Cold Spell January 9th to 16th 2016

syklops

highdef wrote: »

It's current track would bring it to Dublin but whether it gets that far is a different matter however it does tie in with the UK Met Office short range forecast.

Hmmmmm

Lets hope. Its bright and mostly clear in Dublin 2 at the moment. I'd love to see some snow falling though.

irish1967

Donegal Town. 12noon
0.1c
DP-1.6
Very light drizzle

😔

DOCARCH

highdef wrote: »

Great big lump of rain, sleet and snow is moving south west into the north midlands from Donegal Bay. It's holding itself very well so far and the leading edge has passed Carrick On Shannon.

That may be a false return, or, ppn not reaching the ground?

There are no reports on here of ppn...or...no reports of ppn from Finner or Sligo AP?

highdef

irish1967 wrote: »

Donegal Town. 12noon
0.1c
DP-1.6
Very light drizzle

😔

Wow, it's amazing that you are still experiencing liquid precipitation with temp and DP you have. I'd imagine temperature and DP is higher slightly higher up, as you are adjacent to the warm Atlantic

shmaupel

DOCARCH wrote: »

That may be a false return, or, ppn not reaching the ground?

There are no reports on here of ppn...or...no reports of ppn from Finner or Sligo AP?

I'm a few miles north of Finner on the coast, heavy sleet here for the last half hour.

lameusername

In the space of two hours the weather doo-dah has gone from snow all afternoon to tedious light rain till April.
Bleedin lie-phones.

highdef

DOCARCH wrote: »

That may be a false return, or, ppn not reaching the ground?

There are no reports on here of ppn...or...no reports of ppn from Finner or Sligo AP?

Also, the main part of the lump of precip passed just to the south of Finner. Would have expected some precip reports from Sligo AP though.
For Knock, the majority of the precip passed just a few km to the north and only now is precip falling....according to the radar anyway.

Been tracking the radar and it does not appear to be false returns. Precip not reaching the ground is a possibility however there is decent enough cloud height as well so I think it's the real deal.

Leading edge is just arriving in Longford and the backend has just passed the north coast of Mayo.

anluainnru

Just turned from rain into snow here in Carrick-on-Shannon in the last 10 mins. Too wet to stick though.

Pretzill

Snowing heavily now in South Sligo - in the twenty odd minutes it took to drive from Ballymote the roads are white and quite slippy -

Pete2k

Precip has arrived in West roscommon as rain

Graces7

Gone very dark here and can hear something on the window...South Kerry 400 asl (ft) These were taken today thinking probably the last snow images from here... but reading the list we may get more yet? The first is to the north, the second to the west. All have now vanished behind a white veil..

Pretzill

Not the best photo - seems to have brightened up a little now - but more snow on the ground than when this was taken over an hour ago.

Patty O Furniture

Pretzill wrote: »

Snowing heavily now in South Sligo - in the twenty odd minutes it took to drive from Ballymote the roads are white and quite slippy -

Same here in NW Donegal, skies have gotten grey very quickly.

pauldry

Sligo town is just getting rain mixed with freezing rain

Maybe a bit will come before midnight.

Coast and nw blowing in off sea kills it while inland places like tubber collooney ballymote n geevagh are far more favoured

highdef

Not bad at all considering that the Ballymote to Sligo road is a little under 100m.....I am presuming that was your route though!

Kamili

I had my fingers crossed for lots of snow here in Dublin, but nope nothing but cold

Seeing all the snowy pics is making me wish harder!

Pangea

Snowing wet snow here now in Donegal

LillyO

Passing rain showers in east Doneagl

davehey79

It's gotten dark and the heavens have opened in Longford Town, white fluffy snow coming down heavy now

Captain Snow

Any pictures of the White Gold .....:D

http://www.meteosurfcanarias.com/webcams/new/beach-cams-province_donegal.php

Senna

LillyO wrote: »

Passing rain showers in east Doneagl

Just starting to turn to snow now, coming from West direction

mountainy man

Its been snowing here since about 11.45 am, still falling, good "blobs" on radar! about an inch and a half ish on the ground. 0.1 C dp -1.6 C

(S.E. Sligo high ground)

Pretzill

highdef wrote: »

Not bad at all considering that the Ballymote to Sligo road is a little under 100m.....I am presuming that was your route though!

No I was going the other way towards the bricklieves - I'm at about 70m - But it was heavy in Ballymote too -



looks like only about a cm overall though.

Still nice to see though

marno21

Snowing rather heavily in north west Cork, near the Kerry border, and has been for quite a while

Gonzo

another average January day here, second frost of the winter last night, again this was melted by 10am.

DOCARCH

Looking at the trajectory of the first 'blob', it looks like it could pass just to the south of Dublin...if it even makes it this far east?

Takca

Just outside ballymote Sligo, about 110m ASL

pad199207

Has the met e mobile radar changed its colours?

nacho libre

ffarrell7 wrote: »

Steve F wrote: »

Southern England has generally very mild winters....as for London it gets practically zero snow and certainly less than Dublin or Belfast.

i am all to aware of that:( reading about the heavy snow at home now, meanwhile just a cold breeze with spots of rain here. we need an easterly or north easterly to get snow here. enjoy the snow ye feckers:p:

Kamili

DOCARCH wrote: »

Looking at the trajectory of the first 'blob', it looks like it could pass just to the south of Dublin...if it even makes it this far east?

Damnit, c'mon snow Dublin is (n)ice - no really

:P