Storm Ciara - Reports/Chat/Non Technical

John.Icy · 11-02-2020 6:03pm

The possible last hurrah big shower has fallen as 99% rain in D9. Surprising as the last two showers were rather heavy snow at times.

Nabber · 11-02-2020 6:13pm

John.Icy wrote: »

The possible last hurrah big shower has fallen as 99% rain in D9. Surprising as the last two showers were rather heavy snow at times.

Warm sectors are starting to exert their influence

sunbeam · 11-02-2020 6:22pm

Part of the roof of Dooagh National School here in Achill was blown off this morning. Still very gusty here now.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/strong-winds-blow-roof-off-part-of-school-in-achill-1.4170220

Reckless Abandonment · 11-02-2020 6:29pm

My weather station is recording "fecking Baltic outside " and I fully agree with it..

odonopenmic · 11-02-2020 8:17pm

A covering of a few inches since yesterday morning - only a little melt during daylight hours.

Near Roundwood 312m ASL

TTLF · 11-02-2020 8:20pm

odonopenmic wrote: »

A covering of a few inches since yesterday morning - only a little melt during daylight hours.

Near Roundwood 312m ASL

major jealous

11-02-2020 8:50pm

Are we looking at freezing temps tonight for Munster?

nacho libre · 11-02-2020 9:00pm

Snow starting to stick now:)

NIMAN · 11-02-2020 9:05pm

We are having a relatively calm last hour here in north Donegal, but it was really rough all day , in fact from the early hours to about 7pm.

I don't remember a sustained period of crappy wet and stormy weather as this. Storms usually come and blow you to bits but leave fairly promptly. This is hanging around for too long, and looking at the forecast it might stay rough enough for days to come.

cnocbui · 11-02-2020 10:09pm

NIMAN wrote: »

We are having a relatively calm last hour here in north Donegal, but it was really rough all day , in fact from the early hours to about 7pm.

I don't remember a sustained period of crappy wet and stormy weather as this. Storms usually come and blow you to bits but leave fairly promptly. This is hanging around for too long, and looking at the forecast it might stay rough enough for days to come.

Yeah, it can just rack off at this point.

SleetAndSnow · 11-02-2020 10:11pm

Yep same here down in cork, some strong gusts all day and bitterly cold ones at that. When the showers came it got very gusty. There was some periods in the afternoon when the sun came out and you felt some warmth

ZX7R · 11-02-2020 10:42pm

MJohnston wrote: »

In fairness, it's not elitist. The big weather event threads usually become a rapid fire cauldron of "will my flight be cancelled?", "this is a non-event here in my mum's basement", "Met Eireann should be fired into the sun for over/underhyping this one", along with joke posts and just general chat.

If you're looking to browse some actual technical charts and see some expert discussion of them, there becomes nowhere to go to do this! And that's a bit of a kick in the teeth to the hard-working mods and posters who populate this forum in the off-seasons.

If boards was a more technically capable platform, perhaps with the ability to thread conversations and "highlight" particularly useful posts, maybe we could get away with single threads, but otherwise, I'd like to keep seeing technical discussion threads.

You will always get stupid posts to be fair.

Problem is to be fair most just post up a graph get 10 or so likes and very little expert discussion about it.
To be honest only Mt has the credentials to be called an expert.
The rest are excellent amateur enthusiasts.
Also having the two treads didn't really work for one reason, the big posters who do post technical information did not have there none technical posts removed.
Just because someone does not post a graph or a run from s model out does not mean they do not add or have something to add to the discussion.

loughside · 11-02-2020 10:44pm

decent covering here today, 2 to 3 inches, roads now clear but still plenty in the fields etc - newry/banbridge, co.down

Kermit.de.frog · 11-02-2020 10:52pm

Snow on the cars here nio in north Dub. Looks like I missed a few flakes.

I like flakes

Nqp15hhu · 11-02-2020 11:02pm

loughside wrote: »

decent covering here today, 2 to 3 inches, roads now clear but still plenty in the fields etc - newry/banbridge, co.down

What elevation are you at?

Nqp15hhu · 11-02-2020 11:10pm

https://i.imgur.com/pjrmJ7D.jpg

Nqp15hhu · 11-02-2020 11:11pm

Some photos of today’s hike to around 400m. Powder snow but very windy.

loughside · 11-02-2020 11:35pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

What elevation are you at?

We`re spot on 400feet

ps. another covering of snow just now, seems to be freezing at the minute

TTLF · 11-02-2020 11:51pm

I made a video About this whole storm Ciara/snow experience for boards to see!
took 4 days to make

Rougies · 12-02-2020 1:19am

TTLF wrote: »

I made a video About this whole storm Ciara/snow experience for boards to see!
took 4 days to make

Thanks for making that. Constructive criticism; maybe keep your camera still for a few seconds at least? It feels like I'm watching the world through the eyes of a jack russel terrier looking at live rats falling from the sky.

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 1:38am

loughside wrote: »

We`re spot on 400feet

ps. another covering of snow just now, seems to be freezing at the minute

That’s odd! Snow has been struggling to lie below 200m in most places.

12-02-2020 7:08am

And, of course, it has froze. Rotten fecks didn’t treat any roads as far as I can see either.

