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Freezing Weather Discussion - Widespread Snow Tonight/Tuesday

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,476 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Aviemore reporting light rain at 1500 at 0c - I'm sure, given the extensive snow fields, the rain will only be brief.

    I'm just being a bit pesemistic picking up on that one!

    As the front moved into Northern Scotland the temps rose slightly and the coastal areas reported rain -> sleet -> snow.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    snaps wrote: »
    Possible warm front heading south before the cold front arrives?

    100855.JPG

    Well i dont know about you but the temps are sure dropping here with -0.3c already... but i'd say i will wake up for rain and no snow (melted away) to be depressed even more about going by to work etc!

    Would this warm front of air come down before the precipitatio and have brief rain then turn to snow instead of rain or sleet the whole way through!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭GavinH


    DrZeuss wrote: »
    Just Started snowing in Carlow

    how come nothing showing on the radar. Alot cload moving into Cork at the moment from the North. Is there likely to be any precipitation?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    DrZeuss wrote: »
    Just Started snowing in Carlow

    So it had begod! :D Light shower of snow.

    Temp 0.9c and DP of -1.2c


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭DrZeuss


    GavinH wrote: »
    how come nothing showing on the radar. Alot cload moving into Cork at the moment from the North. Is there likely to be any precipitation?

    Very strange, gone very dark here, real snowy feel but it prob wont be much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    So it had begod! :D Light shower of snow.

    Temp 0.9c and DP of -1.2c

    Lob the vein out the window there boy !! It was spot on the other night !!! lol ;)

    /stops flogging the dead horse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    GavinH wrote: »
    how come nothing showing on the radar. Alot cload moving into Cork at the moment from the North. Is there likely to be any precipitation?

    Radar is a bit dodgy today, Shannon radar I think has been on and off. You can see the shower here at 16:15, http://www.raintoday.co.uk/


  • Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭maco


    Better go home now to avoid the traffic . . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    t|nt|n wrote: »
    Lob the vein out the window there boy !! It was spot on the other night !!! lol ;)

    /stops flogging the dead horse

    You're so vain you probably think this reply is about you! :pac:


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    owenc wrote: »
    i doubt it was ever raining in aviemore perhaps inverness had rain ?

    Yes it was!

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/he/aviemore_latest_weather.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,654 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    You're so vain you probably think this reply is about you! :pac:

    Oh gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Wind is coming from the NW here now, i can see from the way smoke is going from peoples chimneys, so a definate atlantic feed now for us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Latest update from Met Eireaan doesn't sound amazing...a bit of a reality check :

    04 January 2010 16:15

    Today

    Many areas dry at first but wintry showers affecting the north and northwest will move southwards overnight. Some snowfall will occur and this will add to ongoing ice problems. However, only northern and northwestern counties are likely to have snow accumulations of a few centimetres in places. Light to moderate, westerly winds will veer northwest to north overnight and lowest temperatures will range 0 to -5 degrees Celsius.

    Tomorrow

    On Tuesday morning, snow showers will become confined to northern and northwestern coastal counties, with sunny spells developing elsewhere. However, occasional wintry showers may also develop along western and eastern coasts as the day goes on, some falling as snow. Moderate to fresh, northerly winds will set in and it will feel bitterly cold, with frost and ice persisting in many places. Highest temperatures 0 to 4 degrees Celsius.

    :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    DOCARCH wrote: »


    well it couldv'e been rain but every time that shows rain for me its snowing. (that is when its cold like this)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,599 ✭✭✭bassy


    Just had a light snow shower here in north Kilkenny,only lasted about 2minutes.but it is very cloudy and dark here now.I smell more snow:)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    It would be great if some mild air came in and melted all this snow and ice and have it stop inconveniencing the entire country.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    owenc wrote: »
    well it couldv'e been rain but every time that shows rain for me its snowing. (that is when its cold like this)

    Ehhh.. that was a report not a forecast? Don't want to talk about it anymore! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,599 ✭✭✭bassy


    Just started snowing again here and it's sticking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,654 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    It would be great if some mild air came in and melted all this snow and ice and have it stop inconveniencing the entire country.

    Booo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,654 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    bassy wrote: »
    Just started snowing again here and it's sticking.

    Where?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭Snowaddict


    Meanwhile..

