Cold snap Jan 10th onwards: Wintry Showers, Snow Accumulations for some

highdef · 13-01-2015 2:11am

Have just looked at satellite animation on http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html and my confidence has grown a LOT that there may be a fairly substantial snow event in many parts tomorrow. That massive area of intensifying and enlarging area of precip (fairly safe to say that it is snow) that is currently moving southeastwards after originating just west of the south of Greenland is currently making a bee line for Ireland. I do have a fear that it may turn to a more easterly direction before it gets here (going by the current direction of the cloud masses to the west of and over Ireland) and may pass to the north or may only affect more northern areas but only time will tell.

I usually take a back seat for these kind of events and have a tendency to be pessimistic but I have a gut feeling that we could be in for something good by first thing tomorrow morning, in addition to the showers forecast during the night - not necessarily for everyone on the island but things seem have been turned up a notch or two in the past few hours.....from my perspective anyway.

I may well be eating my hat come tomorrow though :P

Xenji · 13-01-2015 2:21am

Sleet falling in Castlebar now.

murdig · 13-01-2015 2:26am

Any snow falling in Munster yet?

Lumi · 13-01-2015 2:32am

Light snow shower in Galway city

icesnowfrost · 13-01-2015 2:37am

Light rain in drogheda so far

highdef · 13-01-2015 2:38am

murdig wrote: »

Any snow falling in Munster yet?

Nothing of interest at the moment but I see an area of showers that appear to be getting more organised not far off the south west coast. This "might" give something more organised in southwestern areas in the next few hours, with higher ground in the south west being at highest risk. Hopefully Liam will be a happy man in the morning.

Just checked the 3 hour forecast on Met Eireann and they seem to have picked up on what I have just mentioned.....if this pans out, there could be a very decent covering in the south west, except maybe for those in coastal and very low lying areas - http://www.met.ie/forecasts/3hour.asp

Mycroft H · 13-01-2015 2:42am

Nothing here near Enfield. 2 degrees. Bit of rain earlier

elecktras weather bomb · 13-01-2015 2:48am

light rain in maynooth too but then never expected anything here. fairly lively with wind though. laughing to myself here. people are like ships in the night peeping in here at all hours.

legomaniac · 13-01-2015 2:58am

Still nothing in South Donegal... I am glad the storm for Wednesday isn't coming but I am disappointed with no snow.

squarecircles · 13-01-2015 2:59am

Thunderstorm activity in louisburgh Co. Mayo with hail.

squarecircles · 13-01-2015 3:00am

Thunderstorm Seems to be heading in the westport direction.

JCX BXC · 13-01-2015 3:03am

Going with the trends from earlier, here in Clare I've just got a slight rise in temperature and slight drop in temperature before a shower arrives, the temperature will now plummet, hopefully enough for snow

. Although it is west Clare, and snow is scarcer than jobs here

Hooter23 · 13-01-2015 3:25am

Feckin rain alarm app woke me with loud hissing rain sound wtf nearly had heart attack

Xenji · 13-01-2015 3:26am

Snowing now in Castlebar, nice dusting so far and sticking, hopefully it gets heavier!

martic · 13-01-2015 3:49am

Car nicely covered in white East Donegal

ninebeanrows · 13-01-2015 4:34am

The deep convection continues to march steadily east, looking like a stead increase in shower activity from now on

http://sat24.com/?ir=true

mountainy man · 13-01-2015 4:46am

Having a heavy shower now, will be quite a bit if this keeps up. couple of pics

marno21 · 13-01-2015 5:00am

Started snowing here in NW Cork 2 minutes ago. Fairly heavy too

CB19Kevo · 13-01-2015 5:03am

marno21 wrote: »

Started snowing here in NW Cork 2 minutes ago. Fairly heavy too

Whats your elevation there?

marno21 · 13-01-2015 5:05am

CB19Kevo wrote: »

Whats your elevation there?

198m

redsteveireland · 13-01-2015 6:07am

Last shower was just a touch North of me and dropped some hail here. Still a few strong gusts around too.
Finally the temp has decided to drop, it has been 4/5 degrees all night.