Jan 2025 - Snow & Freezing Conditions - Discussion PART II

What a miserable weekend for us Dubliners. Will we ever see a bit of snow again lol…

To think we were afraid the front would have passed away by the time the cold air came in on Sunday afternoon.

Well, it hung around for 48 hours until Sunday midnight but it was still nothing but non-stop rain🙄

London even got a few hours snow even though all the initial forecasts said they hadn't a hope.

I'm not sure there'll even be much frost for us over the coming days.

In fairness it was what was forecast by most on here so can't be too disappointed. Hopefully there'll be some sun over the coming days for us at least.

in terms of the orange warning for Cork city, it was a rain and snow warning and I think (subject to correction) the amount that fell ultimately did meet the criteria for an orange rain warning

Warnings this, warnings that. At the end of the day, a lot of people find fault in them if their own localised areas don't experience the goods, and get a bit stroppy and think their whole county shouldn't have got a warning. County warnings are obviously flawed, I'd say much more so in wind events given coastal areas experience completely different versions of storms than inland areas in those counties 99 times out of 100. But it's the system in place. And with the system that is in place, Met Eireann generally did really well over the weekend, in what was an incredibly marginal and knife edge scenario.

Back to the weather before we're all mod noted for constantly discussing Met Eireann weather warnings in the wrong thread.

Latest Harmonie really going for some extensive shower activity the next few days. A wintry mix I'm sure.

Latest ARPEGE not as keen. Much more of a coastal affair.

Some snow to come inland.

Ah an unexpected mild sector tonight...

There will be more mild sectors later today and Tuesday. Wednesday will be the coldest day of the week and surprise, surprise the driest day of the week. The modification of these acrtic airmasses is being continually underestimated in recent years. The fact is this didn't happen in the 80s- an arctic airmass more often than not delivered. I will leave it to the experts to discuss why this is happening . Maybe I will finally cop on and stop getting my hopes up when the models show a decent northerly from now on in fi.

Ps if it snows tomorrow evening this post never happened:)

If your near me I hope we do get snow

sorry i seen the chart time there oops

Strange to read the media this morning and watch the news last night, to see such chaos caused, and not a drop of snow up here in the far north.

It's like we are in a different country.

Roads in Naas are lethal, the snow melted and froze again. Lots of ice. Careful out there this morning.

Not bizarre at all

This was not an easterly sourced cold,it’s an artic maratime northerly

Ergo the NE and East winds became a warmer marine layer

All they did was mix in warmer Irish Sea air

here are some pics from my walk up croghan in south Wicklow yesterday

It was snowing there throughout and got very heavy as we headed down

It’s 6kms inland of Arklow and we were about 400 metres asl

Granted it causes hardship for many but as you may be aware snowfall doesn't respond to requests, it doesnt require a quota of pleas or a petition of prayers before it arrives at a location, no, it'll either fall or it won't. So whether posters here beg for it or not will not make a blind bit of difference to the outcome 👌

Listening to the cars leaving my estate this morning and I hear lots of hard crunching snow and ice under tyres.

• Graiguecullen, Carlow /Laois border 53m ASL