March 31st - Heavy showers (some wintry and thundery)

Trogdor · 31-03-2010 3:35pm #1

Reports of snow or thunderstorms in here please. I closed the other thread as it was getting to long and straying off topic. Can we keep this for a discussion of weather conditions only please here. If anyone wants to discuss anything else please start a new thread:)

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 3:38pm

Snowing and sunny at the same time here. Only in Ireland!

snow ghost · 31-03-2010 3:40pm

Any snowbows Deep?

Cloudy with the sun peeking through here and the odd gust of wind.

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 3:42pm

snow ghost wrote: »

Any snowbows Deep?

Cloudy with the sun peeking through here and the odd gust of wind.

Not that I can see. Cleared through now but there is a really bitching black looking shower just over the Mayo border that might head this way. :eek:

bently · 31-03-2010 3:43pm

A couple of hailstone showers,then a little rain,followed by bright sunshine,............near Listowel..........lovely

Su Campu · 31-03-2010 3:43pm

Yes some nice humdingers in there alright, the first of the April showery activity. Some very steep mid-upper lapse rates, with cold temperatures throughout and dry mid levels ensuring strong updrafts and decent hail and sleet/snow.

Activity should be confined to western and northern coastal counties by dark though as insolation stops.

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H2UMrsRobinson · 31-03-2010 3:47pm

I'm gazing left (east)out the office window - sunny blue skies, looking right (west) big black cloud which will probably dump it's contents on me as I cycle home in a while.

nacho libre · 31-03-2010 3:50pm

Su Campu wrote: »

Activity should be confined to western and northern coastal counties by dark though as insolation stops.

yes, which is a pity as we might have had some accumulations by night.

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 3:52pm

Satanic looking Mayo shower bearing down fast:

davehey79 · 31-03-2010 3:54pm

absolutely bucketing down hailstones here in longford now.

SEPT 23 1989 · 31-03-2010 3:57pm

Snow shower in Newcastle Co.Dublin

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 3:58pm

Violent hail storm now:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Edit: easing to moderate rain. Hmmph.

Edit *2 eerie thunder glow now although rain is easing up.

Su Campu · 31-03-2010 4:04pm

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Violent hail storm now:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Edit: easing to moderate rain. Hmmph.

Is that you in the white box DE? Looks like some red spots in there alright, it's mushroomed in the last 30 minutes. The next couple of hours should see more of those around the country, then falling off as the evening draws on.

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 4:07pm

Su Campu wrote: »

Is that you in the white box DE? Looks like some red spots in there alright, it's mushroomed in the last 30 minutes. The next couple of hours should see more of those around the country, then falling off as the evening draws on.

Yap Su, that would have been the first shower I got around 30 mins ago, the one just inside the Mayo border is what I am getting now. Has eased up big time although the most intense part of the shower seems to be slipping around a mile to my SW at the moment. Very black down there at the mo.

Min · 31-03-2010 4:13pm

Met Eireann giving a band of showers to cross the country tonight:

Tonight

Mainly dry and clear at first tonight. However a band of showers will cross the country from the west as the night goes on, turning to snow in a few places. Cold and fairly windy at times too, with lowest temperatures -3 to +2 degrees, coldest in the north, with a slight frost in places.

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/

redalicat · 31-03-2010 4:15pm

Heavy snow here in Kilcullen, 7.2C and falling...it was sunny not 10 minutes ago!;)

nacho libre · 31-03-2010 4:23pm

thundersnow!!:D

just heard a crack of thunder.:)

sunbabe08 · 31-03-2010 4:26pm

sunny here in cork, but we had a blizzard of hail earlier.

Speak Now · 31-03-2010 4:34pm

Hail shower passing by in a hurry.

31-03-2010 5:05pm

Very heavy snow shower here just west of Arklow.
Big thick fluffy flakes that gave a white layer to grass and roofs very quickly in a gusty wind.

owenc · 31-03-2010 5:17pm

ok.. so i left three hours ago.. drove along the road to i got to the forest.. then i began walking up it... i got 3/5 of the way up and the snow was 1.5foot upto my knees by the time i wouldve got to the top there wouldve been 4 or 5 foot...

Elmo5 · 31-03-2010 5:18pm

just wondering guys, is this the end of the major snow warning, will anything else just be a scattered wintry shower?

had nothing this morning even though is snowed for a good bit of yesterday, didn't stick.

31-03-2010 5:34pm

Gone really dark here, thunder & lightning, hail and wind picking up too.

snowjon · 31-03-2010 5:35pm

Heavy snow shower here at the moment

31-03-2010 5:49pm

hellboy99 wrote: »

Gone really dark here, thunder & lightning, hail and wind picking up too.

