Jan 2025 - Snow & Freezing Conditions - Discussion PART II

Poor dog, you would let her sleep outside in this weather?

Dublin airport and Casement both -1°c at 10pm, so not far off.

Has been since part 1 of the thread. And during many other events on here before. Nearly consider them a regular at this stage.

Really?

My barometer is saying +0.9.

That's Wilton/Bishopstown area.

I nearly felt sorry for sending the wife walking the 6km into town tonight for a few packets of honky dory’s.

Nearly.

Nothing on the 11pm reports that warrant an orange warning imo. Across Cork City no lying snow temps hovering around 0C and yet all schools are shut until 11 tomorrow. Cork City has hundreds of schools and with a veil of cloud over us I'm certain temps will not drop much more..

I'm sorry but attention to detail is required by Met Eireann for large populated areas!!

Going on the 11pm Met Station temps, -3c being the lowest, there's a bit to travel to -8c.

11.30pm now so 9 hours until 8.30am. Plenty of time for dropping.

I remember during Christmas week 2010 watching Stations hitting -10c at 5 and 6pm! That was an amazing month. I know I'm starting to talk about 2010 the way my late father talked about 47.

I suppose 1947 is the gold standard for snow.

1962-63 the gold standard for a severe cold winter with plenty of snow.

And December 2010 is the gold standard for the coldest month since the 19th century.

I look on 1982 and 2018 as week long huge snowfalls, but the lack of longevity puts them behind the big 3.

Maybe we'll get near minus 8 but minus 6 probably as low as we go tonight but a subzero day tomorrow followed by frost tomorrow may bring minus 8 or 9...unless the phantom highcloud comes to moderate it a tad. After Friday morning it's game over for January cold weather until perhaps the end or start of February. I'll be happy to get some mild days. Hate going out when it's cold and raining all the time.

Maybe not the place for this. However. Ireland's Weather Channel has been forefront of recent weather events since snowfall in November.

In June 2020 the Channel drew up a purple and black coloured warning, above red. Thunderstorms of the Century were predicted, beating 1985. Laois and Offaly were to bear the brunt, a black warning. Not a rumble. I saved the chart.

The confusion this spreads among the public. The forecaster isn't bad if he toned things down. But messing with warnings is reckless.

It looked like the Black Death was coming to Laois and Offaly.

This band seems to be moving towards the south coast ...

it’s moving NE

North Cork -5.4C https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ICHURC28/graph/2025-01-8/2025-01-8/daily

Cloudbank looks to have stopped its march northwards and is now just drifting east. Should be some very cold minima as a result to the north of it.

I'll say of the officials; Gurteen -6.8c

Has hovered around - 4 here n. Offaly since 1am. Fog has set in so probably freezing fog. May stop temps going lower.