Winter 2017-18: Discussion

Pwindedd

Oh lordy. A blob of pink over me on the radar. I just looked out the window and flakes are falling in D11. Does it qualify as ninja snow if you didn't check the boards for a while ?

highdef

Pwindedd wrote: »

Oh lordy. A blob of pink over me on the radar. I just looked out the window and flakes are falling in D11. Does it qualify as ninja snow if you didn't check the boards for a while ?

Yes, it does...I got it too. Ain't it so much better than predicted snow! LOL

Kermit.de.frog

Light snow here on northside of Dub, main stuff passed to the north but weakening rapidly.

Monkeynut

Snowing in swords. Was not expecting this.

Kermit.de.frog

Lambay Island is getting heavier snow than I did from that shower

Gaoth Laidir

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/964049348362407937

Pwindedd

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Lambay Island is getting heavier snow than I did from that shower

Very short-lived wasn't it. Trust the radar at your peril...still got a little thrill for 5 mins ;-)

Gaoth Laidir

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

It was obvious there was a snow risk this morning and most of today for at least 3 days. How they miss these things I don't know.

Maybe because you didn't start a thread on it...

But they did mention showers becoming increasingly wintry later in the night. I don't have the full extended forecasts from their site but these were the short-term ones issued yesterday.

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/963916286341386241

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/963821443644641280

AndyBoBandy

Just had a fantastic 15 minutes of heavy sticking snow in Rush, Dublin, (and a smaller shower at 8am).

sun is out now and it's mostly already melted.

Kermit.de.frog

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Maybe because you didn't start a thread on it...

But they did mention showers becoming increasingly wintry later in the night. I don't have the full extended forecasts from their site but these were the short-term ones issued yesterday.

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/963916286341386241

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/963821443644641280

I'm not going to start a thread for a few hours of snow showers. If I did that you would be the first person criticising it. We could have used the old thread but that was closed.

They never mentioned snow to low levels. Some wintry on high ground was the phrase yesterday.

Anyway it's fine for Dublin, not much here. Other areas people will say they did not expect it on their commute. ME really need to wake up from several standpoints, not all forecast related.

redsteveireland

Edge of a shower here, snow blowing around. Much heavier stuff heading for Gort by the looks of it.

Gaoth Laidir

Brief snow now in Tallaght.

Gaoth Laidir

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I'm not going to start a thread for a few hours of snow showers. If I did that you would be the first person criticising it. We could have used the old thread but that was closed.

They never mentioned snow to low levels. Some wintry on high ground was the phrase yesterday.

Anyway it's fine for Dublin, not much here. Other areas people will say they did not expect it on their commute. ME really need to wake up from several standpoints, not all forecast related.

My first comment was tongue-in-cheek. Relax.

In the tweets above they never mentioned high ground. I don't think there are any real problems with commutes from the few showers that have fallen, but maybe people just haven't reported them.

Not sure what you mean by the Met Éireann comment and don't really care if it's not weather-related.

monster1

Woke up to this, Roscommon

sryanbruen

Snowing here at Grange, D13. Quite weak nature as it’s also very sunny.

highdef

In North Kildare, turned back after car slid into a ditch. About 3cm on the hill and possibly the slippiest conditions I've ever experienced. Another big area of snow is en route.

Funny thing is that it's almost completely thawed back at my house, less than 50m lower in altitude and about 1km from the hill, as the crow flies. It's amazing how such a slight change in altitude can result in such a vast difference in conditions.

Gonzo

ninja snow here in Dunshaughlin! about 1 cm on the ground, it's melting fairly quickly in the sun.

Gonzo

snow shower here again.

very heavy snow here now: Dinnerplates!

highdef

Moderate to heavy dinner plate snow in north Kildare a short while ago. 1.5c. Was near freezing during the earlier showers so not sticking to the roads.Barely sticking to anything, in fact. Thaw is well underway now.

Gonzo

highdef wrote: »

Moderate to heavy dinner plate snow in north Kildare a short while ago. 1.5c. Was near freezing during the earlier showers so not sticking to the roads.Barely sticking to anything, in fact. Thaw is well underway now.

shower stopped here too. Looks like nothing else here now on the radar.

Appears to be a very big shower stretching from Limerick to Kilkenny into county Wexford, some places there could get a fairly decent dusting.

Pangea

Complete whiteout here about an inch of grapply hail. I'm surprised no warnings were issued by Met

highdef

Gonzo wrote: »

shower stopped here too. Looks like nothing else here now on the radar.

Appears to be a very big shower stretching from Limerick to Kilkenny into county Wexford, some places there could get a fairly decent dusting.

Possibly another shower for you (and me) in the next hour. There's a shower over North Offaly at the moment, heading east-ish. For us low landers, there won't be any more lying snow. Too warm now and the sun is heating the ground.

Even that area in the south midlands will not give a covering for those on lower ground. I reckon at this stage, you'd need to be over 250m for any chance of lying snow and even at that height, any areas in sunshine following any snow will have a fairly rapid thaw. The sun is gaining strength now and slight coverings melt quite quickly. We'd need a good thick covering to negate the effects of sun melt.

Pangea

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

My first comment was tongue-in-cheek. Relax.

In the tweets above they never mentioned high ground. I don't think there are any real problems with commutes from the few showers that have fallen, but maybe people just haven't reported them.

Not sure what you mean by the Met Éireann comment and don't really care if it's not weather-related.

They did say yesterday that the wintry showers would be on higher ground.
Few accidents here in Donegal this morning. One car upside down on one road. Lorry jacked knived on another one

DellyBelly

Was surprised to see it snowing in Dublin 8 this morning. Fortunately it wasn't much and stopped fairly quicky but was getting a little worries when it started

Pangea

Accident and road closure in Mayo also
http://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2018/02/15/4152178-garda-issue-warning-to-mayo-motorists-over-icy-roads/

Xenji

Heavy sleet and hail in Castlebar, two trucks jackknifed in Tulsk earlier, it is meant to be quite bad around Roscommon.

jambofc

sleety mix in Kilkenny City

m17

Light snow shower at annagh hill Co Galway 15/02/18

George Sunsnow

highdef wrote: »

Moderate to heavy dinner plate snow in north Kildare a short while ago. 1.5c. Was near freezing during the earlier showers so not sticking to the roads.Barely sticking to anything, in fact. Thaw is well underway now.

To be honest if we get a northeasterly or easterly in the next fortnight .. to quote the late great frank Kelly (fr jack) when he had a version of the 12 nights of Xmas on top of the pops in the 70’s or early 80’s
Your snow today will look like Outlook!!

For those among us that aren’t ancient fossils like me,outlook was a religious programme on RTÉ and poor frank was getting so much hardship half way through Xmas with dancing girls and milk maids carrying on with 11 lords a leaping he said it made Sodom and Gomorrah look like outlook!!

Let’s see what happens,I’m not interested in run to run impatience and over analysis right now
Things will be clearer in a week
Weather isn’t a Celtic tiger toy,it does not respond to,Give it me now
I’m still more confident than not confident that we may get something out of this not least because more ensembles on various models say we will but also obviously in the UK met offices considered thoughts which remain bullish on cold ,relying on theory more so than models at the moment if you follow?

km79

Woken a few times with almighty gusty showers last night followed by a torturous drive to the airport early
It is seasonal weather though so to be expected
Hope we get seasonal weather in summer now too