Saturday/Sunday Wintry Potential

ZX7R wrote: »

Just after reading met earanns forecast and looks to be snow for much of Munster and Leinster tonight interesting

Surprised at that myself. Expected it to be north Leinster/ Ulster snowfall event. Will be surprised to see anything lying in Cork except for hills.

Yes, Met Èireann say rain will turn to sleet and snow over much of munster and leinster. However nothing about accumulations here and altitude thus it's a very catch all forecast at the moment till further information comes to hand.

Met Èireann updated

TONIGHT - SATURDAY 9TH MARCH

Rain, with some heavy bursts, will spread up over much of the country this evening and early tonight, turning wintry with some falls of sleet and snow. The rain, sleet and snow will turn more showery overnight, but still occasionally heavy and prolonged over the northern half of the country. The risk of hail and thunder will also increase towards morning. Lows of minus 1 to plus 2 degrees. Light variable winds, becoming fresh to strong westerly, with gales developing on Atlantic coasts towards dawn.


Again nothing much of note yet.

Anyone get woken up this morning around 3.45am by the loudest thunder I'ver ever heard? Live just outside Galway, sounded like the city was under bombardment, guess it was a colder air mass moving in, after a few very loud claps, torrential rain for about 20 mins with more thunder - had the heart going 90 for a while.

LOL, no. How on earth did you come up with conclusion?

highdef wrote: »

LOL, no. How on earth did you come up with conclusion?

so will you be conveniently 'off line ' if your prediction goes pear- shaped ?, lol.

Ah crap I was supposed to be going to Kilkenny tonight think I'll stay put

Sofa Spud wrote: »

Anyone get woken up this morning around 3.45am by the loudest thunder I'ver ever heard? Live just outside Galway, sounded like the city was under bombardment, guess it was a colder air mass moving in, after a few very loud claps, torrential rain for about 20 mins with more thunder - had the heart going 90 for a while.

Yep, same here.

Have you seen the Convective weather thread?

Mortelaro wrote: »

Yeah but this is 2019
People with phones aren't going to be listening to radio one
They're going to be looking at what I posted above and set out on their journeys accordingly
Which leads to the Same confusion as last weekend

If people can’t be bothered to scroll down and actually read the forecast, then that’s their own fault. It’s on the app so if people aren’t informed it’s due to their own laziness. Those pictures are always only a tiny part of the forecast.

Mount Vesuvius wrote: »

WRF just shows North of country getting any worthwhile wintriness.
I see dewpoints will be above 0°C for much of the night till they bottom oit at minus 4 tomorrow in the showers.

So weighting it up , nothing too noteworthy then tonight for many if WRF is correct.

I'm echoing your thoughts. As I mentioned, unless we get upgrades later today, chances are slim for most bar high ground in the northern 2/3 of the country....say from about 250/300m ASL in the middle section of the country and from maybe about 150ish metres ASL in the northern third, for snow to fall and stick readily. That's based on the current information at hand and my estimates might change later.

Obviously people here in Kildare are anxious of a repeat of last weekend. I think the confidence is there that there won’t be a repeat. Warnings have been issued though so we see what happens.

I don’t think this potential would be worth GL commenting on anyways. ;-)