Jan 2025 - Snow & Freezing Conditions - Discussion PART II

SNOW RISK OVER THE COMING DAYS

Further snow accumulations can be expected across Ulster & North Connacht today and tonight. Showers will tend to die out for a time early tomorrow morning but Further showers expected on Wednesday into Thursday morning especially across Donegal Antrim, Derry, Sligo, Leitrim & Mayo at the highest risk. A few showers feeding into Tyrone, Fermanagh and Roscommon also could give some accumulations. Upper Air temperatures will be colder and Air temperature so the risk will be higher of anything that falls will be snow.

Friday there is a potential for rain and sleet turning to snow as it moves up across places but alot of uncertainty at the moment on this. The GFS really is on its own.

Just a bit of a nip in the air here in the capital, good walking weather. I think all of us can be relieved the warning has not yet been extended to Dublin, look at it there, our shining city on a hill, like a big beautiful beacon of light fighting off the extreme cold:

Ballinhassig in Cork this morning, saw it posted on the RedFM FB page!

You'd want to have a few screws loose to go running on the roads and footpaths near me anyway.

Joggers during ice warnings always remind me of this classic

It isn't too bad here it has mostly thawed out but there are a few sheltered places still a bit icy so I think that's why people are out in it and just get caught at some specific points on their route.

Heavy sleety shower north of Tullamore now. Not enough to whiten the ground but more than enough to undo any salting or gritting efforts. A good 10 mins so far. Almost black as night.

These top-up showers are enough to cause harm when the freeze kicks in. Not half as cold out today as yesterday, the wind is a killer; so hopefully the -8 or -10 being discussed for later in the week is windchill rather than still, cold temperatures?

We didn't get any dusting or even that much frost just across from you in D5 ! Must be the couple of hundred metres nearer the sea?

Walking yesterday on seafront and it was bitter with an onshore south easterly that would cut you in half . Registered as 1 degree on phone app but said feels like - 7 and it certainly did feel that cold 🥶

Met Éireann started their campaign of warning us all last Friday but still every day on the radio they roll out a few bumpkins that are in disbelief the orange weather warning was accurate, there was not more warning, or it did not reach them in Ballyboghole.

Killaloe, such a beautiful part of the country. I would say there has been some windchill in recent days on the shores of Lough Derg!

We had snow this morning here in carrick but mostly melted but gonna freeze alot tonight lows for me -8c

Temperatures dropping back now. It was a mostly dry day, any precipitation we had was rain. So I was glad to miss out on the showers.

Snow clouds coming in - Sligo

Still plenty of snow lying where I am in N Tipp, though the melt has made it porous ice. I needed to do the shopping and I have a steep driveway with 8-10cm on it and I was hoping it would melt, but no such luck.

Took me well over an hour to clear the snow and ice off the car and the large pile in front of it and then shovel out two clear tracks up the driveway to get to road. That all worked and I was able to get up and away and do the shopping. Reversing back down the tracks was fun, one slip and the car could slide into the corner of the house.

The top of Silvermines and Keeper hill look magnificent and like they could be anywhere on the continent that gets a lot of snow.