Snow/Freezing Weather across Ireland (Friday 28th November onwards)

CianRyan

Still hopefull for snow tonight, but i wouldnt hold my breath from he looks of things.
Hope to god im wrong though. >.<

Deep Easterly

To-ing and froing all day and witnessed Crough Patrick all snow covered with huge anvils behind it all day. Very beautiful sight and very alpine looking. A rare delight indeed!!!:)

Danno

Snowaddict, your location would be classed as south midlands due to the fact that Kilkenny is quite sheltered owing to surrounding hills and pleataus.

ninebeanrows

Showers should kick ashore in the early hours of tomorrow!

from probably south Meath southwards along the east coast

CianRyan

ORLY?
So i may get some after all. :rolleyes:

LEIN

Wind has picked up a good bit here.

Hope that's the sign of some snow showers heading my way.

Snowaddict

Damo9090 wrote: »

Wind has picked up a good bit here.

Hope that's the sign of some snow showers heading my way.

If only the winds would turn a bit more to the east, those showers which are developing quite nicely would come ashore....

Deep Easterly

Interesting ECM run tonight. While nothing spectacularly cold, it is notable for its lack of anything spectacularly mild:

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A nice, quite frosty spell would be nice; hoping there is a trend emerging here.

ninebeanrows

Getting interesting folks, expect to see a decent amount of precipitation around towards 2/3am

Harsh frost here.

Trough feature moving into NI

This will enhance shower activity in the Irish sea and allow winds to veer East of North.

Im gonna be up for much of the night!:pac::D

Snowaddict

Weathercheck wrote: »

Getting interesting folks, expect to see a decent amount of precipitation around towards 2/3am

Harsh frost here.

Trough feature moving into NI

This will enhance shower activity in the Irish sea and allow winds to veer East of North.

Im gonna be up for much of the night!:pac::D

I sure hope so, beacuse that earlier band of showers is dissipating and has moved towards Wales...

Deep Easterly

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Interesting ECM run tonight. While nothing spectacularly cold, it is notable for its lack of anything spectacularly mild:

http://91.121.93.17/pics/Recm721.gif
http://91.121.93.17/pics/Recm961.gif
http://91.121.93.17/pics/Recm1201.gif
http://91.121.93.17/pics/Recm1441.gif
http://91.121.93.17/pics/Recm1681.gif
http://91.121.93.17/pics/Recm1921.gif
http://91.121.93.17/pics/Recm2161.gif
http://91.121.93.17/pics/Recm2401.gif

A nice, quite frosty spell would be nice; hoping there is a trend emerging here.

Wouldn't it be the crack if that high on the dec 10th frame linked into the russian/siberian high!

chalkie

Weathercheck wrote: »

Getting interesting folks, expect to see a decent amount of precipitation around towards 2/3am

Harsh frost here.

Trough feature moving into NI

This will enhance shower activity in the Irish sea and allow winds to veer East of North.

Im gonna be up for much of the night!:pac::D

You could have a long night, especially if you are in or around Dublin! Bit of a breeze out there and it's cold but I don't think any trough will make its way through to us.

I'm expecting another cold, dry night. The kids are outside having a ball on their home-made ice slide so, all in all, an enjoyable period of weather despite the lack of snow!

Joe
South Co. Dublin

ninebeanrows

Trough feature has intensified over NI and is moving south some bright echoes in it, probably rain along the north coast but would be interested to see whats happening now up there?

ninebeanrows

Check out the Satellite, looks like it is heading southwestwards, probably missing Dublin if it were to make it but could hit us.. The winds swing northeasterly behind it.

Gonna be an interesting night guys.

rc28

Weathercheck wrote: »

Trough feature has intensified over NI and is moving south some bright echoes in it, probably rain along the north coast but would be interested to see whats happening now up there?

This is what Netweather precip-type shows it as;
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So, it's southern edge is snow over Lough Neagh for some reason. When I play back the loop it was rain/sleet only so it seems to be turning more wintry as it moves further inland.

ninebeanrows

chalkie wrote: »

You could have a long night, especially if you are in or around Dublin! Bit of a breeze out there and it's cold but I don't think any trough will make its way through to us.

