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Risk Of Heavy Snow Showers As It Turns Extremely Cold Sunday Night/Monday
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In layman's terms we're in for a pasting? All digits crossed...
I'd go with many areas in the east getting some lying snow. With some disruptive amounts in areas where they seem to train. Wicklow and downwind areas of the mountains could get some decent falls too.
Down south it will be more of a transition with the front , from sleet to snow.. but if it happens quick enough it could lead to disruptive amounts too , close to coasts too and high areas .
Basically... its still GAME ON for the east and south...
EDIT.... HELLO There Mr inversion and breeze!..... I shall be greeting your spawning CU Congestus ....Dare i even say CBs?very happily on monday !
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Map shows the "MTC" model (preview 9MAR:00z) for snowfall potential from about 12z Sunday to 18z Tuesday although mostly on Monday.
Red arrows show streamer formation expected in schematic form. The northerly in Donegal Bay would come into play later overnight Monday-Tuesday and fade out later Tuesday. By then the Irish Sea streamers would be out in the middle of the Sea heading south towards Britain and Wales.
I also show the southern low which would be about 100-200 miles off the southern margin of this map running parallel to the track as shown. That has been depicted close enough to drop some snow in Cork and Waterford on Sunday night on some models.
Areas of snowfall by expected depth (colour coded) should be read as maximum potential in various regions, as the snowfall will be largely convective there are bound to be gaps between cells and streamers. There are hints of 20 cm + amounts but those are mainly orographic maxima above the elevation where most people live, so 15 cm is probably a realistic upper limit in Leinster except where any streamers might possibly get into thunder-snow production rates.
For the city of Dublin the scale of this map probably obscures what I'm trying to show here which is 5-10 cm near the seafront and inner city increasing to about 8-12 cm west, 10-15 cm higher south.
The snow depicted in Connacht would be more likely to fall Monday night into Tuesday. I am not optimistic for accumulations in Clare, Limerick (city in particular) and Galway but there are scenarios where 1-2 cm could fall there also. Some parts of the west are bound to go snow-free, I would think.
Higher east-facing slopes of Wicklow could be in the "jackpot" and one or two reports of 25-30 cm would not be surprising there.
Ulster is a bit more delicate given the wind directions but could be in for locally heavy accumulations.
I may publish an updated version of this forecast map closer to "snow time" on Sunday afternoon if I have any updated ideas. Really, this will be a nowcasting situation, with streamers in play, the radar is really your model of choice.
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I'd go with many areas in the east getting some lying snow. With some disruptive amounts in areas where they seem to train. Wicklow and downwind areas of the mountains could get some decent falls too.
Down south it will be more of a transition with the front , from sleet to snow.. but if it happens quick enough it could lead to disruptive amounts too , close to coasts too and high areas .
Basically... its still GAME ON for the east and south...
EDIT.... HELLO There Mr inversion and breeze!..... I shall be greeting your spawning CU Congestus ....Dare i even say CBs?very happily on monday !
Potentially this is on
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i have to say fair dues mt for hanging about here and for your input many people would just walk away but you keep hanging on here with your wisdom and knoweldge keeping us all up to date and i hope you continue to stay here the place just would not be the same without you cheers.M.T. Cranium wrote: »Not inclined to change much about the east coast streamers in the forecast, as some have pointed out, global models do not generally forecast these very well and I have been relying more on a meso-scale modelling based on the general input from the model consensus. The other portion of the snowfall potential, namely parts of south being hit Sunday night from the low tracking towards Cornwall, remains a possibility but I was always more concerned about large-scale streamer development merging with that feature.
As to the suggested "half-way house" forecast being a case of Met-E and MT equally wrong, I don't think that's valid, the half-way house sounds almost like my forecast and widespread accumulations of snow is a lot closer to what I'm saying than "severe frost and mixed wintry showers" -- not that I'm here to make trouble with the Met service, but I don't see that as half-way at all. It may however prove to be correct, when I say something about "blizzards" I am going by what I perceive to be common perceptions of that term as disruptive snowfall events, and to me, 5-15 cm of snow in Dublin coming down fairly hard in the daytime would be disruptive. Whether that's technically a blizzard or not, I don't know, over here it would need to be more like 30 cm of snow and strong winds, limited visibility. There may be some of that by Monday in parts of England and possibly in Wicklow.
