Fierce Cold Spell from Sunday (February 1st)

francosp

Starting to see some hail.

Again, total cloud cover, very dark, could bucket down at any moment !

jimmyskank

Still snowed-in in Blessington, about 4 inches on the ground, roads full of slush and more snow coming!!

leahyl

munsterlegend wrote: »

i don't take much notice of what met eireann say but bbc is very accurate and they have white down south later tonight so that is positive.

looks like some precipitation on the way in the south midlands for cork as well right now. hopefully cold enough for snow.

Hopefully! I'll try not to get too excited.........EEEHHH I can't help it - i'm so excited!:D God i am SAD

Villain

2C with a DP of 0.1C and its snow

Sage'sMama

Anyone know what the chance of further snow over the athboy/kells area in meath?? It's been snowing from 11 o'clock till 2 o'clock but the skies have cleared now so i am just wondering if it will start up again before i go home from work??

Darwin

Woke up to rain this morning and no sign of any snow -- ten miles out the road in Abbeyleix it was pelting snow. The forecast last night got it wrong, but in fairness it seems to be very marginal between rain/snow at any one time.

ninebeanrows

Light sneachta here now.

darkman2

Just some light snow for the last 15 minutes.

DOCARCH

Weathercheck wrote: »

Light sneachta here now.

I'd say that blob off Wales has your name on it! Pity the M2 bouy is out of action to see what DPs are like.

francosp

DOCARCH wrote: »

I'd say that blob off Wales has your name on it! Pity the M2 bouy is out of action to see what DPs are like.

any idea when it will hit ? is dublin in the firing line ?

Patch123

I've been lurking since last Thursday... has to be the most enjoyable thread ever, really. Anyway, I measured between 8 and 11cm of snow last night in D15. Still a good bit on the ground although much has melted. It's dull and 'graupeling' lightly here, if that's a word, with a temp of 1.8c and dropping according to my trusty lidl weather eh... 'centre'. I suppose we won't see the likes again for another decade, but maybe it's not over just yet...

darkman2

Light rain now.:(

DOCARCH

francosp wrote: »

any idea when it will hit ? is dublin in the firing line ?

Hour and a half maybe. I'd say the main 'blob'* will head to the north of Dublin with 'tail'* over Dublin/Wicklow. Snow or rain - God only knows!

* very technical terms

Pangea

Very dissapointed here in dongeal .no snow at all, raining, any chance of snow now? or is it all over?
Forecast seems a bit boring for today and tomoro.

Mmcd

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DOCARCH

Nice - where's that?

Mmcd

South Kilkenny

Supercell

Snowing lightly here, DP on the rise though , suspect this is going to turn to rain overnight.

kerry1960

Pangea wrote: »

Very dissapointed here in dongeal .no snow at all, raining, any chance of snow now? or is it all over?
Forecast seems a bit boring for today and tomoro.

Your turn coming , with a vengenge , you'll see , donegal will be declared a disaster area by friday morning .

smashey

kerry1960 wrote: »

Your turn coming , with a vengenge , you'll see , donegal will be declared a disaster area by friday morning .

Pleeeeeeeeeeeease.

darkman2

Supercell wrote: »

Snowing lightly here, DP on the rise though , suspect this is going to turn to rain overnight.

We have just tipped the wrong side of marginal on the coast. Was light snow half an hour ago - now it's light rain.

DOCARCH

Snow has pepped up here. 1.6c DP -0.1c

Looks like ppn is going to curl into Dublin on 14.30 radar.

LookingFor

I've been out most of the day...not much of a sign at all of a thaw here in D15. Most of the accumulations are still there bar some south-facing rooves. Paths are really quite dangerous, very slushy.

Been overcast most of the day..if there's gonna be a thaw here today, time's starting to run out. Been fairly consistent 'wintry' stuff falling too (wouldn't say it's pure snow, but certainly not rain either).

Looking at the forecast just now, they seem to have revised it since this morning..they had rain over the east on their chart then, but they're now back to rain/sleet/snow everywhere, with "Further accumulations of snow will occur widely", and the same for tonight, with heavier falls over south and east.

edit - I've also just noticed that a big swathe of snow has slid off the roof of an apartment building opposite my house..roof is flat slated so I guess it just slid right off...there is still a bit of it frozen overhanging the edge of the roof

darkman2

Back to snow here now. Heavy stuff coming in off the Irish sea.

SpitfireIV

Still pegging snow here, grand big fluffy flakes

Should be at least an hours heavy snow in Dublin from that down to bray.
A bit like the curl we had in this neck of the woods.

It's going to be wet stuff with big flakes and not really settling except on the higher ground if it's like what we had here.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Still pegging snow here, grand big fluffy flakes

im just a mile outside of carlow town and there's bugger all snow here was plenty last night, but it's mainly melted away by now

Brainz

any heavy stuff due in leixlip?

theres a light sprinkling here want to know what it is due to be like?

thomasj

LookingFor wrote: »

I've been out most of the day...not much of a sign at all of a thaw here in D15. Most of the accumulations are still there bar some south-facing rooves. Paths are really quite dangerous, very slushy.

Been overcast most of the day..if there's gonna be a thaw here today, time's starting to run out. Been fairly consistent 'wintry' stuff falling too (wouldn't say it's pure snow, but certainly not rain either).

Looking at the forecast just now, they seem to have revised it since this morning..they had rain over the east on their chart then, but they're now back to rain/sleet/snow everywhere, with "Further accumulations of snow will occur widely", and the same for tonight, with heavier falls over south and east.

edit - I've also just noticed that a big swathe of snow has slid off the roof of an apartment building opposite my house..roof is flat slated so I guess it just slid right off...there is still a bit of it frozen overhanging the edge of the roof

have to agree for looking for there was still some light snowflakes falling, and it is dangerous enough on the paths. i was showing people photos of anbout an hour ago or so and they cant believe the stuff hasnt melted!

darkman2

Deleted User wrote: »

Should be at least an hours heavy snow in Dublin from that down to bray.
A bit like the curl we had in this neck of the woods.

It's going to be wet stuff with big flakes and not really settling except on the higher ground if it's like what we had here.

No definately nothing going to settle here. It's very marginal - the light stuff is rain, the more moderate bursts are sleet and snow. The main activity has yet to hit us here.