New Years Day/Monday Snow Discussion

Su Campu

Cork's and Dublin's TAFs have just been amended to include sleet showers up to 3am.

delw

Weathercheck wrote: »

turned to heavier sleet now.

lets hope it can turn to a flurry of the real stuff.

it's certainly doing it's best Weathercheck

sunbabe08

i followed that band of showers for the last half hour. nada from where i'm looking came from it.

Su Campu

Su Campu wrote: »

Sleet here in Celbridge.

so it must be on its way to me in Lucan,


( checks lampost... hmm very slight sleet

ninebeanrows

Nah the wheels have fallen off it here, its a no go! Just abit of light cold rain now.

Bishop_Donal

Just barely short of real snow in Lucan.

It's a real pity as have the sledge greased up and ready to go!!

I'm a bit pessimistic this year, but who knows a few more weeks to play for still. Happy New Year to all the guys who make this board worth a sneak into every day!!!

Shane732

Snow in Ratoath Co. Meath.

Elmer Blooker

3.5c at the moment so a covering unlikely but Kippure, which I can see from my bedroom window should look good in the morning

Bishop_Donal

Bishop_Donal wrote: »

Just barely short of real snow in Lucan.

It's a real pity as have the sledge greased up and ready to go!!

I'm a bit pessimistic this year, but who knows a few more weeks to play for still. Happy New Year to all the guys who make this board worth a sneak into every day!!!

look out yer windie again, its snowing now:0 here in Weston anyway LOL

scratch that, sleet again

Min

Started as snow then turned into heavy snow here, with a strong WSW breeze, all surfaces have a covering of snow.

Temperature has fallen with the heavier precipitation to 0.8C with a DP of -1.3C.

Gonzo

what's this the second westerly based cold spell to deliver snow to the east! snowing here but it is very wet snow, stuck on car and grass but it's melting already as it's getting lighter. still nice to see a wee bit of snow.

Su Campu

Jake1 wrote: »

look out yer windie again, its snowing now:0 here in Weston anyway LOL

scratch that, sleet again

Yep, was wet snow, now back to sleet again in Celbridge. Just the wrong side of marginal.

Wild Bill

OK - that's it :mad:

It is now raining here. No sleet worth the name (ok, I haven't done the blob test with the car windscreen) - but it is rain to me, 24 carat rain.

The pressure is also exactly 999.0hpa - which is 666 upside down - and we know what that means :eek:

I'm off to bed. Good Night.

John.Icy

Heavy sideways wet snow now.....backedge seems more favourable for snow.

Bishop_Donal

Jake1 wrote: »

look out yer windie again, its snowing now:0 here in Weston anyway LOL

scratch that, sleet again

It's still just sleet here! and I'm just up past Superquinn.

I'm willing it to turn to snow, so we're all pulling the same direction!!

highdef

Moderate to heavy snow here the past hour or so. Big fluffy flakes. Started as sleet but quickly turned to snow. 0.9c right now with DP of 0.2c

It's rather white out there.....gonna be slippy in a few hours

Su Campu

The coldest upper air is now crossing the country, with 500 hPa temperatures below -35 °C, and this is what's keeping the showers going overland. This showery system should start to ease off soon in the west and die out overland, with some lighter sleety showers continuing along the Atlantic counties, with snow on higher ground.

ninebeanrows

Fairly lashing out there now and trying its best.

But just sleet

sunbabe08

Su Campu wrote: »

The coldest upper air is now crossing the country, with 500 hPa temperatures below -35 °C, and this is what's keeping the showers going overland. This showery system should start to ease off soon in the west and die out overland, with some lighter sleety showers continuing along the Atlantic counties, with snow on higher ground.

there goes my hope. thank you

Oasis_Dublin

Rain, with the odd bit of sleet every so often

Su Campu

Light rain shower at Dublin Airport (75m) and Casement (97 m), while "unidentified precipitation" at Mullingar (105 m) at 0100. This was snow at midnight so the sensor is having a problem identifying it!

sunbabe08

youghal and waterford s be getting something surely must be getting something from the band that's passing over?

ninebeanrows

Lampost watching really wasnt the plan tonight! It is going to be a very long day weather watching tomorrow night!

youngblood

snow snow snow, outside mullingar

Loving it...I remember the snow of 2011 as if it was yesterday

Birdnuts

Some Wet snow falling here ATM:)

Harps

Another nice big shower on the way to me soon on the west Donegal coast, hopefully some more torrential hail. Not too bothered about seeing any snow, we had plenty of wet sleety stuff last month and the hail is far more impressive when its coming down that heavy, good to see some people have seen a few flurries anyway!

Edit: Might as well report that there's lying snow in Letterkenny according to a few facebook reports

andy_g

Snow the last half hour here in Ashbourne

Su Campu

Met Eireann's aviation chart for 0600 has the country split in half right down the middle, from Derry to Cork.

West of the split they give occasional rain and sleet showers and thunderstorms, with isolated graupel/snow showers north of 55N.

East of it they give isolated rain and sleet showers.

tylercollins

Sleeting here where I am now..

up for anything

No snow in Kilkenny city but snow in the hills between here and Carlow - Castlewarren area.