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Band of rain/sleet/snow pushing up from the south 29th+30th Dec - Snowstorm or not?
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Went for a quick "lunchtime" drive from work and up to the Dublin mountains between about 14:30 and 15:30. Below is a picture showing the route I took. The route is drawn (very very badly by me) and checkpoints are labelled A - L. All temperatures noted were taken from car thermometer which tends to be fairly accurate. Heights were taken from GPS. Image courtesy of the OSI
This is what I encountered at each checkpoint. I hope this makes sense to you. For anyone not familiar with the area, it'll be of little use:
A: Turned off the M50 south at junction 12 and travelled east on Scholarstown Road and then onto Stocking Lane. Height approx 100m. Temp 4c. Rain.
B: Around about the turn off for Mount Venus Road, temp dropped to 3.5c. Still rain with the odd sleety bit. Height approx 150-180m
C: Just passed the turn off for Old Court Road on Kilakee Road (R115), the first proper sleetiness appeared. Height approx 200m. Temp 3c
Just before the viewing point carpark at the Cruagh Road (or is it Craugh Lane) Junction, the sleet suddenly turned to snow and was readily sticking, creating very slippy conditions. This would be the highest I would travel. Height approx 370m. Temp +2c. Was expecting it to be lower.
E: I started back down the hill and turned right onto Mount Venus Road, passing the DSCPA shelter on my right. Height approx 200m. Sleet/some wet snow. temp 3c
F: I continued up Cruagh Road (R116) up as far at the junction with the sharp left turn for Glencullen and Johnny Foxes. The sleet readily turned to snow as I climbed approx 100m. It was just turning back into proper snow here and was beginning to stick to the road and it was a little slippy. I turned round and went back downhill. Height was approx 300m. Temp, 2.5c. Snow.
G: I travelled all the way north downhill to Taylors Lane (R133). The snow turned to sleet and by the time I got to the R133, it was mainly rain with a little sleet. Height was about 100m. Temp was 3c.
H - I: I travelled east on Taylor's Lane/Grange Road (R133) all the way to the roundabout for joining the M50 (J13)or heading to Dundrum via Ballinteer Road. I was sleety rain all the way which got quite heavy. Height approx 100m. Temp was 3c.
J - K: Onto the M50 north and the sleet became rather heavy again and there were some snowflakes mixed in as I travelled over the high point of about 130m just after the Dundrum interchange (J13). Temp still 3c
L: Passing the Firhouse and Tallaght junctions (J12 and J11), the heavyish sleet continued and temp remained was 3.5c. Height was approx 100m and slowly descending.
It was still sleeting heavily when I turned onto the Naas Road inbound (J9) at approx 15:50, despite a temp of 4c and a height of about 60/70m and falling. the sky also had that "snowy" look. you could actually see the snow up above. That was my drive0 -
BBC weather forecast vid updated. presented by daniel corbett who has more hand movements than Leo from Fair City
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209/
latest gefs chart for thursday
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BBC weather forecast vid updated. presented by daniel corbett who has more hand movements than Leo from Fair City
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209/
latest gefs chart for thursday
From that it looks like we're all on course to get snow are we Wolfe?0
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