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

Lia_lia wrote: »

The footpath outside my house was thawed last night and now it’s covered in snow again!

Yeah but when you look at what some people up the east coast got....which is what we were all meant to get remember!

munsterlegend wrote: »

Snowing away nicely here near Mallow. Looks plenty more on the way once we don't get rain!

Do you have a lot of snow munsterlegend?

leahyl wrote: »

Snowing now where I am but not big flakes or anything....almost like dust particles :-P

i've a funny feeling like me you were expecting wind and blizzards conditions. but at the same time i'm ok with this.

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Red alert needs to be downgraded for most areas. No reason why Dublin should not be more or less fully open for business this morning.

I have 2ft of snow at my front door and there are drifts of 5-6ft in areas

Tried to wade through it got about ten yards but had to turn back as it's a blizzard and you literally can't get a breath horrible feeling

Newcastle Dublin

Massive drifts in Dublin 15 and snowing hard.

Eh, we're gonna need more bread.

Just back from a walk around nutgrove and it's a blizzard out there.

Ok, who has a metre?

sunbabe08 wrote: »

i've a funny feeling like me you were expecting wind and blizzards conditions. but at the same time i'm ok with this.

Well yes seeing as it was the main focus of the forecast!!

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Reports on here suggest some heavy falls around SW Dublin 14-16-24. Even then localised as people in Rathfarnham saying they got nothing much.

The reality is this has been very different from the forecast last night. Are you denying that ?

Just to say there is plenty of snow in Rathfarnham.

It is red level here.
The wind has been picking up giving whiteout conditions in the stronger gusts, and the snow intensity has increased. The severity here on the hills north east of Kilkenny has definitely picked up in the last half hour.

Will be posting a forecast around 0800h, taking a while to work my way through the complexity of this storm.

Watching recent satellite animation, it was clear that the centre of the storm stalled off Brest, France and almost got pushed back slightly as the very strong easterly winds ahead of the storm are holding back its progress. This does not mean that the storm will "miss" Ireland as the storm is a whole set of cloud from frontal structures out ahead of the centre, and all of that will just sit in place until something changes to move it along. Think of it this way, instead of some moving Atlantic system that moves across the country in an organized way (albeit east to west in this case), we have a complex of sea effect mega-streamers that will only be shifted or terminated when the pressure gradient changes, and with Emma stalled, and the east winds howling across Wales and Cornwall, these mega-streamers will remain in place, sometimes they waver a little so not everybody gets the same weather hour after hour, but where there is a shadow effect as some places west of the Wicklow Mountains may be experiencing, that will likely remain in place until maybe this afternoon when there begins to be some motion westward of all this slow-moving energy.

Also, while early guidance was suggesting a weakening trend, the later model guidance has moved to a different track that continues slowly north until a jog to the west, and then some weakening after that.

I think the net effect of all this will be to maintain the status quo of weather you see for several more hours, followed by changes that any simple forecast will be inadequate to address, your best bet today is going to be to keep watching the radar and reports of other boards members to your east and expect some very slow westward progress of all the features -- so it could turn into stupendous amounts of snow in some places and very little in others.

wakka12 wrote: »

Think you need to look beyond your back garden portmarnock. The forecast wasn't wrong , here in south Dublin in rathgar the snow levels now are similar to the levels during the peak of 2010 snow around Christmas Day , the red level warning is warranted

Have been looking at thread and read reports from South Dublin and rest of country I was specifically asking if anywhere in North Dublin was hit heavily by Emma. Being beside the sea we always get less snow so just curios!

Met Eireann have just lifted the stay indoors advice.

Some of you guys just don't like me calling it like it is :cool:

Limerick city, 9 hours of light snow non stop. Measured 5 cm (2 inches) on car roof, might be more elsewhere as some snow would have blown off.

Moderate snow now but seems a bit wetter. Consistency on the ground still fairly powdery but perfect for snowmen, not just dry dust.

Looks like if we are lucky, no let up here till the evening, but slow and steady accumulation