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-02-2020 7:20am

It's like an ice rink

kingshankly · 12-02-2020 7:23am

Storm Ciara packed quite a punch here in south armagh 500 ft asl just had 3 solid days of high winds no let up at all then 7/8 hours of snow last night to top it off looking forward to some milder days on the horizon

Kermit.de.frog · 12-02-2020 7:28am

kingshankly wrote: »

looking forward to some milder days on the horizon

You won't get them :P

The White Wolf · 12-02-2020 7:42am

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

It's like an ice rink

Brutal...should have took my laptop home yesterday. :pac:

redsteveireland · 12-02-2020 8:03am

Well that sums up the pain of searching for snow from an Atlantic muck event. - 1.5c with cars and roads frozen at the house, few minutes later on the motorway, lashing rain and the temp jumped to +2.0c

Dickerty · 12-02-2020 9:30am

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

It's like an ice rink

I found out to my demise, 3 mins from the end of my cycle, in Fairview Park on a patch of ice. Nice purple hip for my troubles. Thanks Ciara!

cherryghost · 12-02-2020 9:47am

Well I fell flat on my arse this morning. Paths were deadly and there was ice on the grass because they were still partially flooded. No grit on the roads where I am either from what I can see.

Andrew00 · 12-02-2020 10:44am

My mam crashed the car this morning. Roads are lethal. No salt put down either

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 10:45am

redsteveireland wrote: »

Well that sums up the pain of searching for snow from an Atlantic muck event. - 1.5c with cars and roads frozen at the house, few minutes later on the motorway, lashing rain and the temp jumped to +2.0c

You need to live above 200 metres really and even then any lying snow will be marginal and slushy.

From my hiking experience yesterday, the proper dry and frozen snow was above 350m-400m.

Danno · 12-02-2020 11:22am

Another 1cm on the ground from overnight snow showers going through south Laois.

It seems east Tipp, north Kilkenny, Laois, Carlow, Wicklow and into Kildare done the best for snow out of this event, conversely these areas do best in summer heatwaves too. It's our "mini-continental" weather micro-climate!

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 1:16pm

We have had further snow showers this morning. I have just drove over a 250m road and it was quite hairy!

No snowplough or salter. The road was completely white!

I thought we were warming up today? It was -0c up there.

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 1:19pm

Danno wrote: »

Another 1cm on the ground from overnight snow showers going through south Laois.

It seems east Tipp, north Kilkenny, Laois, Carlow, Wicklow and into Kildare done the best for snow out of this event, conversely these areas do best in summer heatwaves too. It's our "mini-continental" weather micro-climate!

Did you? I think Ulster did better.

We had some snow showers this morning that topped up the snow above 200m.

Danno · 12-02-2020 2:21pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Did you? I think Ulster did better.

We had some snow showers this morning that topped up the snow above 200m.

Was it not a mostly upland event across Ulster except for a few sheltered spots such as Newry?

Oneiric 3 · 12-02-2020 2:31pm

redsteveireland wrote: »

Well that sums up the pain of searching for snow from an Atlantic muck event. - 1.5c with cars and roads frozen at the house, few minutes later on the motorway, lashing rain and the temp jumped to +2.0c

It was just unwalkable outside this morning. Black ice galore!

Pretzill · 12-02-2020 2:32pm

There was another smattering of snow this morning it was icy AF - had to put off an early appointment and only ventured out when it began to thaw - dodgy.

S. sligo
90m asl

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 3:36pm

Ulster is the best located for snow on the island..

cnocbui · 12-02-2020 5:44pm

Keeper Hill hiding it's peak

Lough Derg

Tintinna

m17 · 12-02-2020 5:55pm

Slieve bloom mountains this morning

Donegal Storm · 12-02-2020 6:19pm

Danno wrote: »

Was it not a mostly upland event across Ulster except for a few sheltered spots such as Newry?

Had a covering of snow in Letterkenny for each of the past three mornings, albeit some fairly pathetic amounts, think you definitely did better down that way for depth

Still a patchy covering this evening but just that horrible hardened stuff that's no good for anything

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 7:02pm

Just been up to 300m. There is still a decent covering of frozen snow up there.

No sign of any melting. In fact they should get up a top up tonight!

Hard packed snow on the road.

Anyone know what animal these paw prints fit to?

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 7:04pm

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Had a covering of snow in Letterkenny for each of the past three mornings, albeit some fairly pathetic amounts, think you definitely did better down that way for depth

Still a patchy covering this evening but just that horrible hardened stuff that's no good for anything

We normally do far better for snow. I don’t know what happened this time.

Maybe their eastern position removed the maritime influence?

loughside · 12-02-2020 7:45pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Just been up to 300m. There is still a decent covering of frozen snow up there.

No sign of any melting. In fact they should get up a top up tonight!

Hard packed snow on the road.

Anyone know what animal these paw prints fit to?

What part of the country is that?

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 7:54pm

loughside wrote: »

What part of the country is that?

Ulster

DOCARCH · 12-02-2020 7:58pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Ulster

Coleraine?

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 8:11pm

loughside · 12-02-2020 8:14pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Ulster

C`mon!
No one`s asking for your home address !!

Roughly?

Nqp15hhu · 12-02-2020 8:26pm

I’m not sure why you’re so eager to find out where I live.

Donegal Storm · 12-02-2020 8:58pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

We normally do far better for snow. I don’t know what happened this time.

Maybe their eastern position removed the maritime influence?

From my experience we rarely get more than 1-2cm of snow from the Atlantic, plenty heavy showers but usually of hail, we only tend to get snow once the vigorous convection has stopped and showers are starting to die out.

We definitely get more snow days on average than further south but for any meaningful depths I wouldn't say we do any better than most

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