Cold Spell (of depth and duration uncertain!) starting Tuesday 7th March

Woke to falling snow just south of Kilkenny city, has turned to rain in the last 15 minutes or so and no precipitation at all as I type now.

Obligatory car photo 😁

Couldn’t stop to take a photo this morning as there was a car behind me. The mountains look the same, only difference is the sky is grey.

The car didn’t need de-icing either.

Left Carlow for work this morning at 7:30am, wet snow, not sticking, 2 degrees on car.

Climbed hill on M9 towards Baltitore, real white flakes, sticking to grass.

Passed Kilcullen & it was basically rain, 3 degrees on car thermometer.

Shows how localised these events can be

So much for the snow in Dublin lol just raining

Wet snow in Naas earlier. Not sticking because ground is too wet.

Heat rising from the high soil temperature beneath.

The grass insulates from this so it cools quicker

snow in Listowel but the slushy stuff. Will be gone in a few hours

Rain was never really in the forecast for Dublin during daylight hours today (bar up a few hundred metres in the southern hills), with rain transitioning to a wintry mix later this evening with snow likely in Dublin late this evening as the wraparound occlusion moves across and winds in the Dublin area (and other east coast areas) become off-shore, which means that the warmer maritime mix is lost and colder air with lower dew points reach the city.

The snow shield is at its strongest down here.

There's light snow in Longford @100m ASL, barely sticking to grass and rooves.Temperature is between 0° and 1°. Needs more intensity to overcome the warmish ground in order to stick and accumulate.

Meanwhile in Trim, the temperature was 1.4° about 45 minutes ago but there's a slow and noticeable rise in temperature, currently 1.7°. The marine influence looks to be taking hold even this far inland although it was to be expected. Precipitation is alternating regularly between light rain, light sleet and light snow........again, pretty much as forecast for this location.