Jan 2025 - Snow & Freezing Conditions - Discussion PART II

GFS quite the notable kink in the isobars for tomorrow, resulting in quite an extensive amount of further wintry precipitation. None of the hi-res 12z so far have something similar. But these are the ninja things you start to look out for in a cold flow.

"The Department of Education anticipates that most schools will open as normal tomorrow morning, in areas affected by severe weather some schools may take a decision to close due to local conditions and safety concerns."

Is 40cm not enough my friend?

Spread some around, c'mon.

I don't even think here in D9 we have reached a single percentage point on a so called splodge factor. Looking at ventusky as a rough guide, those within 10-15km of the coast will really struggle to lose all onshore element to the wind. A NE'rly is not enough for us at this stage.

For Donegal having just looked at the latest gfs the upper air temperature aren’t that great, lots of times it’s only -4c which doesn’t really do it for showers and a downgrade from earlier fc in the weekend. GFS has a mild sector that spawns off the west coast of Scotland and is more impactful this run which doesn’t help and diminishes the cold a bit . Briefly looked at some high res models earlier they had acc snow but I must say based off that gfs it doesn’t look that promising. M.E while mentioning snow also mention hail and thunder. Hope it doesn’t start edging towards a hail fest rather snow but may well be if gfs is on to something with the milder air. I wouldn’t be posting warnings just yet if I were them.

You're northern Offaly? Got unlucky with the position of the front. Right on the outer limits of the good stuff.

South of Offaly was building up a nice covering and should continue to do so.

Can't be disappointed here in Dublin realistically. It was a non-starter till this evening for us. Accumulating snow in Dunshaughlin says there's some hope. Only need 2 hours for a good covering with the intensities about.

"Latest radar at 4pm as rain turns to snow in more areas now including more of Waterford."

bit of slush on the roads in cork city suburbs but can still see green in the grass etc even with the heavy snow. Everything’s just too wet I’d say

Blizzard conditions in the past few hours on the Waterford side of the Knockmealdown's (close to the Vee). Very small flakes resulting in only about an inch of snow in all that time (accurately measured using my finger on the decking).

A fierce wind coming from a north easterly direction is absolutely baltic.

Cork runway has cleared and we are taking off from Dublin and heading back down in 20 minutes.

snowing properly now starting to stick

Newcastle Co Dublin

Three rock near ticknock Dublin?

WHy has there been another page opened ? Was it another user or what , hopefully tomorrow night I will get some snow

Still no snow in Lucan, lots of rain and sleet