Very strong winds developing south, east; storm watch late Tuesday

redsteveireland

Wet snow, being blown hard here. Starting to accumulate on cars and grass, wind is howling a little in the chimney. Briefly turning to snow.

aisling86

redsteveireland wrote: »

Wet snow, being blown hard here. Starting to accumulate on cars and grass, wind is howling a little in the chimney. Briefly turning to snow.

Where's here??

Zoney

Bit of rainy sleet in Limerick, you could see on the car window it wasn't just rain. Wouldn't like to have to be outside, cold and wet.

maiden

acassells80 wrote: »

Any chance of snow reaching east coast ?

Nope, we are keeping it all for ourselves

kerrycork13

Any reports of snow in kerry or cork? im in north of cork city on fairly high ground

vicwatson

aisling86 wrote: »

Where's here??

Eh east galway. 160ft asl !!!

Xenji

Castlebar

keith16

What time is it going to snow in Cork?

I don't live there, but I thought I would save a lot of people some time

pauldry

Snowed in Carraroe connemara and hour ago, heavy enough but turned to rain after 30 mins some on cars though and the sea is only a stones throw or a snowball's throw if I have enough for one, made video but it's shy t so I await another blizzard

charlie_says

pauldry wrote: »

Snowed in Carraroe connemara and hour ago, heavy enough but turned to rain after 30 mins some on cars though and the sea is only a stones throw or a snowball's throw if I have enough for one, made video but it's shy t so I await another blizzard

Good luck out there mate. Hope you don't get much damage.

DOCARCH

keith16 wrote: »

What time is it going to snow in Cork?

I don't live there, but I thought I would save a lot of people some time

Around 2130....that's the year not the time! :-)

Impetus

According to a very recent run of the Arome weather model run by Norwegian met, Galway is forecast to have winds of 24 m/s wind on Saturday 1.2.2014 at 11h00. The same model predicts a max of 21 m/s at 14 and 15h in Cork, and 21 m/s from 14h in Dublin.

Why doesn't met.ie use Arome running it in the cloud? - the software can produce very high resolution forecasts which requires massive amounts of computing power at times. An ideal cloud application.

Arome software is available free to countries that use HIRLAM (eg Ireland). HIRLAM is 30 years old. Time to replace it.

Why are Irish weather forecasts so imprecise? The reports at met.ie don't show time of day forecast variations for temp, wind, etc. No indication of how many litres of rain water per km2 forecast in each area (colours on maps) in what probably is the wettest country in Europe. No meteograms (charts showing forecast temp, wind, pressure, cloud cover, time of day, etc all in one chart).

They are capable of forecasting these details as can be shown for wind in http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/windgeneration/ but the data is kept hidden from the public by met.ie for some reason! One wonders why?

Tactical

keith16 wrote: »

What time is it going to snow in Cork?

I don't live there, but I thought I would save a lot of people some time

Keith, the Cork Snow Shield (CSS) has been deployed. Its extra well secured to prevent it being blown or washed away and its a most effective device

ElizaT33

Just looked at Meteoradar - not showing any snow oddly!, but MAD amount of precipitation over Ireland, almost covering the entire country! Raining something "serious" here in North Meath

ninebeanrows

Impetus wrote: »

According to a very recent run of the Arome weather model run by Norwegian met, Galway is forecast to have winds of 24 m/s wind on Saturday 1.2.2014 at 11h00. The same model predicts a max of 21 m/s at 14 and 15h in Cork, and 21 m/s from 14h in Dublin.

Why doesn't met.ie use Arome running it in the cloud? - the software can produce very high resolution forecasts which requires massive amounts of computing power at times. An ideal cloud application.

Arome software is available free to countries that use HIRLAM (eg Ireland). HIRLAM is 30 years old. Time to replace it.

Why are Irish weather forecasts so imprecise? The reports at met.ie don't show time of day forecast variations for temp, wind, etc. No indication of how many litres of rain water per km2 forecast in each area (colours on maps) in what probably is the wettest country in Europe. No meteograms (charts showing forecast temp, wind, pressure, cloud cover, time of day, etc all in one chart).

They are capable of forecasting these details as can be shown for wind in http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/windgeneration/ but the data is kept hidden from the public by met.ie for some reason! One wonders why?

Really terrific forecast here... http://www.weathercheck.eu/wz/?page_id=236 ... Must add full suite of cities in near future.

Full gale for Dublin CC tomorrow peaking at 3pm with sustained 75 km/hr winds

Oafley Jones

kerrycork13 wrote: »

Any reports of snow in kerry or cork? im in north of cork city on fairly high ground

Brother in law said they had snow in Killavullen not so long ago.

sunbabe08

keith16 wrote: »

What time is it going to snow in Cork?

I don't live there, but I thought I would save a lot of people some time

How nice of you to ask in our behalf

redsteveireland

aisling86 wrote: »

Where's here??

I don't know, you don't have any location on your profile?
Anyway, it has cleared up here again, have to head into Galway city in the morning, that should be fun.

Sierra Oscar

Just finished driving on the M7 from Dublin to Limerick. There is already snow falling in the Nenagh / Birdhill area.

Mr Cumulonimbus

Fairly heavy rain now in Dundalk.

ectoraige

Quite a decent snowfall now in Sligo town for the last twenty minutes. Our guest from La Palma is ecstatic, they don't get snow in the Canaries. It's a bit like Cork I guess.

cyclops999

Sleet falling in Athlone.

mfceiling

I've to head to Waterford from Dublin at 6.30 in the morning...

Wonder if the roads will be in bad shape?

Tactical

mfceiling wrote: »

I've to head to Waterford from Dublin at 6.30 in the morning...

Wonder if the roads will be in bad shape?

If its very bad, the roads will be taken in.....

ninebeanrows

18z keeps the winds tomorrow severe, a tight gradient. No reason to think we won't see similar or stronger winds than during Stephen's Day, especially in Central, Eastern parts.

nudger

Just started lashing rain Dublin N.

Shady Tady

Snow here on top of Croagh Patrick

downwiththatsor

Latest Hirlam keeps it severe also

http://www.emhi.ee/index.php?ide=19,394,416,419

Inquitus

All gone quiet in Galway

maquiladora

Weathercheck wrote: »

18z keeps the winds tomorrow severe, a tight gradient. No reason to think we won't see similar or stronger winds than during Stephen's Day, especially in Central, Eastern parts.

Here is a comparison between winds on the night of the 26th/27th last month and what the 18Z GFS is showing for peak gusts over the south/east tomorrow.

The Stephen's Day storm was both stronger and had a significantly wider windfield over Ireland than what is shown for tomorrow.

I don't see how it could be as strong let alone stronger?

That's not to say it won't be very windy at times...but no worse than we've seen this winter already.