Snow Red alert

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 5:27am

Looking good eh

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/radar/ukukukuklf.htm
Marching south with very heavy pulses

:eek:

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 6:16am

It's agonisingly close!! Radar puts the rain(snow:D) 4 miles to the north of my house in a curve away from it :mad:

Further update: "snow drizzle" has started. Hope it gets heavier. Expect it to hit the northern suburbs within 30 mins!

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 6:21am

Hi it's snow tho is it??

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 6:25am

It's just a few tiny flakes drifting in the wind but still...:D. What I wonder is: If those heavy echoes pass over here will they be rain?, i.e. is the heavier precip associated with warm air?

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 6:29am

Nah heavier = Heavier snow

Your on the cold side of the front

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 6:36am

Hopefully we'll be able to squeeze 2 hours of snow in before school

Because then i wont be going

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 6:38am

Do you mean that currently im on the cold side of a warm front about to pass? or the warm side of a cold front about to pass?

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 6:40am

No the warm front will never pass over you it will
just slide south

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 6:48am

How's the snow now??

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 6:57am

There are literally just a few flakes falling. More like "frozen drizzle". Ground looks completely dry still even though its been "snowing" for 30 mins.

Added: Dublin appears to be... how will I put it... snowy.:)
Radar is quite interesting. Id love to know the current weather for the midlands. I now await met eireann's data.

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 6:59am

Snow making in-roads into most of Leinster, 10-20mins and Dublin will see it

Heavier echoes advancing from the north

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/radar/ukuknirf.htm

Gonzo · 21-02-2005 6:59am

completely dry here, nothing has falling at all

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 7:01am

You need to be outside to see it, with a bright light on. Very light snow. But dry snow:)

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 7:09am

Aye invisible snow it is then

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 7:18am

Mixed news: I tell ya one thing, it's not hard to see the snow falling now:D
But it's melting faster than I can type "Ah Sh**e".

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 7:20am

Seems like the gods have put a circle around me :eek:

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/radar/ukuknirf.htm

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 7:32am

Looking at the radar i's say there has to be somehting here in a few minutes :eek:

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 7:38am

Testers of the new snow shield made a break through Monday
stopping snow from falling in Portmarnock when it seemed
certain :eek:

:eek:

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 7:47am

Moderate snow is continiuing but refusing to stick!! If it wont stick at night I can't see it sticking during the day.Oh well. Im sure we'll see somethng better over the week.

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 7:51am

Hoping to at least see some falling :eek:

Probably tis abit wet because of the mild airmass nearby..

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 7:51am

The breakthrough's happening:D Some parts of ground are white, car windscreen's white but most ground is wet. Snow ongoing.

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 7:59am

Think im going to have a seizure if you say anymore,
still nada here :eek:

Expecting a somehting in 10-20mins

Glad to see your having some

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 8:09am

Update us

Still no snow here :rolleyes: :eek:

lucernarian · 21-02-2005 8:14am

What a lovely dawn:) The grass is a pretty blend of green and white and a picturesque scene of a winter morning with moderate snow.

Weathercheck, its not that suprising that i'd recieve more as im slightly more than 140 m asl and as a rule of thumb, the depth of snow I'd get here is twice that of Drogheda. I guess your asl is roughly the same as drogheda (avg. 20-40 m). Don't worry, you'll see it surely sooner or later this morning.

Added: Visibility is mediocre, 500 m I can see with little difficulty, visibility goes at roughly 4 km. (2.5 miles). Snow falling slightly lighter but still quite present @0719

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 8:14am

Radar showing snow but nothing falling from the sky :rolleyes:
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/radar/ukuknirf.htm

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 8:18am

Honestly someones having a larf :eek:

Although looking at the radar even though it's lying about precip
around my area there has to be some this morning

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/radar/ukukukuklf.htm

Mothman · 21-02-2005 8:25am

Since I'm 50miles or so south of W'check, no surprise to report nothing here in east Wicklow. Temp has stayed at 3C all night with dewpoint at -2C to -3C

Grass temp is +1.7C with a min of 0C. So if any snow does fall, it's unlikely to stick at the beginning.

Certainly cloudy overhead with that dark snow look to it.

Mothman · 21-02-2005 8:27am

Dublin Airport reporting sleet at 0700. Temp is up to 2C after being 1C at 0600.

Sleet at Casement as well with temp at 1C. dewpoint seems relatively high in those 2 locations

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 8:30am

Temperature 1.6c here dew point -1.7c. Looks like the
radars having problems with the precipitation although
theresn alot more to come. Snow about up north

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 8:44am

A few flakes in the wind..
definately snow as is dry and doesnt melt very quick

chump · 21-02-2005 8:46am

Rain here in lexlip...

I think it's time you took off the snow tinted glasses!
Looks like I should go to met.ie for my weather, always seem more realistic!

Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow. Clearer weather spreading from the northeast this afternoon and evening. Very cold. Temperatures just 3 to 8 degrees at best. Heavy sleet and snow showers tonight near coasts in the east and southeast. Mainly dry elsewhere. Sharp frost.

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 8:47am

Perhaps i'll use your camera CHUMP and show you that it's snowing

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 8:51am

Light snow now

A good few hours to go according to the radar

Scubadevils · 21-02-2005 8:53am

yay, light snow here too

The Muppet · 21-02-2005 8:55am

It's snowing here in Swords at the moment, its pretty fine stuff but definitely snow.

Scubadevils · 21-02-2005 8:58am

is it likely to get any heavier?

MackQ · 21-02-2005 8:58am

Small flurry now in Bray also

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 9:02am

Yep should get heavier, were talking about around 3-4 or more
hours of the stuff

kenmc · 21-02-2005 9:05am

light snow in leopardstown. traffic was much heavier already, even though there's nothing on the ground. bloody hell-a *threat* of a bit of snow and ppl are driving like bloody muppets. whoever gave them a licence should be shot.

Mothman · 21-02-2005 9:06am

Still nothing here, even though radar shows otherwise. I think the radar overstates intensity when it is snow

Villain · 21-02-2005 9:06am

Sleet/wet snow falling in maynooth

Mothman · 21-02-2005 9:09am

W'check, you'd better come up with an alternative excuse for mitching school...

There's not going to be much if any accumulation in low level areas.

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 9:12am

Ah will have to go im afraid

Still getting steadily heavier and showing signs of trying to
stick

Mothman · 21-02-2005 9:19am

Still waiting for 08z NRA road report. At 07z, only one station was reporting sub zero road temp. -0.1C at Baltinglass. only 2 of them was reporting the road as being treated.

21-02-2005 9:22am

Nothing here either-temp outside 1.9 c
Cloudy

ninebeanrows · 21-02-2005 9:26am

getting heavier and colder

1.2c

21-02-2005 9:28am

light snow has started to fall here now

Gonzo · 21-02-2005 9:28am

drizzly rain/sleet falling here, no chance of anything sticking here in loughlinstown

Mothman · 21-02-2005 9:28am

08z NRA reports in.
Baltinglass is only road temp that is subzero. 5 roads are now treated. Cavan has road temp at +0.1C and quotes "Heavy Rain"
IMO This is likely to be sleet or snow.

0800 reports in on met Eireann site. http://www.met.ie/recentweather/

Light Snow

Casement

Sleet
Kilkenny
Mullingar
Clones
Dublin Airport

Still dry with me.

Mothman · 21-02-2005 9:30am

First flakes falling.

Big Big flakes

Temp +2.9C
Dewpoint -1.9C
Grass Temp +1.7C

Snow Red alert

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