Current Weather Conditions-January 2008

Supercell

I'd say we have another degree at least to drop yet arctictree, just imagine how much it could have fallen over icy fields..ah well..there's plenty of winter left for that

Snowbie

0.2c and cloudy. Dp -1c

Wind is NW at 3mph

SpitfireIV

Overcast and calm now, breeze from the NNW

Temp -0.1c
DP -1.5c

Very very light flurry of snow earlier, nothing much, hardly enough to wet the ground.

mike65

Quiet dull cold. Not a flake of snow has fallen.

Mike.

Our man in Havana

-1.5c Heavy Snow atm. Already over 1 inch accumulated, Laois/Tipp border.

peasant

Heavy snowfall in Sligo for the last hour.

Snow is very dry and powdery. Due to strong winds it only really accumulates in sheltered areas. Roads still clear-ish due to wind.

Our man in Havana

Temp is has now risen to+1.4 and barro has dropped to 993 from 1000 hpa an hour ago.

Edit: now 1.6c and raining. Barro continuing to fall like a stone, now 987 hpa.

maquiladora

Heavy rain and strong winds in Waterford.

SpitfireIV

2.9c
DP 2.1c

Heavy rain here now with a SW'ly wind gusting up to 10/12mph

Just watching the snow dissolve

ninebeanrows

Rain has arrived here.

All in all i saw around 3 flurries of snow, lasting no more than 5 minutes.

While 15 miles north of here was getting pounded!

DOCARCH

Gone really stormy here now with heavy rain and temp. of +5.2c.

What a difference a couple of hours can make!

Our man in Havana

Thunder and lightening and heavy hail atm. 6.0c

homosapien

Cork airport recorded a 70 kt (130km/hr) gust in the hour between 11am and 12pm today along with 10.7 mm of rain..it was quite vicious for 10 minutes or lots of surface flash flooding

Darwin

Thunder and lightning directly overhead now. No hail but raining quite hard

mike65

Peeing down, windy and cold. The very essence of a lousy winters day.

Mike.

Gonzo

flat calm outside, raining moderately and still feeling very cold. About 3 inchs of snow left on ground.

Paddy.1

Rain clear here now with just a few light showers. Snow is melting rapidly.
3.7c and rising. Pressure is falling at an alarming rate however. now 981.2mb.

Mothman

Gonzo wrote: »

flat calm outside, raining moderately and still feeling very cold. About 3 inchs of snow left on ground.

And down in Wicklow, its absolutely mad.
Gusts to 50mph
Pressure drop faster than a stone
11mb/3hrs 4mb last hour.

Very wet

1c to 8C from 1130 to 1230.

Altalntic here in vengence

Gonzo

snow melting faster now but oddly enough the rain has turned back to sleety type rain.

Weather BOFH

Just wind and rain out here too! Temp up to 5.6C now, low of -2.7C overnight but frost long gone when I dragged myself out of bed at 11am!

Wind gusting to over 70 km/h and like MM, a pressure drop of over 10mb in around 3 hours. 1.6mm of rain in the last hour.

squonk

Wet and very windy out here. Brightening up now but got very dark. Had to turn on lights earlier. Very nasty, horrible day really.

peasant

Sligo almost calm now with a mixture of sunny periods/light drizzle. Snow is melting fast.

Gonzo

rain has cleared, sun coming out and temp rising further. snow is about 60% melted, about 1.5 inchs left.

rc28

Gonzo wrote: »

rain has cleared, sun coming out and temp rising further. snow is about 60% melted, about 1.5 inchs left.

Yup, now 4c. Good to see the snow lasted through all the rain though.

Mothman

10min mean upto 33mph, highest since Mar 19th.
Suddenly eased a lot during past 10minutes.

Rain has cleared
Temp 9C

Gonzo

missed the wind here completely.

arctictree

Rain has passed through here. Temp went up to 6.6c, now down to 5.7c

Recorded 10.67mm rain so far today.

