Saturday/Sunday Wintry Potential

Heavy sleet in North Clare now, there goes my day up the coast.
No way will i chance a drive, can get treacherous on some of those roads after heavy hail etc

I went for a short walk outside with the camera and it feels colder than the last snow event. The wind is fierce and goes right through you. My hands were in pain after just 5 minutes.

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Cork airport TAF now forecasting light snow showers from 4pm, first time there hasn't been rain next to it. Oooh

I would be surprised if it snows down here but wait and see.

Heavy hail near Mountmellick. Would be tricky driving conditions. Weather quite erratic.
Snow flurries last night around 1230, after heavy sleet. Snow flurries again at 830am.
Slieve Bloom moderately covered in snow.

Very blustery here in South Co Limerick, there's a fierce wind chill with it, the sky looks to be threatening some sort of precipitation whatever form that will take as the day goes on

Midday, very windy.


Mace head gusting 55 knots
Finner gusting 49 knots
Casement gusting 46 knots

Nicely raining in cork city.. sigh

Very light snow flurries here now in South Limerick

Snowing constantly now near the Wicklow gap. Graupel type snow, turning the place white with the wind behind it. Only the mountain tops above 300m were covered this morning. That's changing rapidly.

Thunder and heavy hailstones in Carlow Town

Snowing now in South Tipp

Cw85 wrote: »

Has now turned to light snow and its 7 degrees

Science going out the window!!

Those big convective cells really dragging down the precipitation. Snowing at stupid temperatures.

If only we could get a direct northerly blast rather than a watered down WNW'ly.
All those charts than Sryan posted in the statistics forum show that in past winters even an average winter (1950s and 60s) could deliver potent northerlies but it seems those days are gone, we haven't seen winter high latitude blocking in years as the Arctic ice shrinks and as ridiculous as this might sound I would almost write off next winter already. It seems to me that as the Arctic warms North America winters are getting more severe which of course fires up the North Atlantic. I feel that we need to see a recovery of Arctic ice in order to get an old fashioned winter!
Moan over and time to turn on the telly to get an update on Tuesday's storm on the week ahead forecast.