Greenland Express: Snow showers possible from Monday night

Soccarboy11

at long last its snowing in cork city! Snow shield has been broken (for now), can see some clear ice on the cars slightly sticking. The road etc is far to wet for anything to stick though, would have to snow for quite a while id say.

EDIT: As i say that the roof and bonnets of cars are white. It looks almost like a smoke/dust with some balls falling, very strange and windy!

Dank Janniels

Gritter doing the rural roads in north east galway. Must be an election coming!!

pad199207

Finally a covering in Naas now with a Heavy Shower

kod87

everything is white here now, these showers are wild

q85dw7osi4lebg

Nice big flakes in Drogheda now

Rebelbrowser

shield down!

Soccarboy11

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

shield down!

its a very dusty sort of snow isn't it? Looks almost like smoke with some white bits in, blowing all over the place though very windy!

RazorT

Decent shower outside Slane. Two little men are losing the plot. Great craic!

PukkaStukka

Wet snow / sleet I. Dublin city centre. The snow hasn't really got going with any great zeal, just intermittent light stuff that stops as soon as it starts

UpTheHillFrom

North Wexford, 100m asl, snow starting to stick.

jArgHA

Yeehoo we have a breach in the Cork city snow shield (South side of the city).

M.T. Cranium

This is a bit of a crossover post from the Fionn thread but these two threads cannot easily be separated out at this point ... conditions in west Munster are likely to be full on level 2 and possibly level 3 (red alert) now to midnight, some very strong wind gusts have been reported at various locations including the offshore M6 buoy, and this will interact with the showers of various forms to produce possible very hazardous blizzard conditions or white-out from hail showers and resulting slippery road surfaces -- would advise extreme caution if travelling anywhere tonight but especially in exposed west coast and southwest locations.

If reading this thread, take into account it is level one alert for snow showers on a general basis but locally level two and this blends with the level two to possibly three wind situation. Also there is a very high threat of coastal flooding and boulders coming up over seawalls in places like Lahinch, exposed spots in Kerry and west Cork. Be on high alert.

Ludo

Snowing in Rochestown in Cork now.

jArgHA

jArgHA wrote: »

Yeehoo we have a breach in the Cork city snow shield (South side of the city).

It has stopped again..

patneve2

moderate/heavy graupel shower

George Sunsnow

Snowing away here near Arklow still
Everything covered
It nearly qualifies for the title of an ‘outbreak of snow’ now

Currently +o.8c
Dp -1c
G’wan the westerly

dexter647

Nice covering here now in south west Laois 126m asl:)..Going to be messy getting to work tomorrow though..

snowstorm445

Wet snow for the past 10 mins in Ringsend area.

pauldry

Everywheres white in Sligo with graupel. Nice to see. Roads lethal coz we dont have gritters on the go at mo

redsteveireland

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

This is a bit of a crossover post from the Fionn thread but these two threads cannot easily be separated out at this point ... conditions in west Munster are likely to be full on level 2 and possibly level 3 (red alert) now to midnight, some very strong wind gusts have been reported at various locations including the offshore M6 buoy, and this will interact with the showers of various forms to produce possible very hazardous blizzard conditions or white-out from hail showers and resulting slippery road surfaces -- would advise extreme caution if travelling anywhere tonight but especially in exposed west coast and southwest locations.

If reading this thread, take into account it is level one alert for snow showers on a general basis but locally level two and this blends with the level two to possibly three wind situation. Also there is a very high threat of coastal flooding and boulders coming up over seawalls in places like Lahinch, exposed spots in Kerry and west Cork. Be on high alert.

Nearly forgot about Fionn

patneve2

bit of a dusting here helped by the grapuel shower

Rebelbrowser

Hirlam nailed this event btw....

Oneiric 3

So is it fair to say that while the GFS is notorious for overdoing snow on their charts, that it was still closer to the mark than the ECM regarding snow potential from this westerly over Ireland?

Danno

Very heavy snow just rolled through. Nice covering on all surfaces away from the house. Currently 0.4c in South Laois

kod87

what's interesting is that the showers seem to beef up as they cross the country, could be some fun in the next few hours

brookers

Unreal snow just two miles past johnny fox, had to turn car around, was really deep on the road...

Timistry

Brief wet snow shower in clonmel

harr

Totally white in the space of 20 minutes here ( Laois/kildare border) roads are brutal.
Stoped now but temperature is around -1 according to car.

patneve2

Not surprised by the amount of convection to be honest..this is a highly unstable PM flow. Uppers at the 500 hpa level are below -40 over the northern half of the country. Could be impressive accumulations over high ground in the North

Gonzo

hasn't snowed here since the 4pm shower. Much of what fell has thawed, still some snow in the garden but its dissapeared from paths and roads. The remaining snow is now starting to freeze. Could be some dangerous driving counditions with slush and surface water starting to freeze.