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Snow Ice Warning for Ireland 29 Jan to 03 Feb 2019 *See Mod Note in OP *

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    #1112
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭pad199207


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    The gfs p is showing about a foot of snow for Southern Ireland on Thursday. I'm very confident that the south Midlands will see a red warning but Met Eireann will delay as long as possible to try get it right. If we do get a red warning it would be truly extraordinary considering it's an Atlantic system with little proper cold preceding it.

    And if a red warning is called the smugness from you will be unbearable :P :-D


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    #1113
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    pad199207 wrote: »
    And if a red warning is called the smugness from you will be unbearable :P :-D

    We’d have to set up a boards-P site I reckon.


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    #1114
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    This is probably the best I've seen regarding Thursday!

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    #1115
    Dank Janniels
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Dank Janniels


    Whats the story for the weekend? Iv a big drinking sesh planned and its been a long Dry January!! (See what I did there!!??)


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    #1116
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,297 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Don't get why some people love having snow.

    It makes commutes, school runs, etc treacherous and dangerous.

    Why would you want to make travel more dangerous for the population?


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    #1117
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,680 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Danno wrote: »
    Galway Bay is to Cork tonight is what the Irish Sea is to Dublin in an easterly tonight.

    We get snow off the Irish sea too like we did last year, has to be the *perfect* wind though. Much nicer snow too, this stuff is barely sticking!


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    #1118
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users Posts: 13,540 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Why would you want to make travel more dangerous for the population?

    I don't think anybody wants to wish that....

    Photography site - https://www.sryanbruenphoto.com/

    Weather photo portfolio - https://sryanbruen.myportfolio.com/weather-1



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    #1119
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,831 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Bear in mind that red warning for Emma was called because a true blizzard with expected (i.e. force 8 wind+)....and....up to 1.0 metre of snow!

    We will not see a red warning for snow this week!


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    #1120
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    The gfs p is showing about a foot of snow for Southern Ireland on Thursday. I'm very confident that the south Midlands will see a red warning but Met Eireann will delay as long as possible to try get it right. If we do get a red warning it would be truly extraordinary considering it's an Atlantic system with little proper cold preceding it.

    Even Kermit isn't calling a red


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    #1121
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,680 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Don't get why some people love having snow.

    It makes commutes, school runs, etc treacherous and dangerous.

    Why would you want to make travel more dangerous for the population?

    Because *we* aren't making travel more dangerous nature is, we don't really control it. If it shows snow we will get excited, this is the weather forum where any kind of extreme weather excited people. Especially after the drab January we just had with constant grey skies and mildness


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    #1122
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,879 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    irishfeen wrote: »
    So this is what the Metrogroup via the BBC are forecasting for Thursday - still keeping the front turning to snow just after hitting landfall... this is going to get interesting!

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    Wow, that would be pretty rough if it all unfolded like that.


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    #1123
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,576 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    54-574PUK.GIF?29-12


    Thursday remains a super pickle. Narrow margins. Someone is going to get plastered.

    But as per the GFS-p run if we want snow at the coast these are the temperatures we need in the Irish sea.

    54-580PUK.GIF?29-12

    My rule here is once sea surface temps go above 4c with an onshore breeze it's game over but some models including the ECM and GFS now keeping us within the range that could possibly allow snow regardless of the breeze. But like I say narrow margins.


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    #1124
    vistafinder
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Except it’s dripping snow compared to the easterly white gold :P

    Exactly. We had about 7 showers today good heavy ones. Went for a walk this evening in the slush and about a half a mm of it was still left on the ground by the time I finished.

    Got a covering after dark again went out for blocks and its dripping away even still my footprints are still expanding since.

    After last years snow its hard to get excited.

    If Thursday is a flop. We have seen it plenty times before.
    A bit of higher ground walking should be good until Sunday by the look of it.


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    #1125
    JanuarySnowstor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Interesting that Met Eireann website is telling us few if any showers in East and South tonight. Yet Cork is and will continue to get more snow than any part of the country. These guys get paid like and ita quite inaccurate for Cork


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    #1126
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,257 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    White over (just) in south tipp.


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    #1127
    Virtanen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Virtanen


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Interesting that Met Eireann website is telling us few if any showers in East and South tonight. Yet Cork is and will continue to get more snow than any part of the country. These guys get paid like and ita quite inaccurate for Cork
    Update: Very cold this week with showers of hail, sleet and snow, frequent across the southwest, west and north, where some significant accumulations are possible this evening and overnight. There will be widespread frost with icy stretches on untreated surfaces.
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    #1128
    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Car bonnet watch from Sligo, right at sea level:

    15 mins ago the car bonnet was frozen solid under clear skies...right now it's snowing proper snow, but the car bonnet has thawed again...that goes to show just how marginal it is because that snow ain't sticking


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    #1129
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    Dank Janniels wrote: »
    Whats the story for the weekend? Iv a big drinking sesh planned and its been a long Dry January!! (See what I did there!!??)

    Where are you living? Roads in all built up areas will be clear by Friday and Saturday. High ground and local routes might still be tricky. Especially with hard frost.

    Will you have a few Dank Janniels?:)


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    #1130
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users Posts: 3,034 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Was going to clear the snow off the car for the morning, but looking at the radar there's no point!
    Nothing of significance on the roads though.


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    #1131
    Marengo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Marengo


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Well Cork snowfans I promised you snow last night and it has indeed worked out. Met Eireann gave little hope for the South last night.
    If my red alert comes off for Thursday it'll be some forecast!!

    Free pints from the most pessimistic snow forecasters for the rest of the winter:)


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    #1132
    mr_cochise
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭mr_cochise


    pad199207 wrote:
    I’d say the only thing to delay you will be the Naas Bypass roadworks


    Oh yeah, forgot about those!


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    #1133
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users Posts: 21,873 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Enjoy the snow , those of ye who got some !
    Frosty night here in Laois , car frozen over . That's the extent of my weather updates :D


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    #1134
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,576 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


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    #1135
    jArgHA
    Registered Users Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭jArgHA


    Since 6pm I have been monitoring temperature in my back garden in Cork city. The lowest it has gone has been 0.5C during / after a sleety shower, but after each it creeps up again and is currently at 1.5C.

    Minimal amounts (< 1cm) of sleet / snow on table in back garden, but nothing of note on the grass, and nothing freezing yet.


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    #1136
    squarecircles
    Registered Users Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    dont fear,siobhan will work her magic.:D:D:D





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    #1137
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,831 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Showers looking more beefy over Ulster now. Maybe Dublin might get a bit of sprinkle later.


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    #1138
    Pops_20
    Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Pops_20


    Am I the only one that's spotted the face in post #1124?:rolleyes:


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    #1139
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    looks like Cavan, Monaghan and possibly Louth might see some snow showers tonight from that big train of snow showers over Donegal and Fermanagh.

    Dublin, Meath and Kildare not really on track for anything, very long land track from north Mayo.


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    #1140
    Monkeynut
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Monkeynut


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Showers looking more beefy over Ulster now. Maybe Dublin might get a bit of sprinkle later.


    Hopefully we get the steam of their P***. Yay....


    :D


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    #1141
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Remember folks, the ground is still relatively warm following the prolonged mild spell. Soil temperatures are around 4c to 7c, mildest in the southwest. This will take time to get out of the ground, which is why snow is not settling easily, or melting underneath.


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