Cold week ahead, change is on the way ............

jds0ur

Starting to snow in D14, hopefully its cold enough to stick

Rougies

DOCARCH wrote: »

Oh I konw!

Light snow here now, btw.

Yeah, here too Good time to go out for a walk for some fresh air and a little fix then

patneve2

Dying shower overhead with a few small flakes falling. Radar mediocre looking but keeping the faith

DOCARCH

Definite shift in IOM shadow looking at latest rader - either wind has shifted or IOM has shifted...suspect the former.

miseagustusa

whitebriar wrote: »

Very heavy snow shower in Arklow now.
Entire place white for the first time today.

Lashing rain at my house in Arklow

TheMilkyPirate

Big shower here everything white

Larbre34

DOCARCH wrote: »

Definite shift in IOM shadow looking at latest rader - either wind has shifted or IOM has shifted...suspect the former.

The goddamn thing is killing Dublin 15 right now, clear and dry!

finnharpsboy

i know this is probably a silly question but how does the IOM shadow work? and more importantly what needs to change to get out of it?

youknowwho

Went back up the Wicklow mountains today and there was easily another 4/5 inches since yesterday. The Sally Gap was passable (by jeep) but Kippure wasn't. Came upon 4 jeeps pulling the army out of a drift!

Can't wait to take a spin up tomorrow

Larbre34

finnharpsboy wrote: »

i know this is probably a silly question but how does the IOM shadow work? and more importantly what needs to change to get out of it?

A large earthquake to consume it into the ocean. Unfortunately Liverpool would be destroyed in the consequent tsunami. Win win situation really!

DOCARCH

finnharpsboy wrote: »

and more importantly what needs to change to get out of it?

The wind.

The IOM is your friend and foe.

The high terrain of the IOM often helps showers develop as in a strong NNE to E wind flow across the Irish Sea the air gets, basically, bent around the IOM disturbing the air flow and aiding the formation of showers....so those who often request that the IOM be nuked....don't, as it helps 'make' the showers, but then also can cause misery for others in it's shadow.

whitebriar

Rougies wrote: »

Wicklow one doing a bit better now as Whitebriar just confirmed

It sent in a scout.
No sign of the army.

ZX7R

finnharpsboy wrote: »

i know this is probably a silly question but how does the IOM shadow work? and more importantly what needs to change to get out of it?

It's shorting the distance that shower's can form over the Irish sea,so no showers form so when you look at a radar it loose like the IOM is casting a shadow in the shower's that the radar shows,hence the IOM shadow .
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change of wind direction changes where is affected by the shadow.
Hopes this helped.

Harry Deerpark

Larbre34 wrote: »

A large earthquake to consume it into the ocean. Unfortunately Liverpool would be destroyed in the consequent tsunami. Win win situation really!

Hopefully the tsunami will wipe out Manchester too.

patneve2

DOCARCH wrote: »

The wind.

The IOM is your friend and foe.

The high terrain of the IOM often helps showers develop as in a strong NNE to E wind flow across the Irish Sea the air gets, basically, bent around the IOM disturbing the air flow and aiding the formation of showers....so those who often request that the IOM be nuked....don't, as it helps 'make' the showers, but then also can cause misery for others in it's shadow.

Same applies to Anglesey I think

ZX7R

Larbre34 wrote: »

A large earthquake to consume it into the ocean. Unfortunately Liverpool would be destroyed in the consequent tsunami. Win win situation really!

Only the red side of liverpool:pac:

Deank

Had a nice snow shower here, big chunky flakes that turned the ground white again, easing off now to a mild dust

aurora 527

baraca wrote: »

Big shower here everything white

Is it still snowing where you are Baraca?

secman

finnharpsboy wrote: »

i know this is probably a silly question but how does the IOM shadow work? and more importantly what needs to change to get out of it?

its an awful pity the isle of man is not 10 times bigger ! this god awful weather is a right pain in the ball X, especially when it should be about 12 to 15 degrees. Its not even proper snow, woeful apology for snow.

Secman

thomasj

Larbre34 wrote: »

The goddamn thing is killing Dublin 15 right now, clear and dry!

Keep the faith!

If raintoday are to believed (and they were right last night) there are a few juicy showers heading in the d15 direction in the coming hours leading up to midnight!

JJJJNR

just back from a run and was snowing very heavily here, not sticking though 0.5c last time i checked.

Deank

Anyone else in N Kildare just get a heavy snow shower, just got a really nice dusting, hoping for more in the next few hours:-)

youknowwho

Greystones is now white...... Hope it lasts

ThaitaniumM

After hours of nothing, some light shtuff is starting to fall in D15!

JanuarySnowstor

Disappointing for the southeast, for some reason eventhough we are furthest from the high pressure we have little ppn. I mean why Dublin gets plenty and Wexford gets little I don't quite understand. They are both on the East coast with similar sea track to UK

delw

It's back,light but it's back

vicwatson

youknowwho wrote: »

Went back up the Wicklow mountains today and there was easily another 4/5 inches since yesterday. The Sally Gap was passable (by jeep) but Kippure wasn't. Came upon 4 jeeps pulling the army out of a drift!

Can't wait to take a spin up tomorrow

Very wise to deliberately drive into an area that 4 jeeps had to tug out the army, and possibly another nights snow on the way up there.

Don't you read the news?

It's careless in my opinion. The roads shut be shut by the authorities in these conditions

200motels

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Disappointing for the southeast, for some reason eventhough we are furthest from the high pressure we have little ppn. I mean why Dublin gets plenty and Wexford gets little I don't quite understand. They are both on the East coast with similar sea track to UK

We're getting next to nothing down here, the clouds seem to evaporate when they get anywhere near the snow shield.

hollster2

youknowwho wrote: »

Greystones is now white...... Hope it lasts

same here we deserve it lol

Rougies

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Disappointing for the southeast, for some reason eventhough we are furthest from the high pressure we have little ppn. I mean why Dublin gets plenty and Wexford gets little I don't quite understand. They are both on the East coast with similar sea track to UK

You have less sea track from Wales n a E/NE flow. And the airflow has to travel across more British landmass than it does for Dublin, where it comes across the narrowest part of Britain, hence keeping more moisture.

When we're in a NNE flow, the showers head out into the Celtic Sea for you, while they usually hit land on the east coast.

You did a lot better than us a couple of weeks ago though!