may bank holiday has been patchy to say the least historically?


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