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Big Freeze Discussion [Happy New Year]

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    #932
    HashSlinging
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    Heavy snow tomorrow night and tuesday according to RTE Weather.. we are very comfortably stocked up at the min so fingers crossed..


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    #933
    searescue
    Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭searescue


    Very bad in north Kerry here. I skidded the car today and ended up in the ditch on the other side of the road.

    Luckily there was no oncoming traffic....and the car was fine! But I can tell you I did get a mighty fright!

    SR


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    #934
    Leeside
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭Leeside


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Looking at the current radar and thick cloud to my north at the moment, could be a couple of snow flurries on the east coast this evening - despite the high pressure?

    Gerry Murphy not forecasting any showers tonight but he mentioned the word snow a number of times for tomorrow especially tomorrow night.:)


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    #935
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Not a bad forecast from Gerry there. I'm sure most people will be happy. :pac:

    I wonder if the No Snow Zone of Waterford will remain active this week.
    I haven't seen a single snow flake yet and I have a feeling I won't be seeing one anytime soon!


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    #936
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,944 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Leeside wrote: »
    Gerry Murphy not forecasting any showers tonight but he mentioned the word snow a number of times for tomorrow especially tomorrow night.:)
    He did give a risk of snow showers on North and East coasts this evening


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    #937
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,821 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Leeside wrote: »
    Gerry Murphy not forecasting any showers tonight but he mentioned the word snow a number of times for tomorrow especially tomorrow night.:)

    Just becuase Gerry Murphy does not forecast it does not mean it won't happen! :D I know pressure is high but there may be a chance of a few light showers imo especially if wind at M2 bouy stays N of E.

    BTW have not seen forecast.


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    #938
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    12Z ECM, -8c 850 over us Wednesday :

    ECM0-72.GIF?03-0


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    #939
    mad DIY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭mad DIY


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Just becuase Gerry Murphy does not forecast it does not mean it won't happen! :D I know pressure is high but there may be a chance of a few light showers imo especially if wind at M2 bouy stays N of E.

    BTW have not seen forecast.

    Well, by the looks of it on RainToday, Navan is in the firing line for something shortly..


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    #940
    pistolpetes11
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 7,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭pistolpetes11


    Felixdhc wrote: »
    I see on the latest met reports that Dublin airport is already down to -2 as at 18:00, that must be the lowest it has been for the time of day so far?

    http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

    Also, the M2 Buoy is down to 4c with a -3.1 dew point.

    http://www.met.ie/latest/buoy.asp

    But what use is it without snow....


    Good foundations I think :D


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    #941
    Bog Butter
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Bog Butter


    mad DIY wrote: »
    Well, by the looks of it on RainToday, Navan is in the firing line for something shortly..

    really?! interesting. are we talking snow?


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    #942
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,944 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Some showers about alright:
    hiradarzoomv4.pl?map=uk;xtime=18:30;sx=254;sy=290;xw=64;yw=64;places=0;sharp=a;postcode=;pcz=;actime=;prec=y;scale=;sferics=0;metar=;sess=65d7c87f43923a44f5083b46df14b3b7


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    #943
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,821 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    malman wrote: »
    really?! interesting. are we talking snow?

    Given how good the dew points are, if anything manages to fall out of the sky, I think it will be snow.


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    #944
    mad DIY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭mad DIY


    Who knows ? They might know in Drogheda though..


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    #945
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    New weather warning :

    Weather Warning

    Issued at 03 January 2010 - 18:00

    Weather Warning

    Widespread severe frost Sunday night. Icy conditions in places. A few freezing fog patches also. Scattered wintry showers moving southwards across Ulster and north Connacht late Sunday night or Monday - increasing the risk of icy conditions even where they fall as rain or sleet.


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    #946
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Looking at the current radar and thick cloud to my north at the moment, could be a couple of snow flurries on the east coast this evening - despite the high pressure? Fantastic DP of -3.4c here now. Even the M2 bouy has managed a DP of -3c and a temp of only 4c! Wind at M2 bouy seems to have changed from E to ENE over the last while.

    I also see that some cloud has made it all the way across the north of the UK and a couple of light showers have popped up in the Morcombe Bay/Blackpool area.

    From the Valley 18Z GFS forecast sounding, I'd say the cloud tops are only at about 750hPa (~8500ft) due to warm mid-upper levels, so not quite high enough to give any decent precipitation.


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    #947
    jambofc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭jambofc


    been watching that shower look's like it will hit navan and then maybe trim :o
    any reports of snow just north of drogheda?


    look's like it fadeing away


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    #948
    garytuohy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭garytuohy


    there is light snow in Dublin 20 at the moment


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    #949
    ffarrell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭ffarrell


    Light snow shower in Dublin 15 at the moment.:D


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    #950
    Rougies
    Registered Users Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭Rougies


    Here's a postcode map that might come in handy for us Dubs over the next few days ;)

    http://www.netgear.ie/images/mapDublinPostcodes.gif
    mapDublinPostcodes.gif


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    #951
    mad DIY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭mad DIY


    One thing I have noticed about RainTodays coverage of Leinster is that there is one radar in the radar composite that is only giving intermittant results, so when it does give a result you see more showers in the frame than when it doesn't, so in the latest frame it hasn't returned a result, so the frame makes it appear that shower heading for Navan has fizzled out. Or has it ? Of course, there may actually be nothing falling from those depicted showers that reaches the ground if the radar is being too sensitive. So only eyewitness reports will confirm what is actually happening.

    Edit : It's not showing showers over North Dublin at the moment as reported above, that's probably due the missing radar return


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    #952
    garytuohy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭garytuohy


    well ODDS are northside and EVENS are southside


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    #953
    Drapper
    Registered Users Posts: 3,812 ✭✭✭Drapper


    ffarrell wrote: »
    Light snow shower in Dublin 15 at the moment.:D

    temp has dropped too allot in D15 (from 2 to -2 in 1 hour)


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    #954
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,770 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    had a few snow grains here landed on the car


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    #955
    Bog Butter
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Bog Butter


    I'm between Navan and Kells and I have a slight bit of hail falling. Not visable only know by looking at the car and by feeling a few specks fall.


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    #956
    Rougies
    Registered Users Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭Rougies


    garytuohy wrote: »
    well ODDS are northside and EVENS are southside

    Yes, but take last february for example, then 16, 18, and 24 got pasted...the rest of the evens got a dusting! It can be very localised sometimes ;)


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    #957
    ltdslipdiff
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭ltdslipdiff


    maquiladora wrote: »
    Not a bad forecast from Gerry there. I'm sure most people will be happy. :pac:

    I wonder if the No Snow Zone of Waterford will remain active this week.
    I haven't seen a single snow flake yet and I have a feeling I won't be seeing one anytime soon!

    I saw one this morning...nearly wet myself with excitement.


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    #958
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    Here is my thoughts with regard to snow risk.

    Tuesday 1500hrs to Wednesday 2100hrs only.

    http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4500/risksnow.gif

    risksnow.gif
    So everything inside the red bracket aint getting snow is that what u mean, since there is no cms im guessing so?


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    #959
    Rougies
    Registered Users Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭Rougies


    Pangea wrote: »
    So everything inside the red bracket aint getting snow is that what u mean, since there is no cms im guessing so?

    Yep, Weathercheck had already emailed that chart to the snow gods, so it's set in stone now :)


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    #960
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    3-10 cm will do me. :)


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    #961
    Bog Butter
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Bog Butter


    A bit more substantial now. Visable falling hail. Wouldn't call it snow.


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