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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭the2hurdys


    Dreading the driving this morning (South Tipp) up in hills roads probably be grand once you get down...won't be surprised if local school calls a snow day from what I can see out there...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭worded


    Heavy snow now in Dublin

    Ah just joking “Flake News”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,625 ✭✭✭✭guil


    Good frost on the car this morning and down to -1. Drive to work was fine at 4:20am. Curragh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭Mount Vesuvius


    Latest Met Eireann forecast for Thursday saying rain mostly with snow on hills and mountains. Sounds about right to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    bassy wrote: »
    Stay warm graces7

    Thanks and worry not! My neighbour the ferryman is three fields away and sells me good hand cut turf at a good price, and has a tractor! I am snug and safe which means I can enjoy whatever the weather brings. Made sure of that! ;)

    small communities are good at these times

    Sounds appalling out there just now. shivers!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,349 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    Light snow flurries, turning heavy

    16km west Cork City
    58m asl
    ~0.1c

    Beginning to stick to wet surfaces.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Pops_20


    Has anyone been out driving in cork city? I have work in an hour and I didnt expect to see this much lying snow when I woke up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    I can't see the mountains, although I am sure they are white, but not a flake here in South Kerry. It was a quiet night apart from being woken bu big thunder just after midnight..

    600 ft ASL MacGillycuddy's Reeks - North of Sneem - Kerry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 485 ✭✭KingdomRushed


    Interesting and very significant call made by Met Eireann on tomorrow’s event. Referred to now as ‘rain preceded by snow’. A very different view to what was expected by many


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,959 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Latest Harmonie has shifted the precip north with much more rain than snow.

    I think it is mainly going to be a high ground event but could change again.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Must be higher tides than usual from the greatly increased sounds..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭flas


    Longford Town this am... Its up past the kerbs... I'm taking a snow day... No roads gritted or anything


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Fiery mutant


    Just up for work here outside Kinnegad, couple of cm of snow sitting on the ground while a steady stream of the white stuff falls from the stars.

    Be an interesting drive into work.

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,028 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    Have not had time today to participate or read much of the thread, has there been discussion of the wind gust potential in Cork and Kerry? Guidance seems to indicate potential for winds of 80 to 120 km/hr (ESE backing to ENE). I think it will be a case of waves of mixed precip alternating from phase to phase with very heavy wet snowfall accumulations above 200 metres, significant 50 to 200 metres, melting lower than 50 metres asl. Thoughts appreciated, I do see some similarity to the great snowstorm of April 1-2, 1917 in this trajectory. Might be 1-2 deg warmer than that event, not sure how much snow reduction that would imply. Tough call for forecasters, every parameter very close to marginal for low elevation snow, not much doubt about hill snow however.

    Off topic, but looked at upper air maps in central North America, -40 C at 850 mb west of Chicago now. And -47 at 500 mb. Mega-cold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭Easterly Beasterly


    Interesting and very significant call made by Met Eireann on tomorrow’s event. Referred to now as ‘rain preceded by snow’. A very different view to what was expected by many

    It's a forecast of two halves - starts out quite tame with rain and hill snow but then mentions significant accumulations in Munster and Leinster with little in the way of thaw, it also mentions lying snow and snowfields so it's actually a pretty wintry forecast! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Have not had time today to participate or read much of the thread, has there been discussion of the wind gust potential in Cork and Kerry? Guidance seems to indicate potential for winds of 80 to 120 km/hr (ESE backing to ENE). I think it will be a case of waves of mixed precip alternating from phase to phase with very heavy wet snowfall accumulations above 200 metres, significant 50 to 200 metres, melting lower than 50 metres asl. Thoughts appreciated, I do see some similarity to the great snowstorm of April 1-2, 1917 in this trajectory. Might be 1-2 deg warmer than that event, not sure how much snow reduction that would imply. Tough call for forecasters, every parameter very close to marginal for low elevation snow, not much doubt about hill snow however.

    Off topic, but looked at upper air maps in central North America, -40 C at 850 mb west of Chicago now. And -47 at 500 mb. Mega-cold.


    Great gusts Mayo also all night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭The Nutty M


    Pops_20 wrote: »
    Has anyone been out driving in cork city? I have work in an hour and I didnt expect to see this much lying snow when I woke up.

    Not the city,but came from carrigaline and the roads are not great. Main road not much better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    6 am snowdepths:

    9 cm: Thomastown (Tyrone, 72 m)
    7 cm: Ballypatrick Forest (Antrim, 156 m)
    4 cm: Lough Fea (Derry, 225 m)
    3 cm: Cork Airport (153 m)
    1 cm: Castlederg (Tyrone, 52 m), Knock Airport (205 m)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭Fitzo123


    White gold in Sligo town. About 6-7 cm I'd say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,049 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    6 am snowdepths:

    9 cm: Thomastown (Tyrone, 72 m)
    7 cm: Ballypatrick Forest (Antrim, 156 m)
    4 cm: Lough Fea (Derry, 225 m)
    3 cm: Cork Airport (153 m)
    1 cm: Castlederg (Tyrone, 52 m), Knock Airport (205 m)

    I read that first as 72m of snow

    I should get more sleep


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Interesting and very significant call made by Met Eireann on tomorrow’s event. Referred to now as ‘rain preceded by snow’. A very different view to what was expected by many

    the connaught forecast for tomorrow

    " Some rain and sleet will soon develop falling as snow in places, mainly on mountains. Top temperatures of just 3 or 4"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭derekon


    I read that first as 72m of snow

    I should get more sleep

    LOL!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭KinnegadKid


    Left Kinnegad at 4.55am , couple of cm of snow sitting on the ground , old N4 to dublin only being gritted at that stage. Dublin dry cool and clear 0 degrees..


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Those lucky enough for the white stuff, can you post pics please


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭downwiththatsor


    Villain wrote: »
    Latest Harmonie has shifted the precip north with much more rain than snow.

    I think it is mainly going to be a high ground event but could change again.


    Euro4 hasn't given up hope yet for us in the deep south west 19020100_3000.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭MeTheMan


    Good bit of snow here in Leitrim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,594 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    Euro4 hasn't given up hope yet for us in the deep south west 19020100_3000.gif

    Met Eireann forecast is strange if you read it. Starts off as rain mostly but by the end snow covered fields!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭pauldry


    6cm of snow Sligo town

    Kids delighted

    Still snowing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,625 ✭✭✭✭guil


    White gold falling in Newbridge, Co. Kildare now.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 302 ✭✭dmcsweeney


    Got up, cleared the snow off the car, got a few hundred meters sideways, abandoned ship and walked home. Snow is frozen solid. No morning for RWD.


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