Snow and other Wintry Stuff

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!! )

Snowbie

longfield will you post in weather pics thread this is the second time i have had to move pics belonging to you.

Supercell

Hmm, thought pics in the nowcast tread would be better than in the artsy photos many hopefully will post in a snow pics tread?

Surely is a place for both, maybe PM to discuss Snowbie ?

darkman2

The Irish sea buoy has dp well below freezing. Temperatures are dropping inland but also along the coast. So I think inland looks excellent to me atm. The coast more marginal but we will see later.

Snowbie

No need PM it is stated as i always state in my OP about pics due to dial up reasons.
Its at the top of the page.

Scubadevils

darkman2 wrote:

The Irish sea buoy has dp well below freezing. Temperatures are dropping inland but also along the coast. So I think inland looks excellent to me atm. The coast more marginal but we will see later.

Yeah I see the M2 DP is down again now to -2.4, it was -1.9 an hour ago...although it was about -3 two hours ago.

Snowbie

darkman2 wrote:

The Irish sea buoy has dp well below freezing. Temperatures are dropping inland but also along the coast. So I think inland looks excellent to me atm. The coast more marginal but we will see later.

Did you not read the OP too.

What part do you not understand and i will elaborate on it for you.

Scubadevils

Sorry Snowbie, forgot what thread I was in TBH.

Villain

This link may be of help to people later tonight and early tomorrow http://www.dublincity.ie/living_in_the_city/getting_around/traffic_cameras/

Its shows live camera shots of major roads around Dublin.

copacetic

dissapointed, raining reasonably hard in Sandyford, near lambs cross.

lucernarian

Snow grains in a strong breeze as of 2110. Still remaining like that at the moment. Ground is as bone dry as ever. I'm not 100% sure it's snow as the droplets are so small but I'm sure some of it at least is. The air temp here though is holding at about 4 degrees so it's hard to say.