Much colder, wintry showers, some of snow Easter Sunday 2021 onward

Pangea · 01-04-2021 8:36pm

Does anyone remember the snow day in April circa 2005-2008 can't remember exact year just remember the novelty of having snow in April. This was in Letterkenny.

Nqp15hhu · 01-04-2021 8:40pm

Pangea wrote: »

Does anyone remember the snow day in April circa 2005-2008 can't remember exact year just remember the novelty of having snow in April. This was in Letterkenny.

There was a day in April here in the 2000’s like that. I can remember it because we had snow at 8c.

JanuarySnowstor · 01-04-2021 9:15pm

Looks like severe frost Monday and Tuesday night is the main headline!!
Yes cold enough for snow but ppn looks quite weak so while falling snow is possible, lying snow looks fantasy imo.
More so after the last few days of high temperatures!

Larbre34 · 01-04-2021 9:29pm

I remember that day pretty clearly, I was trying to get to a meeting near Leeson Street by car and there was bad disruption to traffic mid afternoon

RobertKK · 01-04-2021 9:39pm

The latest I saw snow was the first week of May, a prolonged heavy snow shower left everywhere white, but obviously it didn't last.
April is common enough.

Tyrone212 · 01-04-2021 9:45pm

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Looks like severe frost Monday and Tuesday night is the main headline!!
Yes cold enough for snow but ppn looks quite weak so while falling snow is possible, lying snow looks fantasy imo.
More so after the last few days of high temperatures!

I'm a little more optimistic up here, for an overnight covering. 15c is the highest I've had this week and that was briefly on monday. A frost forecast over the next couple of nights as well. Anyway time will tell.

Tyrone212 · 01-04-2021 9:53pm

RobertKK wrote: »

The latest I saw snow was the first week of May, a prolonged heavy snow shower left everywhere white, but obviously it didn't last.
April is common enough.

In May 4 or 5 years ago I was getting the bus back from Dublin airport first thing. Stopped in Monaghan around 8.15 am and was snowing but wasn't accumulating apart from a bit on cars. When I got home a couple of hours later the lower hills were white but it didn't last. I remember seeing snow 2 other times in May in this past 10 to 12 years. Both times was around 6 to 8am after being up all night drinking at a party. I think there was decent enough "event" for May standards in the 90s.

giveitholly · 01-04-2021 9:54pm

Tyrone212 wrote: »

In May 4 or 5 years ago I was getting the bus back from Dublin airport first thing. Stopped in Monaghan around 8.15 am and was snowing but wasn't accumulating apart from a bit on cars. When I got home a couple of hours later the lower hills were white but it didn't last. I remember seeing snow 2 other times in May in this past 10 to 12 years. Both times was around 6 to 8am after being up all night drinking at a party. I think there was decent enough "event" for May standards in the 90s.

Are you sure it wasn't the drink!!!!

Tyrone212 · 01-04-2021 9:57pm

giveitholly wrote: »

Are you sure it wasn't the drink!!!!

Sadly I've yet to hallucinate on the beer yet.

Oscar Bravo · 01-04-2021 10:00pm

giveitholly wrote: »

Are you sure it wasn't the drink!!!!

was it the fine powdery snow so to speak

Tyrone212 · 01-04-2021 10:07pm

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2019/0305/1034374-april-snow-showers/

Snow April 1994.
Few places in the north of Ireland escape showers of snow sleet and hail.

Overnight showers of snow, hail or sleet affected most parts of the north of Ireland and the bad weather continued with visibility poor at times.

In 1993 snow fell as late as the month of May.

Tyrone212 · 01-04-2021 10:29pm

Tyrone212 wrote: »

In May 4 or 5 years ago I was getting the bus back from Dublin airport first thing. Stopped in Monaghan around 8.15 am and was snowing but wasn't accumulating apart from a bit on cars. When I got home a couple of hours later the lower hills were white but it didn't last. I remember seeing snow 2 other times in May in this past 10 to 12 years. Both times was around 6 to 8am after being up all night drinking at a party. I think there was decent enough "event" for May standards in the 90s.

Edit

Looked back over it and the Monaghan snow was actually April. I'm still sure of the other 2 drunken accounts though haha

[Deleted User] · 01-04-2021 10:37pm

It snowed here in Arklow one evening in June heavy for about 2hrs giving a good covering many moons ago
Cant remember the year but its nearly 40 years ago

Danno · 01-04-2021 10:52pm

RobertKK wrote: »

The latest I saw snow was the first week of May, a prolonged heavy snow shower left everywhere white, but obviously it didn't last.
April is common enough.

