Snow Red alert

magpie · 21-02-2005 12:45pm

according to this lot snow due to stop at about noon, and that's our lot for the week http://ukie.accuweather.com/adcbin/ukie/ukie_forecast_hourly.asp?postalcode=DUBLIN&ufdb=&metric=1&partner=&whend=1&whent=11

billy the squid · 21-02-2005 12:49pm

I would pay more attention to local weather forcasting agencies

met office ireland
met office UK

Villain · 21-02-2005 12:55pm

Well what comes in the next few days will be in the way of showers, and it's very hard to predict where and when they will fall, the east coast will definitely see snow it's just hard to predict how far inland they will make it.

The biggest issue now is going to be frost, followed by showers followed by frost, untreated roads will be very dangerous, so I hope those council workers are out in force tonight gritting.

kenmc · 21-02-2005 12:57pm

irish1 wrote:

Well what comes in the next few days will be in the way of showers, and it's very hard to predict where and when they will fall, the east coast will definitely see snow it's just hard to predict how far inland they will make it.

The biggest issue now is going to be frost, followed by showers followed by frost, untreated roads will be very dangerous, so I hope those council workers are out in force tonight gritting.

oh I'm sure they will be. about 4pm or something, just before rush hour - I mean they have to get home too!!! And then when the overnite snow covers up all the grit....... ha.
there's a lot to be said for salting the roads like they do in the UK and NI... and europe.

magpie · 21-02-2005 12:59pm

I'll be disappointed if this turns into the usual lame slush for 2 days type of event, especially after all the hype about the biggest snowfall sdince Feb 1982 as put about by Weathercheck et al.

I still remember those 2 weeks off school fondly....

kleefarr · 21-02-2005 1:01pm

billy the squid wrote:

if those wet roads freeze tonight your snow will stick tomorrow, but i wouldnt suggest you go driving in it tomorrow. if it does.

I'm supposed to be driving to Dub airport 4 am wednesday morning. :eek:

kleefarr · 21-02-2005 1:03pm

Update from out skirts of Kilkenny city..

Still snowing heavily. About 1cm has settled on the grass and cars etc. nothing on the road yet, still too wet.

magpie · 21-02-2005 1:13pm

I'm supposed to be driving to Dub airport 4 am wednesday morning.

It's hardly like crossing the Baring Straight, is it?

21-02-2005 1:15pm

Well I'm back.
Road is slushy rather than white and the stuff in Arklow town is wet and slushy-though snow has settled on the rooftops and in the gardens and on the cars.
Driving back out to here it just got whiter and whiter

Snowing heavily here still with a temp just a nudge below zero-covering of about an inch and a half I'd say.

Have to work now though

DMC · 21-02-2005 1:15pm

Snow stopped, nothing stuck, brightening up here in Dublin city centre.

kleefarr · 21-02-2005 1:16pm

magpie wrote:

It's hardly like crossing the Baring Straight, is it?

lol... Well lets hope not.

Just hope they grit thre roads properly. Will leave plenty of time to get there.

highdef · 21-02-2005 1:16pm

Took a drive out to Howth Head, about 5 minutes drive from here - It's highest point is 561'
So anyway, got to Howth harbor and it was actually raining here. However, I turned round the corner to begin the uphill stage. Only about 50m on, the rain was turning into snow - ANother 50m on, it was snowing heavily (far heavier than here at home, a few miles away). Then, not even another 50m on, the snow was sticking. I was only about 100' or slightly more ASL at this stage. As I climbed, the amount of snow sticking rose and cars were coming down the hill with several inches of snow on them! When I reached the highest pint, after driving down a narrow snow covered ttrack through a quarry, the tarmacced road was covered in about 2-3 inches of snow (thank God for traction control!!!). Didn't stay here too long. Temp here was 1.0C - Temp at the harbor was 2.5C. I drove back down a different way and it was only as I approached sea level that snow stopped sticking and the snow also eased too. My the time I got home, the temp had risen to 3.0C and as I look out the window, I can see that the snow is now more like sleet and Howth is now visible (could not see it just a while ago due to poor visibility) - Howth is completely white!!! And it's white almost all the way down to sea level - Damn!!![:(!]

