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Increasingly colder from tomorrow / Wintry showers and snow for some / Frost

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  • #32
    Conrach
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Conrach


    Wind has picked up here and some sleety showers. Very surprised to even see sleet here.


  • #33
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    I can see it now. A Baltic March.
    That could even go well into April, remember 1998 ??


  • #34
    dirtyghettokid
    Registered Users Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭dirtyghettokid


    wintry shower now between naul & lusk north co dublin ~400ft asl

    kinda graupel like.. cold too


  • #35
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,633 ✭✭✭darkman2


    (Mostly) Rain, Hail, Sleet shower on Dublin's Northside.


  • #36
    Nabber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    Rain here in D12. Wind chill is making the rain hurt :rolleyes:


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  • #37
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    15 minutes of rain in Blackrock, Dublin. Sky clearing from the coast. Heavy grey clouds moving inland.


  • #38
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    dirtyghettokid wrote: »
    wintry shower now between naul & lusk north co dublin 400m asl

    kinda graupel like.. cold too
    There is no terrain above 170 m in north Co. Dublin! Are you in a plane?!


  • #39
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,699 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Nice bit of snow falling in the highlands of Scotland. :) I know it has no relevance to here but always nice to see snow falling.

    http://www.winterhighland.com/cams/aviemore/aviemorevideo.php


  • #40
    dirtyghettokid
    Registered Users Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭dirtyghettokid


    Su Campu wrote: »
    There is no terrain above 170 m in north Co. Dublin! Are you in a plane?!

    lol it's probably 400ft .. :o:p oops


  • #41
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    I can see it now. A Baltic March. And i reckon it will happen.

    I am hopeful enough for February.

    We will get a splash of the stuff at some point between Feb 1 and March 31st for sure ;)

    My tenner says otherwise me auld flower! :cool::D;):D:cool:

    189051.jpg


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  • #42
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    This day 130 years ago we would have had some real weather to talk about:

    1881.gif

    More excellent historic re-analysis charts here:
    http://www.wetter3.de/Archiv/
    All the way back to 1870 and in 6 hr increments with many other parameters included as well.


  • #43
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    A famous month which saw the lowest temperature ever in Ireland and that channel low too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_January_1881


  • #44
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Nothing but some short lived hail showers here today, top of Errigal is white but only a patchy covering for the very top of most of the mountains, lying snow level above 500m at a guess


  • #45
    derekon
    Registered Users Posts: 836 ✭✭✭derekon


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    That could even go well into April, remember 1998 ??


    Thanks , some interesting facts in there - for example 5 days of snow in April 1998 in Dublin along with a low of around -5oC in the county during that period. Maybe there is a wee bit of hope for Feb and March 2012 after all :D

    D


  • #46
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Was driving earlier and one place was all white with sleet here in Donegal, dangerous enough for driving in. It was 4c at the time around 3pm. The sleet was compacted.


  • #47
    eskimocat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭eskimocat


    Dodged into the car in Sligo just as a real sharp hail shower hit not long ago... loud (on the car!) small tight compacted hail.... now its the same in Dromahair!!! ping ping ping!


  • #48
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Shower here at 6.30pm (0.2mm). Pure rain.

    What joy it must be to live where the sleet and graupel falls at +4C !

    (We used to call it "soft hail" before we were properly educated) :cool:


  • #49
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    I think this particular thread has run its course and we won't be seeing anything from it. Much warmer air pushes in later tonight and for the weekend (850 temp up to +5 °C), with stiff breezes throughout reducing the chance of frost where skies clear.

    Maybe Sunday night and Monday is the next window of focus for something a bit wintry, with a colder northwesterly briefly setting in.


  • #50
    Conrach
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Conrach


    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Shower here at 6.30pm (0.2mm). Pure rain.

    What joy it must be to live where the sleet and graupel falls at +4C !

    (We used to call it "soft hail" before we were properly educated) :cool:

    I suppose it is a joy. We had heavy sleet and hail showers all afternoon and the temp never dipped below +3C.
    I had to escort an after school event and the kids thought it was snow. Thanks to this forum I was able to explain the difference in snow, sleet, hail and graupel. Graupel has become the latest buzzword amongst 10 year olds...Sounds so rude.:D

    Rain only since 7pm and still +4C...So there you go!


  • #51
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,633 ✭✭✭darkman2


    Hi all, just a short update from me.Briefly touched on the possibility of colder weather lasting into next week in the OP. The 18z GFS leaves open the possibility that the generally colder phase of weather will last well into next week. Sunday and Monday look good for sleet or snow showers in the North. Milder on Tuesday with a spell of rain before colder weather sweeps in again for Wednesday with a further risk of wintry weather particularly West and North.


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  • #52
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    I think the title of this thread is misleading then, in that it says increasingly colder from today, when in fact it's get increasingly milder until Sunday.


  • #53
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Su Campu wrote: »
    I think the title of this thread is misleading then, in that it says increasingly colder from today, when in fact it's get increasingly milder until Sunday.

    I'd suggest:


    Increasingly milder from tomorrow / Wintry showers and snow for some in Greenland/ Frost in Moscow

    :D


  • #54
    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Pangea wrote: »
    Was driving earlier and one place was all white with sleet here in Donegal, dangerous enough for driving in. It was 4c at the time around 3pm. The sleet was compacted.

    it shows how bad things are, when we are trumpeting sleet falling:(


  • #55
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,633 ✭✭✭darkman2


    Su Campu wrote: »
    I think the title of this thread is misleading then, in that it says increasingly colder from today, when in fact it's get increasingly milder until Sunday.

    The overall trend over the next 4 or 5 days is towards colder weather not milder weather. You are right there are short periods of slightly milder weather over the weekend and we are kind of in and out of Polar maritime flow. But that does not change the trend - it's getting colder over the weekend. There will be periods of rain or showers sometimes of the wintry variety for some.

    I think you have misinterpreted the reason I started the thread with respect. Firstly this is not an extreme weather thread or anything of the sort. I am merely pointing out a colder phase of weather has begun and that makes this place more interesting and people are interested even if it does not mean 5ft of snow. Secondly (and I am not the only one) I was getting fed up with the trolling rubbish in the other thread. The moaning aswell. Interesting the weather will be this weekend and into the start of next week. Yes, it's not snowmageddon. I never said it would be. And I accept there are some inaccuracies from when I started the OP. But instead of criticising understand that it has been an exceptionally difficult period to forecast for. I see nothing wrong with the thread overall. It's simply reflecting reality that the weather is changing to colder polar maritime conditions for the next few days. A couple of brief mild intrusions does not change that.

    Unfortunately this effort to actually discuss the weather might have failed aswell.

    Not aimed at you Su but we have a couple of stupid, irrelevant comments in here already. I know I am wasting my time trying to communicate with these posters. If you have something silly to say and nothing constructive go to after hours and say it. I see this forum as a fine resource and has been for years. At the end of the day those disrupting it are going to ruin that for themselves and everyone.


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