National: Severe Cold/ Snow Discussion (Thanks to all!)

Trogdor

Very fine powdery snow blowing around in the wind here now. -0.3C

LookingFor

Sort of on and off light here. Hopefully we see some of heavier stuff...

wyndham

Dublin getting pasted here. Expect the buses to be pulled soon.

ltdslipdiff

Tip of the day - If you don't like snow, move to Waterford.:mad:

angry_fox

no sign of snow in clonee yet

typhooner

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Should we expect this trend to continue overnight?

Could be some bad disruption to traffic tomorrow morning if thats the case!

You'd think met.ie would update their weather warnings instead of...

Issued at 20 December 2010 - 00:40
Severe Weather Update
Widespread very severe frost and icy conditions this morning and temperatures generally not rising above zero during daytime Monday. Some snow showers/pockets of freezing fog but most areas dry.
Arctic conditions continuing up to Christmas Day then Atlantic airflow becoming established.

Valid from 20-Dec-2010
until 25-Dec-2010

Tripp

secman wrote: »

Could you post a link please ?

Secman

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Snowing heavily in D12

Supercell

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Should we expect this trend to continue overnight?

Could be some bad disruption to traffic tomorrow morning if thats the case!

I suspect it may drift south as the night goes on, but really its so slow moving, areas with snow now are just getting dumped on and likely to stay like that for a while. I love these setups! The 12z 850 level winds (which are what push these showers) are pretty much in the same direction for the next 24 hours and after that is FI in these setups really, all to play for!

Corruptedmorals

Elmo5 wrote: »

hmmm waiting to see if Celbridge will get anything, not a flake yet!

Nothing in Leixlip either! It's snowing in Palmerstown apparently...not too far away!

AntiRip

secman wrote: »

Could you post a link please ?

Secman

irishmotorist

It has started in Lucan too. Very light at the moment though.

Wine Goddess

Coming down heavily now in Firhouse....
Slow but steady.....

If that blob currently moving nothwards towards Chester turns easterly then it could be a very snowy 48 hours for the east coast.......!!!!

(There again if me granny had balls she'd be me grandad......):)

HellFireClub

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Nothing in Leixlip either! It's snowing in Palmerstown apparently...not too far away!

I'd say you'll see it in the next 30 mins, bucketing down here...

DOCARCH

Absolutely belting down snow here! 8cms in the last hour!!! :eek:

-1.0c atm.

ciaranm

Tallaght, Dublin.

We've seen more snow in the last 30 minutes than Cork has seen in the last five decades.

dacogawa

Calibos wrote: »

Bray Heads. Stand to attention!! We are about to get some heavy snow again!!

Everything falling for the last 2 hours in Dublin has had its Southern extremity over Dalkey. Well the radar is now picking up building precipitation further South East of the main streamer that given the wind direction is now going to track over Bray.

Strange that Bray only seems to get the real heavy stuff at night.

Hey Calibos, is this what you were hoping for the other night!!

Whiteout in D4, hard to make out whats the curb & road now

HellFireClub

HellFireClub wrote: »

I'd say you'll see it in the next 30 mins, bucketing down here...

divil a bit up in Weston yet.

BlackWizard

DOCARCH wrote: »

Absolutely belting down snow here! 8cms in the last hour!!! :eek:

-1.0c atm.

Yeah right. 8cm?? :P

ninebeanrows

About 5cm on the ground here now. Heavy snow only lasted for 10 minutes there. Hopefully activity can stay as intense in the Irish sea.

Supercell

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Nothing in Leixlip either! It's snowing in Palmerstown apparently...not too far away!

The 850s show a small increase in wind at that level later = showers should penetrate further inland later if they keep going.

Speak Now

ltdslipdiff wrote: »

Tip of the day - If you don't like snow, move to Waterford.:mad:

In fairness we had 2 weeks of it. It only ever comes off for us in a proper Easterly. Never expected it from the northerly blast and the winds are too slack from the east now.

Corruptedmorals

HellFireClub wrote: »

I'd say you'll see it in the next 30 mins, bucketing down here...

starviewadams

Lashing down snow at Newlands Cross for the past 20mins or so

Rougies

BlackWizard wrote: »

Yeah right. 8cm?? :P

Believe it, I can confirm

mothel

pelting down and sticking fast in D24!

compsys

Epic epic snowfall in blackrock still. Rarely seen anything like it. All the waiting and looking at weather chart models and hoping has finally paid off. And as usual, the snow was totally unexpected. Woke up today expecting another sunny cold bone dry day and now we finally have snow snow snow!!!

Harps

AntiRip wrote: »

Why does that radar hardly ever pick up precipitation in Donegal? Theres snow in the northern part of the county all day and I noticed that on Friday as well when there was torrential snow across the whole county they only had a few scattered spots

DOCARCH

BlackWizard wrote: »

Yeah right. 8cm?? :P

Just measured it. 10cms and still bucketing!

munsterlegend

ciaranm wrote: »

Tallaght, Dublin.

We've seen more snow in the last 30 minutes than Cork has seen in the last five decades.

talk about a cork complex boy!

lucy2010

Calibos wrote: »

Bray Heads. Stand to attention!! We are about to get some heavy snow again!!

Everything falling for the last 2 hours in Dublin has had its Southern extremity over Dalkey. Well the radar is now picking up building precipitation further South East of the main streamer that given the wind direction is now going to track over Bray.

Strange that Bray only seems to get the real heavy stuff at night.

Bit of Dandruff up here Calibos thats all - Brother in law in Clarehall said been bucketing ; The noggin is getting plastered last while too.