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Widespread Snow Showers Thurs 12th/Fri 13th Jan 2017

Rebelbrowser · 2017-01-10 09:45:50

Mods, feel free to shut down if inappropriate but its not often you get a precipitation chart like below less than 48hrs away so lets milk it for all we can! Straight off, and just to clarify, this is an event driven by cold air sourced from northern Canada. It is not related to the extreme cold in Poland etc so don't…

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#1622 12-01-2017 9:26pm
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amadangomor wrote: »

Can anyone explain why we are getting higher temperatures now?

Warm core low pressure system. It'll fall back down again during the night as it moves away.

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#1623 12-01-2017 9:29pm
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$1aXKwqY.png[\IMG]$

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#1624 12-01-2017 9:29pm
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Didn't expect it to be this windy in Kerry here this evening, would skin a cat out there !

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#1625 12-01-2017 9:29pm
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Kamili wrote: »

Nope said Leinster. See post #156

Ok I'm really out now this is getting silly.

Sorry mods

Actually the yellow warning on met said fewer showers on the east coast.

Yellow is very minor and they are talking abiut more inland leinster as they dont have a warning zone for just them. It clearly points it out.

Any snow threat in ireland will have a slight warning.

Anyhow my kids have a great 30 mins out in it with the kids on the street.

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#1626 12-01-2017 9:29pm
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Minion! Youghal/Dungarvan

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#1627 12-01-2017 9:31pm
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Iancar29 wrote: »

Warm core low pressure system. It'll fall back down again during the night as it moves away.

The temperature increased here and has dropped again. We've a load of slush. If that freezes it will be fun in the morning.

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#1628 12-01-2017 9:31pm
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And with the colder air behind such a small low pressure system, comes drier air with less organised precip also.

As the 3 hour model accordingly predicts: http://www.met.ie/forecasts/3hour.asp

North coast, and quite a lot of the west coast are in for a pasting tonight.

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#1629 12-01-2017 9:32pm
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Kamili wrote: »

Not upset, just baffled at why it was declared status yellow for snow and ice. We didn't see much at all of that.

This is a funny reversal of general sentiment yesterday. When met.ie were dismissed as being too conservative.

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#1630 12-01-2017 9:40pm
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showers of rain/sleet since 6pm, snow melted, think that's our lot for today.

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#1631 12-01-2017 9:40pm
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Iancar29 wrote: »

Warm core low pressure system. It'll fall back down again during the night as it moves away.

Yep. Snowing in Dundalk round 5.30, but a rain shower at 7.30ish.

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#1632 12-01-2017 9:41pm
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Meteorite58 wrote: »

Didn't expect it to be this windy in Kerry here this evening, would skin a cat out there !

Same in Donegal, I'd almost describe it as stormy here. I always find northerly winds feel more severe than our usual westerlies for some reason

Flash of lightning here just now as well, combined with the wind it's finally giving a bit of excitement here

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#1633 12-01-2017 9:45pm
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mickmackey1 wrote: »

Still snowing across the border in S Limerick, we'd be a bit more elevated. Completely blanketed now.

Broadford area?

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#1634 12-01-2017 9:45pm
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Kamili wrote: »

Nope said Leinster. See post #156

Ok I'm really out now this is getting silly.

Sorry mods

Post 156? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102251010&postcount=156

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#1635 12-01-2017 9:46pm
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Very stormy here - I'd say if the predicted snow had come with it - there certainly would have been drifts. Instead it's sleety hail.

S Sligo 90m asl

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#1636 12-01-2017 9:47pm
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Good few sferics today, some recent off the SW coast . Saw some fine Cb's today in Kerry

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#1637 12-01-2017 9:48pm
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Sat image from this morning with some nice covering in parts of Scotland:

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#1638 12-01-2017 9:49pm
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Fun in Canada

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#1639 12-01-2017 9:55pm
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I told u all hours ago it was gone over. Or actually the game was cancelled never begin at all lol

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#1640 12-01-2017 9:57pm
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davidsr20 wrote: »

I told u all hours ago it was gone over. Or actually the game was cancelled never begin at all lol

Pfft, I got to see my kid gaze in wonder at his first sight of falling snow, that's good enough for me

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#1641 12-01-2017 10:01pm
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showers are of rain across most of the country, colder air again behind with far less precipitation. Milder air will be back from the morning.

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#1642 12-01-2017 10:01pm
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We left coolock in north Dublin around 6.15pm and it started bucketing snow. Stayed that way up the M1 to about junction 7. Was crazy driving on the motorway with it.

Died off until we got to junction 15 or so and then continued heavy enough at home just outside Dundalk.

Was lovely just to see it falling so heavy and a good dusting on the ground.

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#1643 12-01-2017 10:02pm
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davidsr20 wrote: »

I told u all hours ago it was gone over. Or actually the game was cancelled never begin at all lol

My kids would disagree, they had great fun out in it.

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#1644 12-01-2017 10:03pm
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MJohnston wrote: »

Pfft, I got to see my kid gaze in wonder at his first sight of falling snow, that's good enough for me

Ditto.

'Frozen Daddy, Ffrroozzeennnnn!'

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#1645 12-01-2017 10:04pm
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Wind howling here now. Kids were entertained by the heavy showers today.

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#1646 12-01-2017 10:07pm
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Snowed hard for up to 25-30 minutes from when I left Navan until Longwood.
Severe enough for the artic in front of me to lose control by clipping the edge of the verge and proceed to up-end and keel over onto its roof down into the lower field. A few feet in front of me.
So it's far from over. That was 15 miles from Enfield when other posters around 6 were seeing nothing.
Goes to show

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#1647 12-01-2017 10:07pm
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Mr Whom wrote: »

Lock thread?

Ah be quiet.

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#1648 12-01-2017 10:07pm
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MJohnston wrote: »

Pfft, I got to see my kid gaze in wonder at his first sight of falling snow, that's good enough for me

That is a memory indeed. But now we need an actual memorable fall to get out and enjoy. Such a rare thing now it is sad. We all of a certain age remember the memorable falls of snow but we haven't had one here, as in more than an inch or two, (Offaly)since December 2000, way overdue now.

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#1649 12-01-2017 10:08pm
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1°c in Cork. Just rained though.. strange.

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#1650 12-01-2017 10:11pm
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Slushy shambles in West Dublin

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#1651 12-01-2017 10:11pm
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The problem today seems to be a backtrack over the last 24hrs on how cold the uppers would be. Typically -5 whereas a couple of days ago -8 was projected. The result hill and mountain snow rather than low level stuff.
I'm very surprised that the UK met got this marginally wrong as did most of us.

Of course you can't blame professionals or indeed ourselves. What does baffle me though is how over the last 30 years of computers trying to forecast weather we have made little if any progress

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