Current Weather Conditions-April 2008

Snowbie · 08-04-2008 7:19pm

We had a shower from altocumulus clouds within the last hour, large drops but light enough.
7.3c
1002mb

Mothman · 08-04-2008 8:44pm

1.6C falling

Snowbie · 08-04-2008 9:12pm

Mothman wrote: »

1.6C falling

:eek:
Under a blanket of cloud and temp is stuck at 7.3c here

Mothman · 08-04-2008 10:50pm

Snowbie wrote: »

:eek:
Under a blanket of cloud and temp is stuck at 7.3c here

and with the blanket comes a rise in temp.

5C now after falling to 1C

mike65 · 09-04-2008 10:47am

Fine morning again, pity its not a bit warmer but not the worst.

Mike.

Paddy.1 · 10-04-2008 12:37am

Raining again.:)

Feels unusually cold and dank despite the temp of 5.8c. The air has certainly changed for the worst over the last few hours. Gloomy and ominous. Pressure is 998.0mb and steady.

mike65 · 10-04-2008 10:48am

Fine again!

Mike.

fozzle · 10-04-2008 12:35pm

Heavy hail in Sligo town at the moment. Bloomin stuff's coming down the chimney.

Hailstones starting to lie as the ground temperature drops.

I must get an outside thermometer - if someone knows where to get a vaguely decent one for not too much money can they drop me a pm!

*edit*
15 minutes and it's still going strong!

Wertz · 10-04-2008 2:36pm

fozzle wrote: »

I must get an outside thermometer - if someone knows where to get a vaguely decent one for not too much money can they drop me a pm!

I picked up a digital thermometer with dual readout and an exterior probe for $8 on dealextreme:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.2721
Max/min settings and oF/oC . I've tested it and it's pretty accurate. Shipping thakes about 14 days and is free

Looks like a lot of showers moving in fast from the west on the doppler...sunny SE looks like it's in for a hammering...might even get a shower in the NE, if that cell over leitrim keeps heading in this direction...

fozzle · 10-04-2008 2:50pm

Thanks Wertz.

Beautiful and sunny patchy blue sky here (Sligo) now. Almost warm!

mike65 · 10-04-2008 2:56pm

Clouded in and light rain now.

Mike.

Paddy.1 · 10-04-2008 6:21pm

Very dark and thundery looking here. This pic I took 5 mins ago looking west, Came out crap, dosent do justice to the sky here at the moment:

7.2c and pressure 989.8 mb

Hal1 · 10-04-2008 6:27pm

Some impressive looking clouds out there with some sunshine as a bonas. Temp 7oC. When will our temps recover?

Snowbie · 10-04-2008 6:41pm

Sunny skies with a few Cb's moving just to the NE
9.8c Dp 2c
991.7mb
RH 57%

Mothman · 10-04-2008 8:30pm

Another air frost looming

3.7C clear sky and wind easing

Max 11.5C One brief shower that dropped hail in hills.

Mothman · 10-04-2008 11:09pm

Mad cold out. Temp already been down to -1C and it not even calm.

Above zero now under broken cloud.

long time till dawn, could see -2C yet.

Supercell · 10-04-2008 11:16pm

Interesting temps tonight, Arctictree and myself have been around the 1°C mark for a while whilst Mothman has plummeted to below zero and up over again.

With a prevailing westerly I'm guessing the cold air in Ashford is likely to be mainly katabatic in nature?

Snowbie · 10-04-2008 11:41pm

You will find the temps rising in Wicklow soon as the wet weather over Wexford seems to be moving north. Another bank of cloud here with temp of 6.1c
990.2mb
Wind SE

Paddy.1 · 11-04-2008 3:07am

3.7c here. The usual cold, dank and wet feeling out. I am sick of it at this stage.

6c in Shannon according to car temp, 5c in Galway and 4c in Tuam. Now that is what you call a full report from the Wesht!!! Plenty of rain on the drive down, though looks like up here missed the worst of it according to measurements. Bring me an Easterly I say!!! Dry, warm, fluffy white clouds, bliss.

DOCARCH · 11-04-2008 7:35am

I can't believe it!!! It's snowing really heavily at the moment. Big white fluffy flakes!! Current temp. + 3.3c DP +1.5c

I saw on Metcheck yesterday forecast for snow this morning but I sort of poo-pooed that!

+2.5c now and a covering of slush on garden furniture, car, etc.

Trogdor · 11-04-2008 7:50am

Ditto, snowing here. Temp 3.1C dp 1.2C. Obviously not sticking though

Black Swan · 11-04-2008 7:50am

21C today in OC, predicted 26C for Friday...time to go surfing!:cool:

hawkwing · 11-04-2008 7:51am

just stopped snowing in Dundrum now after a 10-15 min shower of humungous flakes, winter is beginning

Mothman · 11-04-2008 7:58am

I was thinking it had to be snowing somewhere since it was a rainy 4C here

DOCARCH · 11-04-2008 8:04am

Shower has passed here now. 0.9mm of ppn. As the cloud is lifting off the Dublin mountains I can see a nice dusting of snow.

arctictree · 11-04-2008 8:10am

Snowing heavy here. Massive fluffy flakes. Temp has dropped and its really trying to stick. 1.6c ATM

Edit: 1.3c now

A

Mothman · 11-04-2008 8:29am

Shower just clearing.
Mostly rain, but periods of sleet.
temp 2.8C

Snowbie · 11-04-2008 9:27am

Snowbie wrote: »

You will find the temps rising in Wicklow soon as the wet weather over Wexford seems to be moving north

It looks like that wasn't the case. Precip moved off shore in the wee hours with the LP swinging down across the country and then moving quickly back NE up over Dublin pulling in PM air behind it turning it to wet snow.

mike65 · 11-04-2008 10:40am

Fine again!

Mike.

arctictree · 11-04-2008 10:46am

Snowbie wrote: »

It looks like that wasn't the case. Precip moved off shore in the wee hours with the LP swinging down across the country and then moving quickly back NE up over Dublin pulling in PM air behind it turning it to wet snow.

Good snow covering on Djouce now. The animated radar from met.ie is a beauty.
As you say, the precip just curls back over the east coast at its last gasp and gives us a nice snow covering on the hills.

I was just about on the snow line. A few meters above me, the fields were starting to turn white.

5c and sunny ATM.

A

Current Weather Conditions-April 2008

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