Current Weather Conditions - February 2009

Mena

Newbridge. Co. Kildare

2c and -2.7 DP

DP is up slightly, was -3.1 earlier, rose to -2.2 and is now falling again.

Edit: I had to google DP last night, clicky was helpful.

arctictree

0.0c here. Windy and cold. Some light snow on the car from a shower earlier.

A

Turner

Ah yeah got ya now.

darkman2

Chief--- wrote: »

Can somebody explain dp for us non weather heads.

dp is dew point. It is a measure of moisture (or rather lack of it) in the air. Basically anything under 0C chances are you will have snow - go even slightly above that and your chances evaporate very quickly. Dew Points spectacularly low right now for Ireland due to dry continental air.

deecom

-5, very heavy snow, huge amount accumulating. Got hit by a load of snow falling off my neighbours roof!!

Hope you guys get some snow in Ireland!

Mr Benevolent

2.4 and -4.5 DP

(nearly had a heart attack reading the post above, thought it was about Ireland)

Light graupel here now. DP is all over the place.

deecom

Confab wrote: »

2.4 and -4.5 DP

(nearly had a heart attack reading the post above, thought it was about Ireland)

Light graupel here now

Sorry about that!

Trogdor

Light snow, 2.7C/-3.8C

Mothman

Dp taken a dive, below -5C,
Air temp +2.2C
And its clear above

darkman2

We are in to serious snow territory now with the heavier showers when they arrive.

Mr Benevolent

We need negative air temps first!

(To make it stick I mean)

2.2/-2.9

Mobhi1

1.7 and more light snow/soft hail/graupel which seems to be settling on the grass and other surfaces now.

Mothman

Air 1.9C
Dp -4.7C
Wet bulb 0.0C
Grass temp 0.0C
Soil 5cm 3C
10cm 4C

A few flakes in the breeze.

Trogdor

Dewpoint continues to fall :eek: 2.7C/-6.7C

Mothman

Confab wrote: »

We need negative air temps first!

(To make it stick I mean)

2.2/-2.9

Ground surfaces are cooler than air temp and it wouldn't take much of a shower before it would stick

SpitfireIV

Overcast but still dry.

Light to moderate E to NE'ly wind gusting up to 6-10mph

Air temp 2.3c
DP -3.2c

Pressure 1011.9mb
66% RH

Mr Benevolent

Ground surfaces are cooler than air temp and it wouldn't take much of a shower before it would stick

Aha, enlightenment! Much obliged

DP down to -5.8!

Temp seems to be sliding fast enough, going below 2C now.

Pokes

Very light snow here in Rosenallis Co.Laois , can see it in the lamp beam when shining it around.

CianRyan

And we have snow... :cool:

Mr Benevolent

1.9/-5.2

1.4c air
-6.2c dp :eek: from a sea wind still gusting NE close to 30mph

Wetbulb is -1.1c which means the snow that falls will be as dry as on the top of whistler

If we get any in my neck of the woods that is...

Trogdor

2.4C/-4.1C

maquiladora

Waterford : 1C & -4 DP

Mena

Newbridge

0.9 / -6.2

Saw a few stars so clearer up there than an hour or so ago.

northtipp

light snow grains here in nort tipperary
temp 1.1c

nacho libre

there is very light snow here now:eek::eek:

DOCARCH

Snow on the ground here!:) Only a light cover - approx. 1 cm. 0.2c atm DP -0.8c. Pressure is falling (good news).

jay-me

Holy crud just looked out d window n the roof of next door has a light covering heheheheh wooh hope some more comes n we have a bit of blizzard lol snowball fights and snow men for all

kerry1960

Clear , NNE 3.8mph
-3.8 , DP -5.4 ,WB -4.1

heavy driving snow atm
oc

maquiladora

Snow in Waterford City.

arctictree

V. Heavy hail/snow here. 1cm on ground, -0.9c

sternn

Snow in shankill and quite a lot of it too. Up past enniskerry in wicklow apparently has huge amounts. Up to 2/3 inches at the moment.

Supercell

Moderate snow at the moment, with about 2-3 cm on the ground.
Current temperature -1.1°C, Dew -2.0°C . Fantastic fun druiving home, I'm fairly used to driving in snow at this stage so was happy enough. Saw three crashes on the way , most Irish drivers are muppets in this weather, would guess all of them we caused by effective tailgating, normal safe distance is tailgating in this weather.

rhonin

Lovely clear skies here. 0.1C

Supercell

Moderate hail/graupel/snow mixture, very beautiful.

moderate to heavy snow at the moment.

2.1c
DP -2.2c

kleefarr

Kilkenny City outskirts.

Woke up to SNOW!
Has been snowing off and on all morning. A bit of sun a few minutes ago has melted some of it, but it's gone dark now and reasonable size flakes are falling.

Temperature: 0.3 °C
Dew Point: -1.1 °C

mike65

Fine morning now started overcast with snow. Snow melting as the sun hits.

nacho libre

a terrible day, there is barely a cloud in the sky.

current temperature is 2.7c

kerry1960

nacho libre wrote: »

a terrible day, there is barely a cloud in the sky.

current temperature is 2.7c

ditto 2.4c, dp -2.5c ,nne 8mph , flippin frezzzzzin though

VeeEmmy

(That's me told. See below.)

White stuff falling from sky in N. Co. Wexford.

ninebeanrows

People seem not to realise what sleet is.

Sleet is wet snow not snow grains or graupel.

Sleet is wet and not dry grains.

jambofc

2.5 inches and like a blizzard outside in trim co meath
drifts in corners around the house up to 5 and 3 quarters inches

nesf

Cork is only slightly cold.


I wanted multiple inches of snow damn it. My kid's never got to see it before...

Supercell

Just back from a long walk, absolutly frozen. The sun on the snow was lovley, got back just in time as is snowing again (light/moderate), the radar over England is incredible..if that stuff makes it over to here...

Nalz

Carlow peltering down, doesnt look like stopping any time soon either.

Supercell

Heavy hail/graupel right now, fabbo..total white/grey out

kleefarr

Kilkenny City outskirts

All the snow had gone, but in the last five minutes we have had enough to give everything a healthy white covering again. It was a very heavy snow shower, but it's nearly stopped again now.

Temperature: 0.5 °C
Dew Point: -0.6 °C

Supercell

Light/moderate pure white fluffy dry snow floating down now, really beautiful.
Current temp -1.2°C