Cold Spell Phase 2 (Wednesday onwards)

Scubadevils

Sleet again now, more mush added to the road... must be a good 2cm now of mush out there!

Min

My father often talks about the snow of 1947, so much snow you would only know where the ditches were by the trees that were sticking out.....
Apparently it stayed on the hills and in Kilkenny city it was gone and the people use to say 'you still got the snow up there' and the reply would be 'yeah, but ye will get it all in water yet', and they did, there was big flooding in Kilkenny city from the melting snow from the hills around.....

I think we can do without that kind of snow...

MayoForSam

babyhack wrote: »

Whats the chances of an event like that happeneng????

BH

'47 and '62 events were caused by a 'Bartlett High' apparently (see http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/node/117), we don't have this at the moment but there is a high supposed to be building over Greenland over the next while which could channel very cold air down from the Artic over NW Europe.

Also, the unprecedented 'stratospheric warming' seen recently has a delayed effect on the actual weather which won't be seen for another week or two so there could be a LOT more cold weather to come. I'm no expert but all the 'people-in-the-know' are very excited about this phenomenon .

My folks still talk about 1947, 6 weeks of solid snowdrifts, I doubt if it will happen again but it's like Mother Nature is just reminding us there's more to climate/weather than global warming.

JazzyJ

Sleety rain in Dundrum now...

Actually the system on sunday could get interesting.

JazzyJ

JazzyJ wrote: »

Sleety rain in Dundrum now...

Thats because the precip is light.
It's going to be alternating quite a bit as the dewpoints are marginal.
I still think increasingly to snow though and the airport at 3pm reported snow.

Not down my way though-opposite happening so increasingly rain I think.

Supercell

Deleted User wrote: »

Actually the system on sunday could get interesting.

I'm bricking it over Sundays system, my flight to China is on Monday morning....

For once I'm genuinely hoping its rain all the way.

kenmc

v light snow falling now in dame st

CianRyan

Snowing again, if it would just stop melting the minute it stops, i'd have loads more snow.

Supercell

Supercell wrote: »

I'm bricking it over Sundays system, my flight to China is on Monday morning....

For once I'm genuinely hoping its rain all the way.

Supercell.
Bewleys Dublin airport hotel is currently €50 per night.

I SERIOUSLY suggest you stay up there the night before.
It will be the best €50 you will spend.

Wibbler

Deleted User wrote: »

Actually the system on sunday could get interesting.

There's a low north of Scotland that looks interesting. Could this be a polar low, and where might it be heading?

http://sat24.com/Region.aspx?country=gb&sat=ir&type=loop

DOCARCH

Yip....snowing again, fairly light. 1.1c DP 0.7c

Calina

Dublin Airport snowing again.

Mr Benevolent

For once I'm genuinely hoping its rain all the way.

Aha! No wonder you've been biased for the past few days!

I don't think he's worried about the traffic, I think it's more that Dublin Airport might be closed on Monday.

I doubt it will be, we've seen the last of the snow this year IMO.

brettmirl

Airport now closed till 18.00. Snowing heavily again.

Wibbler

Wibbler wrote: »

There's a low north of Scotland that looks interesting. Could this be a polar low, and where might it be heading?

http://sat24.com/Region.aspx?country=gb&sat=ir&type=loop

No it's not a "polar low" it's just one of the lows dragging down this modified polar air we have.

It's on the fax charts and will not head down into Ireland -it is driving our current precip though.
Eventually it will bring our precip away eastwards.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/2009/brack/bracka20090205.gif

dak

DCU -snowing . Dublin airport DP 0 ; wind chill -5 ; temp 0 C

Lady_North

Has been snowing fairly consistantly since about 11:30am this morning in Swords. Look fabulous out there but I want to know if anyone has any idea how long it is going to last. My daughter is due to fly out on her first school trip tomorrow morning. Dublin airport currently closed. Is there any chance of it happening in the morning too. Please say no. She has been looking forward to this trip for months.

Thanks

shamwari

mick_irl wrote: »

Airport now closed till 18.00. Snowing heavily again.

Where did you get 18:00 from? RTE news says 16:00

brettmirl

Air Traffic Control at the airport.

rc28

I can't believe it's snowing heavily again in TCD- where is this precip coming from? There's little or nothing on the radar!

bennyx_o

Snowing again in the port, not too heavy though


EDIT: back to rainy sleet

CianRyan

Everything is white again, but i know as soon as this stops it'll all melt again.

Any one know the Temp and DP for around my area?

rc28

rc28 wrote: »

I can't believe it's snowing heavily again in TCD- where is this precip coming from? There's little or nothing on the radar!

Theres a light green on the radar causing that for you.

Ignore ME's radar-it's not very helpfull...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

kenmc

It's like being in a snowglobe. beautiful. keep on coming PLEASE!!!!!!!

Wibbler

Deleted User wrote: »

Actually the system on sunday could get interesting.

Sounds intriguing, do tell...

Mr Benevolent

http://www.dublinairport.com/flight-information/live-departures.asp

squonk

Major BIG flakes here in D2 atm. Great to see!!!!!

Mobhi1

Snow coming down thick and fast now in James Street. Settling on cars and roofs; even starting to settle on ground.

CianRyan

Getting huge heavy flakes now.
Its great.