Active Cold Front - 17th October 2011

Iancar29 · 17-10-2011 4:28pm

WOOOOO!! ITS OFFICIAL!

:D:D:D:D

Elmer Blooker · 17-10-2011 4:30pm

PauloMN wrote: »

From 13.7C just a few hours ago to 5.4C now.... and it feels it!

A few hours!! One hour is more like it.
Dublin Airport was 13c at 1500 and at 1600 its 6c
Surely it's unusual to get such an active front so early in the season? The Arctic is relatively warm as its only mid October. A cold front like this is more like one you would see in March (mad March!) when the Arctic is at it's coldest

PauloMN · 17-10-2011 4:32pm

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

A few hours!! One hour is more like it.
Dublin Airport was 13c at 1500 and at 1600 its 6c
Surely it's unusual to get such an active front so early in the season? The Arctic is relatively warm as its only mid October. A cold front like this is more like one you would see in March (mad March!) when the Arctic is at it's coldest

Yes you are right, I just hadn't looked at my weather station for a few hours. I just looked at the graphs... my temp graph is like a profile of the Cliffs of Moher! :eek:

leahyl · 17-10-2011 4:33pm

Lads rain seems to be moving out towards the Irish sea - I'd say Cork won't get any action will it? Well not much anyway

Speak Now · 17-10-2011 4:34pm

Still a balmy

13.1c here in Waterford.
Looks like the tail might it us in the next hour.
Looks like it's hit Carrick on Suir on 4.15 radar. Expect us to have a drop of rain soon.

leahyl · 17-10-2011 4:34pm

Iancar29 wrote: »

WOOOOO!! ITS OFFICIAL! :D:D:D:D

Behold, the snow gods have returned:D

gaius c · 17-10-2011 4:34pm

Did I hear right when I heard that we have snow in Ireland in mid-October?

Heroditas · 17-10-2011 4:39pm

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Casement and Dublin airport dropped from 13c at 1500 to 6c at 1600.

Casement 5.8mm of rain.

I wouldn't have believed you regarding the temperature but I just stuck my nose outside and it's quite nippy out there!
Herself will be delighted. I may have to put on the heating this evening.

rhonin · 17-10-2011 4:41pm

Wind only starting to pick up here now. Heavy showers.

Rougies · 17-10-2011 4:41pm

Iancar29 wrote: »

WOOOOO!! ITS OFFICIAL! :D:D:D:D

Where's that Ian and what's the source?

Speak Now · 17-10-2011 4:41pm

Good calls in opening posts made by Deep Eaterly and M.T.
It's not the temps that are usually for the time of year but the change in temps associated with the heavy squall (RED LINE) constant on the radar!
Any short lived snow has been on high ground i assume.

leahyl · 17-10-2011 4:45pm

From RTE website!

snaps · 17-10-2011 4:47pm

Winds have completely died down here since this morning. Bitterly cold, 6.8c on the weather station and was reading 7c and 7.5c in the car. No snow on the Connemmara mountains yet!!

ednwireland · 17-10-2011 4:47pm

snow on high ground round donegal town but pretty sparse (i'd photo it but you prob would see it on the phone camera) and its seems to be disappering fast as the sun comes out

temps rising as well
17/10/2011 16:00 6.1 °C 98 % 1002.2 hPa 0.0 mm 1.0 km/h
17/10/2011 15:00 4.6 °C 98 % 1002.2 hPa 2.7 mm 0.2 km/h
17/10/2011 14:00 3.7 °C 97 % 1003.1 hPa 6.2 mm 0.2 km/h

current daily total
26.8 mm

Iancar29 · 17-10-2011 4:48pm

Rougies wrote: »

Where's that Ian and what's the source?

