Risk Of Severe Wintry Conditions With Strong Winds. (High Risk-Ulster, Connaught)

Rougies · 04-02-2013 8:05pm

DOCARCH wrote: »

That's just it! In a nutshell, snow - probably : lying snow - unlikely away from high ground.

UKMO high-res for 3am. Not great.
EDIT: that's a surface temperature chart for anyone wondering... blue inside the dotted line is subzero (wicklow mts, east ulster and a few other small areas) .. the next dotted line is 5C, most of the country is somewhere in between.

Mr Cumulonimbus · 04-02-2013 8:05pm

paddy ocon wrote: »

Gerry drives me mad when he says " loads of snow blizzard like conditions but THANKFULLY it will all melt very fast in the morning" talk about heartbreaking

Yes, looks like that will happen alright. DP's of +2 to +4 over the country by 3pm tomorrow according to the 12Z NAE.

whitebriar · 04-02-2013 8:08pm

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Good tv forecast tonight from Gerry Murphy
Wasn't afraid to say the word snow tonight, indeed he mentioned blizzards
Said it would melt tomorrow and snow would turn back to rain.

There now I just praised Met Eireann, why??? Because for a change they called it exactly the way the charts present it which is all we can ask

+1
However,there was enough information available for him to present that forecast language yesterday.

ArraMusha · 04-02-2013 8:13pm

Ground temp lowest at Lough Mourne -0.3C according to NRA. The wind speeds seem low, but may be an average value.

http://www.nratraffic.ie/weather/default.asp?RegionId=0

Harps · 04-02-2013 8:14pm

Still not a lot happening in Galway, breezy with light/moderate rain showers, plenty of beefy showers about on the radar but we seem to keep dodging them and only get a few minutes of light rain. Bitterly cold wind out now though with strong gusts accompanying the showers

winterwonder · 04-02-2013 8:16pm

Would love a snow day tomorrow, just a day off work! Ah well, guess that's out of the question, well here in cork anyway! Secretly still hoping though!

jambofc · 04-02-2013 8:17pm

after torrential rain for half an hour the back end of the shower turned to sleet with some very large snow flakes,encouraging signs for the night ahead.

irish1967 · 04-02-2013 8:17pm

ArraMusha wrote: »

Ground temp lowest at Lough Mourne -0.3C according to NRA. The wind speeds seem low, but may be an average value.

http://www.nratraffic.ie/weather/default.asp?RegionId=0

Lough Mourne is at altitude in the middle of Barnesmore Gap. Would expect that temp at this time.

flanzer · 04-02-2013 8:18pm

Just watching the rain radar, and it looks like is stuck on fast forward. If that wing energy holds out, and temps/DPs drop, we should all get some sort of white stuff

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

As I speak, getting lashed out of it with horizontal rain in D13 right now

hellboy99 · 04-02-2013 8:24pm

Rain here in Dundalk with gusts of 40km/h

Conrach · 04-02-2013 8:24pm

Today has scuppered everything I thought I knew about wintery weather. As I reported a few hours ago we had a few heavy sleet showers at a temp of 6c.
It is now 3c with a dp of 0c and all we have had is rain for the last hour or so.

mountainy man · 04-02-2013 8:27pm

Ok snow sticking now , ground white, and so it begins..............

barney 20v · 04-02-2013 8:29pm

Conrach wrote: »

Today has scuppered everything I thought I knew about wintery weather. As I reported a few hours ago we had a few heavy sleet showers at a temp of 6c.
It is now 3c with a dp of 0c and all we have had is rain for the last hour or so.

I reckon their will be loads of disappointed people tomorrow ....I love snow and all the fun it brings but I can not see anything of note for most of the country except strong winds cold temps and cold rain..

Pangea · 04-02-2013 8:31pm

Heard there is snow up Letterkenny direction.

JanuarySnowstor · 04-02-2013 8:31pm

Temps very slow to fall this evening
I would have expected better by now

Penname · 04-02-2013 8:32pm

Very heavy hail in North Kildare, now sleet.

shmaupel · 04-02-2013 8:33pm

No snow as yet in south Donegal, 1.5 on the car. Really doesn't feel cold enough. I'm at sea level btw.

DOCARCH · 04-02-2013 8:34pm

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Temps very slow to fall this evening
I would have expected better by now

Are you packing up?

Winds picking up here, which is good, should keep the showers coming through.

3.9c DP 1.8c atm.

jon burrows · 04-02-2013 8:35pm

just had a hail shower in D15, winds picking up!

Fear_an_tarbh · 04-02-2013 8:38pm

Slushy, hail stuff lying on the ground about 10 miles north of Letterkenny at about 50 metres, surprised to see so much of it, 2-3 cm in places.

Harps · 04-02-2013 8:39pm

Conrach wrote: »

Today has scuppered everything I thought I knew about wintery weather. As I reported a few hours ago we had a few heavy sleet showers at a temp of 6c.
It is now 3c with a dp of 0c and all we have had is rain for the last hour or so.

It depends on a lot more than just the surface temp, the precip has to fall through 1000m+ of the atmosphere so if any significant part of it is above freezing then the snow will melt before it reaches the ground. Intensity is also important as heavier showers drag down cold air with them so the snowflakes can survive for longer. Same reasons it can snow above 0C and rain below it

Mint Sauce · 04-02-2013 8:39pm

More wind and hail in Sligo Town. Although forecasts for Snow fall has been pushed back till 2am, 50% chance at that, with a currently 80% chance at 7am, the way these forecasts are being pushed back, I'm gonna be driving to work in it.