Jan 2025 - Snow & Freezing Conditions - Discussion PART II

Majority of country is now showing rainfall rather than snow, more so Western half.

I wonder will the going to be issued but not issued orange alert now be cancelled considering predicted temps tonight are about 5 degrees higher than forecast

It really is annoying that Met Eireann can't predict these things 3 hours out.

Are we really back in the 70s as regards predicting weather...

love it! Come in to take a look at the weather and find this post posted here by accident… almost makes me want to go back on the Soccer forum… almost.

Celtic are magic!

The predicted orange they were talking about was about tomorrow night and thursday night?

And it's just after midnight tonight, about 5-6 hours to go to see minimum temps

just had a good shower of snow, covering the road that has been gritted and was clear enough….. i think this cold spell is nowhere near done with us

castlecomer plateau- a world of its own for weather!

I do actually, and I forgot butter too if you have any! :P

I think somebody mentioned this already but the LP system on Wednesday kisses the South coast. If it moves 50km north, does it fall as snow? Seems to be forecast to so do where it makes landfall in Britain…

Had some snow again East Kilkenny for an hour or so but has turned to sleet and formed a nice layer of slush where any snow had cleared.. going to be an ice rink tomorrow.

5 degrees here in Enniscrone. No chance of snow. Lashing rain the last hour

The problem is in the end we didn't get a true arctic airmass. Climate change might also be a factor but I will leave that for rebelbrowser and meteorite 58 and others to debate

Me too and it's horrendous here. Thankfully our electricity came back this afternoon. There are so many people here still without water and power.

Foot of snow outside the house and the road out to the n24 is an ice rink.

Won't be getting out of here for another few days I'd say.

You'd hope the synoptics rather than CC.

I remember at midnight as we entered Spring, March 2018 we had about 7 stations at -5c, -4cs and every Met Station below freezing. The airmass source.

Maybe CC is making weather coming over oceans from the North West and North less cold than heretofore. I suppose we'd need to analyse sea temps.

Climate change is probably a factor but you'd think even just a less cold version of the same synoptics would line up once in a while. But even a good old fashioned 'toppler' seems like a distant memory these days, I remember 10-15 years ago on here they were a frequent point of discussion but you rarely see them mentioned in forecasts anymore

Ya sea temperature is killing cold in Sligo the past couple of years only. Before that we got snow out of these set ups but sea temperature about a degree above normal and gales mean we can't be surprised in Sligo it didn't snow. But it might yet this week as winds ease and temperatures drop but still showers. Tomorrow night maybe or even long odds early this morning.

Unusual pattern created by the weather

I'd imagine it's difficult to forecast.

We better criticise, our saviour, in Ireland's Weather Channel. He predicted -7c😅

Alan Reilly, Carlow Weather, is going for -5c morning around dawn.