Snow showers likely in the northwest Tuesday night onward

Gonzo · 31-01-2018 4:44pm

that shower made it here, just cold rain.

Gonzo · 31-01-2018 4:55pm

rain turning quickly to wet snow.

highdef · 31-01-2018 5:01pm

Good to hear you are seeing snow falling at your location Gonzo, particularly as Net weather currently has it as all rain. Getting quite dull and overcast in Dublin city now - I would expect rain here but maybe a few flakes thrown in.

There is a large area of thick cloud moving into northern and northwestern areas now. This has been consistently forecasted by Met Eireann and they seem to be bang on with it again. I'm guessing there may be some warmer air within this band (my reckoning is it's an occluded front) so it may be a messy mix of rain and sleet with snow mainly on higher ground but I am really hoping to be surprised by something more wintry for a greater amount of the population, especially as nightfall is almost here.

Soccarboy11 · 31-01-2018 5:01pm

one of the blackest clouds i've seen in a while to the left of me on cork city, wonder if it will hit or not, looks like it should

jon burrows · 31-01-2018 5:07pm

Freezing rain here in D15

Cold rain here in D15

highdef · 31-01-2018 5:10pm

jon burrows wrote: »

Freezing rain here in D15

With air and ground temperatures above freezing, I'm highly doubting that you are getting freezing rain, assuming that is where you are......cold rain sounds way more likely

DOCARCH · 31-01-2018 5:21pm

A little bit of icy rain/sleet here now in Dublin 16. 4.2c atm.

jambofc · 31-01-2018 5:27pm

sleety shower in Kilkenny City but the hills to the north are white

Gonzo · 31-01-2018 5:45pm

just had another shower but it's back to rain. it was really the backedge of that last shower that had wet snow in it.

highdef · 31-01-2018 5:56pm

Gonzo wrote: »

just had another shower but it's back to rain. it was really the backedge of that last shower that had wet snow in it.

Yeah, looks like almost everywhere is currently on the wrong side of marginal. The front moving into the north and north west now appears to exist due to some warmer air. There's a distinct change from a north west to more northerly flow at the back of the front. Temps in Ulster are ranging from about 2 - 4c at the moment and milder again on the coasts.

I think the front will begin as rain for all but those on very high ground. As the colder air then digs in, combined with some evaporative cooling plus night time cooling, I would expect it to turn a little more wintry in many areas and possibly some snowfall for those on higher ground, more particularly above above about 200m, maybe a bit higher, maybe a bit lower.

Between 100m and 200m, I would expect rain turn to sleet with some wet snow but probably not much lying snow....never say never though.

Below 100m, I'm thinking mainly rain with a wintry mix from time to time but nothing to get excited about.

Fingers crossed I'm wrong and I am underestimating this :P

pauldry · 31-01-2018 6:46pm

Suddenly turned tornado like here.

Severe gales hail and sheets n sheets of rain mixed in

I guess we have to be punished for 3 or 4 days where there was only a few mm of rain. Back to the normal 10mm plus a day now

Periscal · 31-01-2018 7:59pm

Hail and sleet shower now in Blessington,car reading 2c ,turning to wet snow,how come? Yn.no had us under +3 and rain for this evening

highdef · 31-01-2018 8:05pm

Moderate wet snow shower has just passed, on the Meath/Kildare border. Some of the flakes were very wet but there were a good few large proper flakes....not a hope of it sticking but was still nice to look at.

Gaoth Laidir · 31-01-2018 8:46pm

highdef wrote: »

Moderate wet snow shower has just passed, on the Meath/Kildare border. Some of the flakes were very wet but there were a good few large proper flakes....not a hope of it sticking but was still nice to look at.

Rain here in Celbridge, just down the road.

MidMan25 · 31-01-2018 8:49pm

Soccarboy11 wrote: »

one of the blackest clouds i've seen in a while to the left of me on cork city, wonder if it will hit or not, looks like it should

Spotted that too, sky went extremely dark for 10-15 mins.

sdanseo · 31-01-2018 8:49pm

It was trying really hard to snow all the way round the M50 just now. Lashing sleet really heavily, flakes both visible and audible, unusual combination! Sadly just a degree or slightly more too warm.

I'd say Dublin Mountains above 300m or so are a winter wonderland again.

gabeeg · 31-01-2018 8:59pm

Bugger all happening at 150

George Sunsnow · 31-01-2018 9:17pm

1st rain shower of the day here near Arklow just now

https://twitter.com/arklowweather/status/958795868236328961

Neddyusa · 31-01-2018 11:46pm

Horrible, awful, brutal night here! Worst of the winter so far. Just 2 C and 6 hours of constant torrential rain driven by a gale force Northerly wind.

Snow showers likely in the northwest Tuesday night onward

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