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

Colder weather for Emma meant smaller powdery snow, you always get larger flakes when its a marginal situation due to higher water content.

The same here most likely. I am not seeing many posts from the likes of squarecircles and others in the North West, which would suggest there are not significant accumulations in many places further north. The fact the orange warning has been lifted for all but the east is telling . I would love to be pleasantly surprised but i don't see many areas in Connacht, bar high ground getting 10 to 20 cms of snow. This is not to downplay that this event has delivered for other areas further south, and may well do so later on in the east . Giveitholly made a good point earlier, forecasting what happens with snow can catch the best out!

"Dublin under an orange warning for snow now, do we need to send a 'work from home' email to team"?

I check the site and its already down

I will tell you what Met Eireann are fairly trigger happy applying and removing warnings in such short periods of time. One things for sure, I know I was right not to mention the S word to my kids!! ha ha

Which Dublin though. I'm sure South County Dublin should get a bit. Takes a lot for here in the city centre.

I remember that well, my mother collected me from Primary school and we headed to town, in the lashing rain. Sure by the time we where heading home, the bus couldn't get any further than Newlands Cross for the snow, we had to get off and walk home... we live up by where liffey valley is now.... still haven't gotten the cold out of my bones 30 years later 😂

Ah I see that now! Still not saying 'owt to the kids however. Lol

You're mistaken.

The front page of the Met Éireann site shows a composite of two sequential Orange warnings, Leinster including Dublin is under one from this evening.

Ah my mistake. I should have checked it myself first. I would still be of the view the Orange Warning is not merited for many areas in Connacht . This issue has come up before, especially in the bigger counties , where one area maybe be experiencing conditions warranting a warning whilst other locations are clearly not.

Probably a stupid question but what does "ASL" mean?

Miserable sleet in Galway city.

And a couple more.