Cold Spell January 9th to 16th 2016

coconnellz · 13-01-2016 10:25am

Snow is sticking to low levels around Virginia cavan

coconnellz · 13-01-2016 10:27am

Sleet turn to a Flurry of snow and sticking around meters Virginia cavan 100 meters elevation

maquiladora · 13-01-2016 11:30am

A more generous dusting on the HIRLAM. High ground obviously getting a bit more.

Villain · 13-01-2016 11:38am

Harmonie shows plenty of showers on Eastern half of the country for Thursday evening from 06z run, bit far out yet but looks interesting.

pad199207 · 13-01-2016 2:12pm

Moderate sleet here in Naas

WheatenBriar · 13-01-2016 2:26pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Moderate sleet here in Naas

Interesting

Dull here in Arklow and the third day in a row the temp has maxed out around 5c

For guaranteed snow, there's a number of public roads in co wicklow above 1000ft,just park your camper van at the highest point and be stocked up
Lots of batteries and a torch will make do as a lamp post

maquiladora · 13-01-2016 3:00pm

STATUS ORANGE

Snow-ice Warning for Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo

Snow accumulations of between 4 and 8 cm possible from midnight tonight until midnight on Thursday. The highest amounts on high ground.
Issued:
Wednesday 13 January 2016 13:00
Valid:
Thursday 14 January 2016 00:01 to Thursday 14 January 2016 23:59

STATUS YELLOW

Snow-ice Warning for Longford, Cavan, Monaghan, Galway and Roscommon

Snow accumulations of 2 to 4 cm possible from midnight tonight until midnight on Thursday.
Issued:
Wednesday 13 January 2016 13:00
Valid:
Thursday 14 January 2016 00:01 to Thursday 14 January 2016 23:59

JCX BXC · 13-01-2016 3:03pm

Met Eireann warnings issued:

STATUS ORANGE

Snow-ice Warning for Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo

Snow accumulations of between 4 and 8 cm possible from midnight tonight until midnight on Thursday. The highest amounts on high ground.
Issued:
Wednesday 13 January 2016 13:00
Valid:
Thursday 14 January 2016 00:01 to Thursday 14 January 2016 23:59

STATUS YELLOW

Snow-ice Warning for Longford, Cavan, Monaghan, Galway and Roscommon

Snow accumulations of 2 to 4 cm possible from midnight tonight until midnight on Thursday.
Issued:
Wednesday 13 January 2016 13:00
Valid:
Thursday 14 January 2016 00:01 to Thursday 14 January 2016 23:59

Could maybe a mod input these into the OP?

maquiladora · 13-01-2016 3:15pm

Take it with a pinch of rock salt.

johndeere3350 · 13-01-2016 3:25pm

I tink mets readings for kerry are away off.
There's a massive difference between valentia and North kerry.
It would take something serious to get a low temp reading where there station is

Snowbiee21 · 13-01-2016 3:34pm

Seems to be nothing tracking around eastern parts tonight as per usual it seems to be parts of the Midlands in control. Can't really see anything making it as far as places like Meath or Dublin really

aisling86 · 13-01-2016 4:40pm

The cork snow shield is well and truley out in force! :mad:

JCX BXC · 13-01-2016 4:54pm

aisling86 wrote: »

The cork snow shield is well and truley out in force! :mad:

Ah well, it not like it was ever close to breaching it!

maquiladora · 13-01-2016 5:03pm

12Z HIRLAM showing a 0.2cm dusting for Dublin over the next 48 hours.

Snowbiee21 · 13-01-2016 5:06pm

maquiladora wrote: »

12Z HIRLAM showing a 0.2cm dusting for Dublin over the next 48 hours.

Huge dusting

snowstorm445 · 13-01-2016 5:24pm

GFS seems to have shifted to the cold side, setting up a pseudo-Scandi High into early next week. :P UKMO still showing a rise in pressure around Greenland. Not much of a route to zonal weather atm it would seem.