Mount Errigal, County Donegal ... Twitter friend

Edit: Credit to Catherine McGlynn http://twitter.com/#!/DaisyCottageIRL

Speak Now · 17-10-2011 4:54pm

The rain has arrived at last in Waterford

Time to watch the mercury fall :cool:

gbee · 17-10-2011 4:56pm

Passed through it a while ago, very weak. Will post later!

mickger844posts · 17-10-2011 5:00pm

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

The rain has arrived at last in Waterford
Time to watch the mercury fall :cool:

You can watch it fall live here http://www.waterfordcityweather.com/ That's what i'm doing here in Taiwan. Today is the first day i miss the weather back home

Speak Now · 17-10-2011 5:03pm

mickger844posts wrote: »

You can watch it fall live here http://www.waterfordcityweather.com/ That's what i'm doing here in Taiwan. Today is the first day i miss the weather back home

I already am Mick

Again looks like most of the rain has petered out. Amazingly our worst weeks weather this year was during the late September/Early October heatwave. Been a dry enough year outside of that week :pac:

gbee · 17-10-2011 5:04pm

leahyl wrote: »

Lads rain seems to be moving out towards the Irish sea - I'd say Cork won't get any action will it? Well not much anyway

We missed it, blink and it was gone, vid later but poor.

achtungbarry · 17-10-2011 5:04pm

Flying home from Paris tonight. Due to land at 22.50. Has anyone any indications of conditions expected at Dublin airport around that time? Thanks in advance.

Speak Now · 17-10-2011 5:06pm

achtungbarry wrote: »

Flying home from Paris tonight. Due to land at 22.50. Has anyone any indications of conditions expected at Dublin airport around that time? Thanks in advance.

Blustery showers, coolish about 5c i'd say.

Caitriona · 17-10-2011 5:08pm

leahyl wrote: »

From RTE website!

Where on the site? I can't find it and need proof for disbelievers!

Sorry, never mind, found it.

HURRAY : )

Su Campu · 17-10-2011 5:11pm

The drop at Dublin Airport was even more remarkable than outlined above, dropping from 13 to 6 °C in less than 30 minutes, and dewpoint fell from 10 to 5 °C in this time too. Big shift in wind too.

[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 171500Z 31019G29KT 8000 RA FEW005 SCT010 BKN017 06/05 Q1002 NOSIG[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]EIDW 171430Z 22028G40KT 9999 -SHRA FEW015 SCT020 BKN040 13/10 Q0999 NOSIG[/FONT]

keithm1 · 17-10-2011 5:15pm

I wish I understood what you lot are talking about.
When did we get snow last year early or late November ?

DOCARCH · 17-10-2011 5:21pm

keithm1 wrote: »

I wish I understood what you lot are talking about.
When did we get snow last year early or late November ?

End of November (in Dublin).

5.8c here atm after a high of 14.9c at 1300.

dublinbusdude · 17-10-2011 5:29pm

Midnight on Saturday 27th November 2010, Dublin got ThunderSnow

ongarboy · 17-10-2011 5:33pm

I think most of the country got snow at the end of last November (I was in Kerry and woke to a couple of inches Saturday morning with more falling that night. Even snow free Waterford got a dumping!

Caitriona · 17-10-2011 5:33pm

dublinbusdude wrote: »

Midnight on Saturday 27th November 2010, Dublin got ThunderSnow

Ooh, I'd forgotten that word

dublinbusdude · 17-10-2011 5:41pm

Caitriona wrote: »

Ooh, I'd forgotten that word

How did you forget that word!!!

Harps · 17-10-2011 5:49pm

First snow was on the 24th in Donegal, pretty sure that was the earliest last year

Really feels like Winter here now, the wind has finally started to pick up after a surprisingly calm day. Wintry showers every half an hour or so with sleet and hail mixed in

PauloMN · 17-10-2011 5:58pm

dublinbusdude wrote: »

How did you forget that word!!!

I'll never forget that word, or "graupel" either.

Caitriona · 17-10-2011 6:00pm

PauloMN wrote: »

I'll never forget that word, or "graupel" either.

I remember graupel; thundersnow wasn't mentioned half as often! Though by that logic it must be twice as special and should be remembered twice as much.

Rougies · 17-10-2011 6:09pm

Caitriona wrote: »

I remember graupel; thundersnow wasn't mentioned half as often! Though by that logic it must be twice as special and should be remembered twice as much.

I see your thundersnow and grauple and raise you thundergraupel! Got some of that stuff here on the 27th last year before it turned to proper snow.

gbee · 17-10-2011 6:09pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqqu882DSwk

Encouraged by reports but discouraged by the failing squall line we decided to try and intercept the squall before it dissipated completely. Leaving Cork we intercepted it all too soon and we were unprepared so missed the start, which is the dramatic bit.

After the squall passed we recorded:
9.3°C chill factor 5.1°C
Barometer 998.9 @ 16:54
We did not get any wind reading.

