Storm Eunice - Friday 18th February - Wind & Snow Potential

The UKMO would be great if it came off, but as I mentioned earlier I think it will play out like the latest GFS depicts. I just hope there are no more nudges north, or then it will be just a washout with snow confined to the mountains and we can probably kiss goodbye to the wintry showers Friday afternoon too. It will be real kick in the teeth if we miss out on both a dumping of snow and stormy conditions. Although i think we will get the very strong winds but not the snow Well , I guess some people won't see it as a kick in the teeth if we do miss out 😅

got my nct on friday afternoon in tipperary, should i cancel?😶

No, certainly not as of now. Storm likely to be gone by lunch time. You could have snow but you can cancel at last minute in those circumstances if necessary I assume.

If ya want

A busy Friday morning commute with potential heavy snow in a country where most don't know how to drive in snow is a small bit more than "some weather". People should heed whatever warnings given tomorrow.

We'll see exactly how much disruption occurs, but I don't think it will be at red levels. It will be HYPED to that level alright.

The media will force Met Éireann to go red? What do some posters be smoking...

Met Éireann sit with the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management on a crisis event team whenever these storms arise. They've met a few times this week already. There are, as we know, very fine margins in calling high winds hazards from disruptive to dangerous and, as we also know, when it goes bad, like for Storm Barra, accusations of crying wolf are made.

My guess would be that a very, very late call will be made tomorrow evening on red warnings for 3 or 4 coastal counties, once the storm track is clearer, probably in time for the 6pm news to make sure social media and text alerts can carry it in time as well. The problem is, though the storm will be at its peak of school travel at 9am,it will be blown out by lunchtime and so Met Éireann are largely DITDDITD here.

But don't anyone be foolish enough to think the media will dictate the warning level. That's just crazy talk.

There is not going to be any significant snow in populated areas. May cause some disruption in higher rural locations, but not any place where there is a noticeable rush hour.

If that's a reply to my post then I think you picked it up wrongly. I meant the media will hype the storm to be jaysus, but I don't mean they'll influence M.É.

But there's posters asking about keeping the kids out of school for today

It's too early for any respectable forecaster to make a decision based on current data, but it doesn't stop the new generation from making that call now and demanding schools be closed. That's my point. If Met Éireann issue warnings closer to the time the so be it, but some people love to jump the gun to get a day off.

No, to be fair, the fella referred to 'tomorrow' in a post made after midnight, I took it to mean Friday that he was asking about.

Twitter will be a different story.

That post was at 10 last night, you may be referring to a post quoting it.

Things have downgraded significantly overnight. Its looking a regular type storm now, force 10 about right at its worst. Passes over very quick like just 3 hours.

Snow potential also disappearing primarily because the ppn intensity has backed off. They will be some falling snow but with it being lighter the risk of lying snow has diminished.

As the phrase goes if it's too good to be true it usually is lol

Can't believe that beeb forecast lunchtime yesterday, it now looks totally ott. They have lost huge credibility since they parted ways with Met Office.

Re Cork, stormy between 7 and 10am which still coincides with rush hour! ,Snow potential here best chance early afternoon as a few potential showers move in