Cold Spell Discussion: Widespread Snow Expected Overnight/Tuesday

nacho libre

ffarrell wrote: »

If it has been snowing in Limerick in the South West and sticking it will snow in the East where it is currently colder with snow coverage.:rolleyes:

the feature i'm talking about, which is predicted for thursday, will be affecting the western seaboard only and slinking southwards. it will unlikely fall as snow at lower levels near the west coast due to maritime modification

snowstreams

Wibbler wrote: »

LOL, when I first saw your post it was a solid white box. Thought you were havin' a laff.

It mite well just look like a white box up there at the moment tho! Must hike up there at the weekend to see how much has accumulated up there in the last few weeks.

Su Campu

Slimity wrote: »

What time do you expect that to be over us Su Campu?

Is it our best chance for snow tonight in the East?

Thanks

Its centre should be on the north coast at 9am tomorrow. Regarding what it'll dump on the east....haven't a clue, probably a few cms, but there will probably be a lot more than that in the northwest from it.

Sierra Oscar

I wonder how long more the Met Eireann Shannon radar will be out of action . . .

Villain

Croppy check out my WXSIM forecast, bloody cold!! http://www.carlowweather.com/wxsimforecast.php

Takeshi_Kovacs

Stop snowing here for now. It is the fluffiest powdery snow i've ever seen, and there's at least 1 cm of it on the ground so far.

snaps

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

I wonder how long more the Met Eireann Shannon radar will be out of action . . .

Its starting to get annoying!

tomcosgrave

Folks,

How long has the Shannon radar been out of order for at this stage. Is it affecting Met Eireann's ability to give accurate forecasts?

Vain

Tralee Co Kerry, sorry bad phone pics but this is the most snow we have gotten in years:D

DrZeuss

Villain wrote: »

Croppy check out my WXSIM forecast, bloody cold!! http://www.carlowweather.com/wxsimforecast.php

Impressive looking forecast Villain

WolfeIRE

it will be back in the next run or two.

billy the squid

shannon radar has been on and off all day. very bloody annoying.

ffarrell

I didn't think it snowed in Tralee!! Enjoy;)

ch750536

Just had about 1cm all of a sudden, fell in about 6 mins.

-3c, holding.

DOCARCH

Showers over the north have groupd into a much more organised band now.

eskimocat

rain getting heavier here would love to know what air pressure we have, it feels like its getting heavier by the minute... can anyone tell if there is thunder in the front that is coming??? no mention of it anywhere i know but it sure does feel like it...:(

owenc

K-9 wrote: »

Roads around Letterkenny and East Donegal are absolutely treacherous. Cars being abandoned everywhere. It rained today and froze over. Now raining again!

It's sleet here it must be snowier the further east you go I'd say it's snow in ballymoney when can we expect this to turn to and can I expect much snow by 12pm after this hopefully low has left?

Takeshi_Kovacs

billy the squid wrote: »

shannon radar has been on and off all day. very bloody annoying.

Yeh very much so, be really nice to see if there was more showers coming in.

revr

Snowin ere on the east coast of n.ire.

owenc

revr wrote: »

Snowin ere on the east coast of n.ire.

Are you in the glens it's hailing here now instead of sleet so expecting it to turn to snow 30 mins thar usually happens here sleet hail then snow

eskimocat

from nra site...

&nbspN16 Manorhamilton Jan 04, 22:00 0.4° C. -0.9° C. Wet & Treated 96% 3.5 km/h North-westerly No recent rainfall

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

(i live about 5 miles from there and it has been raining on and off all evening... does anyone know how much rain needs to fall for it to be registered and is it the same for snow??

Su Campu

Light snow in Stornaway in the Hebrides (altitude 9m)
METAR EGPO 042220Z AUTO 02016KT 9999NDV -SN NCD 01/M02 Q1013=

And our friend "The Blob", who might give us a polar low later, is giving light snow in Scatsta, Shetlands (altitude 22m)
METAR EGPM 042220Z AUTO 23007KT 0900NDV -SN SCT001/// SCT006/// BKN011/// 00/00 Q1007 RESN=

Duiske

milly4ever wrote: »

it was just a short shower,, stopped now.

Milly, I think your about to get lucky. Theres a large snow shower about 15mls north-west of Belfast. Looks like its headed your way.

Same shower missed Coleraine by just a few miles. All together now......Awwwww

jenzz

DOCARCH wrote: »

Showers over the north have groupd into a much more organised band now.

Yep saw that http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

It was very light pink when I got all mine on NYE.., Love to see how much they getting considering it so red all over it lol

Rougies

Su Campu wrote: »

Light snow in Stornaway in the Hebrides (altitude 9m)
METAR EGPO 042220Z AUTO 02016KT 9999NDV -SN NCD 01/M02 Q1013=

And our friend "The Blob", who might give us a polar low later, is giving light snow in Scatsta, Shetlands (altitude 22m)
METAR EGPM 042220Z AUTO 23007KT 0900NDV -SN SCT001/// SCT006/// BKN011/// 00/00 Q1007 RESN=

Su Campu is it because there's a "-" in front of the SN means light? if so, would nothing be moderate and a "+" be heavy?

Timistry

any idea lads were those snow snows are now lads? damn net radar!

milly4ever

Duiske wrote: »

Milly, I think your about to get lucky. Theres a large snow shower about 15mls north-west of Belfast. Looks like its headed your way.

Same shower missed Coleraine by just a few miles. All together now......Awwwww

thanks for that, will keep you updated

WolfeIRE

Latest precip chart (valid up to 1am)

Su Campu

Shannon ammended the Dublin 17Z TAF 2 hours ago to include the chance of light snow showers from 1-5am.

TAF AMD EIDW 042037Z 0420/0518 25012KT 9999 SCT015 BKN025 TEMPO 0420/0501 SCT004 BKN007 PROB30 TEMPO 0420/0501 4000 BR -SHRASN BKN004 TEMPO 0501/0505 5000 -SHRASN SCT004 BKN008 PROB40 TEMPO 0501/0505 3000 -SHSN BKN004 BECMG 0501/0504 33013KT=

The 23Z TAFs will be out in a few minutes

Snowaddict

Quite a considerable upgrade on the latest GFS 18Z evolution, at least in the short term, from overnight through to later on Wednesday.

In many respects, this is very positive because it is much more in line with today's UKMO & ECMWF Operational Guidance. Into the medium term, I wouldn't pay too much attention to GFS at the moment, it's consistency and accuracy verification has dropped off markedly for some reason in the past few days, so much so that NOAA, twice in the past 24 hours, have decided not to even utilise it - which say a lot really.

Did I mention also that the latest 18Z UKMO NAE has significant snowfall over Eastern & Central areas at T+24 :cool:



SA