Snow watch II:Snow Harder

22-02-2005 4:19pm #1

All aboard our newly renovated snow train

22-02-2005 4:24pm

Yes Irish1 and Felix, the weather system the Beeb are on about would be towards late thursday and friday here.
In the meantime expect increased shower acticity later tonight and through tomorrow-with colder temps, this *may* come down as snow.

I've no more screenshots but the earlier version of the same forecast is here has that chart at the end- you will need realplayer to view it.

Guys I'd better warn you, they are talking about a bit of mild mixed in this but current indications suggest a return to pure cold early next week-tiz outside of what I would call a reliable timeframe yet though

Mothman · 22-02-2005 4:24pm

A few showers, but most missed here, Did get some hail. Temp has stayed above 4C all day, maxing out at 6.5C

Villain · 22-02-2005 4:31pm

That forecast is interesting, Friday could well be our best day for snow, but thats only if the temps stay down, at this stage I wouldn't bank on it but it is possible.

If thats what the beeb are saying god only knows what Weathercheck will say

22-02-2005 4:37pm

irish1 wrote:

If thats what the beeb are saying god only knows what Weathercheck will say

Villain · 22-02-2005 4:43pm

Very good, very good indeed.

22-02-2005 4:56pm

By the way from fantasy island but... its only next tuesday ie a week away and with no predicted implosion of actual warm air as opposed to just less cold air-not at all implausable
http://217.160.75.104/pics/Rtavn16817.gif

temps on the East coast of 1 2 and 3 c only... by march 1

/ Grabs lots of salt

22-02-2005 4:59pm

and tomorrows picture as shown from todays analysis...
http://217.160.75.104/pics/Rtavn242.gif

Translation... good bit colder than today... as the air we are getting starts speaking russian again and it aint the horrible linguafone beginers version we've had so far, it starts to get an accent....

Anyway the supreme ramper should be home from school shortly so he can continue the....

DapperGent · 22-02-2005 5:00pm

This thread could have had a far more interesting title for example:

Snow Watch II: The Return of Snow Watch

Snow Watch II: Snow Harder

Snow Watch II: Vengeance

22-02-2005 5:07pm

Done

super_furry · 22-02-2005 5:11pm

Anyone remember that awful band JJ72? Their song Snow seems appropriate right now.

ninebeanrows · 22-02-2005 5:13pm

Believe at your will!

A developing feature to the east of Scotland
will continue to develop trough the evening,
towards midnight it will through a fair wack of
prolonged snow showers to leinster north of
Wicklow and the east coast of Ulster, heavy snow
showers will then continue through to mid-afternoon
tomorrow.

So possibly a period of prolonges snow for some
eastern areas tonight

ninebeanrows · 22-02-2005 5:20pm

I may aswell say this now but i'll stick my neck out
and say that much of Dublin *should* wake upto a covering
tomorrow. Im pretty confident about a rash of more prolonged
stuff later tonight which will also drag in colder air

ninebeanrows · 22-02-2005 5:28pm

Heck not often you see snow reported in Valantia :eek:
http://www.met.ie/recentweather/

It's this damn breeze of the Irish sea that's
keeping it slightly milder here :rolleyes:

BigCon · 22-02-2005 5:34pm

As someone said earlier WC's forecast was more accurate than MetEireann (and don't forget the first mention of a white Christmas was here).

We had 2-4 inches here in Portlaoise this morning, just enough to do this before it melted:

full forward · 22-02-2005 5:41pm

I think it could be over for another year...

ninebeanrows · 22-02-2005 5:42pm

Tonights feature has the potential to leave as much snow
as we had on Monday here in the east, so if all that
lay we'd have 5-6cm's by morning or more

Should be good to see how it develops the model im using has
picked things up good so far with showers expected to dy
down towards 6-9pm and soemthing more prolonged to affect
in or around midnight

ninebeanrows · 22-02-2005 5:51pm

Some beefy goings on in the Irish sea now infact

ninebeanrows · 22-02-2005 5:59pm

Something more substantial to get your teeth into
after i noticed that the Dublin radar seems abit
coocoo..

Seems a low pressure is developing in association with
tonights precipitation...could be the business..keep watching

LFCFan · 22-02-2005 6:04pm

Weathercheck wrote:

Some beefy goings on in the Irish sea now infact

When can we expect showers to start in Dublin tonight? I swear, if we get sheds loads of snow in time for the weekend and then have it all clear in time for work on Monday, I'll do me nut

ninebeanrows · 22-02-2005 6:09pm

Looking later on in the swing of things, there are absolutely
now signs to the end of this cold spell, not this weekend
nor well into March :eek:

Winter and this cold spell are only beginning another 7 days
of the same and colder seems likely with the chance
of another push of extremely cold air next week :eek:

Re tonights feature is only a developing feature and
soo mesoscale that it will be hard to be pin pointed
by models so watch the satellite for developments

Danno · 22-02-2005 6:14pm

Hello folks, got the work done, so I am online till 6pm!

Danno · 22-02-2005 6:24pm

Have to say that last nights snow was awesome!

Loads of snow! 5 inches here in Durrow. No school day for the school-goers. Loads of kids out and they made a 7ft snowman in the middle of the road in my estate! I nearly drove in to it leaving for work! LOL!

Then the kids got up from behind the wall and pelted my car with snowballs

Danno · 22-02-2005 6:32pm

Oh, forgot to mention that it all thawed by 1pm, as it did in most other areas!

ninebeanrows · 22-02-2005 6:33pm

Continuing developments east of Scotland
http://www.meteoam.it/satellit/WWW/infrarosso4_2005-02-22%2017:00:00.jpg
With low pressure forming..

The main arc of the feature should reach southern NI by around mid night
with a big backwash of a trough

Danno · 22-02-2005 6:37pm

Have you that chart that you showed on monday with the satelite image, and superimposed trough lines with orange arrows???

highdef · 22-02-2005 6:40pm

Hey Weathercheck, do you reckon those fairly big blobs between the Isle of Man and Down will manage to get here in North Dublin - Looks a bit close but the band does appear to be developing. More importantly, will it just be sleet or snow/hail pellets? Just had a moderate shower in the past 15 mins and the ground is now saturated - Need snow - big fluffy flakes of it!!

Scubadevils · 22-02-2005 6:41pm

Weathercheck wrote:

Continuing developments east of Scotland
http://www.meteoam.it/satellit/WWW/infrarosso4_2005-02-22%2017:00:00.jpg
With low pressure forming..

The main arc of the feature should reach southern NI by around mid night
with a big backwash of a trough

sound like could be worth staying up for, what time do you reckon it will grace us with its presence?

highdef · 22-02-2005 6:44pm

Good news Weathcheck That last shower that just fell (not too sure if you got it too as I was near the northern limits of it) has left a deposit of snow at the very top of Howth hill - I'd imagine a little over 400ft. Can you see Howth from your location?

kleefarr · 22-02-2005 6:46pm

Earthman wrote:

:eek: Is that your back garden? :rolleyes:

Danno · 22-02-2005 6:50pm

Well, gotta go home.

Will be online later this evening, say 10-11pm.

Talk to you all then, hopefully a big snow event will be underway by then!!!

Snow watch II:Snow Harder

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