Cold Spell & Snowfall Discussion Tuesday/Wednesday (5/6 January 2010)

Duiske

francie BradyII wrote: »

it will be too windy for snow!

How do you figure that ?

DOCARCH

Duiske wrote: »

How do you figure that ?

jenzz wrote: »

Huh ???

I would take that as a joke!

Mothman

DOCARCH wrote: »

Temp here just dropped from -2.0c to -1.7c in 5 minutes - that could mean only one thing and sure enough when I looked out it has clouded over here.




Can't believe I got so excited about a bit of cloud!!!

Err that's a rise

doccy

some snow in greystones

jaffa20

Sleet in greystones.

Trogdor

jenzz wrote: »

starting to buckket down now :D:D

Not exactly bucketing here but still snowing lightly:)

maquiladora

Anyone notice that the weather warning has been removed from Met.ie?

There will probably be a new warning up there soon.

scotchy

Cloud starting to move in over Blackrock, but no snow yet.

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DOCARCH

Mothman wrote: »

Err that's a rise

Sorry - the excitement of seeing a bit of cloud has its consequences! :pac:

Looking at the 1800 radar, things are pepping up a little now.

Scubadevils

Oh I have a horrible feeling tonight will be exclusive to South Dublin and below... from an east coast perspective that is.

linguist

Here's the precipcast for 2000. Sorry if anyone's already posted it.

This is getting really interesting. So much of the momentum seems to be towards Wicklow and Wexford, however the Met Eireann radar does back up earlier observations of streamers developing to the north. No sign of the 1800 picture yet.

It's going to be an interesting evening/night.

DOCARCH

I'd also keep an eye on those big showers moving into SE Scotland and NE England. If the NE gales do materialise you might see these making to the Irish Sea, albiet weakening over northern England, but then pepping up over the Irish Sea.

TheMilkyPirate

Does this mean the wind has changed?

BotanyQueen

NW wind, does that mean that Dublin won't get any of that snow that's over the Irish Sea atm?

Duiske

Theres a nice line of showers developing at the moment just offshore near Skerries. Seem to be heading for south Dublin / Bray area.

isle of man

Whats the chances of some for the isle of man,

Darragh29

linguist wrote: »

Here's the precipcast for 2000. Sorry if anyone's already posted it.

This is getting really interesting. So much of the momentum seems to be towards Wicklow and Wexford, however the Met Eireann radar does back up earlier observations of streamers developing to the north. No sign of the 1800 picture yet.

It's going to be an interesting evening/night.

I was just up the Hell Fire Club in South Dublin and I had a line of sight on top of the mountain from the Irish sea out to the east, and northerly up as far as Carlingford. The heavy cloud coming in from the Irish Sea seemed to be barely making land, instead slipping down the coast towards Wexford parellel to the shoreline..

linguist

Check out the 1800 return from the Met Eireann rainfall radar. There's definitely some activity building off Dublin. A bit of yellow showing on the 1800.

maquiladora

isle of man wrote: »

Whats the chances of some for the isle of man,

Its possible you could get some showers overnight and tomorrow morning, yes.

LookingFor

*crosses fingers for d15*

Hope these showers aren't a south-dublin and below affair!

All in the interests of more traversable paths tomorrow, of course

linguist

Darragh29 wrote: »

I was just up the Hell Fire Club in South Dublin and I had a line of sight on top of the mountain from the Irish sea out to the east, and northerly up as far as Carlingford. The heavy cloud coming in from the Irish Sea seemed to be barely making land, instead slipping down the coast towards Wexford parellel to the shoreline..

I'd say give it time. There's definitely some momentum building out there. There's some stuff further north that would be on course for the north county.

forkassed

Would be nice to see them heavy showers over Northern England exit into the Irish Sea

royalflush2003

linguist wrote: »

Here's the precipcast for 2000. Sorry if anyone's already posted it.

This is getting really interesting. So much of the momentum seems to be towards Wicklow and Wexford, however the Met Eireann radar does back up earlier observations of streamers developing to the north. No sign of the 1800 picture yet.

It's going to be an interesting evening/night.

sounds very interesting, i'd say u r a tiger in the bedroom.

Darragh29

linguist wrote: »

I'd say give it time. There's definitely some momentum building out there. There's some stuff further north that would be on course for the north county.

Looking at the 1800 radar from ME, I'd say there isn't much happening on the east coast anytime soon, save maybe for a dusting of snow, would love to be proven wrong!

DOCARCH

isle of man wrote: »

Whats the chances of some for the isle of man,

Looking at http://www.sat24.com/gb, you might something sooner rather than later (looking at showers/cloud moving SE across n'rn 'England).

linguist

Darragh29 wrote: »

Looking at the 1800 radar from ME, I'd say there isn't much happening on the east coast anytime soon, save maybe for a dusting of snow, would love to be proven wrong!

Agreed, but the fact that there is stuff happening north of Dublin Bay backs up the line that Met Eireann have been going with for a few hours now.

arctictree

Light snow here. Temp of -1.8c

Trogdor

18:15 showing the showers becoming more intense

EDIT: Fairly hefty flakes faling here now:D
http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

francie BradyII

seriously where is the snow going to come from? i can't see it. it just can't appear out of thin air!

Trogdor

Moderate snow falling now and sticking!