The guidance has not changed much overnight (in my time zone) and continues to spread over a slight range, so the best idea for now I believe is to concentrate on the potential for significant streamers and keep a watch on the south coast for any incursions from the Atlantic system (which I think is going to brush past but sometimes you can get a parallel inland band representing the arctic front in the circulation, fed by streamers). I am expecting that streamer development will be robust starting about midnight Sunday and that there will be two main bands, one running across Drogheda into Meath and Kildare and possibly Laois before weakening around Tipps, and one possibly over Dublin at times then shifting south later to cover most of Wicklow.
If these streamers develop then they have potential to become heavy, and being steady-state then some heavy amounts can be created in some locations. I guess what surprises me about the Met forecast is not the conservative approach but the lack of coverage of what appears to be at least a 50-50 chance of accumulating snow right in the heaviest population zone that they serve. But kudos to them if it doesn't snow (and I won't try to spin a 2cm flurry in Arklow or some minor event, let's set a reasonable bar and say there would have to be lying snow reported by 25 different observers at their homes not driving around the Sally Gap or wherever).
In the back of my mind also is the "what if" scenario of that low pushing north of the forecast track, they seem to do that almost effortlessly on the other side of the country. In that case, we would be looking at a very severe event. I haven't looked at all permutations of the GFS but I'll bet there's one or two showing that scenario. But for now, that very disruptive scenario seems likely to be heading towards Cornwall and Devon, Somerset, inland south central counties of England and later on northern France and southeast England.
Somebody was wondering about travel disruptions later in the week -- don't think that will be a problem for you unless you're trying to drive into some isolated high elevation location in Dartmoor, by Wednesday any disruptive snow in England should be either cleared away or melted in the daytime sun, but some higher parts of Devon and Somerset could be cut off for a few days, as well as conceivably a few parts of north Yorkshire, if the North Sea develops its share of streamers. Now if this had been January, there would be a longer spell of lying snow after any storms.
I think in general we dodged the bullet of last-minute downgrade at 12z, can see from the 18z map that all elements of the developing scenario are coming together (cold advection into Poland and northern Germany is rapid) and that brings me to the last part of my homily, which is, respect the thickness advection. Ireland is well into the 522 dam contour and almost into the 516 dam contour by Sunday midnight as it approaches Belfast and then all models show the -10 C 850 mb zone covering all of Ireland at some point Sunday night. There's a 30 knot E-NE gradient and dew points near -7 C in England advecting across the Irish Sea. It takes a brave soul to picture no snow in this scenario, I guess some are saying I'm out on a limb, would have to wonder if it isn't the other way around given the synoptics. Probably as always a middle course will verify but it's interesting I just went through the exact opposite of this on an American weather forum by suggesting (in a contest rather than a discussion) very low snowfall numbers for DC and BWI, in fact one person suggested that my forecast be edited out of the thread because it would prevent the spread of panic -- and in the end my low numbers were too high (I said something like one inch of snow at DCA, consensus was ten or fifteen, actual was a rather embarrassing 0.2). That thread has never received a comment since the storm didn't happen.
I am guessing this thread will receive a comment or two if this one doesn't happen. Keep your fingers crossed, and remember Nov/Dec 2010 -- the Irish Sea rules.0 -
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Look again.
Yeah but that is showing just 0.15 to 0.25 of a mm. It's less than 1mm so didn't appear on the WeatherOnline graphics. It would be very light precipitation there.
18Z GFS does show a bit more precip for Sunday evening though.
It will be interesting to see, for this time of year, it's certainly going to feel very cold.
I just think some of the expectations have been set way too high.0 -
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In fairness to bajer100, thats a spin on an internet meme/phrase and isn't meant in a nasty way. He even has a smiley after it. I think it might have been misconstrued as being an insult.
Now back to our regular programming.
I was about to mention the "Go home, you're drunk" meme too, but then again this isn't reddit or *chan so maybe it's a lesson to be learned for all of us. I've been guilty of that mistake in the past too.
That image is a classic I'm nervous at the fact that I was basking in snowmagadden at the time and maybe it's my turn to feel the wrath of the IOM shadow. 0 -
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M.T. Cranium wrote: »What has more potential impact, a guaranteed 10 cm in rural Tyrone or a slight risk of 10 cm in Dublin-Meath? An insurance company would measure that by multiplying risk by population. Sorry, Tyrone rural reader who would get the full impact.
No need to be sorry, 10cm is nothing after last month:)
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