COLD SPELL Jan 28th Onwards: Wintry Showers/Frosty, Some Snow Accumulations

Conbhar · 28-01-2015 11:47pm

joe199 wrote: »

Heading to Manchester friday morning lads till Sunday eve how's the likelyhood of seeing some of the white stuff?

Pangea wrote: »

Just looked out side, not the wintry scenes I was hoping for, no showers or even hail. I wonder what barnesmore gap is like at the moment.

The gap isn't that bad by all accounts. There's a good bit of the white stuff mixed with hail on the ground but I'd say we'll see even more come the morning.

StewartGriffin · 28-01-2015 11:48pm

NMB wrote: »

Ah Stewie - thems the breaks.... there's always next week xx

But I'm waiting, I've been waiting all day. My gloves and hat are all wet now, and it's very dark, but I'm staying in this garden until the snow comes.

And then I'm going to make a snowman!

MissMoc · 29-01-2015 12:01am

First nice shower in a while in Tullamore now, the rainfall radar is not showing anything major heading this way though.. But I live in hope

Came to nothing...

boatbuilder · 29-01-2015 12:04am

Couple of cms lying here near Shercock Co.Cavan but it's stopped snowing now.... Probably enough to frighten off the school bus driver in the morning.

Lenny5 · 29-01-2015 12:07am

Bit of a let down so far wud be surprised to see anything change overnight. Still ya never know still a chance

JCX BXC · 29-01-2015 12:09am

Looking at the Met Eireann 5day forecast, I would watch Monday.

Temperture hit 4.1c a minute ago! Falling again but no hope of snow at that temp, especially with the light showers we are getting.

Where can i find my DP online?

sunbabe08 · 29-01-2015 12:12am

so wasting my time staying up lamp post watching?

Rougies · 29-01-2015 12:15am

Carnacalla wrote: »

Looking at the Met Eireann 5day forecast, I would watch Monday.

Temperture hit 4.1c a minute ago! Falling again but no hope of snow at that temp, especially with the light showers we are getting.

Where can i find my DP online?

If your weather station gives a humidity reading use this calculator to find DP.

http://www.decatur.de/javascript/dew/

silverharp · 29-01-2015 12:17am

sky news being the attention seeking whores as usual, trying to big up a wee snow shower in Lurgan. Its not exactly stomageddon

edit-might have been BBC , seemed like the usual ott Sky approach

JCX BXC · 29-01-2015 12:17am

Rougies wrote: »

If your weather station gives a humidity reading use this calculator to find DP.

http://www.decatur.de/javascript/dew/

Brilliant! I will keep this in my bookmarks! Very handy:P

JCX BXC · 29-01-2015 12:18am

Temperture in west clare atm 3.4c with a Dp of -2.2c

Happyman42 · 29-01-2015 12:20am

Snowing heavily in Monaghan now

Cosmo Kramer · 29-01-2015 12:29am

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

A few showers this evening and probably a few more overnight. I wish I took tomorrow off!

Radar map looks very interesting for Glasgow for the next few hours. A lot of precipitation heading in this way from the north-west. About 2 to 3 inches on the ground around the house here at the moment but there could be a decent accumulation here, and across the city, by morning.

Mech1 · 29-01-2015 12:36am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7k7Hh8J0QQ

Finally got it uploaded nothing to see up there at 08.20pm approx. just a skim at the viewing point.

hotwhiskey · 29-01-2015 12:42am

lucernarian wrote: »

If I'm getting snow, you can be sure that the "showery precip" in Ballyhaise in Cavan is falling as snow. Who knows if it's sticking, the temp is hovering around 1 to 1.5 degrees here and it's only sticking when the snow is very heavy.

Just for the record I was in Ballyhaise this afternoon around 4 at the college about 200m away from the weather station. There was a moderate snow shower checked Met Eireann latest reports said rain shower even looked for the hourly update said the same.

Anyway we have had some nice showers in the last 3 to 4 hours a couple cms on the roads.

