Kamili wrote: » Not much extra snow in D16 overnight, whats there has frozen underneath.
ZeroSum76 wrote: » The stretch of Kilmacanogue down to Gorey missed out completely due to Anglesea. Lots of disappointed kids. Only a bit of graupel fell 24 hours ago but it didn't accumulate at all. As with others I have lowered expectations completely and don't expect Bray/Kilcoole/Rathnew/Wicklow/Arklow to get much of anything from the Beast. I am hoping the storm will make the Anglesea thing moot but confidence is shot now! Does anyone know technically why the shadows might not be a factor? I just don't see snow in these areas based on what's been happening. Anyone any thoughts?
northgirl wrote: » Cobh over the last 24 hour. Deadly silence.
m17 wrote: » Annagh cross Co Galway 01/03/18
Dial Hard wrote: » I'm just the other side of the Ballycullen Road in D24 and slept with my blind tipped last night. Every time I looked out (which was a lot!) it was snowing. Was expecting much more on the ground than there was when I got up earlier. I think the wind was blowing it away faster than it could accumulate. Been snowing very lightly since, but, again, not a whole lot of it is actually making it to the ground. I have to say, having read MT's forecast for today, I'm a little bit disappointed; it doesn't seem like we're going to get the snow I was hoping to see today at all.
pp_me wrote: » Waterford is getting absolutely pasted all morning.
Mr.Boots wrote: » South East still set for a pelting? North wex
Kamili wrote: » I did the same last night, and was bitterly disappointed this morning. I absolutely think this event has been completely overhyped, Wet snow later, and less than what we have had in the last 24 hours - doesn't instill confidence. I get that we are in a shadow of Isle of Man/Wales or whatever, but it still sounds like today's predicted storm has had a downgrade.
Stephen Hawkins football boots wrote: » So the blizzards are now going to be wet Snow? What a non event
ibarelycare wrote: » My Mam is in Dunshaughlin and her electricity has gone anyone else?
Calibos wrote: » To put it simply, the snow up till now has been lake effect snow, where cold upper airmasses travelling over warmer water creates massive convection of moisture from the Sea generating intense Snow Clouds that tuck in behind each other like cyclists slipstreaming each other. These streamers can be hit and miss, so even if they are coming in your direction they might still miss you by a mile or two where you get nothing but just up the road from you gets tonnes of snow. If you are lucky enough to be under a streamer for decent amount of time, Streamers can give you massive amounts of snow in a very short time. The other problem with Streamers though is that they need a certain length of sea track to form the streamers. The distance from Liverpool to Dublin for example is long enough but the distance between the Western Coast of Wales and the Eastern Coast of Wicklow/Wexford is not long enough. In a North Easterly wind Wicklow has a long enough sea track from up beside the Isle of man but unfortunately for us this time the wind turned due east after Tuesday nights snow putting us in the Wales Snow shadow. The Thursday/Friday snow event is different, that has nothing to do with lake effect snow and is simply a big wet storm coming up from the south and meeting very cold air blowing at us from the east and all the rain in the storm falling as snow instead.
