Strong Winds, Heavy Rain Wintry Weather : Sat 2nd to Mon 4th March 2019

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Serious amount of rain fallen in Cork city since the early hours and still raining. Any real pitch well waterlogged at this stage.

Would pairc ui chaoimh fall under the real pitch category

Wet sleet near the Wicklow gap at 270m. Mountain tops around me are turning white though.

Kerry airport 2 degrees. Dew point 1.

Wet snow here now in my part of Laois...126masl

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

rain basically falling straight down, no wind at all here in cork city. Very heavy, big drops though.

Looking at reports on Wundermap, it looks like the extreme south coast is in the warm sector, with places along the coast having a big jump in temperature in recent hours. Examples of places in the warm sector are Midleton, Cobh and Clonakilty areas of Cork which are reporting double digit temperatures.

Cork city is reporting temperatures of about 7c so looks to be right on the border of the two air masses as Mallow, a little to the north, is reporting 3c.

The south of Waterford and Wexford counties are also reporting in the high single digit to low double digits.

North half of Kerry is generally between 1 and 3c, hence the snow.

What I'm seeing now is that there is a wedge of colder air stretching from Kerry in a north east direction from there with temperatures generally averaging about 3c (give or take 1c) and slowly falling.

Winds are pretty strong from a south or south east direction along the south coast but light and quite variable in direction elsewhere.