Snow-ice Warning : Wednesday 27 Dec. 2017 21:00 to Fri 29 Dec 10.00

pad199207 · 29-12-2017 1:57am

It’s a pity all this rain couldn’t evaporate before it hits the ground just like with the snow earlier on....

But oh no....

Meteorite58 · 29-12-2017 1:59am

Still cold temps in the NW and N counties with some kind of wintry mix falling on the leading edge of the rain I'd think.

mountainy man · 29-12-2017 2:29am

A mixture of sleet and snow falling at the moment.

mountainy man · 29-12-2017 2:39am

Pretty heavy wet snow now, we have lying snow from last night so its still fairly cold.

Kermit.de.frog · 29-12-2017 3:03am

Rain now turning to snow - north midlands, northwest and north. Could be some locally proper accumulations to next few hours to most levels, get a bit of height.

Best guess 3 - 5 cm, more locally (thinking Donegal here).

Gonzo · 29-12-2017 3:22am

pouring rain here now, winds starting to pick up as well. Hard to believe everything outside was frozen just a few hours ago.

Kermit.de.frog · 29-12-2017 3:28am

Gonzo wrote: »

pouring rain here now, winds starting to pick up as well. Hard to believe everything outside was frozen just a few hours ago.

Frost only finally melted in the shade for me around 6 pm.

More weather bingo for tonight:pac:

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Gaoth Laidir · 29-12-2017 7:58am

No station in the Republic reported anything other than rain overnight. There is no lying snow reported at Knock this morning.

In the North, Lough Fea (225 m) and Castlederg (50 m) reported rain, turning briefly to snow, and now back to rain, but with no accumulation.

With the exception of Mountainy Man, as there is not one other report of snow on here. I have to say again that the warning was completely unwarranted and completely wrong. Not often I have a go at Met Éireann but they didn't do well this week. I hope they'll have a review of their warning system now and move on. Strangely, their aviation forecasters were fairly bang on the money, apart from those frost warnings they had in place for the first part of the night. There seems to have been a disconnect between those forecasters in Shannon and central forecasting in Glasnevin.

George Sunsnow · 29-12-2017 9:00am

The past 48 hours really was indeed another case study in how surplus the current yellow warning system is
Highlighted by the marginality of the risk eg in this case many populated areas having tricky snowy driving conditions at times which 0.5 degrees either direction might have been worse or totally gone
Taf’s were amended also

I think in this forum we are an atypical bunch though because some of us will notice all this
99.99% of the population will wake up today not having any forecasted lying snow(it was at worst from a forecast perspective to be transient) so won’t have met Éireanns uncertainties and dilemmas as talking points at all

It’s just yellow warnings feed a slow news cycle,our group do have our own forum talking point there of course (way divorced from the wider public)
The transience point/risk was made by forecasters enough I think,to mitigate
Ergo no crisis

raspberrypi67 · 29-12-2017 9:25am

Usual old warning to be taken with a grain of salt ( no pun intended!! )
Yellow orange alert usualy means we are covering our asses so Rain in Dublin with sleet...easily translated...lol

mickmackey1 wrote: »

Somebody issue a warning...QUICK! :eek: :pac:

George Sunsnow · 29-12-2017 10:29am

Glasgow airport has closed

Pretzill · 29-12-2017 12:06pm

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Glasgow airport has closed

The snow in Scotland and the North of England is really heavy - maybe we were supposed to get some of that - I can see why ME were hedging their bets.

redsteveireland · 29-12-2017 12:36pm

Even Evelyn sounded uncomfortable on the news bulletins yesterday in the radio discussing the warnings and just passed it off as normal December / winter weather.

degsie · 29-12-2017 1:03pm

delighted

Snow-ice Warning : Wednesday 27 Dec. 2017 21:00 to Fri 29 Dec 10.00

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