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Snowing in Rathdrum Co. Wicklow tonight?

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    #32
    eskimocat
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    I guess I have a much more twisted mind... I thought when you said confectionery... that it was hinting at illicit drugs you were ... as in SNOW (cocaine).... or maybe I just have snow on the brain... the weather kind, not the other...or thinking now, is it called ice... either way >>>>:confused: lol

    One of the girls in work today casually mentioned that her sister in Wexford text to say it was snowing! She just thought the sister was a bit :rolleyes:


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    #33
    sparrowcar
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    Brain training with sparrowcar... :D:cool:


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    #34
    pauldry
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    snowed in sligo last night according to ray darcy.

    i live there and i didnt see any.


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    #35
    Su Campu
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    pauldry wrote: »
    snowed in sligo last night according to ray darcy.

    Course it did, the same way it snowed in Finner and Rathdrum! :rolleyes:

    I think if there was anything then it was probably melting hailstones. If they hit a windscreen then people might mistake that icy splat for snowflakes.


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    #36
    Su Campu
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    Regarding the snow reported at Finner around midnight of the 5th October. This link summarises the hourly synop reports, with the Present Weather given in the WW column. The individual W1 and W2 colums refer to the past weather types of the current synoptic period.

    Rain and drizzle were reported up to 22 UTC. At 23 UTC, "SnowShower" was reported, with temperature was 6.7 °C, and dewpoint 5.4 °C. Between 22 and 23 UTC, there was a huge increase in windspeed, from 32 to 54 km/h, and a major fall in visibility, from 20 km at 21 UTC to 1.1 km at 23 UTC.

    Temperature rose to 9.2 °C by 00 UTC, with Recent Snow" reported (which would refer to that of the 23 UTC report). Visibility rose again to 12 km. Thereafter rain was reported.

    As Met Éireann say on their website, optical weather detectors can report snow in low visibility conditions. This is clearly what happened in this occasion, and shows that we must look at the big picture when we see a report like that.

    Similarly with Sligo last night. Dewpoint at Sligo Airport was 8-9 °C right through the night. These show the dewpoints at 00 UTC and 06 UTC, showing 7 °C as the lowest dewpoint throughout the country at Ireland's highest station, Connaught Airport (200 m).

    I'd disregard any report of snow that either appears in the media or that's tweeted by a brother of a friend's sister's mother-in-law's uncle. People seem to be still talking about the idea of snow in October, and it looks like some may be sending in the odd spurios report to get a mention.


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    #37
    JJJJNR
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    Wasn't snowing in Rathdrum, may I suggest head and shoulders. ?


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