Update, snow is stopped - few drops of rain - Howth looks fantastic. I'll try get some pics of it in a bit. I'll have to take freeze frames with video cam as the lead for the still camera is missing!!

21-02-2005 1:25pm

Amazing differences between East and west now.
Outside here good covering of snow and still falling and a temp of zero.

Shannon plus 8 c

*must go back to work now*

heres the NRA report from the arklow bypass at 11am
Their machine cannot detect snow so puts all precipitation down as rain
I can assure you it should read Heavy snowfall
N11 Arklow Bypass
Date Mon, Feb 21
Time (24hr) 11:03
Air Temp 0.6° C.
33.1 ° F.
Humidity 95%
Avg Windspeed 2.9 km/h
Wind direction Northerly (340º)
Road Surface Temp 1.4° C.
34.5 ° F.
Road State Wet
Precipitation Heavy rainfall

billy the squid · 21-02-2005 1:26pm

0 degrees at shannon 10 degrees at belmullet i guess it wont be snowing there toda somehow. its pouring rain here so unless we get a freeze of some sort tonight it wont stick.

when are these easterly winds due to take hold?

thafitz · 21-02-2005 1:32pm

heres a pic taken two minutes ago outside my house in kildare.

super_furry · 21-02-2005 1:38pm

Well it's all stopped now. How realistic is a big overnight fall?

21-02-2005 1:44pm

Chances are fair to high super furry
But it will be hit and miss as it will be in shower form

But it will be colder as that easterly starts to dig in so settling better.

Wcheck should be here soon for the lunchtime shift

Still snowing down here by the way with a good cover.
I've been talking to someone on the higher ground to the west of me and at 800ft and he reckons theres 4 nearly 5 inches there now!! Thats about 6 miles from here.

kenmc · 21-02-2005 1:47pm

stopped in leop. started raining. most of the snow in the racecourse/golfcourse is gone

magpie · 21-02-2005 1:47pm

Not especially

Ray777 · 21-02-2005 1:52pm

Here in North Wicklow, it snowed for around 3 hours, but didn't accumulate (only ever so slightly on the grass and enough to make a snowball on cars). If temperatures were a degree or two lower, we'd have had a few inches. It's refusing to completely stop, although what's falling now (very lightly) seems to be mostly rain

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 1:53pm

Oh gawd i hate school :eek:

Walking upto school..snow
10am snow beginning to stick
11am in PE around 1 or 2cm's on grass
12 getting lighter melting
12:30 stopped and everything melted :eek:

Talk about crap!
Everywhere was covered for ages and we thought we'd
have a snow day, great buzz but wished i could of got
out and played with what was there

Give you a round up before i go back..lunch and radar watching now

magpie · 21-02-2005 1:54pm

Sunday 20th February the day winter begins...as massive freeze sweeps in from the east..

No comment

Mothman · 21-02-2005 1:55pm

In Wicklow, snowing from 0830 to 1145. Big flakes, none settling. Turned to light rain or sleet since.
2mm so far. Snow line about 150m. cars seen with 4-5cm. Would be a total whiteout in Roundwood.

Actually snowing again.

Temp 2.3C
Dp +1.3C
Grass +3.9C

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 1:58pm

We must remember most areas were milder today then yesterday
atmoshpherically...(bah

) but much colder air is now moving
across the country from the east.

Snow shwoers will begin to kick off in the east from 1500 or so
and go all night, some heavy ones too, hopefully we'll dry up
and freeze over before then.

If any snow falls tomorrow i think i'll be feeling too sick to go to school

And im pretty confident that many areas will wake up with snow
tomorrow morning after todays wetty mess at sea level..