WS at home:
Caught 1.2mm of Rain
Temp: Max 12.5°C @11:27
Temp: Min 7.7°C @17.59
Wind unexceptional: Gust of 46 kph @13:01

h57xiucj2z946q · 17-10-2011 6:13pm

Landed in Dublin airport about 16:30. Was pretty rough up in the air.

Ardennes1944 · 17-10-2011 6:15pm

In cork airport now waiting to fly to Edinburgh.....gonna be rough I'd say!

aurora 527 · 17-10-2011 6:41pm

Ah, thundersnow! Have to say i witnessed it last winter in Waterford and it was wonderful.
Not a sound, low bright lightning and blizzard like snow!

redsteveireland · 17-10-2011 6:42pm

Great to see the forum buzzing again with talk of snow and plummeting temperatures!:)

Had a scary experience today around 2:30pm between Moate and Athlone on the Motorway. Traffic almost at a standstill, heaviest rain I've seen and cars being blown all over the road. :eek:
I'm sure there was some icy grains mixed in with it, but I was so busy trying to keep the car on the road I couldn't say for definite

Edit: only just looked at the radar for 3pm, must have been that squall line.

Coopaloop · 17-10-2011 7:08pm

I couldnt be happier with the weather today, I actually wooped when I saw there was snow (even tho it was only a little bit :rolleyes:)! Sun is BORING, bring on the wind, rain, ice and snowwwwwwww

:D:D!

DominoDub · 17-10-2011 7:18pm

Ha Ha ...even the Weather Gods have it in for our TD's

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1017/breaking24.html
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A number of cars sustained damage in the car park of Leinster House when a section of the roof of the adjacent Natural History Museum blew off. Large pieces of roof lead were visible on the ground. The boot of one car was damaged and some vehicles had their wing mirrors knocked off.

A spokesman for the Houses of the Oireachtas said no one was injured. Engineers from the Office of Public Works were due on site to assess the damage.

thetonynator · 17-10-2011 9:46pm

Was there any actual verified snow report at any station? For the contest . . .;)

Wertz · 17-10-2011 10:01pm

Lead blowing off a roof?
Someone in the OPW needs to see what f*cktard affixed that leading to the museum roof, never mind sending down engineers. What a joke this country is...

Saganist · 17-10-2011 10:14pm

Hopefully not long now till we see a bit of this..

:D:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL4vou2tars

Su Campu · 17-10-2011 10:28pm

thetonynator wrote: »

Was there any actual verified snow report at any station? For the contest . . .;)

No, none, though maybe Knock might be the most likely contender with those showers rolling in during the next couple of nights.

thetonynator · 17-10-2011 10:30pm

Su Campu wrote: »

No, none, though maybe Knock might be the most likely contender with those showers rolling in during the next couple of nights.

Being the highest station in the country should help.

9.30 weather had showers and 3 degrees tonight, so possibility of a snow shower somewhere!

Is knock automatic at night?

Edit:Only 4 degrees there at 22.00

Oscar Bravo · 17-10-2011 10:40pm

Yep EIKN is automatic at night.It was very cold there earlier this afternoon with a temp of 4 degrees and dew point of the same and a steady 15kt Northerly."Not quite as nice as Alicante" as one Ryanair pilot put it.

bb1234567 · 17-10-2011 10:49pm

i love how all the temps have plummeted around the country,most places around 5 degrees now? love it feels like winter like it should be, will it stay like this until it gte much colder in like mid november. i tihnk i heard about abother dreade ild spell:mad: coming after these few days of cold temps ,is it true? and once the mild is over will it be back to cold,and more importantly STAY COLD?:)

thetonynator · 17-10-2011 11:00pm

bb1234567 wrote: »

i love how all the temps have plummeted around the country,most places around 5 degrees now? love it feels like winter like it should be, will it stay like this until it gte much colder in like mid november. i tihnk i heard about abother dreade ild spell:mad: coming after these few days of cold temps ,is it true? and once the mild is over will it be back to cold,and more importantly STAY COLD?:)

Well yes, usually the mild (autumn) is followed by the cold (winter) so we can expect a cold spell some time after the mild spell!

NIALL D · 17-10-2011 11:02pm

sure is cold tonight , 5.5 degrees out now...

Active Cold Front - 17th October 2011

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