There was a heavy snow in May 94 IIRC. Think it was rather late in the month, around 20th or slightly after?

UrbanSprawl · 02-04-2021 1:11am

a shower of hail would be interesting fecking hell the weather is so consistently boring and disappointing after 5 years of climate change same

pauldry · 02-04-2021 1:48am

Yeah we had hail in June about 11 years ago on bank holiday and it was 6c last year it was 27c.

Snowed in 1984 in June or may have been the late 70s

Tyrone212 · 02-04-2021 2:00am

Mad to see this perturbation at T84 in April or any time of the year tbh. P10 has -20 850hPa over Ireland ha

Nqp15hhu · 02-04-2021 2:58am

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

The 510dam line now touches the north coast on Monday at 6am. With each run it gets progressively closer.

Though the cold air seems to end up coming in, in the evening now unfortunately.

Very cold air on Monday night

Met Office going for 3c Monday.

Further south again!

pauldry · 02-04-2021 9:28am

Shoved a bit to the East in latest GFS. Still wintry but more East and North with lighter showers further West and likely a degree or 2 milder. Ulster still likely to get snow in places though overnight especially.

Nqp15hhu · 02-04-2021 9:57am

The latest gfs run shows -11c 850hPa all day Monday for here.

highdef · 02-04-2021 11:25am

A bit a downgrade on the latest GFS from what I can see. The colder air shunted quite a bit east and air pressure is about 4 millibars higher than the previous run, getting to the stage where showers may be less likely to form and if they do, they wouldn't have so much ooomph in them.

Still very cold for the time of year but hopefully today's model does not turn into a trend. Looking forward to see what the next run brings, fingers crossed this morning's run was a warmer outlier.

Nqp15hhu · 02-04-2021 11:32am

There is actually a lot of variation of outcomes between each run and each model. Latest GFS run is a bit weird, the low heights are hundreds of miles behind the low 850’s.

-11c 850’s with 535dam? Yeah right.

highdef · 02-04-2021 11:36am

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

There is actually a lot of variation of outcomes between each run and each model. Latest GFS run is a bit weird, the low heights are hundreds of miles behind the low 850’s.

-11c 850’s with 535dam? Yeah right.

Yeah, bit of a strange run alright. Very low temperatures lower down but nothing too crazy much higher up. That combined with higher pressure does not bode well for shower formation although they'd reach ground level as snow but unlikely to be heavy enough to give a covering in all but the highest hills.

Still, it's one run from one model. I've not had time to look at other models as it's far too nice a day to be sitting in front of a computer.

Nqp15hhu · 02-04-2021 11:43am

Nope actually Ulster is under the <-10c isotherm for longer on this run. Right from Monday early hours to Tuesday early hours.

It’s the thickness that is a lot higher.

Gaoth Laidir · 02-04-2021 11:53am

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

There is actually a lot of variation of outcomes between each run and each model. Latest GFS run is a bit weird, the low heights are hundreds of miles behind the low 850’s.

-11c 850’s with 535dam? Yeah right.

The high thickness is because of the warmer upper air (700-500 hPa) that I highlighted yesterday. Don't just look at one level.

giveitholly · 02-04-2021 1:07pm

highdef wrote: »

A bit a downgrade on the latest GFS from what I can see. The colder air shunted quite a bit east and air pressure is about 4 millibars higher than the previous run, getting to the stage where showers may be less likely to form and if they do, they wouldn't have so much ooomph in them.

Still very cold for the time of year but hopefully today's model does not turn into a trend. Looking forward to see what the next run brings, fingers crossed this morning's run was a warmer outlier.

Good,hopefully the downgrades continue

Nqp15hhu · 02-04-2021 1:27pm

Long may any upgrades be... come on in.

RobertKK · 02-04-2021 1:34pm

Danno wrote: »

There was a heavy snow in May 94 IIRC. Think it was rather late in the month, around 20th or slightly after?

It was a while back so maybe then.

nacho libre · 02-04-2021 2:21pm

I remember that snow in early May. I was not sure of the year! I would love to see snow as late as June, not because it would be of much use, rather it would give us something to talk about. I hope the latest GFS is wrong about shunting the upcoming cold spell east. I was looking forward to some beefy snow showers at night. It would be great to see some settling snow by night too!

Cluedo Monopoly · 02-04-2021 2:32pm

You heathens. I would take buckets of snow any day of the week no matter what the month.
Bring it on!

Much colder, wintry showers, some of snow Easter Sunday 2021 onward

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