Jack Sheehan

Reasonably clear and about 3 degrees here in South Dublin.

Gonzo

temp falling again, snow melt is slowing down again

mike65

Cloud breaking, wind fallen to walking speed. Still bloody cold though.

Mike.

Ba_barbaraAnne

Wind picking up in the West with hailstones making the ground all white again

Gonzo

ive a funny feeling some western areas could see sleet/hail/snow showers tonight especially in the hilly areas.

nacho libre

the temperature is down to 3 degrees here and it has just started raining.

Takeshi_Kovacs

We got a snow here thid morning from 7 am till about 7.30 am where the rain finally came. And all day it rained, and rained. It was definetely the wettest day here in a good few weeks, and there was a lot of lightning and thunder as well, which i guess was some bit of a plus to the day (considering all the sneachta that fell up the country)

Mothman

Exceptional 4 seasons day.

Crispy frost
Snowy winter wonderland.
Very windy and wet
Brief glimpse of sun and calm

Max 8.9C
Min -3.1C
11mm precipitation

Currently 4.6C

Supercell

Mothman wrote: »

Exceptional 4 seasons day.

Crispy frost
Snowy winter wonderland.
Very windy and wet
Brief glimpse of sun and calm

Max 8.9C
Min -3.1C
11mm precipitation

Currently 4.6C

Yep , nice summary, all in all the last 24 hours have been amazing for anyone with an interest in the weather here in Ireland for sure.

dwaned

18" of snow at -12 at the moment :-) Was -23 in parts last night!! Funny though, I bet it feels colder over there at 3C..

Danno

*** 4th Jan 2008 *** What a day.

Midnight - Light snow flurry
3am - Hard Frost -2.3c
6am - Fog/Mist
9am - Blizzard like conditions
11am - Sleet
12pm - Rain
1pm - Thunder, Lightning forks, Hail Storm
2pm - Clear Blue Sky
3pm - Max of 8.4c
4pm - Rain Showers
9pm - Sleet shower.

And we aren't finished yet!!!

boardsdotie

Hail Shower in Limerick just now

nacho libre

had a thunderstorm here about 20 minutes ago with fork lightning

M.T. Cranium

Hello, just a heads up for those in central Ireland and the Dublin area in particular, radar looks potentially nasty for later on this morning, would be on the watch for hail and thunder, very strong wind gusts with a line squall feature. This could develop in other places at other times today, winds are very very strong above the surface and with daytime mixing of the boundary layer about to begin, these may mix down to the ground more than they have overnight ... potentially there could be gusts to 60 or 70 mph later today and there could even be a small tornado, whether anyone actually sees it or not, dramatic skies for sure if you're into photography. Also very large waves likely on the west coast especially at high tide today.

Mothman

Squally showers overnight.
Max gust 51mph.

Blowing over very quickly, so rain levels low.

mike65

Sunny! Not bad!

Mike.

ch750536

^aha

Huge hailstorm this morning, 9am for about 10 mins. Very bad driving conditions. Still some ice around now nearly 3 hrs later. Was about an inch of ice on the ground by the time it finished.

Some lightning too.

rc28

Some snow patches lasted through the night here. I would upload a photo but boards won't let me for some reason.
Sunny and dry all day too. 3.1c atm

nacho libre

still some lying snow here where it drifted.

i salute your courage and defiance, rage against the milder weather trying to melt you!

Paddy.1

Showers quite light in nature here overall, though some powerful winds around 5am this morning woke me up, and was quite frightning for a while. Knocked a couple of trees down around Tuam.

Currently 4.3c with a moderating wind.

Damomanye

3.6c currently, short heavy burts of rain

Supercell

3.3°C here and windy.
Snow on the Wicklow mountains today , even at the Sally Gap. A few wallys were out walking in the galeforce arctic winds..I prefered to say in my nice warm car though and admire the view

Danno

1.6c - few showers today - nothing dramatic.