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

Kermit.de.frog

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Sunday will be an event for many Northern and North Western areas. With regards to other areas it's a delicate situation.

To summarise:

Rain will move in from the southwest on Saturday night but will meet embedded very cold air over the country. It will turn to snow as it moves northeastward. It's a classic "battle ground" scenario between different air masses.

It will fall as snow initially over North Leinster (it will turn back to rain for a time). Over Ulster and most of Connaught it will fall as heavy snow throughout the event. Large accumulations in these parts. I would be of the opinion at least an orange warning is needed for these parts as of now - possibly red nearer the time.

Later on Sunday as the system begins to unwind and move away it returns to snow over Leinster and turns to snow in Munster with accumulations here. Not as significant but could still be disruptive.

As it clears it gets very cold and icy - another hazard in itself. Temperatures will plunge Sunday night well below freezing. Coldest night of the year so far.

This looks a severe event in the north and northwest including northern Connaught right now.

There is still the risk of significant snow further south as well. This is not 100% nailed in terms of where this will effect. Regardless many are going to see a significant snowfall.

I think it is safe to say this will be the most significant frontal snow event the country has seen in many years for the areas effected.

This is 48 hours out. There is no doubt it will be impactful.

Another risk is flooding, a lot of water associated with this.

I would advise people in the north and northwest - and Connaught - to keep up to date on forecasts and be prepared.

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km79

pad199207 wrote: »

Can someone tell me what’s the easiest way to post pics from an iPhone ?

Go to legacy site
I was trying yday in touch site and there is no option

George Sunsnow

pad199207 wrote: »

Can someone tell me what’s the easiest way to post pics from an iPhone ?

Use taptalk,if you’re still on IWN then just copy the img line link in full

Just copy it and post it here
Picture and your comment will show up here then
Takes seconds

pad199207

Attempting the Sally Gap yesterday

pad199207

The snowline

catrat12

still bitter and so icy in glencullen could not get up driveway this evening

I don’t think we have seen the last of the white gold up here

George Sunsnow

pad199207 wrote: »

The snowline

Isn’t nature amazing how snow is dry enough suddenly to settle one metre either side of a ditch
Can’t emphasize enough that it’s nature and chaos theory that’s in the driving seat not the forecaster
The forecaster in these marginal set ups can explain after the fact but can’t pin down that snowline too well

gavkm27

Partry Mountains today above 500m, plenty of snow and still coming down most of the day, more at @soulogav IG

Meteorite58

Partry Mountains today above 500m, plenty of snow and still coming down most of the day, more at @soulogav IG

Stunning shots!

nagdefy

Just a reminder to everyone to be careful driving well into tomorrow and indeed all week.

Back around 7/8 February 2007 we had a snow event at home, it was a hill event really. The Friday of that week the roads were fairly clear on the hills. I drove the 24 miles to work in Portlaoise, lovely sun and green fields. I drove home at a normal speed and had driven for so long in beautiful conditions forgot all about the weather we had at home.

I hit an area of road covered by trees on both sides at home approaching a bend. I skidded down an old laneway and turned over the car. Frightened the living sh*t out of me. Basically wrote off the car but came out unscathed myself.

That particular corner is treacherous and can hold snow and ice for 3 weeks after events. I just forgot where i was and wasn't concentrating.

m17

Mullingar Co westmeath 10/12/17

Donegal Storm

nagdefy wrote: »

Just a reminder to everyone to be careful driving well into tomorrow and indeed all week.

Back around 7/8 February 2007 we had a snow event at home, it was a hill event really. The Friday of that week the roads were fairly clear on the hills. I drove the 24 miles to work in Portlaoise, lovely sun and green fields. I drove home at a normal speed and had driven for so long in beautiful conditions forgot all about the weather we had at home.

I hit an area of road covered by trees on both sides at home approaching a bend. I skidded down an old laneway and turned over the car. Frightened the living sh*t out of me. Basically wrote off the car but came out unscathed myself.

That particular corner is treacherous and can hold snow and ice for 3 weeks after events. I just forgot where i was and wasn't concentrating.

Roads are very icy in Kildare, the ice didn't melt all day but the showers from earlier have frozen solid now so plenty of ice around. Skidded as I was pulling out of the car park on the way home just now so took it very slow

harr

Roads are brutal in south kildare even worse than last night. A lot of black ice in places.
Take it handy.

dsaint1

Wicklow Mountains today....Sugarloaf, Road up to Glenmalure, Top of Glenmalure, Glenmacnass Waterfall mist rising, Snow field in Roundwood, and Sunset at Vartry

Storm 10

My God Joanne on Claire Byrne talking about the frost tonight it's plain silly you would think the Country is snowed under

jimbobaloobob

fabulous photos there. A great eye for it.