    Latest UKMO FAX Chart from Bracknell for Tomorrow, 12 Hours:

    fax24s.gif

    Clearly showing a frontal feature moving southwestwards down across the country.

    Going to be an interesting few days I think, conflicting guidance from models, Forecasting agencies etc etc.

    SA :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭typhooner


    owenc wrote: »
    well it couldv'e been rain but every time that shows rain for me its snowing. (that is when its cold like this)

    hopefully in an hour or 2 you'll be seeing the Cold Front approaching, let's hope you have good news from the North.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    It would be great if some mild air came in and melted all this snow and ice and have it stop inconveniencing the entire country.

    Down with that sort of thing !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,599 ✭✭✭bassy


    Where?

    north Kilkenny,am 20 miles from kk city


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    I really don't understand this mentality of wanting more snow when it's been a pain in the ass for everyone for 3 weeks or so already.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    It would be good if people could update their profiles to tell us where they are? When people give reports with no area of where they are from its very frustrating!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    Big dirty dark low clouds just moving over here... they have snow written all over them... pretty sure they were giving snow in the distance... the wind has totally disappeared with the low tide... interesting to see what they bring!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    It's got cloudy here in Dublin 18, but its dark now so it's hard to tell if it's just normal cloud or snow cloud. I'm guessing just normal though.

    It was 0 degrees as well about an hour ago when I was driving home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37 Fear Sneachta


    Latest update from Met Eireaan doesn't sound amazing...a bit of a reality check :

    04 January 2010 16:15

    Today

    Many areas dry at first but wintry showers affecting the north and northwest will move southwards overnight. Some snowfall will occur and this will add to ongoing ice problems. However, only northern and northwestern counties are likely to have snow accumulations of a few centimetres in places. Light to moderate, westerly winds will veer northwest to north overnight and lowest temperatures will range 0 to -5 degrees Celsius.

    Tomorrow

    On Tuesday morning, snow showers will become confined to northern and northwestern coastal counties, with sunny spells developing elsewhere. However, occasional wintry showers may also develop along western and eastern coasts as the day goes on, some falling as snow. Moderate to fresh, northerly winds will set in and it will feel bitterly cold, with frost and ice persisting in many places. Highest temperatures 0 to 4 degrees Celsius.

    :rolleyes:


    I thought the winds were supposed to be NE or East tonight, has this changed??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    typhooner wrote: »
    hopefully in an hour or 2 you'll be seeing the Cold Front approaching, let's hope you have good news from the North.

    Yes Owenc your the man for the 1st reports of snow or whatever happens.......Make it good news please?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    typhooner wrote: »
    hopefully in an hour or 2 you'll be seeing the Cold Front approaching, let's hope you have good news from the North.

    as early as that! we need everything that has melted to freeze up again ugh! hopefully its snow two hours ago it was snowing here so hopefully it will be snow!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    t|nt|n wrote: »
    Down with that sort of thing !

    Careful now!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    I have no problem with snow, it is the impacted snow/ice that has been on all the back roads for the last 2 weeks that is pissing me off.

    This snow that is due to hit Sligo is really going to put the tin hat on it. If it does snow, let it be a foot of it so I can stay at home!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    I thought the winds were supposed to be NE or East tonight, has this changed??

    Well we have NW winds here at present, Im hoping they will soon start to turn N/NE.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    it's about to begin... let's see what falls;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Figuramatyi


    I actually saw about 10-15 snowflakes in Galway, in Wellpark about 20 minutes ago. Shortest flurry in my life it was :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,654 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    it's about to begin... let's see what falls;)

    Where?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    snow ghost wrote: »
    Big dirty dark low clouds just moving over here... they have snow written all over them... pretty sure they were giving snow in the distance... the wind has totally disappeared with the low tide... interesting to see what they bring!!!

    Its too warm here mate for snow, we are suffering from the Atlantic at the moment! Wind/air is coming from the NW in this part of Eire.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,018 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    I really don't understand this mentality of wanting more snow when it's been a pain in the ass for everyone for 3 weeks or so already.