It didn't last long, cloud breaking and sun. Weather is all over the place today.

danni2 · 31-03-2010 6:02pm

Had a snow shower which lasted about 10 mins, stopped now and the suns back out.

milly4ever · 31-03-2010 6:23pm

snowjon wrote: »

Heavy snow shower here at the moment

that's close by! rain/hailstones in belfast at the moment only

Tom Cruises Left Nut · 31-03-2010 6:49pm

Wow... some amazing pictures of the north there on RTE News, unreal

irishdub14 · 31-03-2010 7:01pm

heavy sleet shower here in the last 10mins, lasted about 5mins.... very wet tho... theres alot of dark clouds heading towards dublin atm.....

deaglan169 · 31-03-2010 7:07pm

heavy snow shower here in monaghan town lasted about 10mins but has covered everything heaviest ive seen in a long time wasnt even this heavy yesterday

Chicken Run · 31-03-2010 7:12pm

gorgeous evening in Clare - sunshine, blue skies, light breeze and a spot of high white cloud...

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 7:15pm

All quite here but can see the showers that are affecting Leitrim/ Monaghan/Longford area on the NE horizon from my window! Air has dried out a lot so.

Tom Cruises Left Nut · 31-03-2010 7:17pm

Suddenly gone really dark here, huge bank of black cloud about to come overhead

*crosses fingers*

owenc · 31-03-2010 7:18pm

t|nt|n wrote: »

Suddenly gone really dark here, huge bank of black cloud about to come overhead

*crosses fingers*

yea noticed the showers have gotten darker and heavier.. but i keep missing them... but were they are they must be really heavy!

lucy2010 · 31-03-2010 7:19pm

Whats in store for us tonight in Wicklow ? Super windy today but temp of 5c now aint giving me much hope for anything exciting.

Tom Cruises Left Nut · 31-03-2010 7:19pm

owenc wrote: »

yea noticed the showers have gotten darker and heavier.. but i keep missing them... but were they are they must be really heavy!

Did you rescue your Mother earlier by the way or did you leave her up there ???!!!

owenc · 31-03-2010 7:22pm

t|nt|n wrote: »

Did you rescue your Mother earlier by the way or did you leave her up there ???!!!

no a man in a truck stopped and pulled her out of the ditch thing lol... theres 3 foot up there!

Tom Cruises Left Nut · 31-03-2010 7:24pm

Mental hail shower !

glossy · 31-03-2010 7:32pm

been dry as bone here all day, still sunny hardly a cloud around

love love to have a good thunder storm

M.T. Cranium · 31-03-2010 7:36pm

Could see a heavy hail or snow shower with thunder in Waterford to Dungarvan around now to 8 pm.

mickger844posts · 31-03-2010 7:41pm

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Could see a heavy hail or snow shower with thunder in Waterford to Dungarvan around now to 8 pm.

Nothing here yet MT, clearish skies but that could change fast

Su Campu · 31-03-2010 7:42pm

A few sferics in the southwest in the last couple of hours, where the axis of coldest uppers is.

http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?mode=0&map=3&lang=en

Takeshi_Kovacs · 31-03-2010 7:54pm

We had some very heavy showers of hail sleet snow all day, thunder as well hour or two ago. Not a bit stuck though, as ground temps too high, and when the sun came out again, it got remarkably warm again. Theres a fair covering of snow on the higher mountains and it will be interesting to see how long it stays.

owenc · 31-03-2010 8:18pm

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote: »

We had some very heavy showers of hail sleet snow all day, thunder as well hour or two ago. Not a bit stuck though, as ground temps too high, and when the sun came out again, it got remarkably warm again. Theres a fair covering of snow on the higher mountains and it will be interesting to see how long it stays.

Yea and it didn't even melt up there even up the road from me were it is thin and slushy

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 8:20pm

Showers are really decaying big style here. One such one passing over at the moment with nothing more than a few almost baseless fall streaks! (sorry for crap quality)

precipitation never quite reached the ground as it passed over but was an interesting site all the same.

Gonzo · 31-03-2010 9:28pm

lovely spring like day here today, almost unbroken sunshine all day just a bit chilly tho.

thetonynator · 31-03-2010 10:08pm

not much happened here today, some sleet and rain was all. lots of snow this morning on not very high hills, most of it melted soon but there were drifts by the hedges of up to 2 feet.

Oscar Bravo · 31-03-2010 10:11pm

All quite compared to last nytes excitement,not a bad day in Castlebar,the odd shower and a stif N wind-great drying in between the showers!

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 11:04pm

Had a snow shower passing through around an hour ago. Not much fell but what did fall stuck for a while. Still a couple of flakes surviving on top of the wheelie bin outside!

Oscar Bravo · 31-03-2010 11:09pm

Some lovely big showers just off the west coast now!

Deep Easterly · 31-03-2010 11:17pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Some lovely big showers just off the west coast now!

Seems to be an organised area of showers heading towards the headlands at the moment alright:

March 31st - Heavy showers (some wintry and thundery)

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