Snow and Ice Warning : Saturday(PM)/Sunday 9th/10th December - SEE MOD NOTE POST #1

mudabi · 10-12-2017 4:55am

Northwest, 5km from Ireland West Airport

approx 200ft asl

Danno · 10-12-2017 4:58am

mudabi wrote: »

Nothing showing

Kamili · 10-12-2017 5:00am

Bucketing rain in south Dublin, from a direction it doesn't normally come from too. Woke me up it is so heavily raining.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:00am

Had to do a quick spin to Rathdowney and rain is turning more and more to heavy sleet. Temps have dropped by 0.5c.

RobertKK · 10-12-2017 5:01am

Temperature dropping steadily here in north east Kilkenny @220m asl.
It reached a high of 4.6C at 1.23am, and currently it is 3.3C and falling.
16.4mm of rain so far today.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:06am

RobertKK wrote: »

Temperature dropping steadily here in north east Kilkenny @220m asl.
It reached a high of 4.6C at 1.23am, and currently it is 3.3C and falling.
16.4mm of rain so far today.

Just 0.1c milder here over the border in south Laois. A wee bit less rain at 9.7mm.

Winds now gone ENE.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:08am

A notable drop in the last few minutes. I suspect the feed from the Celtic sea via the east coast brought in by the low pressure is getting shut down as the low moves off SEwards.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:10am

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IKILKENN3#history

Johnstown in North Kilkenny (near Urlingford) showing a similar if even more defined drop.

ninebeanrows · 10-12-2017 5:12am

I actually thought it would be a degree or so higher at Island Bawn in Howth: http://howthweather.com/

Currently 2.9/ 1.9

Some further intensification of the precip and lighter winds could bring some sleet in a few hours.

Lumi · 10-12-2017 5:16am

Back to a rain/sleet mix in Galway city
Temp 1.5C, DP 0.9C

RobertKK · 10-12-2017 5:17am

2.9C, so a 0.4C drop in 15 minutes and it is consistent.
It will be snowing here within the hour.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:18am

Dropped a full 1.0c now in the last half hour. At long last, the trend is my friend!

3.1c with dewpoint at 2.1c

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:20am

Johnstown is nose-diving, down to 2.4c there now.

bozharry1 · 10-12-2017 5:21am

Still only rain here in Portlaoise.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:23am

Turned on the yard light and big blobs of sleet coming down with the rain. Another 1c or so drop and it'll be snowing.

John.Icy · 10-12-2017 5:25am

Danno wrote: »

Turned on the yard light and big blobs of sleet coming down with the rain. Another 1c or so drop and it'll be snowing.

Yeah very sleety here now too. Hopefully within the hour can have a transition to snow.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:25am

bozharry1 wrote: »

Still only rain here in Portlaoise.

Interestingly, Ballybrittas is showing a much slower drop in temperatures. There it peaked at 3.1c after midnight and it has dropped very slowly to 2.5c at present.

You should be getting sleet there at the moment though. Another 1c drop or thereabouts it will be wet snow/proper snow.

Snowing in Clonaslee and Tullamore for the last while according to reports.

Lenny5 · 10-12-2017 5:27am

Castlebar from an hour ago. Still coming down steadily.

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RobertKK · 10-12-2017 5:29am

2.5C now so a 0.4C drop in 10 minutes, the cooling is accelerating.

B.A._Baracus · 10-12-2017 5:31am

Nothing but rain here in Dublin.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:32am

Gone to 2.8c here now Rob

Johnstown is 1.9c - snow is imminent there.

The magic number for me here is 1.7c/0.7c so only another 1c or so to go!

RobertKK · 10-12-2017 5:35am

Similar, when it gets under 2C...the fun is near.
2.3C, looks to be approx 50% snow/rain mix.

RobertKK · 10-12-2017 5:40am

You would know it was turning more to snow as well as the rain rate on my Davis weather station has fallen a lot...

DaithiMa · 10-12-2017 5:44am

Gutted after watching the Lomachenko v Rigondeaux fight but at least I got to see lots of snow fall. Been snowing for a good 3 hours now. North/slightly west of Tuam. 60m ASL. Not heavily all the time but should be a good coating by morning time.. https://imgur.com/KizkOh7

SpitfireIV · 10-12-2017 5:48am

Wind seems to have calmed down and rain now turning increasingly to sleet in Carlow town.

GhostyMcGhost · 10-12-2017 5:48am

Speak Now wrote: »

Does that weather station still exist. I know Met Eireann replaced with with Oak park. Got to Urban i think.

Lashing in Waterford now 7c.

No, was replaced 10 years ago by Carlow (automatic)

RobertKK · 10-12-2017 5:53am

1.8C and it looks like I can declare it is snowing on the hills north east of Kilkenny city.

Kermit.de.frog · 10-12-2017 5:56am

Weathercheck wrote: »

I actually thought it would be a degree or so higher at Island Bawn in Howth: http://howthweather.com/

Currently 2.9/ 1.9

Some further intensification of the precip and lighter windscould bring some sleet in a few hours.

2.48/1.5 @ 04:49

Hmmm

Thought it would be more like 2c warmer myself.

Danno · 10-12-2017 5:59am

Gone to wet snow here now 1.9c/0.9cDP

Johnstow is 1.1c so most likely snowing there.

M.T. Cranium · 10-12-2017 6:01am

Some of the 00z guidance promises heavy snow for inland southeast, south and even southwest, low drops straight south once it reaches Clare coast ... Hirlam has it quite intense, Arpege not quite as good.

Rain will eventually change to snow in many places today, with possible exception of east coast.

Snow and Ice Warning : Saturday(PM)/Sunday 9th/10th December - SEE MOD NOTE POST #1

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