TireeTerror · 29-01-2015 12:48am

I'm just getting my stove ready and about to head up to the hills in Carlingford in the next 5 minutes, hopefully there will be a fair bit of snow. I will en-devour not to topple over the edge on the way back down!

have2flushtwice · 29-01-2015 1:15am

silverharp wrote: »

sky news being the attention seeking whores as usual, trying to big up a wee snow shower in Lurgan. Its not exactly stomageddon

edit-might have been BBC , seemed like the usual ott Sky approach

A lot of people here doing the same. A lot of threads and we have had no big freeze, no travel bans.
Are the weather alerts worth any value? All I've seen so far is a wheelie bin blown over in Dublin, and a pic of some snow earlier on this thread. I travel quite a bit around the country and have had no inconvenience yet. Hype over nothing. If they are going to issue an alert at least get it right.

Are we being wound up by the media?
Two degrees here, sleet there for an hour. Hardly worth issuing an alert.of
By the way, this is aimed at the met, not users here

F-Stop · 29-01-2015 1:16am

Light sleety snow in Enniskerry now.

lucernarian · 29-01-2015 1:29am

hotwhiskey wrote: »

Just for the record I was in Ballyhaise this afternoon around 4 at the college about 200m away from the weather station. There was a moderate snow shower checked Met Eireann latest reports said rain shower even looked for the hourly update said the same.Anyway we have had some nice showers in the last 3 to 4 hours a couple cms on the roads.

There ya go. Someone claimed the only Met station recording sleet was Casement but that's cause most of them are automated and can't tell if the temperature isn't quite zero.

How high up is your location??

Lenny5 · 29-01-2015 1:31am

Met eireaan just updated their yellow snow ice warning valid from midnight for Connaught Ulster dublin included too

JCX BXC · 29-01-2015 1:36am

Lenny5 wrote: »

Met eireaan just updated their yellow snow ice warning valid from midnight for Connaught Ulster dublin included too

I dont understand if you were trying to say the places added or what, and you missed a fair few counties too.

" Snow-ice Warning for Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Wicklow, Offaly, Westmeath and Meath
Update on earlier warning: Wintry showers will continue overnight and at times during Thursday morning. Snow accumulations up to 3 cm are likely. Showers will be most frequent over Connacht, Ulster and north Leinster. Higher accumulations are possible over hills and mountains."

RuthieRose · 29-01-2015 1:39am

Snow lying on the ground here in Cavan. Roads should be fun in the morning!!
Sorry pic a bit dark!

RobertKK · 29-01-2015 1:48am

Got an inch of snow earlier on before it got dark. I was in Kilkenny city earlier and no snow there, but it was very scenic with the snow on the hills all around.
It was sticking to the roads at about 200 asl mark give or take.

coconnellz · 29-01-2015 1:56am

their is 3cm of lying snow on ground here in Virginia

Schadenfreudia · 29-01-2015 1:57am

Temp now 5C (according to car), it's near calm, dry and cloudless. Very sheltered from NW winds here.

But I'm south of Kinsale!

pauldry · 29-01-2015 2:21am

A lot of rain showers on met reports. Why

AnotherYear · 29-01-2015 2:24am

First shower of the day with no hail in it. Miracle. All snow. Grass has been white all day, the pavements were Slushy but now a slight covering

Kermit.de.frog · 29-01-2015 2:25am

The reason the showers are sleety at low levels in the south is because the temperature is higher at various layers than was anticipated. This won't change until early tomorrow morning.

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200motels · 29-01-2015 2:25am

Not a sign of any snow down here,

Kermit.de.frog · 29-01-2015 2:38am

There will be heavy snow showers tomorrow from daylight in the east and southeast throughout the day. Showers elsewhere will turn more rain/sleet by early afternoon. Some are in for a surprise.

COLD SPELL Jan 28th Onwards: Wintry Showers/Frosty, Some Snow Accumulations

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