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

hot buttered scones · 28-02-2018 01:20PM

wakka12 wrote:

Its kind of sunny now and scaring me a little..solar radiation can melt snow a bit even if the temps are below 0 can't it??

Well it's definitely melting here in Cork City, but refreezing again in patches. Anywhere in direct sunlight has lost a lot, if not all of the snow. Roads will be lethal later on I reckon

harr · 28-02-2018 01:20PM

Has the wind changed direction

Was expecting to get tailend of a couple of streamers here in kildare but suddenly they seem to head north instead of south towards me.,

Burts Bee · 28-02-2018 01:20PM

leahyl wrote: »

Guys, s**t just got real! :pac:

Delighted for you cork city folk.

Ray Donovan · 28-02-2018 01:20PM

Barnaboy wrote: »

Struggling to keep up with all the posts but I haven't seen much reports from the north midlands. I'm in northeast Offaly and it is incessant here. Reckon 8-9 inches lying snow and continuing to fall.

Hard to believe how localised the heavier stuff is.

Where are you Barnaboy? I teach in Edenderry and needless to say school was closed today. More than likely tomorrow and Friday too.

mickmackey1 · 28-02-2018 01:21PM

wakka12 wrote: »

Its kind of sunny now and scaring me a little..solar radiation can melt snow a bit even if the temps are below 0 can't it??

-2 here and yet the dusting we got has melted. Don't fully understand it myself.

Oscar Bravo · 28-02-2018 01:23PM

Midday 28th Feb 2018

Mullingar -3
Dunsany -3
Johnstown castle -3
Gurteen -3
Even a rare -2 for the Sherkin islands

bennyl10 · 28-02-2018 01:24PM

Flutters again in d6.
Habe we any idea of times for snowfall?...

aidanodr · 28-02-2018 01:24PM

hot buttered scones wrote: »

We only got 3 or 4cm I'd say up the northside. Wife was working out in Mahon and said it was worse out there. I'm working out in Ringaskiddy - not due in until Friday, but I got a text saying the plant is closed until further notice. If ypu watched the radar at all you could see your area getting pasted.

Oh i was watching it all right. Up all night cause I have a bug to boot so sleep disturbed last few nights. Cant sleep .. weather watch

Its just this thing of .. "well if it aint snowing in my immediate area, then any other place near by cannot be either, so stop fibbing"

Gonzo · 28-02-2018 01:25PM

the Irish Sea has gone dead for now, maybe this is what MT is referring to when he says in his daily forecast that there will be a brief lull this morning.
Sun here again, showers since 10am here haven't really amounted to much, very patchy and light most of the time.

Hopefully we will see some prolonged 2010 level beefy showers later today.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 28-02-2018 01:25PM

The Irish Sea has gone quiet. Say it ain’t so, Irish Sea.

BLIZZARD7 · 28-02-2018 01:25PM

Decent burst of heavy snow and graupel in Goatstown just there.

Kermit.de.frog · 28-02-2018 01:26PM

A robin just kicked some snow off my roof. Bastard.

adam240610 · 28-02-2018 01:26PM

Any chance of a more NE wind? For north Wicklow :P

kingshankly · 28-02-2018 01:27PM

Definite thaw on here in the north east

HONKEY TONK · 28-02-2018 01:27PM

Gonzo wrote: »

the Irish Sea has gone dead for now, maybe this is what MT is referring to when he says in his daily forecast that there will be a brief lull this morning.
Sun here again, showers since 10am here haven't really amounted to much, very patchy and light most of the time.

Hopefully we will see some prolonged 2010 level beefy showers later today.

Looks pretty busy in Howth

https://balticlivecam.com/cameras/ireland/howth/howth-panorama/

sdanseo · 28-02-2018 01:28PM

Fingal Co. Council & presumably many others absolutely on the ball with alerts.

SMS and emails very soon after MÉ issued warnings
RTÉ also with push notifications.

I have no doubt that these events warrant multiple red warnings numerically; my only worry is if we ever have a dangerous event worse than Ophelia (more likely with every year, our weather is becoming more severe, what that is caused by is not for this thread) that they will lose their impact.

angeldaisy · 28-02-2018 01:30PM

Trying to follow the forecast for this week, Limerick is on a red alert from Thursday evening through to Friday.

What does this mean for the rest of the country, I'm supposed to be heading to Dun Laoghaire this weekend, any idea if the alerts will still be in place?

J Mysterio · 28-02-2018 01:34PM

A risk is that sun will melt snow in parts, which will then refreeze later and be snow covered. Thst will make the roads and paths much more treachorous.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 28-02-2018 01:34PM

Definitely looks like a few hours lull in Dublin and elsewhere from about now.

wakka12 · 28-02-2018 01:35PM

Work feels so long today. I just want to get out in that beautiful snow and see how the whole city looks under it. I feel like a caged animal right now :pac:

Gaoth Laidir · 28-02-2018 01:36PM

Casement hourly snow depth reports this morning.

3 am 4 cm
4 am 6 cm
5 am 16 cm
6 am 16 cm
7 am 16 cm
8 am 16 cm
9 am 16 cm
10 am 14 cm
11 am 15 cm
12 pm 16 cm

Cork Boy 53 · 28-02-2018 01:36PM

sdanseo wrote: »

Fingal Co. Council & presumably many others absolutely on the ball with alerts.

SMS and emails very soon after MÉ issued warnings
RTÉ also with push notifications.

I have no doubt that these events warrant multiple red warnings numerically; my only worry is if we ever have a dangerous event worse than Ophelia (more likely with every year, our weather is becoming more severe, what that is caused by is not for this thread) that they will lose their impact.

Well if there is n ot 1982 or 2010 style b

ARated · 28-02-2018 01:36PM

Nice site for traffic cams in the Dublin region: tiitraffic dot ie/cams/ (can't post links at the moment - new user) N81 near Baltinglass looks bad. But M50 currently looks ok. Will be interesting to watch over the coming days.

power pants · 28-02-2018 01:37PM

Quite a fast thaw happening north dunlin already
Balcony was thick with snow now clear, snow shrinking on rooftops too
This to be expected and perhaps more snow later?

stevenup7002 · 28-02-2018 01:38PM

Clonmel was completely covered in a thin white dusting this morning, but the sun came out and melted the snow. Problem is, because it's below zero, it's all just frozen back into patches of black ice...

Try_harder · 28-02-2018 01:38PM

Leinster and Munster have a red warning for Tomorrow.

Edenderry in Offaly in Leinster

EMPotatohands · 28-02-2018 01:39PM

The sun can literally sh*te off or ill snap.

Devilman40k · 28-02-2018 01:39PM

Mullingar getting another blast now... neighbour cleared his drive - it's covered again

28-02-2018 01:40PM

Gonzo wrote: »

the Irish Sea has gone dead for now, maybe this is what MT is referring to when he says in his daily forecast that there will be a brief lull this morning.
Sun here again, showers since 10am here haven't really amounted to much, very patchy and light most of the time.

Hopefully we will see some prolonged 2010 level beefy showers later today.

Starting to kick off a bit here again Gonzo. Easterly bringing snow onshore to Louth. Theres potentially the longest fetch possible if things liven up later.

revelman · 28-02-2018 01:40PM

Main headline on RTÉ - disruption as “snow hits east”.

It has hit us down here on the south coast of Cork too - as bad as anything I’m reading in the East!

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