Gaoth Laidir

And the prize goes to...

dsaint1 wrote: »

Wicklow Mountains today....Sugarloaf, Road up to Glenmalure, Top of Glenmalure, Glenmacnass Waterfall mist rising, Snow field in Roundwood, and Sunset at Vartry

Brilliant photos! Some have an Alaska-type look about them!

Amazingfun

"Misty view over southwest Dublin city at dusk"

Gorgeous shot, thanks

M.T. Cranium

Well done photos all through the thread, loved the cat in the snow (ours is all white and would disappear) ...

... as mentioned, some of the upland photos would compare with what we can see around the higher mountains here, these were taken Monday afternoon in the Selkirk Mountains of B.C. looking west into the valley where we now reside (under that blanket of low cloud visible, the far mountains are the Valhalla Range), and then east towards the Whitewater Range shown at its highest point, and finally the third photo is north towards the end of the same ridge; the Selkirk Mountains are a NW-SE trending range parallel to the Rockies which are further east, and the Selkiriks are just about as high as them but with less glacial carving (so not as rocky in appearance). There are permanent snowfields but not glaciers in this particular portion and the elevation in this highway pass area is about 1100 metres while the peaks are about 3000 metres asl. There is a third range, the Purcells running between the Selkirks and the Rockies, those have more glaciers and are also over 3,000 metres in places. The Rogers Pass is actually through that range, but the Selkirks and Purcells combine into one cluster north of the Trans Canada highway near Revelstoke.

The Valhalla Range visible in the first photo is west of Slocan Lake and New Denver, and contains one of the world's smallest extant glaciers, about 5 km by 2 km and sadly getting smaller each decade this past century. On a clear day we can see that from the road in front of our new location but it has been hidden behind the low cloud ceiling for the past week. We get some really strange sky colours here with reflections of light from the sunshine above the valley, a kind of luminous blue-grey shine to the cloud base sometimes, and then if it begins to clear, a lot of gold or orange-pink hues in the mist. Wood smoke adds to this effect as many people around this region heat their homes partially with wood stoves.

Not the best quality camera with us today but you get the idea.

Snow depths begin just above valley levels (both New Denver on Slocan Lake and Kaslo on Kootenay Lake have no lying snow, but a good enough cover for x-c ski and snowmobile trails by about 800 metres -- snow can be up to a metre deep at this location but today is only about 15-25 cms). We have had almost two weeks of dry weather so most of this snow fell in November.

DOCARCH

Storm 10 wrote: »

My God Joanne on Claire Byrne talking about the frost tonight it's plain silly you would think the Country is snowed under

I think we have gone a bit mad!

First item on the RTE radio news this morning was the cold weather warning....'with temperatures hovering around 0'....:eek:

m17

Mahangh bridge on the m17 11/12/17

jArgHA

@dsaint1 Absolutely stunning photos, many thanks for posting they are beautiful.

RobertKK

My local school is still closed due to snow and ice today. There is a lot of snow still around here on the high ground in north Kilkenny.

s15r330

Still a bit of snow in Ballinasloe!
Enzo's first experience of snow and he loves it

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Danno

Drizzle here for the last half hour or so. Snow is thawing very slowly. Still a cm or so on the ground. Most roofs are cleared now and roads mostly clear - just frozen slush heaps in spots. 2.7c. Fields covered apart from ones with longer grass which are 50% green again.

dsaint1

jArgHA wrote: »

@dsaint1 Absolutely stunning photos, many thanks for posting they are beautiful.

Cheers, thank you!

s15r330

dsaint1 wrote: »

Cheers, thank you!

What camera do you use?

m17

Tuam Co Galway 11/12/17

I just want to thank everyone for all the brilliant pics and updates over the past few days thanks everyone yours m17

_Dara_

Sorry for the terrible photo quality but I thought this was kind of interesting. I took this from the Galway train passing near Kildare town in the early PM of 10/12/2017. The foreground: no snow. A not very high hill in the near background: snow. Guess the slightly higher elevation could be the reason. Or maybe the snow cloud just stopped there.

I'd say it's the slightly higher elevation. I grew up on a similar hill and we'd frequently get snow where low-lying areas sometimes only a mile away might get none.

wakka12

Still very chilly in Dublin, the canal beside my work is only thawing today. Dublin mountains still looking very white.

Danno

Big rally in temps here in south Laois over the last few minutes. Jumped well over 1c with a change in wind direction to the SW from SE.