Cold Spell Discussion (21/12/09) (Scattered snow showers today)

Peter

Light snow/graupel shower here now as well a few miles south of Ballyhaunis

nacho libre

i see it's down to -3 already in mullingar. i wonder how low it'll get there in the small hours. could we get a -5 or -6 somewhere tonight?

kleefarr

Kilkenny City outskirts...

Temperature: -2.4 °C
Dew Point: -2.7 °C

Very heavy fog, could possibly be freezing fog I suppose.
Raintoday radar showing a fair bit of snow around here and Callan, more that previous nights, but no sign of it yet. Fingers crossed.

nacho libre

irish1967 wrote: »

Good one:D

it's started snowing at a reasonable rate now.

JanuarySnowstor

I think it's time to admit that this cold spell has been a disaster for weather buffs.
Very cold, loadsa frost but is that what we quest??
I've learnt this week that low pressure means nothing & that very dry cold air will squat almost any shower activity
You would get very.................off with the whole debacle:(

cian1500ww

The snow seems to be going around us here

Come on snow, here pretty snow....

nacho libre

It's all sticking too. If only it could last a good while.

leahyl

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

I think it's time to admit that this cold spell has been a disaster for weather buffs.
Very cold, loadsa frost but is that what we quest??
I've learnt this week that low pressure means nothing & that very dry cold air will squat almost any shower activity
You would get very.................off with the whole debacle:(

I agree! I am very P****d off actually! We had better get something on Wednesday cause the aul patience is wearing thin...

maquiladora

Weather Warning

Issued at 21 December 2009 - 19:30

Weather Warning

Very frosty overnight and in the morning with icy pavements and roads. Fog also, with freezing fog in places. Scattered wintry showers over Ulster and Atlantic seaboard.

Cold snap continuing until Christmas morning. Further frost, fog and ice. Scattered wintry showers at times also.

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/warnings.asp

chris2007

Any chance of dublin getting some snow on christmas Eve

whitemocha

soooo cold i cant believe how freezing the country is if you go to irelandsweather the whole country is below freezing pity there is no precip:(

IrishMetSoc

You probably have seen this site before:

http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

burkieboy

Met office

Risk of disruptionWarningValidNorthern Ireland: Co Antrim Co Derry Co DownHeavy SnowMon 21 DecThere is a moderate risk of severe weather affecting Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland and also parts of northwest England during Monday. Heavy snow showers may give accumulations of around 5cm in many areas, with the potential for 10 to 15cm over hills.
Issued at: 1733 Mon 21 Dec

irish1967

whitemocha wrote: »

soooo cold i cant believe how freezing the country is if you go to irelandsweather the whole country is below freezing pity there is no precip:(

Yet!!! Stay positive

Local-womanizer

Big thunder now aswell!:eek:

wild handlin

cian1500ww wrote: »

The snow seems to be going around us here

Come on snow, here pretty snow....

Same here in Enniskillen!! Had about 10 flakes since this morning!!! :rolleyes:

whitemocha

irish1967 wrote: »

Yet!!! Stay positive

always positive

irish1967

Well if i go by the red blobs on raintoday I am about to get a big shower within minutes

wild handlin

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Big thunder now aswell!:eek:

No sign of any lightning here at the moment looking out over South/West Donegal
Will keep an eye out - could see the lightning very clearly last night!!:D

nacho libre

it has stopped snowing now. looking at the uk radar there maybe a bit more to come yet.

Ricky91t

-5.9 IN LONGFORD :eek:

http://www.nratraffic.ie/weather.asp?index=IR016

blast05

Hmmmm, will that big blob on raintoday hit Athlone. We've had about 5 minutes of a light shower last night (and that has been all in the whole of 2009).

On a side note, when you play this link http://www.yr.no/satellitt/1.5941760 out to the end (seems to end at 3pm for some reason) then to my completely untrained eye, you can see plenty of banks of cloud coming out of the west coast of Norway feeding its way mostly south westward .... any 'future' in that for us ?!

munsterlegend

leahyl wrote: »

I agree! I am very P****d off actually! We had better get something on Wednesday cause the aul patience is wearing thin...

so you're a weather buff now?! have only seen some sleety rain so far - its not been good. very foggy here tonight - whats it like in the citeeee?

Musicman2000

Just looking at the BBC Weather page rain coming in from the sout west on Wednesday could give snow in some places

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209

leahyl

munsterlegend wrote: »

so you're a weather buff now?! have only seen some sleety rain so far - its not been good. very foggy here tonight - whats it like in the citeeee?

Now i never said i was a weather buff:o far from it!! From what i can see from my bedroom window it looks foggy here too - oh and it's cold!!:)

munsterlegend

fairly quiet here this evening - i'd say people are drained after the weekend.

munsterlegend

leahyl wrote: »

Now i never said i was a weather buff:o far from it!! From what i can see from my bedroom window it looks foggy here too - oh and it's cold!!:)

cold? you should be well used to it by now..hear local radio had a lot people on the airwaves with frozen gas pipes etc...don't think the freeze will be as big here tonight as last night. does fog affect the frost?

irish1967

Light snow shower at the moment.

leahyl

munsterlegend wrote: »

cold? you should be well used to it by now..hear local radio had a lot people on the airwaves with frozen gas pipes etc...don't think the freeze will be as big here tonight as last night. does fog affect the frost?

I have absolutely NO idea!:D

fintonie

munsterlegend wrote: »

fairly quiet here this evening - i'd say people are drained after the weekend.

not drained just enjoying the post, tis top stuff:)