Risk Of Severe Wintry Conditions With Strong Winds. (High Risk-Ulster, Connaught)

Torque.ie wrote: »

East Cost streamers tonight anyone?

It's a northwesterly wind!

Another snow shower hitting Waterford

racso1975 wrote: »

Anybody know what it's like in waterford and for tonight. Going from carlow to waterford @2pm and in college till 10pm. Is it still going to melt/rained away by this evening or will there be another dusting

It will be grand, temps are rising so any snow will be gone by lunch time. Some frost tonight when winds ease.

So local - skerries got 2 -3 inches yet when i got to blakes cross - nada - weird!

Mild sector is currently advancing south into Ulster and may create a warm frontal band of sleet (with snow on higher ground) moving south ahead of the warmer temperatures which will peak around 5-7 C late afternoon in most places. Winds will ease somewhat as this approaches, then may pick up again when a weak cold front trailing the sector arrives overnight. So expect your temperature to rise later today, reach a sort of plateau for several hours, then come down after midnight back to about where it is now.

Some risk of 3-5 cm snowfalls on higher ground ahead of this sector and an outside chance of a more organized band of snow that could affect lower elevations for a time, then turn to sleet and rain briefly. Just drizzle or passing showers in the mild sector itself, then another broken band of mixed wintry showers likely overnight with the cold front. Winds will make a sharp turn to about 350 deg and could even go to 020 deg over parts of the Irish Sea. That could bring Irish Sea streamers close to, if not onto, Wicklow coast by morning. I don't foresee much of that happening Dublin-Meath as the wind shift will stay west of due north but it's an outside chance. Mayo could also see some streamers developing tonight and heading inland by morning on the NNW flow. That could even be the case for Kerry by mid-day. These would be elevation based snow, sleet, hail and rain mixed together.

This morning.

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

It's a northwesterly wind!

GFS wind maps say something different and show due North from this evening with a hint of NE and then return to N....can a northerly produce streamers???

See ye in November/December I suppose

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Im getting to like Corks new pro-snow stance. Two snow events in 2 weeks - not too shabby!

This one too....

Still loads of snow here in Carlow. Roads are clearing up now though and the wind has picked up. Sunny but cold as feck at the moment.

whitebriar wrote: »

For Waterford maybe

To answer the question-yes of course a northerly can do streamers,into Ulster and mayo and wales.
Sometimes the Irish sea goes mad with them but they stay out at sea or hit wales/sw England.
NNE and they might graze the east

should have asked the question I wanted to ask which was can N wind produce streamers for east coast and you read my mind...wind maps show definite but slight drift from N to NNE overnight.....looking out to sea now there's a procession of cloud marching south and if i'm not mistaken, with a slight NE drift onshore......

leahyl wrote: »

It wasn't so nice though having to clear the snow from my car !

That should be a joy Leahyl!

Sir Alex Ferguson wrote: »

Still loads of snow here in Carlow. Roads are clearing up now though and the wind has picked up. Sunny but cold as feck at the moment.

Within an hour almost all the snow has melted.

Still freezing in the wind though.