Severe Frost countrywide + Occasional Snow Showers in the East from Thursday 9th Feb

Doctor Shivering

Heavy snizzle here also,south Wicklow mixed with graupel

pauldry

Itl definitely snow.
As i said last night

YiPEE

heffoo

Snizzle on Wicklow Carlow border 225 Mtrs asl

Snowbiee21

It should be rain really for lower levels 150 above in for a shot!

DOCARCH

Dew point at M2 bouy (in the Irish Sea) is +2c atm...not very encouraging.

Buffalobill29

Snowing at nicely at roundwood right now.

mickger844posts

The band of precipitation over the UK currently looks well defined and should make its way across the Irish Sea later. At sea level conditions will be marginal as usual but hills should sea a decent amount.
Currently here in Waterford some welcome breaks in the clouds.
Temp 1.9c DP -1.5c

Live streams on my website here http://www.waterfordcityweather.com/wxstream.php

Mr Bumble

Two or three showers of snizzle in Delgany - cloud thickening all the time - i'm excited

ninebeanrows

The longer we can hold the N or NW wind the better. Should be sleet/snow with that... once it swings NE things will turn the wrong side of marginal below 200m.

Supercell

Folks up in Laragh, Annamoe, Roundwood should be in for a few cm's of snow this morning, please share some pics for us down at the rain line

heffoo

Supercell wrote: »

Folks up in Laragh, Annamoe, Roundwood should be in for a few cm's of snow this morning, please share some pics for us down at the rain line

And Knockananna I hope 😂😂😂😂

HighLine

Supercell wrote: »

Folks up in Laragh, Annamoe, Roundwood should be in for a few cm's of snow this morning, please share some pics for us down at the rain line

Are DPs not too high? Heading towards 1 degree in Ashford.

Mech1

Graupel falling hard in Monkstown

Doctor Shivering

HighLine wrote: »

Are DPs not too high? Heading towards 1 degree in Ashford.

A northerly at that station comes straight off the sea though

Croghan area in South Wicklow has a good white covering now but that's high

heffoo

Dp in Knockananna -2 temp 2 degrees

DOCARCH

Very light sleet/snow now in Dublin 16. 1.8c DP -0.6c atm.

Gonzo

nothing here overnight, not even a frost. Temps so far during this cold spell have not made it south of 1C here.

Gaoth Laidir

Not looking good upstream over the UK.

Oneiric 3

nacho libre wrote: »

was it this article?

http://theconversation.com/the-atlantic-is-entering-a-cool-phase-that-will-change-the-worlds-weather-42497

i found this bit interesting:
The ocean went through a warm period in the 1930s/1940s and again in the 1990s/2000s. However the 1970s/1980s were much cooler and there are hints of a transition to a relatively cold period at the moment.

The last sentence in particular.

GavinP mentioned the AMO on one of his excellent vidjas recently too. He claimed that it in the run up to the 'switch' that it would waver between warm and less warm states until then. The north Atlantic is still in a warm state currently but the cool 'blob', which formed a couple of years back (and may have been partly responsible for the cool summer of 2015) is still not going away completely, but is much less marked over the last 6 or 7 months or so.



Will be interesting to see (if we still are alive that is!) if the AMO switch to a cooler phase over the next 3 or 4 years will occur. If it does, it could help cool down our winters a bit as I think the 80s was a period when the AMO was also in a cool phase?

Villain

That bloody IOM shadow!!

https://twitter.com/carlowweather/status/830364004178591745

Meteorite58

The SE also looks like getting precipitation of some sort.

freesia1

seeing first snowflakes fall in Dublin 7 now

power pants

freesia1 wrote: »

seeing first snowflakes fall in Dublin 7 now

Really?? I'm in d7 and it's a lot milder than yesterday and certainly saw no flakes or anything remotely resembling snow falling from the sky and I'm outside all morning

Supercell

Light rain/drizzle here as expected, oh well.

Gonzo

you can see the milder air over the eastern UK with snow turning back to rain.

ninebeanrows

Very very light snow in Drumcondra

freesia1

Put on your snow glasses.

Doctor Shivering

Moderate sleety snow & graupel here near Arklow noo

Meteorite58

arctictree

Moderate snow here now. Trying to stick, +1.1c