Significant Snow Risk Friday 7th/Saturday 8th January discussion

Duiske

For all the early birds who have not noticed, M.T's daily forecast is up.

John.Icy

The precip over Wales wasn't meant for us, we were alaways going to escape any heavy falls this early am. Our heavy precip is coming later today :D

200motels

Awoke to a cold but damp morning, in other words nothing.

irish1967

Wow an hour of silence in here. Calm before a storm or boredom?

Mc Love

irish1967 wrote: »

Wow an hour of silence in here. Calm before a storm or boredom?

I'd say everyone is waiting for someone to post something positive (snow and loads of it)

kenmc

frost on car and -1.9 going to bed last night, a balmy +2.9 no frost this morning. d 14

Speak Now

Light snow overnight here (Near Waterford airport), light covering on back roads but main roads fine as temp is above freezng. 10 minute drive into town and it's bone dry.

irish1967

Get a feeling it could be a quiet morning then.

irish1967

-4.3c and dp -4.8 clear starry skies.

Supercell

Looks like the main event has missed Ireland and gone into England. At 2°C in Dublin Airport and probably 3 or 4 in the city centre and no frost it was going to be rain anyway, a non event.

channaigh

No no no don't say that

ffarrell7

Quite Heavy frost in Dublin 15..rooves white but definitely not as cold ad last night when temperature was about -4 in Blanch at 11.30 pm. I feel that it will rain on the east and south coast later on and that any snow will now fall only in the midlands and higher up in the East and south-east. I think inland parts of the east, including Dublin, will only get sleet and wet snow at best. :):)

ongarite

Supercell wrote: »

Looks like the main event has missed Ireland and gone into England. At 2°C in Dublin Airport and probably 3 or 4 in the city centre and no frost it was going to be rain anyway, a non event.

Same here. Car was well frozen last night going to bed. Heading out the door at 7 this morning with frost free car and +1 temperature reading.

Supercell

Looking at the IR image there is a second pulse just off the Kerry coast that may push up over the country but its just going to raise the non marginal temps we have now in most places. Snow for the mountains only by midday.

average_runner

Heavy frost in Lucan this morning, frost started to settle around 6pm yesterday evening

ffarrell7

North of France and South of England very mild at the moment +6 in Plymouth and most of the South-west of England. High of 9 degrees for London today and high of 11 for Paris.

Rebelbrowser

Supercell wrote: »

Looking at the IR image there is a second pulse just off the Kerry coast that may push up over the country but its just going to raise the non marginal temps we have now in most places. Snow for the mountains only by midday.

After last night I wouldn't trust the radar. It showed a serious amount of precipitation over the South when it was largely bone dry (there was a shower of wet snow two hours after the precipitation had apparently landed but even that was short). Does anyone know how the radar could be so wrong?

Min

You can see the rain/sleet and/or snow appearing on the UK met office radar now, it will be later today as MT said it would be.

Big Daddy Cool

no frost, cloudy and 2 degrees in county meath, was -7.5 at 11.30 last night. so anybody know when this significant snow risk will be downgraded to significant nothing.

djmc

no snow in kerry last night not even on mountans :mad:

Wild Bill

Perky easterly breeze, dull, cloudy, dry, and +1C here in salubrious Sandyford. After a heavy frost last night the ground is rock-hard. White frost gone.

Wild Bill

On the bright side...since November 27th we have had 20 days with precipitation; 17 snow and 3 with rain.

I'd take that in an average Winter!

Big Daddy Cool

Min wrote: »

You can see the rain/sleet and/or snow appearing on the UK met office radar now, it will be later today as MT said it would be.

its moving northeast across england, if that moves back across to here i'll eat my hat, M.T said last night that stuff in england now would be creeping northwards across ireland this morning

channaigh

A band of rain and snow will continue to move slowly northwards today across Munster, Leinster and east Ulster with some disruptions due to snow but turning more generally to heavy rain in the south and east. A severe frost this morning and highest temperatures in most areas only zero to 3 degrees but up to 5 degrees along the east and south coast in a biting northeasterly wind.

So is it just rain we are going to get:(

Bone dry in Arklow,despite the radar earlier saying different.
The radar is not very good with snow that forms high up as it records it but it may never reach the ground.

This is looking as I'd expected days ago..a mainly hill snow event later today but we'll see.

John.Icy

The stuff over England, was not meant for us, it was always going into England.
We were only going to get a light band last night, which arrived, but broke up very quickly.
Our main event has ALWAYS been towards this evening as the low moves closer to us, bringing another front into us, and raising the temps in parts.
Nothing has changed at all in the general picture, the 0z was the exact same as the 18z in terms of temps.

Be positive guys, don't look at England and think that was our's, it wasn't, from the start they were getting the better of the first front. We were to get light precip, however it broke up rather quickly, preventing any widespread precip. Tonight should be our night, should.

However it will be marginal, even a non-event, like it has been from the start, mostly the south, South East, and some of the Eastern coastal districts.

Wild Bill

Arkla arkla arkla - Briar; I heard that one - v good

Better even that "horse outside" !

DarkJager

channaigh wrote: »

A band of rain and snow will continue to move slowly northwards today across Munster, Leinster and east Ulster with some disruptions due to snow but turning more generally to heavy rain in the south and east. A severe frost this morning and highest temperatures in most areas only zero to 3 degrees but up to 5 degrees along the east and south coast in a biting northeasterly wind.

So is it just rain we are going to get:(

Yes hopefully. Buckets and buckets of that beautiful stuff that is so much better than snow

Supercell

The stuff that will move over Ireland is off the Kerry coast looking right now at the IR.
I'm not convinced its going to amount much except rain anyhow.

AloKildare

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

no frost, cloudy and 2 degrees in county meath, was -7.5 at 11.30 last night. so anybody know when this significant snow risk will be downgraded to significant nothing.

Same here in kildare +2 degrees and rising all the time! Quickly turning into a non event, not a hope of even wet snow by this evening!!