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Severe Weather Snow / Ice Weds 28 FEB ( Onwards ) READ MOD NOTE POST#1

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Time to start a new thread as the other one reaches its capacity!

I'm sure kermit.de.frog will add a forecast and keep it updated for us.

So to kick it off a few mouth watering charts of the snow and cold potential over the coming days, stay safe.

Looking very windy going into Thurs night and look at those windchill readings!

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fritzelly

Sariah wrote: »

Ok so that rain i posted earlier about in D24 mustn't have been actual rain because there is a 2foot deep pile of snow beside my car.

hallelujah, we have another convert, praise the lord

hatrickpatrick

Question: for those using the term "ice pellets", what, if anything, is the difference between those and hail stones? "Ice pellets" is pretty much exactly how is describe your average hail shower O_o

erica74

My husband just ran down to the road to take some pics. For some perspective, this is the N25 between Waterford and New Ross, usually an exceptionally busy road, deserted for hours now.

Lovely blanket of snow down again now.

compsys

Calibos wrote: »

I'm finding it very disconcerting that none of the resident experts want to answer the question about how anywhere could hope to get 1 metre accumulations from these crappy ice pellets. 3 hours of it belting down near the seafront in bray and the road is still only dusted.

I have this terrible feeling that I'm going to wake in the morning, look out the Velux and exclaim, "You've got to be ****ing kidding me!?!?!"........and not in a good way!

It feels like you're over exaggerating. You just need to relax a bit.

I'm right beside the sea too in Monkstown and it's been "crappy ice pellets" for the past three hours also.

However, when I look out closely at the road and the cars I can see that it's definitely leading to accumulations. Even if "proper" snow didn't arrive at all tonight I'd say the level of accumulations would be quite high.

Also, if you look close enough, you'll see that it is (very fine) snow that's falling. Admittedly it would be nice to see a few big, proper flakes falling. But this is Ireland after all and we're beside the sea and it's already into spring.

The wind alone would almost warrant a warning at this stage.

Aspiring

Huxley Cool Toy wrote: »

Jesus long time no see...

Never know who you'll see on a snow thread :pac:

jjmcclure

It looked like rain in Dunshaughlin earlier, went out to the car and all footprints from earlier filled in with snow and deeper now than it was earlier. seems like really fine snow, but not rain

Calibos

NMB wrote: »

You won’t wake up like that. There’s hours of this. The ice crystals the diamond dust is a good thing. It’s a base layer for the wet snow coming. There will be a huge accumulation tonight . It’s in the models. And they all agree. I’ve rum would you like a nip ?

I think I need something stronger. Think I'll pinch one of SWMBO's Xanax

Gaoth Laidir

The fine particles that have been falling this evening are not sleet, rain or freezing rain, they're snow grains. They feel like liquid because they're so small that they melt instantly on your face, making the same effect as liquid drops. Nowhere has had rain or sleet this evening.

nibtrix

Calibos wrote: »

I'm finding it very disconcerting that none of the resident experts want to answer the question about how anywhere could hope to get 1 metre accumulations from these crappy ice pellets. 3 hours of it belting down near the seafront in bray and the road is still only dusted.

I have this terrible feeling that I'm going to wake in the morning, look out the Velux and exclaim, "You've got to be ****ing kidding me!?!?!"........and not in a good way!

Have you looked at a radar picture? The real storm front hasn’t even hit us yet, and it was well flagged that the leading edge could be rain/sleet/hail. It’s coming slower than they initially predicted, but that is the nature of weather!
Why don’t you wait and see what you wake up to before complaining?

man_no_plan

Aspiring wrote: »

Hopefully it's not too cold for snow

Indeed, or too snowy

bennyl10

policy75 wrote: »

storm, what exact storm are we talking abour Remain inside from 4pm for fear of your lives. Not a whiff of a breeze nor a whisker of snow in the midlands. TV3 and Varadker. Priceless

Check the radar.
The storm hasn't passed France yet ffs!!
Was it meant to just appear at 4:01?!

