Snow and other Wintry Stuff

Villain

Well I drove from Tullow to Kildare and the best I saw was just outside castledermot where about 2 cm's was lying, it turned to sleet after about 8 am though, nice to see some white landscape even if it was only a small bit.

Don't think we'll see anymore till our usual cold spell in February but you never know.

Theres been more snow hail and sleet flurries here this morning from light showers blowing in off the sea.
It's been mainly hail with snow flakes blowing in the wind which is amazing with a temp of 6c
(The hills are very very white so I might go up there later)

Crucially though the dewpoint has gone sub zero

my precious precious snow is melting
There was a very very light shower of rain/sleet/snow which did not help
sun is out now

nacho libre

Cold with not a damn cloud in the sky here:mad:

Temperature is about 3 degrees with a strong northerly wind blowing.

Snowbie

There is a lot of big Cumulus build up over the Irish sea atm but nothing on radar.

Danno

Partly cloudy here with the snowline retreated to 250m

Gonzo

we had a few snow flakes on the car this morning and clear blue skies all day, felt quite pleasant out in the sun - 6C

ninebeanrows

Pleasent would be abit of an overstatement Gonzo!!

At least you've made me smile though as there hasnt even been a single flurry here even though we have ENE's

rc28

Gonzo wrote:

we had a few snow flakes on the car this morning and clear blue skies all day, felt quite pleasant out in the sun - 6C

What?? I'm just a few miles away from you and i was woken up by thunder and heavy snow and hail and then sleet falling, there was a good thick covering on all cars etc. even on the roads there was loads of slush, that said just down the road in dunboyne there was absolutely nothing. Just shows how localised weather conditions were this morning.

Slippin Jimmy

Hey all. What would be the chances of seeing a bit of snow sticking in the Navan area?

Supercell

What a fantastic morning, thunder, lightening and blizzard conditions, it had it all !!

Had the scariest, slowest, most exciting, best ever drive into work today - snow covered roads and fields and near blizzard conditions on the way, then desending from an artic landscape into a totally green one - loved it!

Was still snow on my bonnet and on the back of the car when parking it in work today which brought a few curious stares.

Shame that looks like that all we might see here in this snap, pretty much all melted now bar sheltered spots and the nearby mountains which are still white above 400 metres roughly.

wba88

wba88 wrote:

between 9pm and 10pm last night Blessington and very immediate surrounding areas had a snow storm and the snow stuck and it was so cool (not to drive in though, that was scary). Bring on the snow!!!

Snow covered everything this mornin, a 20-25min journey took 1hr 20min+

Gonzo

rc28 wrote:

What?? I'm just a few miles away from you and i was woken up by thunder and heavy snow and hail and then sleet falling, there was a good thick covering on all cars etc. even on the roads there was loads of slush, that said just down the road in dunboyne there was absolutely nothing. Just shows how localised weather conditions were this morning.

I woke up at 11.50am lol and there wasnt much on the ground. If thre was thunder I slept right through it:)

rc28

Gonzo wrote:

I woke up at 11.50am lol and there wasnt much on the ground. If thre was thunder I slept right through it:)

ye the thunder happened at around 6:45am, as was all the snow.
lol by 11.50 most of it was melted. but i wasn't expecting anything at all last night so it was great to get my two favourite types of weather together; snow and lightning:D

SpitfireIV

According to here:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

and here:
http://www.meteo24.com/uk/index.php?q=radar

...there is some precip in the Dublin/North Wicklow area, any reports of whats falling from it? And according to the second link that small blob will move inland, are the conditions right for a bit of snow?

ninebeanrows

I am 99% sure that is an anorap;) if it wasn't i'd have been on here:D

Trogdor

seems to be a few smalls showers forming on the 6:30 and 7:00 radar
http://www.meteireann.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

Snowbie

Just when the winds turn northerly the showers are moving down the sea opposed to coming onshore:rolleyes:

ninebeanrows

Tis rather typical alright.. i bet that shower will get all chunky too and turn into one of those lines! and just rug against the coast of Wicklow.. just to rub things in;)

Supercell

I had a brief but pretty heavy hail shower about half an hour ago, was suprised to say the least.
Its still 2.4°C so have zero hope for anything on the ground by morning

Supercell

Just checked out artictree's webcam, looks like the aliens are landing in Roundwood, better get ready here

arctictree

Longfield wrote:

Just checked out artictree's webcam, looks like the aliens are landing in Roundwood, better get ready here

Ha! - Thats the reflection of the light off the window.

