Friday Jan 2nd onward, very cold with snow potential: Event buildup/discussion

From a NIMBY perspective I think we would need to be extremely lucky to get snow from that in the city and southwards. Yesterday evening was a better setup but still only wet snow and sleet.

100% agree. For obvious resaons I do not expect authorities to grit my boreen and local roads nearby (in fact, they never did and I've no problem with that), however, last night was much worse, as even main roads near me looked very untreated. My observations from late last night (after midnight): N5 Mayo/Roscommon - solid white, compacted snow, definately not gritted. N17 Mayo/Sligo - black/white, slush, compacted snow, some black ice. Probably gritted, but long time before I was there. N4 (dual carriageway) Collooney-Sligo: no snow, just black ice on both lanes - gritted or not - unclear, but probably not recently.

On my way back this morning - N4: LHS lane black and wet, RHS lane white - one lane gritted, one not - better than nothing. N17 - exactly as it was at midnight - gritted? Doubt that. N5 - black/white, slush, black ice. And no gritter spotted on my way.

I'm well used to harsh road conditions, so it's generally not a problem, just stating facts.

Fairly frosty in North Kildare this morning, sun shining and temperature at -2 still.

Sun is melting the frost where it touches. Beautiful day.

Totally agree. I do wonder could they do elevation based warnings for the likes of Donegal in these situations.

Closest official location with any recorded snowfall total for Donegal is Castlederg with 8cm but it largely avoided the heavy snow showers yesterday evening. It had 6cm day previous. Back to work this morning so I couldn’t measure but I’d estimate 10cm+ at my low altitude, got lucky with the showers yesterday.

Took a walk around my estate which is at 80m ASL in Cork suburbia. Loads of frozen slush and black ice as well as common or garden frost. 20 min walk took 40 mins, some spots lethal.