And Christ learn his name if you'll try wrongly attack him!

NMB

Saganist wrote: »

UK Met.

Awesome Alex

JWaterford

Hi,

Does anyone know what the current models are for Waterford city. The only thing we have here at the moment is modest wind, but no snowfall for the last 4 or so hours.

Is the high snowfall meant to reach Waterford soon?

Thanks in advance.

q85dw7osi4lebg

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

The fine particles that have been falling this evening are not sleet, rain or freezing rain, they're snow grains. They feel like liquid because they're so small that they melt instantly on your face, making the same effect as liquid drops. Nowhere has had rain or sleet this evening.

As I have found out they also accumulate pretty quickly.

stevenup7002

deise_girl wrote: »

Is Waterford still on for getting more snow? Since 5pm anything I've seen looks considerably more like sleet than what we had previous

Radar says it's about to get worse (or better) for you:

Daniel2590

Aspiring wrote: »

Never know who you'll see on a snow thread :pac:

Just brings everyone together right :pac:

NMB

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Question: for those using the term "ice pellets", what, if anything, is the difference between those and hail stones? "Ice pellets" is pretty much exactly how is describe your average hail shower O_o

It’s more like diamond dust - micro and melts on contact

fleet_admiral

Terrible deep snow in Harolds Cross

harr

Wind picking up here and it’s -3 . Radar showing we should be getting heavy showers but it’s only light dust. Radar showed us getting no snow all day but it was snowing heavy with no indication on radar.
Laois/kildare border..

sicknotexi

How I know it's snowing outside without leaving my comfy sofa: Accuweather alerts says it's not snowing outside.(and vice versa)

aurora 527

JWaterford wrote: »

Hi,

Does anyone know what the current models are for Waterford city. The only thing we have here at the moment is modest wind, but no snowfall for the last 4 or so hours.

Is the high snowfall meant to reach Waterford soon?

Thanks in advance.

No snowfall??

spookwoman

this is now
https://twitter.com/LeahBurgessIre/status/969343825721331712

DOCARCH

Was a bit shaky here in Dublin 16 for a bit with some sleety/ice pellety stuff. Back on full/heavy fine snow now. -0.8c atm.

wakka12

Latest snow depth charts still saying dublin will have huge totals but still just ice pellets here. How could this possibly come anywhere close to a metre even if these ice pellets keep coming down until 6pm tomorrow it'll only be 3 or 4 inches Id say

SteelyDanJalapeno

In Cork City when snow?

Doltanian

2010 has been surpassed for me already and our first accumulations arrived only yesterday. The best this morning was I had deer and wild goats down from the hills eating hay, silage and ration with the sheep. We put out extra for them too poor craythurs.

JWaterford

aurora 527 wrote: »

No snowfall??

Yeah, no fall of snow for quite a while.

sryanbruen

https://twitter.com/_cheels/status/969343201151680512

Itssoeasy

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »

In Cork City when snow?

Later on tonight apparently.

Calibos

compsys wrote: »

It feels like you're over exaggerating. You just need to relax a bit.

I'm right beside the sea too in Monkstown and it's been "crappy ice pellets" for the past three hours also.

However, when I look out closely at the road and the cars I can see that it's definitely leading to accumulations. Even if "proper" snow didn't arrive at all tonight I'd say the level of accumulations would be quite high.

Also, if you look close enough, you'll see that it is (very fine) snow that's falling. Admittedly it would be nice to see a few big, proper flakes falling. But this is Ireland after all and we're beside the sea and it's already into spring.

The wind alone would almost warrant a warning at this stage.

I'm not complaining about warning levels or anything like that. Simply frustrated at literally zero accumulation in my corner of Bray after 3 hours of this on top of frustration at that damn easterly wind shift meaning we only got 5cm on Tuesday night and nothing at all on Wednesday.

I genuinely am going to take a xanax now LOL