I'm expecting another cold, dry night. The kids are outside having a ball on their home-made ice slide so, all in all, an enjoyable period of weather despite the lack of snow!

Joe
South Co. Dublin

Haha Yes, i should have made one of those yesterdays, i always plan to:pac:

M.T. Cranium

Strong winds on Thursday-Friday followed by another cold spell with wintry mixed potential ... keep your eyes on 12-13 Dec as we get closer, I predict there will be some kind of a major storm event, if it has to deal with cold air, could be very interesting.

Kippure

Are we talking blizzards? Just maybe we are. The 528 dam will down over us.

rc28

Malin head; rain at 6c but much much colder further south(9c difference!) with Casement already at -3c. http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

chalkie

Weathercheck wrote: »

Check out the Satellite, looks like it is heading southwestwards, probably missing Dublin if it were to make it but could hit us.. The winds swing northeasterly behind it.

Gonna be an interesting night guys.

Yep, been watching it but odds are it will break up and dissipate before it reaches us just as other troughs have done.

I'd like to be wrong, and surprised, but...

Not a word mentioned on the 09:30 forecast either so if the Met Office aren't interested then I'm even more convinced it's a dry night ahead.

repr

Well I am missing that heavier precip by about 20miles. Typical.
But it has been very light sleet mix on and off for the last 30mins.
I am sure it would be falling as snow further inland in the heavy stuff.

squonk

Yeah and here my ws temp readings are going up. It's at 1.9c here now. Has gone up about 0.5c in the past hour. This is the 'warmest' night here since thursday. Not cinvinced there'll be much in the way of snow or hail even if something kicks off. More likely rain.

rc28

That trough is growing on it's western flank and weakening on the eastern going by the updates on NW.

pp_me129

anyone else seen this :O

DOCARCH

Aldergrove reporting light rain after quick temp rise! Belfast Harbour temp also up in the last hour or so.

houseoffun14

-0.2 in Colpe Cross just south of Drogheda, heavy frost on the ground.

rc28

Ok trough definitely dead on the eastern end but intense echoes further west.

Snowaddict

pp_me129 wrote: »

anyone else seen this :O

Sure did. GFS has been suggesting this for a few days now and has not backed down from it.

Met Eireann were not too specific tonight, but they stated that there would be rain, sleet and snow in places.

I think that if you are inland, with some elevation and in either eastern or northern areas tomorrow night you could see some snowfall.

It appears that the precip out further west will be rain/sleet.

IMO, it may all just fall as sleety rain, but its definately one to be watched closely, considering its now only 24 hours away.

For tonight, I would be very surprised if we see snow in eastern areas.

pp_me129

Yeahh in Waterford city none coming this way i would think..


Tiss Cold Doo all the water on the ground was frozen at eight o clock tonight

Snowaddict

pp_me129 wrote: »

Yeahh in Waterford city none coming this way i would think..


Tiss Cold Doo all the water on the ground was frozen at eight o clock tonight

I can imagine, several puddles and ponds remained frozen over all day today. Maybe not down in Waterford city, but I wouldn't be surprised if the local higher ground saw some snow before the precip turns to sleet and clears.
IMO, anywhere with elevation and in eastern areas, (Waterford being in the southeast), has a good chance.

The cold air has been around for a good few days now, and with and air temps so cold, along with the fact that the precip will arrive in eastern areas by nightfall, there is a good chance of some snow.

One to watch.

arctictree

Just had a look at the 18z GFS charts. This week looks very interesting. Monday night, Tuesday night and Thursday night should all see some heavy precip. If temps are right we could see some snow. I'd say Supercell and I should at least see one snow event out of this as will others in inland areas. At the coast it seems more of a marginal call.

A

Snowbie

The trough looks good for nth midlands and maybe as far as Galway.

