Cold Spell Phase 1 Discussion from 6th/7th January

sryanbruen

JCX BXC wrote: »

Nothing except the infrequency of these events I assume.

No, solar activity.

Captain Snow

Wow we have a cold easterly and its a lame duck.

Billcarson

Shedbebreezy wrote: »

What's that based on?

Deep solar minimum,as happened 2008-2009 ,that cold period of 2008-2010. 2009 had 260 sun spotless days for example which just happened to be followed by the coldest winter in yrs = 2009/ 2010

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Samsgirl wrote: »

A friend in Michigan sent me this last night. Now, that's cold!!!

I heard it was to hit -40 in Boston.
I'm glad I'm looking out at blue skies in Dublin:)

spoonerhead

Short snizzle shower in D12

Xenji

Ian Loud Leotard wrote: »

I heard it was to hit -40 in Boston.
I'm glad I'm looking out at blue skies in Dublin:)

The lowest it got in Boston this week was around -18C, shudder to think what -40C would feel like.

LEIN

Getting frequent showers of hail off the Irish sea atm.

Elmer Blooker

The USA is expected to become springlike in a few days. This 850hpa temp anomaly chart shows unusually mild weather around the Great Lakes and even extraordinarily warm in the Dakotas! Will the Atlantic now calm down and give us a cold spell which in theory is meant to happen? I wouldn't bet on it.

Supercell

Frequent light rain/graupel showers here, pity it isn't colder.

JCX BXC

Tis bright, very very bright.

Not that cold either, although in an exposed shaded area the wind carries a bite.

George Sunsnow

Just up the road from the entrance to the Croghan wind farm is a new house being built in the woods and it’s for sale
There’s some view out the back from it

It’s 320 metres above sea level and would get snow a lot (none today up there just hail)
It’s a 10 min drive from the M11
Pictured is the view just now looking out over the Irish Sea from it and Arklow rock is in the top left of the photo
It’ll be heavenly when it’s done

squarecircles

I wonder how low the temperatures will get tonight,met eireann going for a minimum of -5 and MT going for -7.

Bone chilling here in a raw northeast breeze in West mayo.

patneve2

Can't even get a decent hail shower off this Irish Sea flow, all the showers hitting Bray-Greystones.

LEIN

patneve2 wrote: »

Can't even get a decent hail shower off this Irish Sea flow, all the showers hitting Bray-Greystones.

You're not missing much.

highdef

patneve2 wrote: »

Can't even get a decent hail shower off this Irish Sea flow, all the showers hitting Bray-Greystones.

And come summer, those same areas will have blue skies wrist the rest of the country is covered in stubborn cloud.... lol

Calibos

patneve2 wrote: »

Can't even get a decent hail shower off this Irish Sea flow, all the showers hitting Bray-Greystones.

Bray/Greystones was the first and only places in the country to get Heavy Snow on the 26/27th of November 2010. We got 5 inches in 2 hours that night. All from literally one streamer stretching across the Irish Sea from the Lake District to Bray Greystones. Its literally only one of two wind directions that give Bray a long enough sea fetch for streamers positioned where we are in the middle of the east coast. Generally we'll be in the snow shadow of Antrim, IOM or Wales. For many, the remember the 2010 event starting on the 29/30th of Nov or even into December but for Bray it started with 5 inches on the 26/27th. Then we got no more till we got lucky again with the wind/streamer direction in the middle of December.

Calibos

highdef wrote: »

And come summer, those same areas will have blue skies wrist the rest of the country is covered in stubborn cloud.... lol

DOCARCH

Calibos wrote: »

Bray/Greystones was the first and only places in the country to get Heavy Snow on the 26/27th of November 2010.

*checks records*

Had snow on the ground here in Dublin 16 the morning of the 27th November 2010 (so overnight 26th/27th).

LEIN

Calibos wrote: »

Bray/Greystones was the first and only places in the country to get Heavy Snow on the 26/27th of November 2010. We got 5 inches in 2 hours that night. All from literally one streamer stretching across the Irish Sea from the Lake District to Bray Greystones. Its literally only one of two wind directions that give Bray a long enough sea fetch for streamers positioned where we are in the middle of the east coast. Generally we'll be in the snow shadow of Antrim, IOM or Wales. For many, the remember the 2010 event starting on the 29/30th of Nov or even into December but for Bray it started with 5 inches on the 26/27th. Then we got no more till we got lucky again with the wind/streamer direction in the middle of December.

