Snow and Ice Warning : Thursday/Friday 7th/8th December

Kermit.de.frog

Gonzo wrote: »

freezing solid outside now, those snow flakes well and truly stuck to the car with no sign of melting. Anything that falls here during the night should be snow or hail till dawn at least.

Maybe you should count them again just to make sure they are all there?:p

Pretzill

More hail here, sticks then disappears into the wet ground - almost +1 on the barometer.

Will be interesting to see if the temps fall further and the hail softens into snow.

South Sligo
90m asl

nacho libre

davidsr20 wrote: »

Pity the rain and sleet had drowned the place not good for snow settle. Why do we always get sleet first

As i found out on December the 16th 2010 how soaked the ground is doesn't really matter, if the air temp falls low enough, it will start to stick

George Sunsnow

kilkenny31 wrote: »

Does the second image suggest that South Kilkenny /Waterford will see some snow on Monday?

In my experience with those netweather snow risk charts,reds and yellows get nothing or rain
So they are not showing anything great at all
They’re pointless anyway as they’re one Gfs run
You need meteorologist’s opinions on Sunday at this stage and they vary to a rain preceded by snow event well inland in north Leinster Ulster and parts of east Connaught (not Dublin city or suburbs) to an almost all snow event in those areas and high ground

Very very marginal

munsterlegend

A bit worrying not much snow falling up the northern half of the country or is this expected?

the 12 th man

Is it snowing anywhere?

North Leitrim

Nowt

RuthieRose

Snowing in Cavan

Super-Rush

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

North Leitrim

Nowt

Any rain even?

Reckless Abandonment

munsterlegend wrote: »

A bit worrying not much snow falling up the northern half of the country or is this expected?

Think the showers are moving to fast.

Shane O' Malley

the 12 th man wrote: »

Is it snowing anywhere?

Good amount of snow on the radar

ninebeanrows

RESN reported at EIDW on the 8pm METAR

RuthieRose

Just a quick shower

Mech1

Weathercheck wrote: »

RESN reported at EIDW on the 8pm METAR

METAR decoding help below.


http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/node/197

fraxinus1

Temperature has risen in south Donegal from 4.8 at 7.30 to 5.2 now according to my readings. Showers of rain. Unless there is a major change in conditions then there will be no snow.

munsterlegend

RuthieRose wrote: »

Just a quick shower

Hurry back

Kermit.de.frog

RuthieRose wrote: »

Just a quick shower

George Sunsnow

munsterlegend wrote: »

A bit worrying not much snow falling up the northern half of the country or is this expected?

There’s an occlusion to come down yet kicking off tonight’s activities and behind which is the coldest air by the looks of the fax chart
It’s progress is determined by Storm C

RuthieRose

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Yer fearce funny !!!!

joe199

I blame it on global warming

Kermit.de.frog

fraxinus1 wrote: »

Temperature has risen in south Donegal from 4.8 at 7.30 to 5.2 now according to my readings. Showers of rain. Unless there is a major change in conditions then there will be no snow.

This is the hazard of living near windward coasts with a strong wind unfortunately. However they will fall back notably even on coasts soon there as the trough moves through. No such issues further inland.

sryanbruen

joe199 wrote: »

I blame it on global warming

Oh please let's not start this rubbish.

Pipmae

RuthieRose wrote: »

Just a quick shower

We had the same here about an hour ago - East Meath.

dave1982

I assume a level 3 warning for cork is a banker

Pretzill

It's early yet though. Many of us will be waking up to snow right?
It hasn't really started yet. :-)

Sunny Dayz

We are still trekking Northbound. Just north of Donegal town where it has turned wintery and windy. Just getting through Barnesmore as I type. I’m not driving btw.
Snow heavier now and accumulations on side of road.

squarecircles

When you see the pink radar returns over belmullet you know it's cold...

M.T. Cranium

This radar

http://www.weathercast.co.uk/radar/united-kingdom.html

gives a pretty good indication of the heavy banding of wintry showers. I would imagine some higher roads in Donegal, Derry and Tyrone will experience very nasty blowing snow from these, the warmish Atlantic is keeping sea level temperatures a bit too high for accumulating snow (hail might occur though), but 3-5 cms of snow could easily accumulate in a matter of hours overnight inland.

The 516 dm thickness contour has made landfall in Ulster, this is quite a low value for a northwesterly and would almost always give snow in an easterly. Thicknesses below 510 dm are quite rare in Ireland, from what I've seen over ten years, might have touched that once or twice in late 2010. So this is quite a potent outbreak. Also the one on Sunday night and Monday will have a real bite and it comes from more of a north or even NNE source.

Just getting fully back into the game here after days and days of moving and sleep deprivation, so have not totally gotten up to speed on next week, we may need a thread for it soon.

Super-Rush

Super-Rush wrote: »

Any rain even?

Not really. There was a hail shower around 6pm. It is quite windy though.

mhiggy09

RuthieRose wrote: »

Snowing in Cavan

No snow yet where I am in south Cavan