Christmas Eve Freeze (Wintry showers in east, temps below -10c tonight)

dloob

Brrr an icy Galway after the freezing fog earlier this morning
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63640651#post63640651

Deep Easterly

Fantastic snaps Dloob!

Mothman

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Fantastic snaps Dloob!

While I agree and I've thanked the post, please use the picture sub forum so this "chat" thread doesn't take an age to download for those of us with slow internet.

Mothman

Deleted User wrote: »

It's remarkable only for it's rarity.

Which of course makes it a noteworthy event
just like reports of -10C or less can be argued as not remarkable except that they are rare
As rare as hens teeth in Ashford :pac:

francosp

Sorry if this has already been posted

Weather Warning


Frost, ice and fog persisting in places Christmas Eve.
Very cold and frosty during the evening, overnight and Christmas morning with ice and some freezing fog. A spell of rain will push in off the Atlantic Christmas morning and will cross the country in the afternoon and evening. It will fall as sleet and snow in places, this mainly over Ulster, north and east Connacht and northern counties of Leinster. :eek::eek:

Could Dublin be in this "northern counties" bracket ? Could we have a white crimbo ? I doubt it, it feels quite mild out at the min here in Costa del Dublin ( sorry weathercheck )

force eleven

Going to be another ice day here - 2 in a row - who'd a thunk it?

Haven't seen that for a long long time - probably 87. Lovely day though once you're wrapped up. Next week is going to be very interesting regarding where the snow may or may not fall....;)

Mothman

2pm reports
Ballyhaise -3C
Gurteen -2C
Shannon -1C
Mullingar -1C
Claremorris has made it to zero (-0.4C to +0.4C)

Too many NRA stations still sub zero to list including a couple -5Cs and there are IWN stations still sub zero as well.

Supercell

With all this siberian type cold weather in the west i was wondering too if it could work out in our favour in the east.
I STILL have the snow that fell here about a week ago!, this would have been one heck of a cold spell if there had been some decent snowfall when we had the easterlies last time.

Mothman

Mothman wrote: »

Which of course makes it a noteworthy event
just like reports of -10C or less can be argued as not remarkable except that they are rare
As rare as hens teeth in Ashford :pac:

Of course
I was just frustrating at the fact that the airmass can be dislodged so easily.
It's not a true battleground as the cold air is in sit u rather than being topped up.
The slightest touch of a sea breeze and the cold house falls down as you and I know.

Ergo any snow albeit welcome from the atlantic fronts as they come in will be very very short lived and we're back to the cold rainy muck for a while...unless darkman2 can or rather ecm and ukmo can or rather mother nature can come up with better charts :pac::P:pac:

Mothman

force eleven wrote: »

Going to be another ice day here - 2 in a row - who'd a thunk it?

Haven't seen that for a long long time - probably 87.

Can't speak directly for your lcoation, but ice days were widespread 27-30 Dec 2000. Some stations had 4 in a row including Claremorris and Clones.

ninebeanrows

Just a reminder to the people posting pictures in this thread, they are very welcome and we want as many as we can get but when you post your pictures could you post them in the Weather Photography thread and then place the link to the thread in here?

It would help in many ways.

Thanks so much.

Sierra Oscar

-1 here at the moment, hasn't been above 0 all day.

It is hard to believe that the snow from Sunday is still lying on the ground here!

ccoyle

just class
https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/291769/99906.JPG

ninebeanrows

ccoyle wrote: »

just class
https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/291769/99906.JPG

That's savage, where is that?

ninebeanrows

Meanwhile, light rain showers continue to affect here now and again.

So any chance of snow tomorrow from that front would be about zero here i would say/

Mobhi1

ccoyle wrote: »

just class
https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/291769/99906.JPG

Now that's a nice Christmas Tree! Is it yours?

Supercell

Light snow shower here

peasant

ccoyle wrote: »

just class
https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/291769/99906.JPG

somebody left their sprinkler on

ccoyle

Ice tree is outside my door at Convoy Co. Donegal

Should look magic at night coz there wee lights frozen in there

I might post a pic later

squonk

Mothman wrote: »

While I agree and I've thanked the post, please use the picture sub forum so this "chat" thread doesn't take an age to download for those of us with slow internet.

Agreed and also for those of us trying to follow on iPhones with poor 3G reception. It just causes a lot of hassle.

Temp in Shannon is 0c at 3pm. Hoping it starts dropping back soon so we get an official ice day here in the Banner!!!

Peter

Goin by the forecast on rte at 1 and looking at yr.no, tomorrow's front is looking more and more like a nearly all snow event here with just a bit of sleet at the back end really. It's even supposed to get down to around -1 here again tomorrow night. I know further south and east it's looking like mostly rain but I think anywhere north of Galway and a bit inland could be in for a good fall out of this.

It got down to -9.8 here last night and has only just barely gone above -2 all day. The fog is already starting to form again as well.

Supercell

Peter wrote: »

I know further south and east it's looking like mostly rain but I think anywhere north of Galway and a bit inland could be in for a good fall out of this.

Westerly winds means your cold blown over to us in the east...i would say we are more likely to benefit from it than you, we deserve it here in the snow desert!

Supercell

Snowing here again, i hope thse irish sea showers start to get their act together

billy the squid

squonk wrote: »

Agreed and also for those of us trying to follow on iPhones with poor 3G reception. It just causes a lot of hassle.

Temp in Shannon is 0c at 3pm. Hoping it starts dropping back soon so we get an official ice day here in the Banner!!!

Met eireann reports +1 degree at Shannon at 3pm

Mr.Boots

Supercell wrote: »

Snowing here again, i hope thse irish sea showers start to get their act together

I havnt seen any decent snow yet, just ice and freezing fog...im sick of the ice now....have heard of a few cars in the ditch allready.
I want snow
I want snow
I want snow

10-10-20

Snow in Sandyford - light, not sticking.

MUSEIST

Supercell wrote: »

Westerly winds means your cold blown over to us in the east...i would say we are more likely to benefit from it than you, we deserve it here in the snow desert!

lol, how do you work that out, i've had no snow, and ye always get snow at some point in the winter.

Thats just greedy tbh:p

Peter

Looks like the UKMO must have heard me, they're just after issuing a weather warning for Northern Ireland

A band of rain, sleet and snow will cross Northern Ireland during Friday afternoon. This giving snow accumulations in excess of 5 cm in places, especially over high ground and in the west. The rain, sleet and snow clearing during the early evening with freezing temperatures then causing widespread ice on roads and paths.

ninebeanrows

My rough guesstimate for tomorrow

Supercell

Supercell wrote: »

Light snow shower here

yeah the dp has dropped to 0.4c here so I'd imagine it must be below -1 with you now,I haven't looked.
The breeze is now from the nne here veering north and very very light now accounting for the difference..
Now if it would only turn westerly!
Ha me wishing for a westerly :pac:

Showers completely missing here by the way.