Snow-ice Warning : Wednesday 27 Dec. 2017 21:00 to Fri 29 Dec 10.00

Rock Lesnar

No rain or frost in north meath at the minute, looked like we might be in for a frost earlier but its turned considerably cloudier since. Ground still frozen in the shaded parts

ninebeanrows

Yea dewpoints already up to 1 deg.C and wind now swung SSE

pad199207

Weathercheck wrote: »

Yea dewpoints already up to 1 deg.C and wind now swung SSE

All set now for the next front coming in to go wrong. You couldn’t make it up in this country when it comes to snow.

Happily falls as rain here and then turns to snow over England. Really would piss ya off.

Ya wonder why some us are going mad!

Pangea

Today was an 'Ice Day' here in Donegal, its been a while since I had one at my location and its freezing hard now again, not that it thawed much anyway, very seasonal. Brings back memories of the Big Freeze from 2010.

Oscar Bravo

Rain on the west coast now, Knock at 0 degrees should see some snow although nothing out of the ordinary up there.

lolie

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Rain on the west coast now, Knock at 0 degrees should see some snow although nothing out of the ordinary up there.

Very light snow reported in Nobber meath a short while ago.
If you zoom in you can see the single blue dot on the radar.

Slashermcguirk

England gets sod all snow, Scotland gets a good lasting. I have a friend living in London for years now and he said snow is very rare.

Scottish highlands are the only reliable place for snow in the UK

pad199207 wrote: »

All set now for the next front coming in to go wrong. You couldn’t make it up in this country when it comes to snow.

Happily falls as rain here and then turns to snow over England. Really would piss ya off.

Ya wonder why some us are going mad!

RobertKK

Temperature has been rising steadily for the last couple of hours here in Kilkenny.
3.3C from 1.2C.

George Sunsnow

RobertKK wrote: »

Temperature has been rising steadily for the last couple of hours here in Kilkenny.
3.3C from 1.2C.

2.2 c here near Arklow dp is 1c
The rain will be heavy when it arrives again ,warmer air meeting cold and all that
There could be some substantial snow on lugnaquilla here in Wicklow and up in the Cooley’s/mournes

Oscar Bravo

today's max temps (°C):

Knock Airport 1.0
Oak Park (Carlow) 1.9
Mullingar 2.0
Shannon Airport 2.4
Finner (Donegal) 2.6
Athenry 2.7
Phoenix Park 3.1
Cork Airport 3.7
Belmullet 4.5
Valentia 7.5

DanielL18

Taken this evening in West Cork.

q85dw7osi4lebg

Freezing hard just south of Drogheda. Paths and untreated roads white.

Gaoth Laidir

Aerodrome warnings for Dublin and Casement give moderate frost and light air frost from 4 pm today to 1 am, though with overcast skies and temperatures steady or rising there's not much chance of that at this stage.

EIDW AD WRNG 01 VALID 281600/290100 FROST MOD GND AND FBL AIR DEPOSITIONS LIKELY FCST =

EIME AD WRNG 01 VALID 281600/290100 FROST MOD GND AND FBL AIR DEPOSITIONS LIKELY FCST =

Light ground and air frost for Knock up to 3 am.

EIKN AD WRNG 01 VALID 281500/290300 FROST FBL GND AND FBL AIR DEPOSITIONS LIKELY FCST =

Can't see any low-level snow tonight. Possibly some wet stuff on higher ground through the usual Leitrims and Cavans, etc.

igCorcaigh

@MetEireann

There are a few thunderstorms in the showers behind tonight's band of rain/sleet. There's a moderate risk of scattered thunderstorms reaching the west coast after midnight and moving eastwards across the country.
Lightning (orange circles) currently approx 120kms off the coast. https://t.co/GX228YShld

mickmackey1

igCorcaigh wrote: »

@MetEireann
There's a moderate risk of scattered thunderstorms reaching the west coast after midnight and moving eastwards across the country.
Lightning (orange circles) currently approx 120kms off the coast. https://t.co/GX228YShld

Somebody issue a warning...QUICK! :eek: :pac:

Irish Steve

Bit late, been busy with other things, there was snow this morning in South Clare that stuck for a while, and on top of black ice there were a few minor RTA's locally, but it turned to rain by lunchtime, and has remained rain since. Down round Bunratty at lunchtime it was sleety rain. Don't have a precise elevation, but where we're staying there's not a lot between here and Newfoundland. Outside the front door, I can see the upper sections of the chimneys at Moneypoint, which are about 25 Kms away from here, so exposed is probably the best word for it.

Rock Lesnar

The frost from last night that was hanging around today is nearly all gone here, must have been quite the temperature jump since i last posted, as it was still fairly noticable.

Gonzo

frost completely melted here too.

pad199207

Probably best to close the thread now, seems a bit out of place now with a huge band of rain heading across the country.

icesnowfrost

Frost gone from drogheda and going by the latest radar it's all rain on the way

pad199207

It’s a pity all this rain couldn’t evaporate before it hits the ground just like with the snow earlier on....

But oh no....

Meteorite58

Still cold temps in the NW and N counties with some kind of wintry mix falling on the leading edge of the rain I'd think.

mountainy man

A mixture of sleet and snow falling at the moment.

mountainy man

Pretty heavy wet snow now, we have lying snow from last night so its still fairly cold.

Kermit.de.frog

Rain now turning to snow - north midlands, northwest and north. Could be some locally proper accumulations to next few hours to most levels, get a bit of height.

Best guess 3 - 5 cm, more locally (thinking Donegal here).

Gonzo

pouring rain here now, winds starting to pick up as well. Hard to believe everything outside was frozen just a few hours ago.

Kermit.de.frog

Gonzo wrote: »

pouring rain here now, winds starting to pick up as well. Hard to believe everything outside was frozen just a few hours ago.

Frost only finally melted in the shade for me around 6 pm.

More weather bingo for tonight:pac:

Gaoth Laidir

No station in the Republic reported anything other than rain overnight. There is no lying snow reported at Knock this morning.

In the North, Lough Fea (225 m) and Castlederg (50 m) reported rain, turning briefly to snow, and now back to rain, but with no accumulation.

With the exception of Mountainy Man, as there is not one other report of snow on here. I have to say again that the warning was completely unwarranted and completely wrong. Not often I have a go at Met Éireann but they didn't do well this week. I hope they'll have a review of their warning system now and move on. Strangely, their aviation forecasters were fairly bang on the money, apart from those frost warnings they had in place for the first part of the night. There seems to have been a disconnect between those forecasters in Shannon and central forecasting in Glasnevin.

George Sunsnow

The past 48 hours really was indeed another case study in how surplus the current yellow warning system is
Highlighted by the marginality of the risk eg in this case many populated areas having tricky snowy driving conditions at times which 0.5 degrees either direction might have been worse or totally gone
Taf’s were amended also

I think in this forum we are an atypical bunch though because some of us will notice all this
99.99% of the population will wake up today not having any forecasted lying snow(it was at worst from a forecast perspective to be transient) so won’t have met Éireanns uncertainties and dilemmas as talking points at all

It’s just yellow warnings feed a slow news cycle,our group do have our own forum talking point there of course (way divorced from the wider public)
The transience point/risk was made by forecasters enough I think,to mitigate
Ergo no crisis

raspberrypi67

Usual old warning to be taken with a grain of salt ( no pun intended!! )
Yellow orange alert usualy means we are covering our asses so Rain in Dublin with sleet...easily translated...lol

mickmackey1 wrote: »

Somebody issue a warning...QUICK! :eek: :pac: