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

Danno · 08-03-2018 02:00AM

Heavy Snow falling in Durrow since midnight, grass and cars and roof tops white. Big flakes at times.

Skedaddle · 08-03-2018 02:02AM

Came through really heavy snow in Tipperary on the M8. It's building up on the road surface.

Very dangerous driving conditions.

patneve2 · 08-03-2018 02:08AM

I knew this slack low would produce at least one unexpected snow event

Skedaddle · 08-03-2018 02:11AM

It was extremely heavy. I couldn't even see the road surface and had to drop to about 50km/h.

There was a covering for snow on both lanes enough to totally obscure the markings and that happened within a few minutes.

Danno · 08-03-2018 02:21AM

Down to +0.4c and fine flakes falling. South Laois.

BLIZZARD7 · 08-03-2018 02:30AM

1.6c In D14, DP at 0c. Dublin airport much colder at -2c. As much as I'd love to see ninja snow here I Don't think the precip will make it.

Danno · 08-03-2018 02:34AM

Pegging it down again. Patchy accumulations on the road now. 0.4c still. South Laois.

RobertKK · 08-03-2018 02:34AM

I went out and measured the snow, it is still pelting it down.
5cm on the concrete surface, 7.5cm on the car.
There is going to be a lot of shocked people around here tomorrow morning.
Looking at the radar, there could be a lot still to come here for north east Kilkenny.

Autosport · 08-03-2018 02:36AM

Snowing here in south Kilkenny too, we still have a lot of snow still left from last week. Should be fun in the morning

splinter65 · 08-03-2018 02:38AM

Snowing heavily in Thurles.

Kermit.de.frog · 08-03-2018 02:38AM

BLIZZARD7 wrote: »

1.6c In D14, DP at 0c. Dublin airport much colder at -2c. As much as I'd love to see ninja snow here I Don't think the precip will make it.

Rain shadow. Ah well.

RobertKK · 08-03-2018 02:42AM

It looks like the snow is stuck in the same area and is dying out slowly.

sdanseo · 08-03-2018 02:43AM

RobertKK wrote: »

I went out and measured the snow, it is still pelting it down.
5cm on the concrete surface, 7.5cm on the car.
There is going to be a lot of shocked people around here tomorrow morning.
Looking at the radar, there could be a lot still to come here for north east Kilkenny.

That's almost a red warning :pac:

What are the odds Gerry was in charge of this forecast

Cold and frosty overnight, with some patches of ice and fog. Showers at times too, with sleet in places and with a little snow on some hills and mountains, especially over parts of Munster and south Leinster early on and in other areas later tonight. Lowest temperatures -2 to plus 2 C.

Kermit.de.frog · 08-03-2018 02:45AM

Could be an "interesting" rush hour around Dublin...

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sdanseo · 08-03-2018 02:47AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Could be an "interesting" rush hour around Dublin...

Can't see temps holding once the sun comes up. Looks like game over now that this band hasn't reached us. Unless of course the wind swings east/southeasterly in which case I'm having another snow day!

bassy · 08-03-2018 02:54AM

Pegging down snow here in north kilkenny

RobertKK · 08-03-2018 02:56AM

We will need the snow plough out again.

bassy · 08-03-2018 03:02AM

Ah its not sticking as roads are wet,only see it on the grass and cars.its turned to a sleety shower now.

RobertKK · 08-03-2018 03:03AM

My satellite signal is gone from a build up of snow on the satellite dish, it will have to wait till morning.

RobertKK · 08-03-2018 03:10AM

bassy wrote: »

Ah its not sticking as roads are wet,only see it on the grass and cars.its turned to a sleety shower now.

Higher up it has stuck everywhere and still coming down hard.
Near 9cm on the car now. over 6cm on the concrete surface.

4ensic15 · 08-03-2018 08:31AM

patneve2 wrote: »

I knew this slack low would produce at least one unexpected snow event

Then it is not unexpected!

Artane2002 · 08-03-2018 09:00AM

Nice, clear, frosty morning in Dublin.

gozunda · 08-03-2018 09:15AM

sdanseo wrote: »

That's almost a red warning :pac:

What are the odds Gerry was in charge of this forecast

And once again the mid Munster area gets a pasting with adverse weather and nothing from the weather forecasts accurately gave proper warning of the event.

I know I've posted about this before before but there are large areas of mid Munster that no ME weather stations with the result that weather details/ variables across a huge swath of Limerick/ North West Cork / Kerry / Waterford/ Klkenny and large tracts of Tipperary don't get accurately recorded or reported. Forecasts ditto.

Woke up to a solid covering of snow this morning - and I'm not an isolated case either looking at the reports on here ..

Not even a mention this morning on the RTE radio weather report ...

:mad:

George Sunsnow · 08-03-2018 09:48AM

Meanwhile near Arklow,it’s also a beautiful morning
However..

https://twitter.com/arklowweather/status/971668211480649729?s=21

DOCARCH · 08-03-2018 09:54AM

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Meanwhile near Arklow,it’s also a beautiful morning. However...

:eek: You would not be allowed spread slurry on the snow in my back garden! :P

Still a good cover of snow to most of my back garden in Dublin 16. Still 6am deep in places.

Whiplashy · 08-03-2018 10:40AM

I was wrong last night. It has stuck! Decent covering of snow here, but thankfully nothing close to the last one. Tipp/Kilkenny border

sryanbruen · 08-03-2018 01:10PM

STATUS YELLOW

Low Temperature Warning for Ireland
Lowest temperatures are expected to fall to between zero and -3 degrees generally, but may fall locally to -4 degrees with a widespread sharp frost.

Issued:Thursday 08 March 2018 11:00
Valid:Friday 09 March 2018 00:01 to Friday 09 March 2018 08:00

sryanbruen · 08-03-2018 02:28PM

NASA's satellite today. You can clearly see the snow covered ground in parts on it - where red is. The red is snow, white is cloud.

snowstreams · 08-03-2018 02:47PM

It looks like the Llŷn Peninsula (South of Anglesea) in wales still has substantial snow cover from that photo.
I wonder did it get much more than wexford.

obriener2054 · 08-03-2018 04:31PM

The snow was great and all but it was back breaking digging out the drive to get the car out ...

What’s this I hear of snow again

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