Winter 2022-23 - General Discussion

Supercell · 17-01-2023 04:33PM

Have a work colleague based near Giants Causeway and he says they are getting buried there, he's quite concerned.

Oscar Bravo · 17-01-2023 04:38PM

The wind at Donegal airport has gone a bit more to the north west and both temperature and dew point have shot up.

EIDL 171500Z 31023KT 9999 FEW030 05/00 Q0991

Dazler97 · 17-01-2023 04:42PM

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Current temperatures, I'm just about in the 1c, hopefully later on it will be colder and heavier

nacho libre · 17-01-2023 04:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120599#Comment_120120599

How many inches has accumulated up there in Donegal now?

pauldry · 17-01-2023 04:51PM

The Northwesterly will kill it. 3c tonight hail and sleet. The back end of showers more snowy away from coasts but all gone very sleety in Northwest with the heavier precipitation mixed with wind

timmyntc · 17-01-2023 04:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120707#Comment_120120707

temperature has warmed, its all sleet/rain now

nacho libre · 17-01-2023 04:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120728#Comment_120120728

The dreaded warm sectors. Are you near the coast?

NIMAN · 17-01-2023 05:07PM

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I measured 6cm on the driveway earlier.

Graces7 · 17-01-2023 05:09PM

The vista of mountains and low clouds is breathtaking. There is snow atop and further down than a day ago and where cloud ends and snow starts is a mystery. A white merging. I will try to get photos tomorrow.

West Mayo offshore

highdef · 17-01-2023 05:26PM

Looking at the cameras around the house near Ardagh, Longford, there is light snow falling with a temperature of 0° and it's readily sticking. House is at about 100m ASL.

.Donegal. · 17-01-2023 05:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120707#Comment_120120707

Still the same as about 1pm 7/8cm. Had a graupel shower that turned to snow on the back edge within in the last 30 minutes. I’m inland probably different around the coast. Temperature just a nudge above 0c.

Met office forecast showers turning to rain along the North coast but snow continuing inland.

JCX BXC · 17-01-2023 05:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120666#Comment_120120666

Back down to 3°c at 4:30pm as the wind backs more northerly

LaoisWeather · 17-01-2023 05:45PM

Interesting UKMO fax for tomorrow. - Some east coast fun?

nacho libre · 17-01-2023 05:47PM

I see a polar low is forecast for parts of Scotland with heavy snow this evening. It started off so well, with the snow sticking and the showers were frequent, but since then there have been too few of them. We need an organised band of showers to come down over the country tonight.

Dazler97 · 17-01-2023 05:48PM

More organised snow coming into Donegal

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pauldry · 17-01-2023 05:51PM

Unfortunately the North Coast usually covers North Mayo and Sligo too. Can see the rainy stuff to the North on netweather.

pauldry · 17-01-2023 05:53PM

Last few hours in Sligo

2c 1pm

3c 2pm

4c 3pm

3c 4pm

4c 430pm

LaoisWeather · 17-01-2023 05:58PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120121001#Comment_120121001

If you visit xcweather.co.uk and go to the animation tab, then up it to 12hrs for a better history, you can see that it was only this afternoon you got a breeze in off the bay bringing in marine air and rising those temperatures. The winds look set to turn northerly later though and then coming of the Donegal snowfields should lower your temperatures.

.Donegal. · 17-01-2023 06:06PM

Snowing. Bit of breeze for the first time today

babybuilder · 17-01-2023 06:08PM

Snow gone off branches of trees here now, a sure sign of a slight thaw in the last two hours. Feels colder as a result of the melting

Gonzo · 17-01-2023 06:23PM

Band of rain and sleet moving down from the north, will it make it here intact or disappear just as it crosses the border and warmer uppers moving south also, probably very marginal for low level snow. The colder uppers will return tomorrow afternoon before things start to become progressively milder from Thursday.

lorrscann · 17-01-2023 06:30PM

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Lived up in Blackhead, Whitehead Co Antrim in 1967/68 and remember we were totally snowed in and could not go to school for about 2 weeks! When it snows in Antrim, it really snows. Have never seen such snow since. My brother fell into a drift when we tried to walk up the cliff path from Whitehead one day.

Billcarson · 17-01-2023 06:31PM

Here in Ashbourne she's just gone below, an hr and a half earlier then yesterday.

Gonzo · 17-01-2023 06:36PM

Frost didn't leave the ground today in Dunshaughlin despite the very sunny conditions. Looking at the GFS 12z after a brief warm up over Friday and weekend high pressure really gets going over us for the remainder of January and into the start of February with plenty of frosty nights and fairly low daytime temperatures, proper inversion. If this ends up with frost and fog then maybe an ice day or 2 could be expected, despite the mild uppers.

.Donegal. · 17-01-2023 06:39PM

Warning updated to include more counties

Status Yellow - Snow/Ice warning for Cavan, Monaghan, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Scattered sleet and snow showers with some accumulations possible. Icy stretches likely.

Valid: 17:16 Tuesday 17/01/2023 to 09:00 Wednesday 18/01/2023

Issued: 17:16 Tuesday 17/01/2023

.Donegal. · 17-01-2023 06:51PM

It got milder for 1 hour but colder again and snowing heavy big flakes

Robwindstorm · 17-01-2023 07:01PM

Lovely sunny day in Meath alright Gonzo, but it's bitter cold with that breeze. I wonder will that showery band give us a flurry here? Anyone know the minimum temperature last night, I know it was -7 in castlederg at one stage and -6 at a few stations. Last night's frost penetrated the ground quite hard.