Cold Spell Discussion (Ireland): Cold/Frosty/Icy with Snow for some

maquiladora

The precip totals on the 12Z NAE show quite light precip apart from some western/southwestern areas. Its even lighter than on the 06Z and could still downgrade further. Not convinced it will be anything dramatic but some hills/mountains in the southwest could see a good bit.

John.Icy

The mass(area) of the showers approaching the east coast should grow readily judging by the radar. Intensity wise mightn't increase too much though.

Very cool to see the front suddenly pep up over Kildare/Laois too, was completely dead only an hour ago.

Sadly judging by precip. charts for tomorrow, today could be the east best chance to see some sneachta.

Rougies

Calibos wrote: »

How embarresing. Looks like the South West is going to have lying snow before Dublin at this rate.

Well technically Dublin does have lying snow (ok, above 400m asl, but it's still in Dublin!). Probably had the first lying snow in the country too. So we can still have our pride no matter what happens.

Supercell

Dew point going south , temp going north



Was up the Sugar Loaf earlier, lovely snow up there, great craic, got my snow fix for today so

Scubadevils

Oh and I'm getting sick of looking frantically out the window to see if its snowing, going to end up with neck damage. Then of course there is the amazing imaginary snow, absolutely convinced at times there is tiny bits of snow falling but upon closer inspection, nothing!

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Look at that, showers popping up which shouldn't because of the wales shadow !

patneve2

Expect graupel from the showers...just had a very ominous few clouds come in from the sea, very light graupel.

patneve2

There must be a ENE component to that wind (higher up) radar clearly shows showers coming in from a NE direction

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Dp dropping rapidly now, down to 0.5

Rougies

15:45 radar better again. Irish Sea is really springing to life.
We need to see some heavier precip making landfall for lying snow. It will drag the colder upper air down with it and help our cause dramatically.

rc28

Yay, our old friend Mr Graupel has returned!!
In 2010 he used to welcome-in the big Irish sea streamers.

Dead_Rabbits

Rain over Dundalk from that Streamer, so frustrating knowing there should be -8 at 850mb above! Putting it down to the regulating temp influence of the sea. Will need a few cold days here before any precip will fall as snow!

Mr Cumulonimbus

Dead_Rabbits wrote: »

Rain over Dundalk from that Streamer, so frustrating knowing there should be -8 at 850mb above! Putting it down to the regulating temp influence of the sea. Will need a few cold days here before any precip will fall as snow!

Yip. Seem to be small bits of sleet in it. DP is 1.1 at the moment.

icesnowfrost

It's staring to dry up in Drogheda so if we do get a good snow shower it might stick. But it's beginning to look hopeless

maquiladora

UKMO looks interesting for Tuesday eh?

DOCARCH

patneve2 wrote: »

Expect graupel from the showers...just had a very ominous few clouds come in from the sea, very light graupel.

Had same here - just a very light graupel shower - ohh how I have missed graupel! :-)

Bertser

Lashing down

patneve2

Can see the shower out to sea - clouds are quite dark...thinking it might just be sleet/rain (as it is in louth)...time will tell

snaps

Desperate for some cold air this side of the country. Will it ever happen?

Low clouds moving NW, High clouds moving SE.

Rougies

Bertser wrote: »

Lashing down

And where is Roman's Yacht moored?

Edit: And what exactly is lashing down?

Rougies

The lighter stuff will be sleet/graupel. Any heavier stuff should fall as snow.

Bertser

Rougies wrote: »

And where is Roman's Yacht moored?

Blessington Lakes currently!

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Watching the radar reminds me of 2010, used to wake up each morning, wait for it to get bright and bang... instant streamers

Good times :pac:

snowjon

Heavy hail/graupel shower here. We've had skiffs of graupel here all day!

fontenoy7

Rougies wrote: »

And where is Roman's Yacht moored?

Snowing again in foothills of dublin mountains. Incredible amounts of snow.

Kippure

fontenoy7 wrote: »

Snowing again in foothills of dublin mountains. Incredible amounts of snow.

Any pictures

Rougies

fontenoy7 wrote: »

Snowing again in foothills of dublin mountains. Incredible amounts of snow.

Ahh, I can actually see the snow falling on the mountains from my window. So frustrating!

pad199207

Some light snow falling in Naas, Eadestown and Blessington

Dead_Rabbits

GMT hPa o Kts oC oC % sec m oC
M2
62091 19 Jan
15:00 1000.9 125 13 3.9 0.4 78 n/a n/a 9.4

DP 0.4

Dcully

pad199207 wrote: »

Some light snow falling in Naas, Eadestown and Blessington

Hope it makes its way to Monasterein.