Fierce Cold Spell from Sunday (February 1st)

After skating my way up the Naas road I'm disappointed to see feck all snow in Blackrock :mad:

What are the chances I wonder.

DOCARCH

To busy looking at this bloody forum and the thermos to notice that it is snowing again with good size flakes! 1.0c - could be wet stuff!!!

darkman2

leincar wrote: »

Can I know show my complete ignorance of the most enjoyable thread I've come across in a long time, but how big could this event be? I arrived home from Dublin at 3.30 p.m. .Right now and I know its not scientific but the roof of my car is to a depth of 14 cm. I'm loving every second of it, just curious. Also it seems so random. Villian is about 6 miles away from me and I'm showing almost 2 inches of extra snow. Is this usual? Cheers.

Yep. Variations are often sharp between close locations especially when it comes to snow showers. For example im only a few miles from Dublin. Alot of areas there have a covering but now ive literally nothing because im nearer the sea.....this is normal.

Villain

leincar wrote: »

Can I know show my complete ignorance of the most enjoyable thread I've come across in a long time, but how big could this event be? I arrived home from Dublin at 3.30 p.m. .Right now and I know its not scientific but the roof of my car is to a depth of 14 cm. I'm loving every second of it, just curious. Also it seems so random. Villian is about 6 miles away from me and I'm showing almost 2 inches of extra snow. Is this usual? Cheers.

Leincar http://www.flickr.com/photos/35000228@N06/3248657048/

I have 10" on grass 4" on table that melted mostly away, its hit and miss 5 miles to my site and I had more earlier, where are u?

crosstownk

It's started to snow again here. The question is, for how long???

Mc Love

Damn, for once i am jealous of the people of Dublin!!

No snow here in Limerick! All I have seen so far is a thin covering of sleet!! Was pretty sweet all the same!

leincar

Villain wrote: »

Leincar http://www.flickr.com/photos/35000228@N06/3248657048/

I have 10" on grass 4" on table that melted mostly away, its hit and miss 5 miles to my site and I had more earlier, where are u?

I'm in Ballon and its chucking it down again.

darkman2

It's started here now...........sleet with the odd flake but very small perhaps some drizzle too.

Villain

leincar wrote: »

I'm in Ballon and its chucking it down again.

good stuff, area that was in shade all day showing almost 6"

DWCommuter

If I stand outside my house, there's a dead silence. No cars on the roads around Naas. Im just in off the main road into Naas from the N7. More snow could really do damage as up to an hour ago there was still no sign of any council people doing anything.

ninebeanrows

Very windy here now.

I'd say it feels not the nicest out there right now!

Scubadevils

Hammering down now with heavy wind, looks again like a mix of hail and graupel (which I have since looked up to identify!)

Really wild out there.

munsterlegend

darkman2 wrote: »

It's started here now...........sleet with the odd flake but very small perhaps some drizzle too.

where are you based darkman?

ronnie3585

Not a single flake here in Galway all day:(

Yis lucky bastids.

darkman2

munsterlegend wrote: »

where are you based darkman?

Near Malahide. So basically right on the coast.

ninebeanrows

Villain wrote: »

good stuff, area that was in shade all day showing almost 6"

Amazing, good stuff, amazing the way its skips over the coastal districts and dumps it inland.

ninebeanrows

Precip looks not much at the moment, not much at all.

I doubt i'll be seeing anything.

I can see this light stuff going inland and falling as proper snow and giving a nice fall.

At the coast looks like it will just fall as graupel or rain.

DWCommuter

DWCommuter wrote: »

If I stand outside my house, there's a dead silence. No cars on the roads around Naas. Im just in off the main road into Naas from the N7. More snow could really do damage as up to an hour ago there was still no sign of any council people doing anything.

The N7 naas road was very dangerous. My car would slide at the slightest nudge of the throttle. There was a good few smashes along the way.

Out bound there is a huge queue of traffic stuck beind trucks that can't make it up the small hill at the Poitin still. Madness out there.

LookingFor

DWCommuter wrote: »

If I stand outside my house, there's a dead silence. No cars on the roads around Naas. Im just in off the main road into Naas from the N7. More snow could really do damage as up to an hour ago there was still no sign of any council people doing anything.

Same here..my street is pretty busy, even during the evening/night, but it's sooo quiet right now. Like that guinness ad

Not much happening here right now, weather-wise.

Trotter

Weathercheck wrote: »

Amazing, good stuff, amazing the way its skips over the coastal districts and dumps it inland.

Whats the general rule with how far from the coast ya need to be for the snow to settle?

bennyx_o

Looking out the window it looks very window and something is falling, looks like it's just hail/graupel

Villain

Weathercheck wrote: »

Precip looks not much at the moment, not much at all.

I doubt i'll be seeing anything.

I can see this light stuff going inland and falling as proper snow and giving a nice fall.

At the coast looks like it will just fall as graupel or rain.

Keep faith WC, I think you will see lying snow

That radar looks busy

Pangea

leincar wrote: »

Can I know show my complete ignorance of the most enjoyable thread I've come across in a long time, but how big could this event be? I arrived home from Dublin at 3.30 p.m. .Right now and I know its not scientific but the roof of my car is to a depth of 14 cm. I'm loving every second of it, just curious. Also it seems so random. Villian is about 6 miles away from me and I'm showing almost 2 inches of extra snow. Is this usual? Cheers.

wow really 14cm in dublin? nice :eek:

jay28

Lashing snow here at the moment, and after getting very windy too........

soccerc

ronoc wrote: »

The N7 naas road was very dangerous. My car would slide at the slightest nudge of the throttle. There was a good few smashes along the way.

Out bound there is a huge queue of traffic stuck beind trucks that can't make it up the small hill at the Poitin still. Madness out there.

here's the Hard evidence, nothing moved while i was snapping for about 15 mins

Lady_North

This one about 5:30 this evening



This one about 15 mins later



After the shower stopped



After the kids had been out for a couple of hours. My 10 year old daughter gives some perspective to the size of the snowman.





What are the chances for more snow during the night

DWCommuter

ronoc wrote: »

The N7 naas road was very dangerous. My car would slide at the slightest nudge of the throttle. There was a good few smashes along the way.

Out bound there is a huge queue of traffic stuck beind trucks that can't make it up the small hill at the Poitin still. Madness out there.

How long ago was that?

ninebeanrows

Looks like a miserable bitter wet sleety windy night for east coasts.

Brainz

in clondalkin at least 10 cm of snow out there -

the n4 was a skating rink on the way home from work - an hour and a half from leixlip to liffey vally s.c !!! wtf !!

just finished walking the dog there very surreal out

rc28

soccerc wrote: »

here's the Hard evidence, nothing moved while i was snapping for about 15 mins

Thanks, the N3 was chaos too