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

Gonzo · 09-03-2023 03:15PM

The heavy rain here is starting to turn much more to sleet with an increase in wet flakes. I'm about 90m ASL. I'd imagine another 50 to 80 meters or so higher and this would be very close to proper snow.

redsteveireland · 09-03-2023 03:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335235#Comment_120335235

snowfest?

Le Bruise · 09-03-2023 03:18PM

Tried to warn the young lad last night that we probably won't have snow this morning (Wicklow Town)...but he had been well and truly convinced by his school friends that it was a sure thing. The cry of anguish when he woke up to pouring rain...😥

Here's hoping we get a bit of a dusting tonight, but I certainly won't be over egging it. The Wicklow coastline really isn't known for it's snow days!

Ragwort and Stones · 09-03-2023 03:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335240#Comment_120335240

That's a very good sign. Give it till about 5pm and it should be snowing over much of Dublin.

Pretzill · 09-03-2023 03:22PM

Beginning to stick now in South Sligo been snowing for about an hour and a half - very cold.

90m asl South Sligo

nacho libre · 09-03-2023 03:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335004#Comment_120335004

It has snowed since earlier this morning. I am not on high ground either. The issue is the temperature is just too high for it to stick in many places . I should have stuck with my gut instinct that the temperatures were not going to be cold enough to deliver settling snow. If we had colder air entrenched and colder uppers we could have got away with it, but you are essentially right at this time of year we need conditions to be just perfect for snow to settle widely. If this had occurred in January, or even in early February, we probably would have seen the accumulation figures mentioned in the run up to this. We would also be enjoying an ice day after the fall . Maybe with an Easterly qb and a moderate El Nino, next winter will deliver something in the heart of winter!

Meteorite58 · 09-03-2023 03:24PM

ECM 06Z sticking to its guns, will be interesting to see how well it transitions to snow as the front swings from the Western to the Eastern side of the country. Look at all that cold air being dragged in by the Lp.

highdef · 09-03-2023 03:25PM

Increasingly intense band of precipitation heading just east of North, currently orientated from Ennis to Clonmel. I'd say it's mainly sleet and wet snow away from high ground but as that pushes north, I'd expect many central parts of the country to begin to see some appreciative snowfall and if over about 100m ASL, all the better.

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awec · 09-03-2023 03:27PM

Mid Clare, I'd say 90% of the snow is now gone.

Ragwort and Stones · 09-03-2023 03:27PM

Some more pics South East Laois. 1pm.

Gonzo · 09-03-2023 03:29PM

Turning more towards sleet/snow now with less in the way of cold rain.

Thewife · 09-03-2023 03:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335092#Comment_120335092

Those are probably the most beautiful photos I have ever seen , amazing 👏🏻

Apothic_Red · 09-03-2023 03:36PM

The rain in Naas got a bit whiter for a while but now it's back watery again, this is on a knife edge, car said 3 degrees at lunchtime.

kerrycork13 · 09-03-2023 03:40PM

Where are tou bud?

King of Spades · 09-03-2023 03:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335240#Comment_120335240

I’m about 150 meters asl out the road from you in Tara and it’s all snow now again (was sleet since about 9). Still quite wet snow but sticking on the grass, cars etc.

kerrycork13 · 09-03-2023 03:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335240#Comment_120335240

Whereabouts are you Gonzo?

highdef · 09-03-2023 03:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335354#Comment_120335354

All snow furth west from you in Trim now albeit light enough and not even remotely cool enough nor heavy enough to accumulate on anything.

Larbre34 · 09-03-2023 03:56PM

Its an excellent trend, if we can get the air to cool ahead of sundown it'll make for a plastering this evening when the front curls away back SE and the NE wind peps up.

Knock at 0c and Valentia at 12c at 14.00. Just shows how marginal this event is for just about everybody.

Supercell · 09-03-2023 03:59PM

Just back from collecting the kids from school, the foothills of Three Rock are very white looking, looks like higher areas of the Wicklow /Dublin mountain chain are doing well.

Any reports from Roundwood in Wicklow this afternoon?

slayer91 · 09-03-2023 04:00PM

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Ennis - Kilrush road, Co Clare.

WolfeEire · 09-03-2023 04:00PM

Would say the system has now stalled in its northward push and will now slowly begin to spin away to the eastsoutheast.

Call me Al · 09-03-2023 04:04PM

Left Dunboyne there at 2.15 and am up in D15 now.

Not a flake anywhere.

If anything the rain has become heavier.

nacho libre · 09-03-2023 04:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335324#Comment_120335324

That must be what I am under now. As the snow is quite heavy now, but alas its still not sticking.

nacho libre · 09-03-2023 04:07PM

Pity it wasn't windy now as it would be blizzard like.

adam240610 · 09-03-2023 04:11PM

Went for a pretty miserable, cold run in the moderate sleety rain in greystones, definitely starting to get colder now with a lightening easterly breeze

DOCARCH · 09-03-2023 04:12PM

On the edge of the milder air here in Greystones. 5.0c now. Rain.

Sea pretty rough giving us natural protection right by the coast from chance of any lying snow. Lots of salt in the air!

DOCARCH · 09-03-2023 04:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120335687#Comment_120335687

I think I might have seen you running when I was out for a walk! There were very few out and about.

Actually temperature on the rise here at the moment.

Gonzo · 09-03-2023 04:13PM

Very close to wet snow here now at Dunshaughlin. When this turns to snow temperatures are going to have to drop before we see anything sticking, the ground is saturated here now with plenty of surface water.