If i was to get excited about anything from this trough is the eastern side off the east NI coast. This could travel into Dundalk bay and pick up a but more moisture, or the Mourne mtns could sponge it completely??

Nowcast.

Deep Easterly

Snowbie wrote: »

The trough looks good for nth midlands and maybe as far as Galway.

It may reach here Snowbie later, but as for snow I am not too hopeful. Probably just more persistant cold rain like this time last night over dangerously icy roads. Ice rink roads today was a result.

nacho libre

Deep Easterly wrote: »

It may reach here Snowbie later, but as for snow I am not too hopeful. Probably just more persistant cold rain like this time last night over dangerously icy roads. Ice rink roads today was a result.

yes paddy1. there was sleety rain here last night. it is very disappionting that we can't get snow, even at night, out of this cold spell.:(

Redsunset

hi new to this but have been reading all your posts over the last few days.looks like im not the only guy who justs loves weather and especially the white stuff.like everyone on this i've been following our possibility of snow and really hope we get a good blast of it.looks fairly quiet in precip department where i am.slight chance in the morn but def early hours of tues morn sees an excellant chance.do be on that netweather site.was wondering is there another weather site with detail like it.

Danno

Welcome Redsunset! What part of Laois are you in?

Redsunset

looks like this snow is avoiding us

Deep Easterly

Temp around zero and it has just started to......



...rain.

Redsunset

oh disaster.ah that fecks it so.that gulf stream has alot to answer for.

Cpaw

Danno wrote: »

Welcome Redsunset! What part of Laois are you in?

Stay on topic please :rolleyes:

Can't believe we are missing the snow!

Sierra Oscar

According to the Met Eireann rainfall raider, there is some precipitation coming my way.

Danno

Temperatures are rising here, up from -0.8c to +0.2c. The dew point has also risen from -1.1c to -0.3c. Still within snow territory if some showers kick off, which is doubtful at the moment. A shower has brewed off the south coast of The Isle of Mann and looks like it may make landfall around Wicklow/Arklow. Perhaps something in an hour or so for the South East?

Danno

Snow reported at Knock Apt at 2.00am.

Danno

NRA http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm reports snow at Ennis, Roscrea and Athlone for 3am.

Met Eireann reports recent shower at Shannon for 3am with a 0c temperature - possible snow???

Redsunset

frost is gone.wind has picked up and cant see the stars so shes cloudy out but no precip showing up on radar so not lookin good kinda hopein its stealth snow(invisible to radar)ha ha.oh im goin delirious here.

Danno

http://cirrus.netweather.tv/viewimage.pbx?type=hiradar;file=radaralargev4_0345;sess=45a823866334e5157261baa024ca31b8

http://raintoday.co.uk/ <<< Something over Laois now...

force eleven

Cloudier night than recently,but still cold,temperatures hovering around zero,still frost on the car anyway . Freezing rain reported at Oak Park Carlow,looks like a bit more activity overnight in the precipitation stakes....

squonk

I woke up at 5:20 this morning and took a look out. Lots of hoar frost around the place and on the raods in the estate and the cars as well. Temp was 2.2c. Went back to sleep and woke up again to get up at 6:50. Temp had risen to 3.3 and the frost was thawing. Someone earlier pointed out that the M2 buoy temp yesterday was 6.6c and I wasn't too hopeful on hearing that but, it seems to have modified the air in my part of the world anyway as the temperature was fluctuating all yesterday evening between about 1.3 and 1.9c. I think for me anyway ME were bang on in predicting rain for any precip that occured. Now it does seem colder in the city center this morning so I'm guessing I'm being affected by warmer winds off the sea that are cooling then as they head inland. I'm not too hopeful anyway. Think it could be a lousy week for me weatherwise once that rain kicks in. Nothing worse than cold rain

shamwari

When I left the house earlier, it was raining.

DOCARCH

I can see all those showers out to my east - nice TCUs actually and looked like little anvil was trying to form to one. If they are rain, they can sta away from me!

+1.4c here atm under clear skies. Dublin Mountains, for third day in a row, white with frost.