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

sjb25

km79 wrote: »

Neighbour is out cutting the lawn !

Grass got to be done

Logged into Facebook this morning and got a "memory" from 3 years ago today of it snowing in Sandyford.

If memory serves it was 'heavy' by Irish standards for about an hour then all melted.

Periscal

Rain turned to heavy wet snow again In Hollywood,co.Wicklow

Yourself isit

So I have to drive 5 miles tomorrow. Chances of bring snowed in? Dublin north city.

JCX BXC

Yourself isit wrote: »

So I have to drive 5 miles tomorrow. Chances of bring snowed in? Dublin north city.

What do you think?

Yourself isit

Yourself isit wrote: »

So I have to drive 5 miles tomorrow. Chances of bring snowed in? Dublin north city.

Chances of being snowed in? About the same as a lottery win.

acassells80

Just rain in South Dublin.. so depressing

Larbre34

Breezy, very cold and blowing light rain here in Dublin 15. Manky.

pad199207

Heavyish sleet in Kildare now

Rock Lesnar

No Frost and No Snow in North Meath so far this week

Yourself isit

Anyway no snow. What about the severe frost?

Oscar Bravo

Dublin airport 4pm. 4 degrees and a dew point of 3 degrees . light rain

Lumi

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acassells80

Any snow showers due for the east coast tonight ?

PukkaStukka

I still can't get my head around why the precipitation here is falling as rain when it feels so bitterly cold out. It's miserable and manky. :mad:

Snowbiee21

acassells80 wrote: »

Any snow showers due for the east coast tonight ?

Doubt it air temps and DPS won't be good enough

arctictree

Big rise in Temps here last few hours. Now 3.3c. That next blob on the radar should all be rain unless the temp drops significantly

MJohnston

PukkaStukka wrote: »

I still can't get my head around why the precipitation here is falling as rain when it feels so bitterly cold out. It's miserable and manky. :mad:

I'm a weather amateur, but form of precipitation has very little to do with the ground level temperature (beyond how that tends to correlate with upper air temperatures and dew points and all that other stuff)

Yourself isit

So what went wrong? Is fair to say that this event is warmer but has much more precipitation than expected even a few days ago?

Gonzo

arctictree wrote: »

Big rise in Temps here last few hours. Now 3.3c. That next blob on the radar should all be rain unless the temp drops significantly

almost 5C here now, a rise of 3C in past few hours. Most places should remain above freezing tonight and into double figures almost nationwide from Monday.

This cold event was never shaking up to be good to begin with but has turned out even worse than what most of us thought with many places seeing no frost or snow, just cold wind chill and clouds. Time to move on now from this one.

Gonzo

Yourself isit wrote: »

So what went wrong? Is fair to say that this event is warmer but has much more precipitation than expected even a few days ago?

nothing really went wrong. It had poor precipitation and temporary cold temps with warmer air all around it to begin with. Possibly was a bit milder than expected with no night time frosts. In my book this was not an easterly, it was just a small off shoot of cold air with nothing to back it up such as long feeds of cold and snowfields.

Rougies

Yourself isit wrote: »

So what went wrong? Is fair to say that this event is warmer but has much more precipitation than expected even a few days ago?

Today's increased precip was expected a few days ago, and was also expected to bring an increase in temps with it confining snow to higher ground. What is disappointing is it's even warmer than expected and snow line seems to be >400m right now.

horsefarm

Lashing rain at 260m, my fields go up to 300m and they are still a green/brown mucky mess too. So disapointing. S. DUBLIN

Villain

Snow line above 300M, sallygap in last 30 mins:

https://twitter.com/carlowweather/status/830457846525521926

Yourself isit

Gonzo wrote: »

nothing really went wrong. It had poor precipitation and temporary cold temps with warmer air all around it to begin with. Possibly was a bit milder than expected with no night time frosts. In my book this was not an easterly, it was just a small off shoot of cold air with nothing to back it up such as long feeds of cold and snowfields.

That's not true. Even two days ago the prediction was bright, frost and wintery showers ( but infrequent) and that was the non ramping forecast.

Instead there was no frost but lots of rain. Cloudy.

Oneiric 3

Reading the reports on here, I am reminded of this rather brilliant post from a couple of days ago. :P

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

TBH, if I was living on the east coast, I'd not be looking forward to the upcoming short cool snap: just looks cool, damp and non-descript. Much like we get in the west under weak polar westerlys, which is hardly anything to celebrate.

Yourself isit

Villain wrote: »

Snow line above 300M, sallygap in last 30 mins:

https://twitter.com/carlowweather/status/830457846525521926

A guy in a mini spins. Hardly impassable for anybody else.

RobertKK

Here in north east Kilkenny, 7 miles from the city, the temperature for the afternoon was around 2.2C, then heated up to 2.7C, currently 2.6C with a dewpoint of 1.9C.
Had a a light snow shower earlier, then some sleet later on, if we get the heavier precipitation, it should cool things down enough for snow.
Glad I told a local news reporter who asked for the weather yesterday than Kilkenny city would get rain or sleet showers over the weekend.
Kilkenny city is 3.7C.

Oneiric 3

Villain wrote: »

Snow line above 300M, sallygap in last 30 mins:

https://twitter.com/carlowweather/status/830457846525521926

That's impassable? Nice pics but the amount of snow there does not tie in with the comment at all.

fraxinus1

Just had to come on to say that despite the spin that will be pushed by some on here, the entire forecast was way off. The opening of dedicated a thread for this non event was premature. I am in Dublin today at a wedding and it is wet and cold. A typical February day.