BTW - I've put the webcam image on the weather page:

http://www.arctictree.com/weather

Mad showers here last night. Temp dropped to 0.5 in the blizzard.

A

Supercell

arctictree wrote:

Mad showers here last night. Temp dropped to 0.5 in the blizzard.

A

Tell me about it, I waited for some brightness this morning before driving to work, and was on the road between Roundwood and the N11 during it, was one helluva drive, but great fun. Only knew how scared i was driving when I noticed that my arms were starting to hurt from clenching the steering wheel so tight, not joking at all - haven't ever driven in snow and blizzard conditions before.

Here's hoping we see something better(lying more) before winters out.

Sierra Oscar

Any chance of another snow fall in the North Tipp area?

Thanks!

Supercell

Hailstones here again, pretty heavy, artictree are these showers hitting you too?

arctictree

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

According to here:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

and here:
http://www.meteo24.com/uk/index.php?q=radar

...there is some precip in the Dublin/North Wicklow area, any reports of whats falling from it? And according to the second link that small blob will move inland, are the conditions right for a bit of snow?

Hmm - that blob over North Wicklow seems to be getting bigger.

Whooooaaaaa - Just popped outside - precipitation has started - seems to be light rain now - should turn to snow. I'll keep you updated.....

A

Just been up on croghan mt
Theres a good 3 inches of level powdery snow \o/ all frozen underneath with some drifting maybe close to 10 inches and we were the first to make tracks in it with the jeep.That was slightly scarey as it wasnt easy to make out the verges and a 3 ft drop at the side of the lane-especially given that there was a good bit of drifting.

Great fun in the touareg! Jeremy Clarkson would be proud of us (especially when we had to go off [STRIKE]road[/STRIKE] lane to get round a fallen tree!)

It was very foggy and the snow started to fall as we were heading down.

The temperature difference between here and there is amazing. At 1800ft asl and just 5 miles west of here it was 0c where as here its +4.7c

One of the lads took photo's so I should have them tomorrow.

arctictree

Tristrame wrote:

One of the lads took photo's so I should have them tomorrow.

Hey Tristrame - any sign of those pics?

I need some cheering up after all that talk of arctic weather and all I got was measly shower....

BTW - Snow on mountains at about 500M still

A

About 5 mins
my broadband is cack tonight for some reason.
Just got the photo's off a usb thingy

Attached are 4 photos-the camera was cack though

The 2nd one there is the gate onto croghan mt last night and the last one is out the jeep window onto the lane on the way up.

I'll put 2 more in the next post in a minute.

Heres the last two further up,it got very foggy near the top.

Villain

Cool pics is it a hard place to fnd/get to?

arctictree

Well, at least there was snow somewhere!!

Not looking likely for the next while now....

A

Easy enough,its the mountain you see on top of the hill about 5 miles inland from Arklow-you can see it's other side from Tinahely or Aughrim.
The snow is still there above about 1500 ft or so.
The contrast between the entrance to coillte at 1000ft asl and the 1500ft level is like going from california to Alaska in a few turns up a lane-much like any higher hill in the wicklow mts in the last week I'd say.

You can drive to the field that is the mt and then its a swift 10 minute up hill to the very top.
We didnt dare go up there as there were drifts in the field/mountain and it was very foggy and starting to snow last night so not a good idea.
The snow was lovely and powdery!

