LET IT SNOW AND BE COLD!!!***RAMPING THREAD***Mod Note #1193#2705

Slashermcguirk

So winter has arrived, finally!!

Twoandahalfmen

Snowing in blanch

az2wp0sye65487

Bout half an hour ago it was snowing heavily in Dublin 11.... It lasted about 5 mins and then turned to rain!

Pangea

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

mods might need to set up new threads to diffrrentiate forecasts from now casts. Congrats to all with snow. bring it on!

In fairness this is the 'Let it snow' thread
Nice to see some actually falling 'here' rather than forecasts, especially since this thread seems to have become the model thread for the past week or so and kind of less fun :cool:

Green Diesel

Snowing in Kilbride, Dunboyne, clonee in last 20mins. Rain in ashbourne though!

icesnowfrost

Very very cold in Drogheda but its fu*#king raining

acassells80

Green Diesel wrote: »

Snowing in Kilbride, Dunboyne, clonee in last 20mins. Rain in ashbourne though!

Rain here too

Scubadevils

Turned back more to snow now, nothing sticking though. [Lusk]

Daniel2590

Only light rain here in East Dublin

Scubadevils

Scubadevils wrote: »

Turned back more to snow now, nothing sticking though. [Lusk]

And now rain...

brianthomas

Lashing RAIN in clondalkin the last 30 mins :-(

SomeGuyCalledMi

Snow gone in Maynooth. Winter over.

davidsr20

Was just snowing someone sent me a pic
Edit looks like on the m6

force eleven

Misty overcast, light rain stopped and 1C . The absolute worst type of weather.

maquiladora

Dew points are rising above 0, thats why its turning to rain.

force eleven

davidsr20 wrote: »

Was just snowing someone sent me a pic
Edit looks like on the m6

That's Junction 7 Maynooth. Pity. For Athlonians.

Saganist

It was snowing for about ten minutes in D11. Nothing stuck. Still it was Nice to see. More please. :-)

rc28

Just went outside and it's actually still sleeting here in Meath, thought it was rain but the ground has a thin layer of slush on it.

Lucreto

No snow in Naas, just rain.

Slashermcguirk

Interesting that it is snowing today when it is meant to be less cold, encouraging for coming days if today is meant to be milder. Bring it on

dirtyghettokid

was snowing in lusk northwest too! stopped now was was going about ten mins. search instagram for tag #sneachta #lusk for pics on my phone so not easy to link!

maquiladora

Just goes to show even with unimpressive 850 temps you can get snow here at low levels as long as the dew point isn't above freezing.

Gonzo

Woke up to sleet falling, this has since turned to wet snow! quite a surprise, and nice to see.. I was beginning to think I wouldnt see a single flake all winter the way things were looking up till a week ago.

pad199207

the light snow eventually stopped here and its just sleet now, until next time!

nacho libre

i think it's inevitable now we will see a return of the atlantic for at least a few days late next week- there is just too much energy in the Canadian piece of the vortex for systems not to make it far enough across to erode heights to the north, we just have to hope the progged second stratospheric warming in this region squeezes the life out of the vortex in this region, which could then enable heights to build over Greenland.

good to see some people got a bit of snow today anyway . hopefully there will be more before the likely change late next week.

Min

Starting raining at 2.5C and a dewpoint of 0.5C

Now raining at 2.3C and 0.0C dewpoint.

None of God's dandruff this time around.

compsys

maquiladora wrote: »

Just goes to show even with unimpressive 850 temps you can get snow here at low levels as long as the dew point isn't above freezing.

What approximately are the 850 temps at the moment do you know?

brianthomas

nacho libre wrote: »

i think it's inevitable now we will see a return of the atlantic for at least a few days late next week- there is just too much energy in the Canadian piece of the vortex for systems not to make it far enough across to erode heights to the north, we just have to hope the progged second stratospheric warming in this region squeezes the life out of the vortex in this region, which could then enable heights to build over Greenland.

good to see some people got a bit of snow today anyway . hopefully there will be more before the likely change late next week.

Just gonna say that........;-)

Signed, NEWBIE.

eskimocat

I knew there had to be snow somewhere with all the posts since last night... congratulations to those who got to witnesss the fluffy white stuff fall from the sky! (even if it didn'nt stick!) Meanwhile in Collooney... its piddling rain! absolutely rotten day.

Enjoy folks...

whitebriar

maquiladora wrote: »

Just goes to show even with unimpressive 850 temps you can get snow here at low levels as long as the dew point isn't above freezing.

In a front yes.Its very rare though.
Obviously the air that precip fell through was freezing all the way down to the surface with warm air not being as fast as usual to ride over the top of the surface cold air,it did after only 30 mins for most though.

As rare as hens teeth at those 850's as usually fickle surface night time cold gets washed away.
Snow happened at -2 850 temps at times during the Nov Dec spell as we had enough surface cold of our own to in a proper prolonged way do what's happened this morning and as the flow was weak east,we weren't importing higher dew points.