COLD SPELL Jan 28th Onwards: Wintry Showers/Frosty, Some Snow Accumulations

Bondurant

Snowing lightly but steadily here about 12km west of Cork City since 06:20

munsterlegend

Yes light(very) snow shower here. Nice to see.

Villain

Both Harmonie and GFS are sticking to their guns, one of them is going to have egg on its face!

FWVT

GFS soundings now say sleet at sea level in the west during the peak of the precipitation while further east it's snow. Note the thickness of the warm and moist surface layer in the west, with wbt of almost 2 °C. Further east it remains below zero.

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Villain wrote: »

Both Harmonie and GFS are sticking to their guns, one of them is going to have egg on its face!

Yup, Met E do not indicate any such widespread snow at all.Mainly dry for the rest of the week, just some wintry showers western, northern fringes really.

*Grabs popcorn*

JanuarySnowstor

Met eireann should be ignored
It's snowing this morning let alone tomorrow

Clamball

Just drove from Cork to Fermoy, temperatures 2 - 1 C. Road conditions good.

maquiladora

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Met eireann should be ignored
It's snowing this morning let alone tomorrow

Met Eireann has had a warning mentioning snow for Munster this morning since last night :

Scattered wintry showers, mainly in parts of Ulster, Connacht and west Munster, could give accumulations of up to 3 cm in places overnight and on Monday morning.

The forecast for this morning mentions wintry showers inland :

Many areas dry, but a few patches of rain and drizzle will occur along Atlantic coasts and some wintry showers in inland areas.

The radar shows radar light/drizzle/snizzle over the southwest. The reports here are of light and very light snow in places. On the coast, it's rain

SHERKIN ISLAND(A) NE 10 MOD. DRIZZLE
VALENTIA(A) E 06 LIGHT RAIN

That all seems exactly consistent with what Met Eireann has forecast for this morning. So they should they be ignored exactly?

maquiladora

Latest ECM for this morning until tomorrow afternoon. It's showing is fairly light precip at times for areas in the northwest to the southwest, fizzling out before reaching the east. Would be rain/sleet on the coast and turning to snow inland.



Euro4 snow accumulation on Tuesaday.

downwiththatsor

Light snow in Kerry now

Takeshi_Kovacs

It is snowing very lightly here at the moment, not near enough for it to start sticking, and with the cloud cover and no breeze it is not getting very cold either.

northgirl

Very light snow coming and going here in cork City NW

Supercell

Encouraging to see streamers in action already on the Irish sea. Looks like these are more likely to deliver the goods on the east coast tomorrow than any frontal precip, Isle of Man permitting of course! Bring on the NE winds!

Villain

Jean very much siding with Harmonie on the Radio forecast at 8am this is going to be fascinating to watch, of course the answer may well end up being something between Harmonie and GFS.

Schadenfreudia

Light breeze, clear and -1.1C.

Cloud drifted over from time to time late last night and it hardly moved the temperature at all - always a good sign!

aisling86

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Macroom is very well positioned for snow in 12 hours time or less according to the charts. Cork city might be too far east.

Just a light dusting so far....hopefully tomorrow will be better!!

Kermit.de.frog

00z Euro4 has the snow tonight a little further east than the 18z with some accumulations inland

vistafinder

Snowing inland West Cork!!! I repeat Snowing inland West Cork!!!

DOCARCH

Supercell wrote: »

Encouraging to see streamers in action already on the Irish sea. Looks like these are more likely to deliver the goods on the east coast tomorrow than any frontal precip, Isle of Man permitting of course! Bring on the NE winds!

To be very precise...for me/south Dublin...NNE or ENE winds please. NE winds just means the IOM screws us (in south Dublin)!

ComaWhite

Woke up to a dusting on Inch, Donegal. Everything had frozen last night by 10pm, nice halo around the moon as well. Couldn't get a photo unfortunately, because it turns out that I'm a pretty terrible photographer. Anyways, what snow we had during the night has turned the place into a winter wonderland once again, and fingers crossed for a little more!

kmoneill

Snowing here in mid kerry for a few hours ,about 2cm lying so far..

sunbabe08

Snowing in cork city. Tiny flakes!!! Yay

munsterlegend

vistafinder wrote: »

Snowing inland West Cork!!! I repeat Snowing inland West Cork!!!

snowing inland north cork! sticking and a dusting. didn't expect much so happy to see it.

ch750536

First lying snow of the event for me

northgirl

sunbabe08 wrote: »

Snowing in cork city. Tiny flakes!!! Yay

nothing at all in UCC area.

Oneiric 3

Here's where the ECM has the highest snow potential for early tomorrow morning (6z)




Meanwhile, the GFS 00z has snow falling over a wider area as the front pushes through:




Here locally, currently under a thick layer of Altostratus yet temp is still only -1.0c (Dp -2.0) with a with a fairly dense smoke haze. Not a breath of wind either. Classic wintry weather!

sunbabe08

northgirl wrote: »

nothing at all in UCC area.

nope, nothing at all

yellowlabrador

Snowing in Dunmanway. Every thing is white. The council must have been out to grit because the roads are OK.

The_Shotz

Cold and frosty with good cloud cover in Waterford City. Will anything fall from those clouds, fingers crossed but I won't hold my breath!

JanuarySnowstor

06z continues the trend for snow tonight.
Have seen enough now to be confident of at least a few cm across the western side of the country