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Snow/sleet REPORTS - 23/11/2010 onwards

  • 23-11-2010 8:09pm
    #1
    Trogdor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,310 ✭✭✭Trogdor


    I'm going to open this thread now just to try and keep the forecasting dicussion about the upcoming wintry spell separate from the actually reports. As things get colder and reports become more plentiful i will try and open a new thread for reports every day so that things don't get to clustered.

    Post any reports of snow/sleet/hail or any other current weather reports relevant to the cold spell here.

    ps Don't forget to add your location to your profile (or post where you are reporting from) so people know where you are;)


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  • #2
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    We've had a few heavy hail showers here in Letterkenny, had a bit of sleet mixed in this morning but its just been rain & hail since then.


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


    (just a request. When posting here could you actually state location. I and I'm sure others follow this on my mobile and the mobile version doesn't show a posters location. Thanks 67 )


  • #4
    John mac
    Registered Users Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭John mac


    Snow on top of Neiphin Latitude: 54.013289 Longitude: -9.368352 806 metres

    A dusting.


  • #5
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    A dusting on the dublin mountains , dunno which one buts its the one with the radio tower on it :)


  • #6
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    A dusting on the dublin mountains , dunno which one buts its the one with the radio tower on it :)

    Is that Three Rock Mountain you reckon or Kippure Mountain?


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  • #7
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    HellFireClub wrote: »
    Is that Three Rock Mountain you reckon or Kippure Mountain?


    Kippure i think, that would be the one further to the right wouldnt it.

    I live in finglas and checked from my window this morning with d oul binoculars. :)


  • #8
    snowstreams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Yep thats Kippure alright.
    It had large patches of snow last year from december right through to early April. It was great for snowboarding on until mid march.
    Im hoping for something similar to happen this year. It should go white this weekend and fingers crossed should stay that way till march :p


  • #9
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Cool, planning on goin up there with the lidl snow boards as soon as they are on sale ( hopefully soon enough! ) :)

    And just checked , kippure is roughly 740 m asl... so id say its around 0 o C up there if im correct?


  • #10
    snowstreams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Yeah its 757m officially. So roughly 5 degrees colder up there. Maybe 6c because the city tends to be warmer than countryside too. It could be 6c and raining in Dublin and snowing on top of Kippure. All depends on the upper temps too though.
    This is a thread from last year about snow in wicklow.
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055776034&page=9
    You can see the patch that built up during the cold spell, that didnt melt till April. Its the most accessible high mountain near Dublin I reckon.


  • #11
    TheFairy
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    Just in the middle of a sleet shower at the moment here in Fermanagh. Can clearly see little bits of ice on the window. Totally unscientific car thermometer showing 7 C.


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  • #12
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    snowstreams wrote: »
    Yeah its 757m officially. So roughly 5 degrees colder up there. Maybe 6c because the city tends to be warmer than countryside too. It could be 6c and raining in Dublin and snowing on top of Kippure. All depends on the upper temps too though.
    This is a thread from last year about snow in wicklow.
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055776034&page=9
    You can see the patch that built up during the cold spell, that didnt melt till April. Its the most accessible high mountain near Dublin I reckon.


    Awh now i definitely want to go up as soon as a good bit of snow falls up there :), if lidl dont hav that sale on would u know a good place to buy a cheap enough board or even skis?


  • #13
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    TheFairy wrote: »
    Just in the middle of a sleet shower at the moment here in Fermanagh. Can clearly see little bits of ice on the window. Totally unscientific car thermometer showing 7 C.


    take a picture or video :)


  • #14
    ninebeanrows
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    Reports beginning to come in of falling snow in Northeastern England down to low levels.

    Mountains apparently had a few inches last night.


  • #15
    snowstreams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Awh now i definitely want to go up as soon as a good bit of snow falls up there :), if lidl dont hav that sale on would u know a good place to buy a cheap enough board or even skis?
    Im not too knowlegable about snowsports equipment. I got that lidl board purely for snow in Ireland though cause it was cheap enough. I had snowboard boots already which cost as much as the board.
    Maybe check the snowsports forum, for good 2nd hand prices.
    I got my boots off this place http://www.irishsnowboards.com
    Might have some decent boards there too.


  • #16
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    snowstreams wrote: »
    Im not too knowlegable about snowsports equipment. I got that lidl board purely for snow in Ireland though cause it was cheap enough. I had snowboard boots already which cost as much as the board.
    Maybe check the snowsports forum, for good 2nd hand prices.
    I got my boots off this place http://www.irishsnowboards.com
    Might have some decent boards there too.

    Thanks, hopefully lidl will hav boards on sale :)


  • #17
    kn2k10
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭kn2k10


    Meath:
    Monday - Rain
    Tuesday - Rain
    Wednesday - Sunny/Cold.

    No snow yet. :pac:


  • #18
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Roads are like a bottle here in Donegal, all the rain from this evening is frozen solid on the cars etc.
    Just had a shower of hail/sleet there, thought it was snow for a second.


  • #19
    kn2k10
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭kn2k10


    Pangea wrote: »
    Roads are like a bottle here in Donegal, all the rain from this evening is frozen solid on the cars etc.
    Just had a shower of hail/sleet there, thought it was snow for a second.

    Just give it 'till 29 of November.

    :D


  • #20
    irish1967
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    Is it just me or is this thread a little confusing given that we have a current weather conditions sticky? Just saying.


  • #21
    Trogdor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,310 ✭✭✭Trogdor


    irish1967 wrote: »
    Is it just me or is this thread a little confusing given that we have a current weather conditions sticky? Just saying.

    It's just to try and keep the discussion thread from getting too clogged up, as when the white stuff starts to fall many members from other parts of the site with begin to report and ignore the current conditions thread:p If people find it confusing though i can close it down either:)


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  • #22
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    I can confrim that there is snow on the hill here in donegal :D
    I could see the white stuff even in the dark. A good dusting.


  • #23
    irish1967
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    20 miles south of ye Pangea and it raining heavy. Heavy enough to mess with the satellite TV. :(


  • #24
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    irish1967 wrote: »
    20 miles south of ye Pangea and it raining heavy. Heavy enough to mess with the satellite TV. :(
    20 miles east you mean :pac:
    No snow here in lower levels ,had sleet earlier though.
    Roads are very icy out there. Flashbacks to last winter.


  • #25
    talkabout
    Registered Users Posts: 695 ✭✭✭talkabout


    Slight drizzle around Ballybofey, roads very slippery


  • #26
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Sleet and hail here in Letterkenny, the hail isnt melting in places and most parked cars are all white from it. Roads and pavements have been frozen since before 7pm which I think is the earliest so far this year


  • #27
    kenmc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,276 ✭✭✭kenmc


    nothing to report in,goatstown d 14, but cars are freezing over


  • #28
    hotwhiskey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭hotwhiskey


    Just to confirm it snowing lightly here at the moment.:)


  • #29
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Not sure what we're having here exactly, it looks like snow at first glance in the way it blows around in the wind but then when you go out in it its more like a very light hail

    Had another heavy but brief shower of it there, dont think we're going to get much more than that tonight so off to bed I think


  • #30
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Just had a shower of wet snow here in Donegal.


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  • #31
    mountainy man
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭mountainy man


    First snow of the winter here in sligo although i'm quite high up here , just a good old dusting !:D


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