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Thursday/Friday Snow Potential

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    #332
    YouTookMyName
    Registered Users Posts: 3,361 ✭✭✭YouTookMyName


    Rain to wash away the slush. :D


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    #333
    irish1967
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    It feels cold enough for the white stuff again now. Wonder what this next band of percipitation sliding in from my NW will be. Looks like its gonna be short lived but it should give a good indication of what the rest of the night holds in store.


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    #334
    MiNdGaM3
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭MiNdGaM3


    A few more rain and sleet showers since... all in all, a pretty wintry day so far for Cork's standards!


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    #335
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Here we go again.

    16 December 2011 16:34

    Today Hail, sleety rain and snow showers will become more widespread for a time this evening and early. The snow is most likely on high ground but at some lower levels too with icy patches as some of the showers fall on frozen ground. Later in the night showers will become isolated again in the East. Lowest temperatures will range plus 2 to minus 2 degrees with a widespread frost.
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    Tomorrow

    Tomorrow will be a bright cold day with sunny spells and scattered wintry showers, mainly in the North and West. Highest temperatures will range 4 to 6 degrees and feeling chilly in a fresh Northwesterly wind.


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    #336
    aurora 527
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭aurora 527


    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    Here we go again.

    16 December 2011 16:34

    Today Hail, sleety rain and snow showers will become more widespread for a time this evening and early. The snow is most likely on high ground but at some lower levels too with icy patches as some of the showers fall on frozen ground. Later in the night showers will become isolated again in the East. Lowest temperatures will range plus 2 to minus 2 degrees with a widespread frost.
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    Tomorrow

    Tomorrow will be a bright cold day with sunny spells and scattered wintry showers, mainly in the North and West. Highest temperatures will range 4 to 6 degrees and feeling chilly in a fresh Northwesterly wind.


    Another night so, of will it/ won't it?????;)


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    #337
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    Here we go again.

    16 December 2011 16:34

    Today Hail, sleety rain and snow showers will become more widespread for a time this evening and early. The snow is most likely on high ground but at some lower levels too with icy patches as some of the showers fall on frozen ground. Later in the night showers will become isolated again in the East. Lowest temperatures will range plus 2 to minus 2 degrees with a widespread frost.
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    Tomorrow

    Tomorrow will be a bright cold day with sunny spells and scattered wintry showers, mainly in the North and West. Highest temperatures will range 4 to 6 degrees and feeling chilly in a fresh Northwesterly wind.

    that general forecast is a bit funny to be honest when you compare it with the regional forecasts for all the provinces and dublin! something doesn't add up as tyhe regional forecasts from what i can see have no mention of any snow!!


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    #338
    Pangea
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    Went driving through the hills today for the fun of it. Heavy snow on them, 4 inches in places, there was an even higher road I could of took but the snow up there was even heavier so I didnt chance it. Good times though.


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    #339
    4Sheets
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    I see those showers ganging up in the West..I hope they still have a few flakes in them when they get east 3C here at the moment


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    #340
    Rikand
    Registered Users Posts: 20,348 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    4Sheets wrote: »
    I see those showers ganging up in the West..I hope they still have a few flakes in them when they get east 3C here at the moment

    getting closer and closer to athlone. here's hoping!

    http://www.raintoday.co.uk/


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    #341
    Hooter23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    As usual when showers get going in the west the problem is then its not cold enough for snow:mad:


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    #342
    Harps
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    Yeah that's been the story of the month here, we've always just on the wrong side of marginal. We've had wet sleety snow nearly every day this month but only a couple of days with any sort of accumulation outside the hills.

    The temperature has been stuck around 2.8C for the past 3 hours so more sleety rain again tonight


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    #343
    4Sheets
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    Down to freezing now..showers almost half way across the country..heres hoping:D


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    #344
    BOHtox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    0 here in Templeogue too. Here's hoping it snows. Last year 3 of us went out one afternoon, 23rd of December actually, and made €150 between the 3 of us clearing driveways. "Ploughing for Profit" I named us :)

    Apart from that I love snow anyway


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    #345
    faktisperminute
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭faktisperminute


    temperature raised from 3C to 4C , had hail now just sleety showers :(


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    #346
    Hooter23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    Well if it dont get snow tonight hopefully we might get a tasty shower of apples like in coventry :)

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073974/Apples-fall-sky-Coventry-Traffic-halted-mini-tornado-dumps-hail-fruit.html


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    #347
    jo06555
    Registered Users Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭jo06555


    4Sheets wrote: »
    Down to freezing now..showers almost half way across the country..heres hoping:D

    is it that simple :confused:


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    #348
    eyesquirm
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭eyesquirm


    About 4 degrees and rain here in Galway.


