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

Snowing heavily here aherlow Co tipper ary. Has started to stick

Not getting the giving out about clearing paths. They cleared roads first and are no working back to clear the mounds/ paths. Well that's the obvious plan around here as to how things have gone.

Not every road clear yet though, for the doubters. The cleared roads were icy this morning and was looking like a harder frost after a decent thaw today...

Special shout out to the bus companies bringing tours up despite the call for it to be local access only, and , the local bus companies have been holding off because roads were too narrow.

https://twitter.com/CorkSafetyAlert/status/971506647637118976

Edit: Weathercheck got there first!!

HIRLAM wants a more substantial band to cross from NW to SE overnight.

It looks as though it will be cold enough in some parts and over high ground for this to be snow if it did occur but max 2-4cm

(see image posted above, no point posting it again)

sdanseo wrote: »

Edit: Weathercheck got there first!!

HIRLAM wants a more substantial band to cross from NW to SE overnight.

It looks as though it will be cold enough in some parts and over high ground for this to be snow if it did occur but max 2-4cm

(see image posted above, no point posting it again)

Id ignore it though as it has totally different orientation of current precip over Munster!

Weathercheck wrote: »

Id ignore it though as it has totally different orientation of current precip over Munster!

The Met.ie 3hr is showing a band pushing in off the NW at 1am as well which is a mix of HIRLAM and Harmonie right?

sdanseo wrote: »

The Met.ie 3hr is showing a band pushing in off the NW at 1am as well which is a mix of HIRLAM and Harmonie right?

It is an absolute nowcast situation, with such a slack low pressure system, the hourly HIRLAM on met.ie is useless.

Watch the radar, satellite and obs for this one.

Heavy snow falling in Fethard Co Tipp, starting to stick, flakes nearly the size of a saucer, I kid you not!!

Snowing here in north Kilkenny.

ps200306 wrote: »

The only time I was up Galtymore was in heavy snow sometime during the 90s. One of our party took a turn and we dug him a snow hole to shelter in while we went up top. Can't remember the year but there were three foot snow drifts, as well as some bare patches in places exposed to the howling, freezing wind. Those spots were frozen so hard I couldn't kick stones off the ground to use as weights for a wind shield for the kerosene stove. Please do post your pics if you get up there.

Sorry, only just looking back over posts. Never made it. Gutted.

Jim Gazebo wrote: »

Hold on, is there another beast from the east?? Seen the snow reports there, could you just imagine fellas getting up for work tomorrow to a blanket of snow ������ there would be havoc

Its called #pestfromthewest .. really

Echoing the thanks. I'm a bit clueless when it comes to the weather, but I've learned a lot from this thread. I really appreciate how those with the knowledge explained things for the rest of us.

It's snowing here again at the moment. The ground is far too wet for it to land. I only noticed because I had to go downstairs and the velux window on the landing has a nice covering. For once I'm not disappointed that it's not going to land! Tipp/Kilkenny border.

This is giving a really decent deposit of snow, whether one wanted it or not...

MassINeverHad wrote: »

I'm on the Tipp/KK border too. Tipp side of Urlingford and it's snowing and lodging here now. I went out to get the dogs and nearly had a heart attack. According to google weather it's a 'heavy snowstorm'

Maybe I'll wake up to a surprise in the morning! I'm not far from Callan, so a good bit down the road from you.