As suggested in other thread, starting new thread, to continue discussion, and reduce the issue of 'Vanilla Tremble' (…another great new Boards feature!!!).
After event, will merge threads.
was hoping to wake up and by some miracle it was gone. But no. Still snow compacted and frozen solid. Roads lethal no way to get to work. Nightmare. A days pay about to be lost at least.
Not much of a thaw near Mallow anyway but a slushy mess on the roads. Some rain/sleet as well from showers this morning.
Shower seems to be turning more to snow now as a bit heavier.
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.
Uneventful journey to UCD this morning roads gritted traffic fine!
Hopefully power is restored to everyone today, I feel for them in this freezing weather.
Nice morning here in north kildare. Snow all melted. Roads grands. Above freezing too.
Wasn't expecting the prolonged snow that I have had this morning. I thought I was a little too far inland as shower activity on an NNW airflow tends to fizzie out over Galway Bay or fizzle out on my line due to the Aran Islands shadow (it is a real thing!).
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
40k with no power and another 40k with no water, roads undriveable and then you had posters on here begging for snow . Madness!
Roads in Naas are lethal, the snow melted and froze again. Lots of ice. Careful out there this morning.
Not a flake of snow in Cork or Dublin suburbs....bizarre to say the least.…
-2 in Blanchardstown with frodt...
The sleet and snow will move SSE this morning causing difficult travelling conditions.
Streamer activity in the Irish Sea is also bringing snowfall to Wales.
Other image shows fresh snowfall at Corkscrew Hill in North Clare in the past hour.
snowing in Galway city now
Further showers will occur today/tonight. Some could extend as far as the Midlands and towards the E/SE.
Clonmel with a few notable hills up and down roads now sporting temporary luge courses, absolutely lethal here.
it has been snowing heavily at my location for over an hour.
Ninja snow Athenry, everything covered in a white layer, a thin layer, but a layer all the same. Don't have to tell me twice to work from home.
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.
Bitterly cold out this morning in the Bray area, no freeze last night so no ice from all that rain the last day or so.
sorry i seen the chart time there oops
weird since i only got rain in meath yet frozen the cars and ground . now
If your near me I hope we do get snow
Yeah. Some of the roads on higher ground, like the airport hill, are very dodgy tonight. And there's still a lot of snow lying around in elevated areas.
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:)
No snow so far in south Sligo, wasn't even that cold
Claremorris, Mayo is the coldest spot in Ireland so far tonight at -0.8c. With the exception of Finner Camp, Donegal (-0.2c), Ireland remains above 0c. A mild sector in between the weekend system and colder air pushing down this afternoon is helping to keep temps a little higher.
The below on satellite must be the large mass that the likes of Harmonie and GFS think is going to effect a really sizeable amount of the island overnight and into tomorrow morning. Remains to be seen if this will be largely coastal or rather widespread. Looks a big messy mix rather than any great snow chances.
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.
Overall compared to the models a few days ago the models then overplayed how cold the uppers would be, -5 to -8 range but we're mostly hovering around the -3 to -6 territory and since then the low temperatures over the next few days are not looking nearly as severe as they were a few days ago, staying mostly above freezing during day and low minus figures at night.
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
Sorry not sorry to all the dubs complaining about a prolonged rain event, I moved west over 20 years ago and it has hardly stopped raining in Galway since.
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