Jan 2025 - Snow & Freezing Conditions - Discussion PART II

I had great faith in the weather&radar app but XC Weather turned out to be the most accurate in my location south of Cork city. Weather&radar said all snow up to around now whereas xc said after 6pm it would be sleet which turned out to be the case as there was a slight rise in temp.

it will freeze it seems winds will fall off abit after midnight

Plenty of other discussions on this site to engage in teacher-bashing. They didnt close schools during COVID and they arent the ones closing them this time.

It's been heavily raining in my local here in D14 now for almost 30 hours, imagine the uppers were colder to negate that onshore breeze, Dublin suburbs would've been buried! Still, very interested in the river levels for the Dodder and the runoff from the mountains over the week

A thaw on here , Portlaoise, can hear the water in the down pipes , and a slow drip drip off outdoor table etc .

Raining in Navan as I type; as it has absolutely done so all day (injected with sleet) unreal precip all day.

Epic (and pretty) snow pics when I got through the posts.

Thanks everyone for all the great reports of snow.

I have been watching the temps here as our pipes and pump can freeze up.

Its gone up a degree, down a degree, and then back up a degree sitting at 2.6c now.

Its been raining well over 24 hours now, but it was only 33mm, it's still spitting.

I thought my rain gauge was off maybe, but a trip to shops revealed little flooding, so light rain.

the wind is swinging around to the West now from North earlier, fairly calm.

I feel for everyone without power as we have had some long cold outages here over the years.

If you have a Nobo jump starter, don't forget it has a usb port, you can power a phone or tablet from.

East Meath.

I'm gonna have a beer now. Thanks all.

See what the week brings.

I’m no snowflake but it’s definitely wise to close schools in areas effected like Kilkenny Carlow Tipp Laois etc- it’s not so much the schools themselves although it’s not great with slippy footpaths Etc, it’s the getting to and from schools for students and parents- driving on very dodgy roads causing chaos and even accidents. If all that can be minimised for a day or a few days then I’m for it. In the early 90s our school closed for a week - one of my best childhood memories. So it’s not a recent thing it’s always happened

68.1mm of precipitation for this event, got 1cm of snow max, would have been nice to get a bit more of it as snow!

South of Cork city

Exactly, plus you have bus companies that obviously can't drive in icy conditions as backroads are untreated and absolutely lethal.

Let the kids have a bit of fun in the snow, isn't that what it's about.

There’s Eircodes now. Surely ME can use these to narrow down warnings, etc?