Severe Winter Weather, Snow/Ice - Sun 25th Feb (Onwards) ** READ MOD NOTE POST #1 **

Shadylou wrote: »

Bit of snow in cork city and it's sticking to cars a bit, stopped again though

Just started in Ballincollig, thanks for passing it on

Belting down in Douglas, cork for the last 20 mins

Near Cork City and the snow is stacked about 5 inches up the windows already,it's really blizzard like atm.

still snowing heavy here in douglas - cork city

Nothing in Northish Cork

*Kicks snow shovel in frustration*

MTs update,


Snow is likely to become heavier and more widespread after midnight, with present scattered outbreaks continuing to drift west, while more extensive sea-effect streamers will form as colder air aloft reaches the Irish Sea and the wind gradient picks up overnight. Would not be surprised to find 5 to 15 cm snowfalls in Leinster by the morning commute.

Little change to earlier forecast from new guidance, will just mention that Wednesday likely to see continuing widespread snow showers, heavy at times, and further accumulations 10 to 20 cm, tapering to trace amounts to 3 cm on west coast. The main reason for the update was to give any new perspectives on the Thursday-Friday snow potential and whether that would change over to rain at least in the south. The latest guidance seems slightly more supportive of the idea that heavy snow would continue well into Friday and any change would be limited to south coast, most of lower elevation Kerry and perhaps a few places a little further north (inland) but the snow would end without much if any liquid precipitation or thawing, although temperatures may creep up slightly on the weekend allowing a slow erosion of the snow depths likely to be attained by mid to late Friday.

So at this point I am still thinking blizzard-like heavy snow is possible and 20 to 50 cms may accumulate over that period, but as we should have better guidance available by the morning and we still have Wednesday's significant event to come, there is a wide range of possible outcomes for snow, best bet is around 25 cms on the average (10 to 15 further northwest) in many places and 40 cms not uncommon in central and southeast Leinster.

Next update will be the morning forecast at the usual time (0700h to 0730h).

Mother of...

https://twitter.com/meteireann/status/968570571754754048

What's wrong with the tech tread keep getting error 404

Really coming down here in Newbridge . On the bus in and top window covered.

As mentioned earlier, there is definitely a snow train/streamer developing in the north Irish Sea. It's currently looking like delivering to parts of North Dublin, south Meath and north Kildare....assuming it continues developing and stays in its current trajectory.

Being caught in a snow train is too good!

Stephen Hawkins football boots wrote: »

We have lift off in D 16

Must be extremely localised. Still nothing here, D16 too.