    No it hasn't. Some people on here haven't seen snow at all this winter. Granted it has disrupted some people but that shouldn't stop other people from wanting to see a bit of snow, We can't decide which way the weather goes, Some people like it when it goes one way and some people like it when it goes the other way. We happen to like it when it goes the other way i.e. snow.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Midday tomorrow. That is the remnants of our low system/polar low.

    EDIT: Sorry SA just spotted you posted this too.
    PPVE89.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    I really don't understand this mentality of wanting more snow when it's been a pain in the ass for everyone for 3 weeks or so already.

    I haven't seen a single flake of snow since this cold spell began. And being someone who is interested in the weather, I'd personally like to see a bit of snow in my area in what is becoming an histroically long cold spell.


  • Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Chicken Run


    if it snows here does that mean it'll warm up a bit - don't think we've been above freezing point for days now and I'd quite like to use my washing machine which is in the garage and the pipes are all frozen solid..... Starting to smell a bit now... :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Rougies


    I really don't understand this mentality of wanting more snow when it's been a pain in the ass for everyone for 3 weeks or so already.

    I really don't understand this mentality of people coming into a weather forum and not realising that we like to discuss/predict/observe weather (of which snow is a rare and exciting part of) and that have absolutely nothing to contribute other than ridiculous sweeping generalisations.
    Get back on your treadmill and leave us alone, Thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    I haven't seen a single flake of snow since this cold spell began. And being someone who is interested in the weather, I'd personally like to see a bit of snow in my area in what is becoming an histroically long cold spell.

    Where do you live as I want to move there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    Rougies wrote: »
    I really don't understand this mentality of people coming into a weather forum and not realising that we like to discuss/predict/observe weather (of which snow is a rare and exciting part of) and that absolutely nothing to contribute other than ridiculous sweeping generalisations.
    Get back on your treadmill and leave us alone, Thanks.

    I was simply making a comment and I don't see much in the way of ridiculous sweeping generalisations.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    Midday tomorrow. That is the remnants of our low system/polar low.

    Did you see the latest Met Eireann forecast for tomorrow? They seem to be ignoring this, they just talk about snow showers confined to n/nw coast and later just a few wintry showers on the west/east coasts. I guess HIRLAM isn't picking this polar low up and they are going with HIRLAM and ignoring the UKMO?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    snaps wrote: »
    Its too warm here mate for snow, we are suffering from the Atlantic at the moment! Wind/air is coming from the NW in this part of Eire.

    You could be right snaps... it has started a drizzling light sleetly rain at the moment, wind is non existant and I notice those dirty clouds have dumped a load of snow on a mountain to the North of me in the last 30 mins.


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


    I really don't understand this mentality of wanting more snow when it's been a pain in the ass for everyone for 3 weeks or so already.

    This is a weather discussion forum, every one is entitled to their own opinions and views , although saying that if you are not happy with what your seeing , you know what to do .........;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Melanoma


    Not wanting to sound too harsh , but you live on the side of a mountain.

    You are always going to bare the brunt of the weather up there.

    Maybe you should consider living at lower levels where there is easier access to supplies and people.

    Again I am not having a go at you , but for your own safety and well being you should consider a move to lower elevations, as the beginning of this winter has seen you stranded and suffering.

    Yep but if you farm the land there you need to live there. Would be against folks moving there for the scenery and then expecting lots of help when its bad but it might be an idea for the army to get some of the elderly out of there till supply routes are open. This is a very long duration freeze and despite agreeing with the sentiment of your reply remember that we live in a humane country were being clever is not the same as being wise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    (Updated)
    Whoops: I was about to post that Snowaddict! Damn you:p

    The compromise (between the latest NAE and Fax and previous output) outcome on the PL would be for something very like that FAX chart, but perhaps it would take a more SW track avoiding much of Scotland but would still manage to affect the western half of Ireland at first. Where it would go from my landfall guess of NW Donegal is beyond me though. So is its intensity. What I'm most hopeful about is the isobar gradients which are good I think, or certainly better than I feared. Cold air rapidly moving over warmer waters en route here, would certainly help its longevity.

    You can see it here advancing towards the Faeroe Islands. http://www.yr.no/satellitt/1.5941760

    Effectively I would expect it to hit Ireland on a somewhat more North to South (instead of NE-SW) approach once it moves past Scotland. This is based on what I've seen on the satellite and the track the front is actually taking on the RADAR versus what was predicted.


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