Significant snow Thursday Night/Friday/Saturday

fozzle

KNOCK AIRPORT W 15 RECENT SNOW 3 84 Trace

*does the happy dance* Snow in Knock an hour ago - come on! Momma needs some snow baby!

nacho libre

huge hailstones at the moment. the snow is really testing my patience!!

Paddy.1

yeah big hail just started here now, and as I write, it is stopping again, wait, its back on again. This really is shcutter.

Edit, just seen a distant flash of lightning. If I can't get snow, I'll take the thunder, hope it comes this way (it's to the west).

kerry1960

....no wind no snow not even a frost anymore.....and just think back what this was hyped up to be 24 hhs ago......lets be honest a bit of a squib was'nt it ......nite.....2.3c light rain

fozzle

Paddy.1 wrote: »

yeah big hail just started here now, and as I write, it is stopping again, wait, its back on again. This really is shcutter.

Edit, just seen a distant flash of lightning. If I can't get snow, I'll take the thunder, hope it comes this way (it's to the west).

Ah, then I may not have been hallucinating earlier. Started the car and saw a blue flash out of the corner of my eye - thought I was loosing the plot, but perhaps it was lightning.

nacho libre

kerry1960 wrote: »

....no wind no snow not even a frost anymore.....and just think back what this was hyped up to be 24 hhs ago......lets be honest a bit of a squib was'nt it ......nite.....2.3c light rain

**looks skywards and shakes fist furiously** :mad:

repr

kerry1960 wrote: »

....no wind no snow not even a frost anymore.....and just think back what this was hyped up to be 24 hhs ago......lets be honest a bit of a squib was'nt it ......nite.....2.3c light rain

Ha, just back from pub I am up for all nighter don't know how u can say that the arctic air hasnt even arrived yet and you writing it off already.

Trust me a few suprises will happen with that unstable air above us.

fozzle

Hail's back in Sligo.

*edit* No, wait, it's gone, never mind.

kerry1960

nacho libre wrote: »

**looks skywards and shakes fist furiously** :mad:

tried dat but slipped on the remains of de snoman created earlier:(:(

Paddy.1

fozzle wrote: »

Hail's back in Sligo.

*edit* No, wait, it's gone, never mind.

Same ****e here. :rolleyes:

In fact, it's quite a joke at this stage. The cold air will probably arrive when the showers die away. :mad:

Danno

Few flakes of wet snow starting to fall here - any milder would be drizzle. Currently 2.4c.

repr

Danno wrote: »

Few flakes of wet snow starting to fall here - any milder would be drizzle. Currently 2.4c.

Good sign Danno, tells us the cold air tuckin in again after the mild blip.

repr

Look at the showers packin into Southern Ireland now! Game on

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Paddy.1

repr wrote: »

Look at the showers packin into Southern Ireland now! Game on

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Lots of showers packing into the west of Ireland all night, bringing, at best, the odd hail downpour. Hopefully they will be more lucky in the south.

TheMilkyPirate

repr wrote: »

Look at the showers packin into Southern Ireland now! Game on

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Ah we'll surely get one of them down here! :rolleyes: looks promising though

squonk

Hope something materialises for us overnight. Was just listening to the guy from the BBC weather center on Janice Long on BBC R2 just now and he reckons that Scotland and eastern parts of the UK are going to get a pelting while NI will get some showers on the north and east coasts so not sounding overly promising tomorrow overall for us.

kerry1960

repr wrote: »

Ha, just back from pub I am up for all nighter don't know how u can say that the arctic air hasnt even arrived yet and you writing it off already.

Trust me a few suprises will happen with that unstable air above us.

yea mate was just thinkin of movin de livestock and family down to a lower level .......1.4c and the sheep are sweating .......only slaggin..... nite mate.........

nacho libre

sleet again. still far too mild

repr

Something really interesting brewing on NW Ireland movin South - Latest radar pickin it up now

CM21

repr wrote: »

Something really interesting brewing on NW Ireland movin South - Latest radar pickin it up now

Yeh theres plenty of precipitation out there. Once the cold air really digs in anywhere will have a chance.

CM21

Hail just turned to snow here in blessington and the place is white:D

repr

CM21 wrote: »

Hail just turned to snow here in blessington and the place is white:D

Yeo- Happy days - pleased for ya

Danno

Will be hit and miss for the rest of the night. Air is quite mixed across the country. Pockets of cold air here, pockets of mild air there... It will be 3am - 7am before the cold air gets well established. Starting with 3am in the NW, to 7am in the S. Showers a plenty are building off the NW coast and will funnel across most parts of Ireland later. Falling more and more as snow as time goes on. A polar low is a 50/50 chance, if it does come off, then some substantial snow will fall - akin to 25.12.2005

nacho libre

finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes, it's snowing:D

dsane1

very mild nth of virginia not a cloud in sight

billy the squid

pissing down with rain .here

dsane1

anyone know is it gone ,is it still coming ?

M.T. Cranium

As of 0530, I rather like your chances in most of Ireland today, if you run the satellite animation on the metoffice site, for example (the wider shot) you'll see how the denser cloud moving down from the NW towards Ireland is massing together, if not in a true polar low, at least in a fairly aggressive looking streamer that should cover a large segment of the country. And sure there will be some rain here and there or sleet, but snow should be the dominant type, lots of thunder and lightning likely too because this air stream is charged differently from the ground at present time. There is no organized way to talk about snowfall amounts, it's going to range from 2 to 10 cms or 1 to 4 inches if you prefer, over the whole country with the usual southwest and southeast coastal exceptions. Since I imagine Dublin is the big question, closer to 2 than 10 cms there, but near 10 over hills nearby. If I had to pick a place that would get a lot of snow, inland from Galway, don't have a map handy, over towards Longford.

dsane1

wow cant wait lol

fricatus

Snowing in Mitchelstown and Cashel according to Today FM...

Meanwhile, here in SE Waterford, the earlier frost has MELTED on my car. A few drops of miserably cold rain is all there is at the moment. Off up to KK in an hour's time for work, so fingers crossed... might be far enough inland. I suspect from what people are saying though that Waterford will remain snowless... again!!! :mad: