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

Takca

South sligo, about 110 m ASL, wooot.

vistafinder

A dusting of white stuff in west cork.

meath4sam

Snow in Ashbourne

fiverfriday

Dry in South Dublin with a fairly white bland sky.

ronnie3585

Haily, graupely, sleety crap in Galway now.

mumo3

Can we change all references of the word rain to snow please!!!

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

No Mr Max, check out the latest forecast


http://www.met.ie/forecasts/


Today
Today will be bitterly cold with wintry showers of hail, sleet and snow in most areas. They'll be most frequent in west Munster, Connacht and Ulster. Some will be thundery with accumulations of snow in places, especially on high ground. Temperatures of just 1 to 4 degrees and fresh, gusty southwest winds.
Tonight

Wintry showers will continue tonight with further accumulations of snow, especially over the western half of the country and in Ulster. They'll be more isolated in the east. It will become blustery or windy for a time with fresh to strong southwest winds. Lowest temperatures of -2 to +2 degrees with frost and icy patches in places.


Tomorrow

Wednesday will start off mostly dry with bright or sunny spells. However it will become very windy or stormy from around noon onwards with strong to gale force, gusty southerly winds. Heavy rain will spread northeastwards and will fall as sleet or snow in places for a time. Temperatures will gradually increase and will reach between 4 and 8 degrees by early evening.

Outlook

Wednesday night will be very windy or stormy. Widespread heavy rain will clear eastwards in the early night with showers following. Very strong and gusty southerly winds will veer west to southwest in direction and will be extremely strong for a time with damaging gusts, especially in western coastal counties. Winds will gradually ease overnight, but will still be very strong in the northwest. Lowest temperatures of 0 to 2 degrees.

Thursday will be a cold, bright, blustery day with sunny spells and scattered showers of rain or hail. These will be mainly over the western half of the country. Daytime temperatures of just 2 to 5 degrees with fresh to strong, gusty southwest winds. Showers will continue on Thursday night. They'll become increasingly wintry, with some falling as snow in the west and north later in the night. Frost and icy patches will develop in places also. Lowest temperatures of -2 to +2 degrees.

Friday and Saturday will both be cold, bright days with sunny spells and scattered showers of rain, hail and sleet. There'll be some snow flurries also, mainly on high ground. Daytime temperatures will range from 2 to 6 degrees. There'll be a sharp frost at night with icy stretches on roads.

Sunday will be cold and mainly dry with sunny spells just a few wintry showers. Highest temperatures of 3 to 6 degrees with light to moderate westerly breezes.

On Sunday night, rain will spread eastwards across the country, falling as sleet for a time. It will clear overnight.

Monday will see a return to cold, bright conditions with sunny spells and scattered showers of rain or hail, these mainly in the west and north.

seamus

Been spitting snowflakes in South Dublin since 8am. When I say spitting, I mean one tiny droplet every 30 seconds. You'd miss it if you weren't watching for it. So I think it's well capable of snowing, we just need the clouds behind it.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Is that a heavier band of showers moving in from the West ?

Shane O' Malley

seamus wrote: »

Been spitting snowflakes in South Dublin since 8am. When I say spitting, I mean one tiny droplet every 30 seconds. You'd miss it if you weren't watching for it. So I think it's well capable of snowing, we just need the clouds behind it.

Not going to get it. Anything that comes towards you seems to dissipate in the mountains behind you.

Nothing on the radar for you for the next couple of hours anyway.

Trogdor

Liam Neesons Ballbag wrote: »

Is that a heavier band of showers moving in from the West ?

Looks like some very heavy/prolonged stuff there indeed!

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Trogdor wrote: »

Looks like some very heavy/prolonged stuff there indeed!

I'll have my F5 key broken soon

davidsr20

Not sure why there's a level 2 lots of use here in the west are looking out at wet ground and blue sky's!

ninebeanrows

Yea, that's the lovely deep convection under that -40C 500hPa air.

Will give some nice accumulations in the western half of Ireland for sure.

Heavy this morning in Roscommon, stopped now and a bit of a thaw, however snow clouds heading in from the west.

ninebeanrows

davidsr20 wrote: »

Not sure why there's a level 2 lots of use here in the west are looking out at wet ground and blue sky's!

See the satellite picture, the party is yet to begin.

Senna

Nice dusting in NE Donegal, but only an inch or so

Lumi

Heavy snow shower just now in Moycullen, north of Galway city
Temp 0.7C
DP -0.5C

Rikand

intermittent snow showers in athlone. Some lovely flaky stuff there a minute ago but it's gone a bit sleety now. Still, we'll take what we can get

shedweller

A nice wee flurry in Slane. Not enough for a snowman though.

MidMan25

Not a flake in Cork city... yet

Larbre34

A bit of graupel schmaupel around south Dublin but nothing worth photographing, however its the wintriness of the day thats most evident, Temp 3C at the coast, wind chill to -2 and DP down to -2.5

Burts Bee

We had about three snowflakes overnight here just by Douglas in Cork. Some white cloud with Blue sky now. ..

davemc6832

Letterkenny this morning overlooking the Swilly, taken by a friend.

Rock Lesnar

Snowing in north meath again, nothing to get excited about though as the earlier snow is melting already

elaney

Snowing very heavy here in East Galway

Tactical

0900 West Limerick

0°C

Overcast 8/8

Calm

Graces7

Small shower of iced grit here on the Kerry Mountains then sun and now dark again,,, coming in from the west...the mountains are so pretty and yet scary.

icesnowfrost

Snowing now in drogheda

eastmayo

Showers seen to be getting more isolated here near knock airport,,seems very clear to the west

outsourced_ire

Snowing in Ballincollig, Cork!