Captain Snow · 13-01-2016 5:26pm

Cork on Ice

https://www.facebook.com/charlie.wilkins.75/videos/1031883253519496

snowstorm445 · 13-01-2016 5:27pm

UKMO also wants to set up an undercut scenario. Could be good news for Irish snow lovers if that's the case.

maquiladora · 13-01-2016 5:37pm

snowstorm445 wrote: »

GFS seems to have shifted to the cold side, setting up a pseudo-Scandi High into early next week. :P UKMO still showing a rise in pressure around Greenland. Not much of a route to zonal weather atm it would seem.

The GFS does delay the return of the full on Atlantic until after the middle of next week now. This type of setup could end up being very wet but wouldn't worry about that yet since there is significant disagreement on the models well before this point.

gfs-0-210.png?12

acassells80 · 13-01-2016 5:38pm

Looks like precipitation heading east, no idea if this will be rain, sleet or snow though

lolie · 13-01-2016 5:45pm

Captain Snow wrote: »

Cork on Ice

https://www.facebook.com/charlie.wilkins.75/videos/1031883253519496

Spot the poor fella on the left landing on his arse at 0:58, ouch.

JCX BXC · 13-01-2016 5:53pm

Light rain snow being reported at Knock airport since the 15:30 update.

Pangea · 13-01-2016 6:19pm

Might be good idea to have a snow reporting thread, 2.8c here in Donegal now and raining. I'm sure it's snowing in the hills

DOCARCH · 13-01-2016 6:22pm

Pangea wrote: »

Might be good idea to have a snow reporting thread...

It's bad enough having this thread and the general (Winter Weather) thread going, without adding another thread!

Any snow reports can/should be posted in this 'event' thread.

Pangea · 13-01-2016 6:31pm

DOCARCH wrote: »

It's bad enough having this thread and the general (Winter Weather) thread going, without adding another thread!

Any snow reports can/should be posted in this 'event' thread.

Yeah your probably right, but wait until Dublin gets a snowflake :P and you might eat your words

DOCARCH · 13-01-2016 6:33pm

Pangea wrote: »

Yeah your probably right, but wait until Dublin gets a snowflake :P and you might eat your words

I was just about to come back and say the same thing! :P

As there is a very low/no snow risk in Dublin, no need for another thread....:D

Oneiric 3 · 13-01-2016 6:37pm

Synoptic analysis for this day in 1987. C/O UK Met.

Brought some heavy snowfalls to parts of the east. What I find interesting though is that there was no major frontal activity in the vicinity of Ireland during this memorable spell. The snowfalls during that time must have come more from showery troughs and/or Irish Sea 'streamers'

DOCARCH · 13-01-2016 6:39pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Synoptic analysis for this day in 1987. C/O UK Met.

IIRC, that was the first time I experienced thundersnow.

Oneiric 3 · 13-01-2016 6:45pm

DOCARCH wrote: »

IIRC, that was the first time I experienced thundersnow.

Snowfall must have come from convective showers so, as thunder rarely, if ever, occurs in fully formed 'bent back' occlusions.

WheatenBriar · 13-01-2016 6:50pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Synoptic analysis for this day in 1987. C/O UK Met.

Brought some heavy snowfalls to parts of the east. What I find interesting though is that there was no major frontal activity in the vicinity of Ireland during this memorable spell. The snowfalls during that time must have come more from showery troughs and/or Irish Sea 'streamers'

There was a frontal feature for definite on a friday during that
It came down from Scandinavia across Northern England and pepped up over the Irish sea,dumped a foot of snow around Dublin,Wicklow and Wexford and continued south westwards across the country exiting into the Atlantic weakening around Kerry
It even gave snow to Valentia
I lived in Ballinteer at the time and had to walk to bird avenue to get a bus into town as they only went that far and wanted to get to Connolly
The train to Arklow went through some awe inspiring snow from Glenealy through Rathdrum and Avoca
When I got back to Arklow, the car at home was buried on its east side

Just to add,Ian mccaskills forecast for that episode, might be that day is on youtube, its where he described the feature as the great white siberian army is coming

Cold Spell January 9th to 16th 2016

Comments