Fierce Cold Spell from Sunday (February 1st)

Mobhi1

Snow on cars, roofs and grass; roads clear. Temperature rising - now 0.7! Most of the heavier precipitation seems to be heading south of dublin towards Wicklow and Wexford http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html.

ninebeanrows

Big heavy stuff gonna smash into south Dublin soon.

About 4 miles south of my location should be entry.

Ah yep as expected!

Trogdor

Slwoing down now its already melting

DOCARCH

Graupelling here. 0.9c DP -0.5c

Pretty heavy - now 0.7c

pistolpetes11

Coming down lightly in newbridge -0.7and do of - 2.3

ninebeanrows

id say a decent fall to come for much of dublin in a line around 5 miles south of here.

mukki

no snow here in meath, clear skies

bennyx_o

Hail in Dublin Port, no idea what the temperature or dew point is

ninebeanrows

Met Forecast

Today

Snow showers will continue to affect east Leinster today, but the rest of the country will remain generally dry. Cold and windy with highest temperatures 1 to 4C. Bright and sunny at times near the west coast.

Tonight

More widespread and heavier snow likely across Leinster and east Munster tonight. Lowest temperatures of -2 to 2C.


Tomorrow

Further snow in the eastern half of the country tomorrow, with strong easterly winds

ninebeanrows

Looks like another streamer will set up into Meath soon.

Yay im in a nice position:pac: There was always gona be a flaw

Highsider

Raining here in Dundrum

DOCARCH

Nice powdery snow/graupel/hail here atm giving a fresh cover. 0.4c DP -0.7c

jenzz

Any reports in on The Gap or Glencullen?

Monster flakes in Bray now - & strong winds

DOCARCH

Highsider wrote: »

Raining here in Dundrum

Proper powdery stuff here atm. 0.3c

embee

What an anti-climax.

No snow, just a tiny dusting on the decking outside. Skies bright and somewhat clear

DOCARCH

embee wrote: »

What an anti-climax.

No snow, just a tiny dusting on the decking outside. Skies bright and somewhat clear

You've got all day and all night to go yet - don't loose heart. The Eagle was just on the radio saying that he expects snow showers to become more widespread today with more general snow tonight.

ninebeanrows

Cant see any snow here for a number of hours anyway, with that line of covergence to my south and the other line setting up to my north.

Going to be a painful few hours.

Gonzo

very dissapointing here, only a tiny bit of hail/snow fell during the night, looks to be not much more than a hard frost.

im hoping things improve later on

ninebeanrows

Irish Met Warning

Issued at 02 February 2009 - 05:00
Severe Weather Warning
Heavy snowfall will affect mainly East Leinster today and tonight.
Average snowfall 3-8 cm, but drifting may lead to higher accumulations.

ninebeanrows

Gonzo wrote: »

very dissapointing here, only a tiny bit of hail/snow fell during the night, looks to be not much more than a hard frost.

im hoping things improve later on

Yep im in the same boat! No showers and cant see them in the near future.

Trotter

Any chance of a mini 6hr forecast for Waterford Weathercheck? The kids in school will be crazy asking me will it snow.

maquiladora

Trotter wrote: »

Nothing in Waterford.. Its going to happen again isn't it! The whole world will be looking out at the snow and I'll be gawkin at black clouds and rain! Don't do this to me!!

Just had a dusting in the city now. Hopefully plenty more showers today/tonight!

ninebeanrows

Trotter wrote: »

Any chance of a mini 6hr forecast for Waterford Weathercheck? The kids in school will be crazy asking me will it snow.

Yep snow showers should get going through the day and there will be more persistent snow later today and tonight.

jambofc

just a very slight dusting here in trim

Villain

Just had 5 minute blizzard in Tullow nice half inch now

HashSlinging

Very windy and a good covering of snow. Cars are covered in snow and the roads a fairly bad. Damn not looking forward to the journey to work and back home ..

Anyone know if its going to be bad around the rathdrum laragh area this afternoon/this evening.

Trotter

Weathercheck wrote: »

Yep snow showers should get going through the day and there will be more persistent snow later today and tonight.

Good man.. I'm not even going to tell them to stop looking out the window because they might not see it again til they're in college.

See ye all later. Enjoy!

DOCARCH

It's the real deal here at the moment! Good quality fine snow. 0.1c DP -0.7c. Off with camera now to take photo out bedroom window.

Brainz

woke up here about an inch of snow - started to snow again only lightly !!

going to leixlip to work now wonder did they get any

munsterlegend

Weathercheck wrote: »

Yep snow showers should get going through the day and there will be more persistent snow later today and tonight.

how widespread do you think the snow will be? met eireann reckon just east leinster and east munster for the main part..wondering how far west it will go?