Sleet and snow overnight and morning south Ulster and Leinster

I normally use you as my weather benchmark for what to expect locally as I live near Clonee and we'd have similar conditions but its mad how localised this was for a general front of precipitation where various locations either well inland and usually favourable got no snow yet coastal areas like Clontarf and Sandymount got whiteout. Clonee/Ongar got a dumping of the white stuff as well. All melted into a slushy rainy mess now!

Meath was on the wrong side of the low, the onshore side. Dublin was on the right side of the low and recieved offshore wind. So for dublin the air coming off the land rather then the sea made the difference. So even places near the coast on the right side of the low were able to get snow.

Some of my snaps from Kilakee Road and Phoenix Park earlier today from the DSLR. Kilakee Road was getting too much for my FWD car so didn't spend as much time as I would have liked here and went to the Phoenix Park after.

Can't believe how close and marginal this was at sea level. Clontarf and Coolock snow covered but Donaghmede/Baldoyle zilcho! Kind of like a reverse 24th January 2021 in a way..

That’s a fair observation. In Canada, we have the biggest snowfalls occur in March. Right now, we are having record warm weather. I am on a lakefront and the ice on it has melted and frozen in yo-yo bouts since December. The ice fishing tents were not to be seen except for a week. One guy I met wrapping up his gear told me 5 cop cars came and officers told him to get off the lake a coupla weeks past.

There is no snow on the ground, and we have had 15c days followed by-15c days a number of times. Now, 15c days for us is like mid April weather. It is freaky as hell.

Enjoy the snow

Was driving around Blackrock, Stillorgan and Sandyford from 12 noon. Then down to Celbridge and back. Worst was Blackrock, Stillorgan and Sandyford at Lunchtime. Lots of cars spinning wheels or having trouble with inclines. Several stuck with hazards on. Inclines to N11 quite bad. Once on the M50 it was slow but generally moving. Return journey after 4pm was fine. Footpaths remain bad however.

I should add the N11 was very difficult for pedestrians to cross particularly at Stillorgan as a literal river was flowing down the hill from Bolands Pub and inundating the slip and the pedestrian island. Very dangerous for pedestrians - even the able bodied.

Fading into the sunset.

Absolutely FANTASTIC pictures. !!

Left the house this morning to cold rain and assumed nothing of interest, 3.5 degrees in the car. Was a bit surreal to shortly start seeing cars with decent snow on the roof around Swords and then by the time I got to work near the airport not 15km away total it was 0.0 degrees with a slush/sleet/snow mix and a thin patchy layer on the ground. Nice to get a little taste of winter but would have preferred Emma v2 - half measures of anything get boring fast!

Now, bring on the summer.

Continuous Sleet here in Kildare. 35mm in the gauge.

Still about 6 inches on grass, roads clear now. It finished at about what i said 8/9 inches

Replying to Cluedos question earlier.

According to the Met obs, Dublin Apt has seen 42.2mm of rainfall since midnight. Could be its wettest March day on record (at least for 00-00).

Its wettest March day on record I am aware of is 18th March 1971 with 35.7mm (00-00?).

9th March 2023 last year (another big snow event for the mountains) was also very wet with 30.2mm from 00-00.

Slieve Bloom Mountains this morning and again this evening.