Hal1

Nice to see the snow, but there where footprints in the snow damit!. Give us pics with no bear foot prints k tnx.

Supercell

Jaysus Tristrame, driving up a mountain in the dark just to see some snow, fair play (you nutter)!

Hopeful there will be a few more opportunities to do the same before May this year, I miss the lovely snow crunchy feeling when stepped on this year.

Supercell

Hmm , Tristrame, did you go on recon trips before the cold?

I'm thinking I might do the same - there are a couple of peaks near here that are still a bit white and might be worth a bit of a snowchase.
Hmm ..make a snowman on every Wicklow mountain peak..has that been done yet??..there's a website idea!! whats the Irish "mountain" definition?.

Anyone game for it?

Villain

Every "peak" might be a bit tricky, but I do hope to head up the wicklow hills if we get another fall this winter.

Supercell

irish1 wrote:

Every "peak" might be a bit tricky, but I do hope to head up the wicklow hills if we get another fall this winter.

Well if you get to make a snowman on top of any mountaintop I'd like a piccy , am putting together a website

Snowbie

arctictree wrote:

I need some cheering up after all that talk of arctic weather and all I got was measly shower....

What i do for a measly shower, at least you saw something white and fluffy and i dont mean your matching slippers and ear muffs.

Snowbie

Christ,SE UK are having are equivalent to our 2003 east coast thunder event with showers building on the sea,moving onshore falling continuosly as snow down there,thats an all nighter event,lucky bastids.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

Scubadevils

Yeah but are they happy? Mo Fo's.

This time next month we will all be logging back on after having had no elec for two weeks due to heavy, record breaking snow falls.

...a pink thing just flew by my window, looked a bit like a pig :eek:

rc28

Sorry if this is off topic but has anyone elso noticed that over the past couple of months the radars always show precipitation over dublin?? Sometimes it looks really heavy too:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp
http://www.meteo24.com/uk/index.php?q=radar
http://meteox.com/h.aspx?r=holiday&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur

SpitfireIV

rc28 wrote:

Sorry if this is off topic but has anyone elso noticed that over the past couple of months the radars always show precipitation over dublin?? Sometimes it looks really heavy too:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp
http://www.meteo24.com/uk/index.php?q=radar
http://meteox.com/h.aspx?r=holiday&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur

Yeah I noticed that too, last week during the cold spell it seemed to be sitting there a lot, strange, I doubth it rained there and is still raining there that much ......maybe its a build up of car exhaust fumes

Lirange

Those false "radar echoes" are not uncommon in populated areas.

Snowbie

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

Yeah I noticed that too, last week during the cold spell it seemed to be sitting there a lot, strange, I doubth it rained there and is still raining there that much ......maybe its a build up of car exhaust fumes

Nah,its all you country folk working up in Dublin,the brighter the echo the more country folk getting more jobs here,or also its detecting the bright color on the back of your necks.Doppler radar at dublin airport cant distinguish between bright colored necks and rainfall atm.This has our dublin engineers baffled to which one of the two is the cause:D

Snowbie

Weather warning here

Post on your current snow in here.

Post your location if not in profile already.No point people saying "its snowing here" but we dont know where you are.

No Forecasts here please

No Pictures also

Use this thread temporarirly for [thread=2055050272]forecasts[/thread]

Use this thread for [thread=2055050139]Weather pics[/thread]

As this thread will get huge very quick,please stick to the above so posters on dial up pages will load quick for them.

Enjoy the snow and drive safe if you have too.

Snowbie

Looks like the east coast will do badly out of this apart from high ground.
If there is snow to be reported now,post here.

arctictree

Sleet started about half an hour ago. Turned to snow now and starting to stick. Temp dropping slowly....

A

Supercell

Pretty heavy snow falling now, temperature falling slowly, now 0.8°C.

Snow starting to settle on the ground already, looks like its going to be a big one tonight, will take some pics later as amounts build up a bit( if it doesn't turn to rain!! )