Although the MetO were going for rain from this just a day ago
so shows how much they know

As i say a clearence from the east now with much colder weather
following

21-02-2005 2:00pm

Snow has turned very light and sleety here now but it's still snow and theres cover
Rapidly thawing though.

kleefarr · 21-02-2005 2:03pm

Kilkenny city outskirts (E).

Snow all but stopped. Very light and fine now. Thaw starting.

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 2:03pm

magpie wrote:

No comment

Only the beginning mate

21-02-2005 2:03pm

Weathercheck wrote:

As i say a clearence from the east now with much colder weather
following

might take a while for the really cold air to feed in though wcheck as I see temps in eastern England reported at plus 5 and its plus 2 here... ie actually colder was zero for much of the heavy snowfall

We peaked here with cover of about an inch and a half-thats probably below an inch now and disipating fast

magpie · 21-02-2005 2:05pm

Only the beginning mate

I hope you're right, I could do with a day off.

Mothman · 21-02-2005 2:06pm

brightening up. No precipitation. Too misty to see snowline.

Villain · 21-02-2005 2:06pm

Leixlip, snow has stopped and thawing rapidly, I'm surprised at how quick it melted.

Let's just hope these showers build up over the Irish sea and bring a good dumping over night, although I think it may be tomorrow afternoon before we see the best of the showers.

kleefarr · 21-02-2005 2:08pm

Kilkenny city outskirts (E).

Not snowing now. Brightening up.

Danno · 21-02-2005 2:10pm

Nice covering here in south Laois, still snowing, but thawing is underway too, how's all over in Mountrath Darwin?

Ray777 · 21-02-2005 2:10pm

Very heavy sleet here in North Wicklow now.

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 2:11pm

The latest runs show the prospect of beefy showers on Irish sea
coasts from later this afternoon

Danno · 21-02-2005 2:12pm

Stopped snowing now, temps up to 2.6c

Danno · 21-02-2005 2:14pm

WOW! There are some temp variations! Looks like 20 miles west of Laois was all rain... http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

Lucky, I think I called it right???

21-02-2005 2:14pm

probability that they would fall as snow=high

Temp on the m2 buoy is 3.4 whereas yesterday it was higher yet Irish sea showers fell as snow.

It is a sure sign of an easterly snow snap when the usually balmy Rosslare harbour is reporting snow and 1 c

Villain · 21-02-2005 2:15pm

Weathercheck wrote:

The latest runs show the prospect of beefy showers on Irish sea
coasts from later this afternoon

How far do you reckon those showers will come in, what % would you give on me waking to a covering of snow in carlow tomorrow morning?

21-02-2005 2:16pm

Danno wrote:

WOW! There are some temp variations! Looks like 20 miles west of Laois was all rain... http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

Lucky, I think I called it right???

Danno all the nra stations report rain
they cant record snow so the snow precip is shown as rain

The Arklow one in the middle of a blizzard reported heavy rainfall for instance.

Danno · 21-02-2005 2:17pm

I know.

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 2:20pm

Trying to eat as much food as possible and type

Shrs should go around 30miles inland

Danno · 21-02-2005 2:20pm

3.1c now.

Villain · 21-02-2005 2:22pm

Weathercheck wrote:

Trying to eat as much food as possible and type

Shrs should go around 30miles inland

Ah feck that!!!

30 miles is not far enough to reach me!

Danno · 21-02-2005 2:27pm

Temps falling again, 2.9c

Mothman · 21-02-2005 2:28pm

The western and south western ststions are reporting 9C. Big difference between west and east,

And irish1, you may move

Danno · 21-02-2005 2:30pm

30 miles is enough to reach Tullow.

Get your radius tool out in Autoroute.

Mothman · 21-02-2005 2:31pm

And wind is veering, most stations recording wind that is partly easterly.

Still north with me.

Danno · 21-02-2005 2:31pm

Snowing again in South Laois!

billy the squid · 21-02-2005 2:32pm

Liveline might be worth a listen today they going to be discussing the current weather conditions, well at least that is what the insert at 12.30 said anyway.

Snow Red alert

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