Cold Spell - Feb 7th to 13th 2021 - Chat

watlantic · 11-02-2021 04:58PM

You could almost call it a blizzard here in the Westport area - well not by international standards, but it would count as such in the west of Ireland I reckon

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The snow is now being dumped and whipped about by SE winds gusting around 25 knots, sometimes being lifted off the ground to be dumped in another mini drift. Not great accumulations yet, but all sticking now.
With the he situation and the data I'm getting my (private) predictions are confirmed, and yet I'm surprised :eek:
Rel. humidity now is 97%, the temperature has held steady for nearly an hour at minus -0.4ºC, dew point -7.9ºC, and the wind has suddenly backed E with an 18.5 knot gust.
I'll post another image later - weather permitting

bazlers · 11-02-2021 05:00PM

Looks interesting out west.

mickger844posts · 11-02-2021 05:00PM

I think what we can take out of this event is don't use the models as gospel but just a guide of what could happen.
Also if anything can go wrong it more than likely will go wrong in these type of marginal set ups.

pad199207 · 11-02-2021 05:00PM

Do Mayo and Galway people own cameras?

redsteveireland · 11-02-2021 05:01PM

Back in Galway city, very light snow, drip drip.

Mr Velo · 11-02-2021 05:02PM

Mr Velo wrote: »

Pitiful attempt at snow here in Galway.
To look outside you'd say "oh wow it's snowing" - but then you look at the cars, look at the driveway / road and nothing sticking. Bit sticking in the grass alright, but other than it hitting you in the face it's like a damn rainy day.

She's hammering down now and sticking alright. North Galway.

Oneiric 3 · 11-02-2021 05:02PM

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Not really. About 100m to 150m is my guess. I live nearby.

That's still very high though.

Gonzo · 11-02-2021 05:02PM

precipitation seems to be intensifying over Wicklow near Arklow, anything to report from there?

Tyrone212 · 11-02-2021 05:03PM

Parts of Connacht the place to be today.

glack · 11-02-2021 05:03PM

pad199207 wrote: »

Do Mayo and Galway people own cameras?

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I’m in north Mayo. It’s snowing lightly, nothing sticking. So windy that the snow is horizontal and there’s nowhere near enough of it to stick.

lawred2 · 11-02-2021 05:04PM

Whatever about snow it's bloody cold out here in North Dublin

ZeroSum76 · 11-02-2021 05:05PM

Gonzo wrote: »

precipitation seems to be intensifying over Wicklow near Arklow, anything to report from there?

I'm in Arklow at the moment. No sign of anything yet but the skies to the south look like there might be something cooking.

Bio Mech · 11-02-2021 05:05PM

typhoony wrote: »

wasnt someone here calling a red warning for north Cork, although i think he\she was discredited. and next day was no mention from that person except to say that some other area would get a severe dumping of snow

its almost as if you cant really 100% trust everyone on the internet.

R.F. · 11-02-2021 05:05PM

Gonzo wrote: »

precipitation seems to be intensifying over Wicklow near Arklow, anything to report from there?

I am just down the road in Gorey and nothing here yet...

Liberalbrehon · 11-02-2021 05:05PM

Going forward, no forecaster should call snow in this country until there is already a foot of it on the ground

adocholiday · 11-02-2021 05:07PM

Gonzo wrote: »

precipitation seems to be intensifying over Wicklow near Arklow, anything to report from there?

South of Rathdrum here, nothing falling at the moment but the skies are a very dark grey

Gonzo · 11-02-2021 05:07PM

The netweather radar looks interesting between Rathdrum and Wicklow town. Precipitation looks reasonably heavy there.

kegg · 11-02-2021 05:07PM

glack wrote: »

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I’m in north Mayo. It’s snowing lightly, nothing sticking. So windy that the snow is horizontal and there’s nowhere near enough of it to stick.

The same here in foxford.

ZeroSum76 · 11-02-2021 05:08PM

Liberalbrehon wrote: »

Going forward, no forecaster should call snow in this country until there is already a foot of it on the ground

As someone said several tens of pages back, boards for chat, met for forecasts.

DOCARCH · 11-02-2021 05:08PM

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

That's still very high though.

42m according to my research.

Wombatman · 11-02-2021 05:09PM

Athenry

TonyMaloney · 11-02-2021 05:09PM

Gonzo wrote: »

The netweather radar looks interesting between Rathdrum and Wicklow town. Precipitation looks reasonably heavy there.

The UK's Met office radar has Wicklow under far more heavy stuff than met.ie suggests

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation/rainfall-radar#?map=Rainfall&fcTime=1613015700&zoom=7&lon=-5.12&lat=53.09

barney 20v · 11-02-2021 05:09PM

Pretzill wrote: »

I don't think the forecast has been all that wrong, so far, I do think the threat of a little snow was hyped up to bejaysus particularly by Virgin Media, who keep showing library pictures of proper snow events as they try to hype up this - their weather man even had a legend showing how much snow is predicted. Silly stuff really - it was always a yellow warning and even then not for the entire country.

Fair points, that said, it was a yellow for South leinster counties and 5cm upwards was forecast.

0 cm was recorded

The SE was forecast to be one of the worst areas but its unaffected.

Seymour20 · 11-02-2021 05:09PM

Would say about 2cm here and still coming down nicely.
Outside Westport.

Grogu1983 · 11-02-2021 05:11PM

Nothing here now in Tinahely and I'd be near carlow/arklow.

Fingers crossed we get something soon

Lip Out · 11-02-2021 05:12PM

Gonzo wrote: »

The netweather radar looks interesting between Rathdrum and Wicklow town. Precipitation looks reasonably heavy there.

Nothing here in Wicklow yet. Webcam below (looking north towards Dublin).

http://www.wicklowcam.com/

Humberto Salazar · 11-02-2021 05:13PM

We haven't had an ounce of luck with this so called cold spell. With all the synoptics we had, it should have delivered but didn't. If it's climate change at play, good luck, we'll never get a severe winter more than one a century if that. Snowfall is getting rarer. Frosts are not as severe or widespread generally anymore. We're reduced to squinting for gnat sized snizzle or whatever some poster called it earlier. Bah.

Rebelbrowser · 11-02-2021 05:13PM

barney 20v wrote: »

Fair points, that said, it was a yellow for South leinster counties and 5cm upwards was forecast.

0 cm was recorded

The SE was forecast to be one of the worst areas but its unaffected.

Yeah I can't recall anyone or anything suggesting 0cm in Carlow. Mad stuff.

speckle · 11-02-2021 05:13PM

Seymour20 wrote: »

Would say about 2cm here and still coming down nicely.
Outside Westport.

Whats the beautiful scupture for in the middle photo...the famine? Looks like a ghost ship from the Artic!

Scuid Mhór · 11-02-2021 05:14PM

This is underwhelming.

Cold Spell - Feb 7th to 13th 2021 - Chat

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