Jan 2025 - Snow & Freezing Conditions - Discussion PART II

I haven't been keeping up in here so somebody may have already mentioned this but that band of snow to the northwest of Scotland should push down much of Ireland later this evening. I'm a bit surprised that Met Eireann haven't said much about it, but a lot of people should see light snow from it.

That's good to hear, hopefully your commute was ok. Our driveway and lane are like an ice rink this morning. All the snow/rain has compacted as shiny ice. Keeping the kids home. My husband is not fond of ice after breaking his arm in 2010.

Beautiful morning though! Lug still covered in cloud, surrounding hills got a pasting, even some of the forests are white.

I don't get the appeal of snow at all. We are snowed under in the area of Kerry I am in, can't get out of my housing estate and its very thick. Met Eireann got it right as far as Kerry was concerned.

I never want snow, I love cold, dry weather , even windy weather, but weather I can get out and about in! Even in rain you can walk and you can drive, but not snow. I don't like being stuck at home watching mounds of snow slowly melt and footpaths that are lethal to walk on. I hate the cancellation of services, schools and all that. I was meant to get a flight today to see my sister in Donegal for the first time in a year, I picked a bad day to fly!

So even when people are delighted to hear snow is forecast I dread it. Today we are stuck in melting snow, slippy paths, slush to come, no fresh food in shops, trains, buses and flights cancelled, schools closed, thousands of homes with no power. What is the excitement about this? Especially in Ireland when we have heavy wet snow, not powdery dry snow like the Canadians get alongside blue skies and sunshine! We are not a nation of skiers and snow boarders? I don't get it at all .

It's white and fluffy and you can throw balls of it at people

Looks a good performance from last nights GFS and Harmonie with how organised and extensive the overnight and this mornings showers would be.

GFS persisting with a kink in isobars last night with another enhanced organised bit of shower activity tonight, could be precip. almost anywhere on it away from the far south. After that, a return to much more traditional coastal shower activity in the N and NW particularly.

Assuming this is what posters are referencing above.

The night of January 6th into January 7th brought a dusting to Dublin from a weak front while the night of January 7th 2022 brought a snow shower off a cold westerly, I think it was around 3am, so most people would've been asleep for that one.

Here is tonight's disturbance on the Met Office fax chart

even stranger that I was sledding and watching kids make snowmen in a Cork city suburb yesterday (Rochestown, within 5km of the city)! Maybe just confine your posts to your own area (Dublin) like everyone else does? Thanks in advance

snowing again in north Kerry. I had hoped to get to work but the main road is treacherous. I may get into town but no guarantee I'll get home again. Council clearing R routes and leaving an National route untouched.

For all the song and dance over snow, this is costing me a day's pay and I'm not happy

It’s fun, rare and beautiful.

Snow in South Sligo for last 20 mins 152masl wasn't expecting this after the dty day yesterday.

hope everyone stuck on the M8, M9 and N25 got going again- it looked like a nightmare there. Always ensure you’ve enough fuel and some supplies in this weather you never know when you might need them

My road

Farmers are heroes until it melts. Then they're bastards again.

snowing in Kanturk again!!

Snowing in Co Sligo now. Heavy. But raining in snowproof Sligo town. Feck the sea.