Saturday PM (10th) - Tuesday AM (13th), Snow and Ice

At 2 am, just after the front has passed through, Casement reported the weather as synop code 88, which is defined as the following mouthful:

Moderate or heavy shower(s) of snow pellets or small hail, with or without rain or rain and snow mixed

So snow pellets/graupel.

At 3 am both Casement and Dublin Airport reported code 68, which is

light rain or drizzle and snow

Dublin's temperature and dewpoint plummeted from 6.0 and 3.1 at 2 am to 0.3 and 0.0 at 3 am, respectively. They both rose again to 1.3 and 0.9 after at 4 am, with light rain. 2 mm fell from 1800-0600.

It was a strange kind of front.

Beautiful sunrise here in castlebar with clear blue skies,icy surfaces and snow capped mountains in the background. Excellent visibility.love it

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

We have to bare in mind those in the eastern half of the country so far this winter are not experiencing the winter weather in the other half. There has been more snowfall than any year since 2010 and no individual station record is going to fully encapsulate local conditions that have occurred on a widespread scale through the southwest, west and northwest of the country.

It's been an incredible winter for some parts of Ireland so far.

All that needs to happen now is the circle completed and the east in the firing line. It just might happen

Kermit, I think all the reports of falling snow, followed by the photos posted of rural idylls covered in snow, are a little misleading. Subject to correction but I think very few people in urban or suburban Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford have actually had snow settling on roads and, where it has settled, not then melting within an hour. Certainly in my part of the world (Cork city suburb at 78m) I've had a lot of falling snow, with one or two white out periods of 20 mins, but I haven't seen any snow settle at all on roads, even briefly. The high point of settling snow I have had is that on 3 of the last 5 mornings there has been a (transparent) layer of snow on my car and a little dusting on my garden - but with long grass the colour of my garden was still green. The fact gardens around here are waterlogged has made settling on grass even harder than normal. I recall one overnight a few weeks back where suburban Dublin had snow settling on roads etc - albeit it melted overnight. Accordingly east coast boardsies shouldn't think you are missing out on much. I suspect most of you have still done better than me for snow so far this winter but happily I think we have all seen something at this stage.

I appreciate btw that in more rural areas and further north it has been a different story.

Of course this morning's charts suggest for east coast boardsies that redemption is around the corner anyway! GEM, ECM and GFS all suggesting the weekend after next could be a time of lots of snowmen and snow ball fights. On an IMBY basis, if the long awaited easterly does happen, I hope we can get snow out of it too down here. We usually manage one big snowfall out of an easterly (because the unusual shape of the south coast means that Cork City actually has nothing to its east / southeast but sea). I appreciate the west coast may be dry but who knows.

Not a smell snow in Letterkenny this morning. Could've sworn I saw a few Dubs shovelling it into the back of a transit van last night.




.... I'm a Dub. I'm allowed say that

A beautiful blizzard here in Castlebar .huge snowflakes. Nice one

Dry cool and bright in East Galway
Stay away snow we don't want you anymore

Reading through the last couple of pages, I genuinely hope that those in the east of Ireland will see some proper blizzardy snow courtesy of a 1982 or 1987 type easterly soon. I think it is more than well deserved at this stage. Me, I just want this same proposed easterly to bring some proper dry weather to us in the western half because the ground is really really saturated. Drying at this time of year is always going to be poor, but for some reason, this winter it seems especially bad, despite the fact that we have had much wetter winters even in recent years.

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Reading through the last couple of pages, I genuinely hope that those in the east of Ireland will see some proper blizzardy snow soon courtesy of a 1982 or 1987 type easterly soon. I think it is more than well deserved at this stage. Me, I just want this same proposed easterly to bring some proper dry weather to us in the western half because the ground is really really saturated. Drying at this time of year is always going to be poor, but for some reason, this winter it seems especially bad, despite the fact that we have had much wetter winters even in recent years.

Again, cheers Oneiric 3 .

It would be absolutely amazing if I could experience an event like January 1982 ever in my life though I can't complain I got to live through 2010 - one day in particular comes to my mind, 30 November 2010. What a beauty of a day!

Currently snowing again in West Clare, back hand of a shower though so nothing heavy. Pity really, temperatures really plummet on these showers and I doubt it would take much to settle. It's dropped by 2.7c in that excuse of a shower alone.

Plenty of snow in the East today, you just have to go to it

https://twitter.com/carlowweather/status/963408083090395138

km79 wrote: »

Dry cool and bright in East Galway
Stay away snow we don't want you anymore

Not so much as a flake of snow on Mt. Leinster.

Deleted User wrote: »

Its been appalling tbh. I may be wrong about the dates, but apparently in some areas of the west the last two dry days in a row were the 24th & 25th of July. Has anywhere in the country got, say, 5 dry days in a row since last summer?

The last time I did here at Grange, D13, was 1st-6th November.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Its been appalling tbh. I may be wrong about the dates, but apparently in some areas of the west the last two dry days in a row were the 24th & 25th of July. Has anywhere in the country got, say, 5 dry days in a row since last summer?

No !
2 possibly 3
But I honestly don't think we have had a 72 hour period without rain
And 2 days has happened only a handful of times
The ground is saturated