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    #349
    4Sheets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭4Sheets


    jo06555 wrote: »
    is it that simple :confused:

    yes its thats simple:)

    We want the finest snow available to humanity. And we want it here, and we want it now!


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    #350
    only one
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭only one


    Rain in Waterford as usuall.


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    #351
    lolie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭lolie


    Few pics from this morning. Snow's a rare commodity round these parts so i got the phone out.

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    One very happy little boy
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    #352
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    4Sheets wrote: »

    We want the finest snow available to humanity. And we want it here, and we want it now!
    :D Brilliant !

    That precipitation will almost certainly make it to the east coast, I didn't think it would earlier, I thought it would have died out as it moved inland as it always does. But the big question is will it fall as rain or snow? Its -0.3c at the moment but I think as soon as it clouds over the temp will jump to 2 or 3c.
    On a knife edge!


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    #353
    JanuarySnowstor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    I can't figure out how it snowed last night and is raining tonight.
    I don't see much difference in uppers or thickness yet the temp is about 2degrees warmer.


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    #354
    Ahorseofaman
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Ahorseofaman


    I find this handy for temps as I don't have a weather station "YET"
    http://www.nratraffic.ie/weather/default.asp?RegionId=0


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    #355
    Harps
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    Elmer Blooker wrote: »
    :D Brilliant !

    That precipitation will almost certainly make it to the east coast, I didn't think it would earlier, I thought it would have died out as it moved inland as it always does. But the big question is will it fall as rain or snow? Its -0.3c at the moment but I think as soon as it clouds over the temp will jump to 2 or 3c.
    On a knife edge!

    Up to 4C here now, nothing but hail and sleety rain


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    #356
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    I can't figure out how it snowed last night and is raining tonight.
    I don't see much difference in uppers or thickness yet the temp is about 2degrees warmer.

    The difference is the airmass in place tonight. The 850 hPa theta-w is around +4 °C tonight, around 2 degrees higher than last night. Also, at 1350 m, the 850 hPa level is around 150 m higher than it was yesterday (1200 m), which means that although it's the same temperature, that temperature is now that bit higher up, meaning a thicker layer for snow to reach the ground. The higher theta-w means that there is less effective evaporational and sublimational cooling of the air as the snowflakes melt, meaning they will melt higher up.

    There was also a hard frost already set in at this stage last night, but the increased cloudiness and humidity has offset that cooling this evening.

    Last night
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    This evening
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    #357
    [Deleted User]
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    getting very frosty here now, alot of the cars are starting to look like frosted beer mugs


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    #358
    PurpleSt4in
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭PurpleSt4in


    Su Campu wrote: »
    The difference is the airmass in place tonight. The 850 hPa theta-w is around +4 °C tonight, around 2 degrees higher than last night. Also, at 1350 m, the 850 hPa level is around 150 m higher than it was yesterday (1200 m), which means that although it's the same temperature, that temperature is now that bit higher up, meaning a thicker layer for snow to reach the ground.

    There was also a hard frost already set in at this stage last night, but the increased cloudiness and humidity has offset cooling this evening.

    From my limited experience on the Weather forum, you seem to be relatively well-informed! I was just curious as to whether you and the other knowledgeable posters (Wolfe-something & Irish & MT) were able to forecast the heavy snowfalls we got last year?

    As in a few hours before the event were you saying 'Dublin (or X or Y) will get substantial dumping of snow overnight'

    Or is this tough to predict and unlikely to just creep up on us? (I'm remaining ever hopeful of a White Christmas)


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    #359
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Jake1 wrote: »
    getting very frosty here now, alot of the cars are starting to look like frosted beer mugs

    Mmmmmmmm beer mugs.....


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    #360
    irishdub14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭irishdub14


    Thats a nice big blob headed for Dublin, hopefully of snow but have a feeling it will rain instead..! :rolleyes:


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    #361
    Slashermcguirk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Slashermcguirk


    Brass monkeys in north Dublin. Car is frozen solid outside. Surely will fall as snow if it arrives here, far too cold for rain anyway. Further it travels over the cold landmass it surely increases chances of snow??


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