Perhaps in the firing line but certainly not the only places.

nacho libre

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Just up the road from the entrance to the Croghan wind farm is a new house being built in the woods and it’s for sale
There’s some view out the back from it

It’s 320 metres above sea level and would get snow a lot (none today up there just hail)
It’s a 10 min drive from the M11
Pictured is the view just now looking out over the Irish Sea from it and Arklow rock is in the top left of the photo
It’ll be heavenly when it’s done

It would be fantastic to live there.
I wonder how much would you have to pay for that view?
On the subject of height, is there anyone living 600 metres above sea level in Ireland?

Donegal Storm

Calibos wrote: »

Bray/Greystones was the first and only places in the country to get Heavy Snow on the 26/27th of November 2010. We got 5 inches in 2 hours that night. All from literally one streamer stretching across the Irish Sea from the Lake District to Bray Greystones. Its literally only one of two wind directions that give Bray a long enough sea fetch for streamers positioned where we are in the middle of the east coast. Generally we'll be in the snow shadow of Antrim, IOM or Wales. For many, the remember the 2010 event starting on the 29/30th of Nov or even into December but for Bray it started with 5 inches on the 26/27th. Then we got no more till we got lucky again with the wind/streamer direction in the middle of December.

Started around the 25th or 26th in the north west iirc, I remember having lying snow in Letterkenny a few days before the east coast streamers started up

Meteorite58

National Weather Warnings

STATUS YELLOW

Low Temperature Warning for Munster, Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal
Turning very cold tonight with lowest temperatures falling to between -2 and -5 degrees and staying very cold Sunday morning.

Issued:Saturday 06 January 2018 13:00
Valid:Saturday 06 January 2018 18:00 to Sunday 07 January 2018 12:00

HighLine

Imagine the folks over in the Boston reading our yellow warning for temperatures as low as -2 to -5. Someone need to tell MET that it's January.

CardinalJ

Small amounts of snow on Lugnaquilla above 800m. Only a dusting of 1-2cm and a lot of exposed frozen ground where anything falling is getting blasted away by wind.

YR.no normally gets Lug spot on but was miles off.
Mountain-forecast.com normally says there's loads of snow when there is none, but this times said none and got it basically right.

squarecircles

HighLine wrote: »

Imagine the folks over in the Boston reading our yellow warning for temperatures as low as -2 to -5. Someone need to tell MET that it's January.

Imagine the folks in Casablanca reading our low temperature warning.

It's all relative.

MJohnston

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Low Temperature Warning for Munster, Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal

It's weird that they can't just say "Ulster counties" there, but I suppose people in the North would get confused!

Oneiric 3

Calibos wrote: »

Bray/Greystones was the first and only places in the country to get Heavy Snow on the 26/27th of November 2010. .

Nope. Heavy snow showers set in over the north and west before they got going in the east. Heavy settling snow set in here locally on the afternoon of the 24th. I remember because of the total 'white out' conditions while driving home on that Friday evening.


Edit, my mistake, that Friday was the 26th, not the 24th as stated above:




Satellite sequence for the afternoon of Nov 26th 2010.

Oneiric 3

Bring out the dead:



We are the dead.

JCX BXC

Big freeze hah

They're be some very confused people along the south east coast with temperatures permanently above freezing and no frost :P

sryanbruen

Calibos wrote: »

Bray/Greystones was the first and only places in the country to get Heavy Snow on the 26/27th of November 2010. We got 5 inches in 2 hours that night. All from literally one streamer stretching across the Irish Sea from the Lake District to Bray Greystones. Its literally only one of two wind directions that give Bray a long enough sea fetch for streamers positioned where we are in the middle of the east coast. Generally we'll be in the snow shadow of Antrim, IOM or Wales. For many, the remember the 2010 event starting on the 29/30th of Nov or even into December but for Bray it started with 5 inches on the 26/27th. Then we got no more till we got lucky again with the wind/streamer direction in the middle of December.

False, I had heavy snow starting around 10pm on 26th November and then I woke up to a winter wonderland on the 27th. Man those were great times!