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

Tom Cruises Left Nut · 31-01-2019 03:55PM

The precip seems to be filling in that gap in the Irish Sea and heading in

kittyn · 31-01-2019 03:57PM

Snowing here now

Ticknock

DOCARCH · 31-01-2019 03:57PM

Quick burst of heavy sleet/graupel in Dublin 16. 2.8c DP 0.7c atm.

uck51js9zml2yt · 31-01-2019 03:57PM

davidsr20 wrote: »

Why are u on this tread so?

I'm on it just to annoy the snow huggers

...,............and to decide whether i should go home tonight or tomorrow.

,......and to annoy the snow huggers

Storm 10 · 31-01-2019 03:57PM

Really horrible day in Galway, started raining/sleet around 8am and has not stopped, bitterly cold temp 4 degrees in strong East wind. So where has the snow gone or is that it.

DOCARCH · 31-01-2019 03:59PM

Mod Note: All snow haters and snow lovers are welcome on this forum. Let's try and live in harmony (....and cut out the sniping).

Captain Snow · 31-01-2019 03:59PM

Some Big Snow showers will be coming in off the Irish sea tonight. The 528 Dam line will right over us.

derekon · 31-01-2019 04:00PM

Captain Snow wrote: »

Some Big Snow showers will be coming in off the Irish sea tonight. The 528 Dam line will right over us.

LOL, given them way this winter has gone, I'm expecting NOTHING here in Dublin!!!!

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q85dw7osi4lebg · 31-01-2019 04:01PM

Radar saying Drogheda is under a band of precip, it's bone dry.

Snowbiee21 · 31-01-2019 04:04PM

Captain Snow wrote: »

Some Big Snow showers will be coming in off the Irish sea tonight. The 528 Dam line will right over us.

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Marginal .

Artane2002 · 31-01-2019 04:04PM

DOCARCH wrote: »

Quick burst of heavy sleet/graupel in Dublin 16. 2.8c DP 0.7c atm.

Lol this proves that the precipitation is avoiding me

. Nothing anywhere near heavy here but there's heavy stuff to my north, west and south.

Captain Snow · 31-01-2019 04:05PM

Snowbiee21 wrote: »

Captain Snow wrote: »

Some Big Snow showers will be coming in off the Irish sea tonight. The 528 Dam line will right over us.

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Marginal .

Ray Donovan · 31-01-2019 04:12PM

Travelling across the width of Offaly for the second time today and
Not a snowflake to be seen all day. Well done Midlands Weather Channel (Again)

TTLF · 31-01-2019 04:13PM

3.9C at my station in D14. Not sure if it's my location or if its where my station is at, (only got it recently)

anyway Hail to rain to hail again, its really bizzare. ?

Gaoth Laidir · 31-01-2019 04:16PM

I think that's more or less it now. No real chance of anything of note at low levels. When you look at where our cold is supposed to come from we don't have any. Temperatures in the North, where yesterday's snow depths are pretty much gone today, are all above zero. We're relying purely on radiational cooling this evening to cool the air to cold enough, and that will not happen as much as is needed. Yes, a few spots of wet flakes coming down to low levels, but that'll be the exception rather than the rule this evening and tonight.

Tomorrow's easterly will be from the UK, which is by no means in the freezer at the moment. Any streamers that set up will be the wrong side of marginal for where they hit along the east.

Returning polar maritime air, recycled over and over, just does not cut it.

KingBobby · 31-01-2019 04:16PM

How accurate is the My Altitude app supposed to be? It's putting me at 322m and I would have estimated my being about 50m below that in reality.

I'm on the slopes of the south Dublin mountains here and while the ground is technically white, you couldn't even make a few decent snowballs out of this slushy mess. I hate snow from westerlies!

pad199207 · 31-01-2019 04:16PM

It would want to be a miracle now this evening for snow to stick anywhere that’s low lying.

Gaoth Laidir · 31-01-2019 04:17PM

KingBobby wrote: »

How accurate is the My Altitude app supposed to be? It's putting me at 322m and I would have estimated my being about 50m below that in reality.

I'm on the slopes of the south Dublin mountains here and while the ground is technically white, you couldn't even make a few decent snowballs out of this slushy mess. I hate snow from westerlies!

I have found it spot on, within a metre.

Snowbiee21 · 31-01-2019 04:17PM

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

I think that's more or less it now. No real chance of anything of note at low levels. When you look at where our cold is supposed to come from we don't have any. Temperatures in the North, where yesterday's snow depths are pretty much gone today, are all above zero. We're relying purely on radiational cooling this evening to cool the air to cold enough, and that will not happen as much as is needed. Yes, a few spots of wet flakes coming down to low levels, but that'll be the exception rather than the rule this evening and tonight.

Tomorrow's easterly will be from the UK, which is by no means in the freezer at the moment. Any streamers that set up will be the wrong side of marginal for where they hit along the east.

Returning polar maritime air, recycled over and over, just does not cut it.

@captainsnow the luck is out the window

Glebee · 31-01-2019 04:19PM

Ray Donovan wrote: »

Travelling across the width of Offaly for the second time today and
Not a snowflake to be seen all day. Well done Midlands Weather Channel (Again)

Was his forecast for buckets of snow??? Not a flake down here in Offaly..

nacho libre · 31-01-2019 04:20PM

Well the snow from this morning turned to sleet, and melted all the snow cover, but now with the wind switch it's back to snow again for the last 30 minutes

munsterlegend · 31-01-2019 04:20PM

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

I think that's more or less it now. No real chance of anything of note at low levels. When you look at where our cold is supposed to come from we don't have any. Temperatures in the North, where yesterday's snow depths are pretty much gone today, are all above zero. We're relying purely on radiational cooling this evening to cool the air to cold enough, and that will not happen as much as is needed. Yes, a few spots of wet flakes coming down to low levels, but that'll be the exception rather than the rule this evening and tonight.

Tomorrow's easterly will be from the UK, which is by no means in the freezer at the moment. Any streamers that set up will be the wrong side of marginal for where they hit along the east.

Returning polar maritime air, recycled over and over, just does not cut it.

How is south west UK getting snow? They rarely get much down there.

Ray Donovan · 31-01-2019 04:24PM

Glebee wrote: »

Was his forecast for buckets of snow??? Not a flake down here in Offaly..

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2277367662281755&id=740149726003564

Indeed it was!

Mooro · 31-01-2019 04:25PM

Ray Donovan wrote: »

Travelling across the width of Offaly for the second time today and
Not a snowflake to be seen all day. Well done Midlands Weather Channel (Again)

Are they the ones that forecast 5cm of snow last night

Hasn't stopped raining all day.

tucker1971 · 31-01-2019 04:26PM

Ray Donovan wrote: »

Travelling across the width of Offaly for the second time today and
Not a snowflake to be seen all day. Well done Midlands Weather Channel (Again)

I thought on what I read earlier that they gave snow accumulations across Offaly? As far out as a lighthouse

RobertKK · 31-01-2019 04:27PM

Transitioning to full on snow here on the hills in Kilkenny.

Kamili · 31-01-2019 04:27PM

Ray Donovan wrote: »

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2277367662281755&id=740149726003564

Indeed it was!

Nope that was way off all along, that was never the forecast

nacho libre · 31-01-2019 04:28PM

mountainy man wrote: »

We have had an extra inch of snow since 11 am, right now its intermittent snizzle, bloody cold in the wind.

Report from the great snowy mountains of south east Sligo :cool:

How much do you have in total up there now?

Periscal · 31-01-2019 04:28PM

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

I think that's more or less it now. No real chance of anything of note at low levels. When you look at where our cold is supposed to come from we don't have any.

I have seen plenty of marginal setups for snow in recent years. Apart from Beast from the East, the general success rate from these marginal set ups is like 1 out of 10 for low lying areas on the eastern side of Ireland. But still one has to ask a question even if today would turn in to snow event more widely this would only stay on the ground for a day or two as by Sunday its back to south westerlies.
So not much to loose really from this fail, apart from the fact that pattern is going to reset and winter will be on last legs soon. So much for HLB seasonal fail from many sources.

harr · 31-01-2019 04:31PM

Ray Donovan wrote: »

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2277367662281755&id=740149726003564

Indeed it was!

My own mother cancelled an important hospital appointment in Tullamore today as she was afraid she wouldn’t get home after reading his forecast.
I tried to tell her we were not expecting what he predicted but she said he being a weather channel would know what he is talking about and what would I know.
Before I have seen people ringing into work saying they would not be in after he put graphics with red warnings on it...

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

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