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

JFKIRELAND

Some streamers in Dublin would be nice:D but currently the temp is 2.6C and DP of 1.6C

finnharpsboy

am i right in thinking thats it for dublin for a couple of weeks? ME showing no precip for us for the rest of the week on the 5 day forecast

Inquitus

ME is not much better than looking out your window.

snowstorm445

finnharpsboy wrote: »

am i right in thinking thats it for dublin for a couple of weeks? ME showing no precip for us for the rest of the week on the 5 day forecast

You may well see some light snow during tomorrow and potentially some into Monday if the front makes its way up to Dublin but its not guaranteed.

markens2

Any chance of Snow in Allenwood near Naas???

finnharpsboy

bangor getting buried in the white stuff looking at the radar..... oh how i wish it was here

davidsr20

East east east Dublin Dublin Dublin that's all we here every year, there a lot more to Ireland folks!

Rougies

davidsr20 wrote: »

East east east Dublin Dublin Dublin that's all we here every year, there a lot more to Ireland folks!

There's only anything happening in the east right now. We'll be talking about the south and west from tomorrow, don;t worry

rc28

Motorway webcam near Belfast - the Irish sea really can deliver great snow events. I just wish it was 2010 again for us down south!

Rougies

rc28 wrote: »

Motorway webcam near Belfast - the Irish sea really can deliver great snow events. I just wish it was 2010 again for us down south!

I'm about to explode with jealousy to be honest. Selfish I know, we've had our turn I suppose.

finnharpsboy

streamer to the south of IOM looks like to me..... am i wrong? what would that mean for the east coast?

Dead_Rabbits

davidsr20 wrote: »

East east east Dublin Dublin Dublin that's all we here every year, there a lot more to Ireland folks!

I'm not being smart but maybe set up a West/South Ireland Winter/Snow Thread

bb1234567

snowjon wrote: »

Everything is turning white here - rapidly becoming a winter wonderland and I'm right on the coast

So many people from Down posting about the snow! clearly THE place to be righ now;)

Winterstale

davidsr20 wrote: »

East east east Dublin Dublin Dublin that's all we here every year, there a lot more to Ireland folks![/

And you have just added to that!

tomcosgrave

There are more Dubs watching and posting in the Weather forum than from other parts of the country, hence the Dublin centric feel of the forum. That's just the way it is.

demanufactured

rc28 wrote: »

Motorway webcam near Belfast - the Irish sea really can deliver great snow events. I just wish it was 2010 again for us down south!

No thanks.,...that was a bastard of a winter....

delw

Rougies wrote: »

There's only anything happening in the east right now. We'll be talking about the south and west from tomorrow, don;t worry

The only problem Roughies is that there is nothing happening in the east,well apart from that streamer up north

whitebriar

Rougies wrote: »

So which is it
A bit of both I would say. Streamers can and do form out of nothing in the middle of a lake. Look at the Great Lakes snow for instance.
I would say the IOM can help kick them off though. It certainly looks that way anyway. Both now and in 2010

No the IOM doesn't kick them off,it interrupts the fetch so you get your Iom shadow.
Shower trains are usually either above or below it as a flow over the Iom dries out and has to start again picking up moisture at the other side.Also depending on the 850 air being low enough.
And yes Irish sea streamers as we know them are the same principle as lake effect snow.

Rougies

delw wrote: »

The only problem Roughies is that there is nothing happening in the east,well apart from that streamer up north

Tell me about it :rolleyes:
At least there's potential though.

davidsr20

Dead_Rabbits wrote: »

I'm not being smart but maybe set up a West/South Ireland Winter/Snow Thread

Why would we do that,boards.ie is country wide,clearly ur post just now says it all trying to single out Dublin from the rest?
It's easy to include the whole country in fairness,some put up a precipitation map a while ago with just Dublin on it wft!

Mr Cumulonimbus

little bess wrote: »

Oh if only we had some precip, dp's at m2 now -0.1 !

-1.0 at 8pm. Keep going........

Eastcoastryan

anybody know if the wind is due to change direction anytime soon? any hope of a NE developing??

BLIZZARD7

Something falling here in Mount Merrion, Dublin, Too light to tell what it is yet.




Dan

John.Icy

whitebriar wrote: »

Its not the IOM that fires off showers,its just a reference point.
Its fetch,ie the length of sea track the cold air passes over,the longer the better and obviously the bigger the difference between the 850 temps and the sea temp the better.
Yes in my experience easterlies are dryer than northeasterlies due to shorter fetch than say a diagonal Ne down the Irish sea.
They're usually not bad for Dublin but just not as good.

While showers would form anyway, it's surely the IOM responsible for streamers we get?? As in, the fixed thin bands of precip, lasting hours at times. Just like in a beefy N/NW'erly a massive streamer can kick off from the IOM SE tip and head into Wales and UK. Although we'll never properly know unless the IOM disappears, but it definately seems the culprit behind the formation of the streamers and not just rub of the mill showers.

But you'd be far more knowledgeable than me so I'll take your word for it.

Dead_Rabbits

davidsr20 wrote: »

Why would we do that,boards.ie is country wide,clearly ur post just now says it all trying to single out Dublin from the rest?
It's easy to include the whole country in fairness,some put up a precipitation map a while ago with just Dublin on it wft!

Kippure

Eastcoastryan wrote: »

anybody know if the wind is due to change direction anytime soon? any hope of a NE developing??

Currently underway

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

Saganist

Kippure wrote: »

Currently underway

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

Wish I could just change the arrows on that chart myself...

flanzer

Painful memories . I pity the snow addicts in this IOM shadow

Strangegravy

This was fun in years gone by, see if conditions are right for snow where you are, all you need is the local temperature and humidity...

http://www.sciencebits.com/SnowProbCalc?calc=yes

rc28

Kippure wrote: »

Currently underway

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

I certainly hope it changes but over northern England many of the stations are just straight ENE or easterly; we need to see way more of a north easterly trend over there I think. Having said that, I do remember in 2010 that sometimes the surface winds would be blowing one direction but the upper winds (that were blowing the showers) would be coming from a different direction.


Edit: I've looked back at the recorded observations and they do seem to have been turning gradually to the north east. Let's hope it continues!