Snow showers likely in the northwest Tuesday night onward

Ahorseofaman

10 minute sleety/snowy shower here in North Cork(think I heard a rumble of thunder as well)
edit..nothing stuck

igCorcaigh

Light sleet/snow in Cork city.

Soccarboy11

Mixture of sleet and snow currently in the Bishopstown area of Cork city. Wasn't expecting even this!

Edit: Actual snow now

Edit 2: and back to sleety rain. Plenty of threating clouds though this caused the temps to drop from about 5 to 2°c pretty quickly though.

yorlum11

Serious hail in Westport. Raw out there.

Gonzo

showers completely missing south Meath all morning and afternoon so far. Ground is dry here but it is very cold outside.

Danno

Between Durrow and Castlecomer this morning.

loughside

Couple of heavy snow showers came through but not sticking, ground too wet, Temp 3C, Newry-banbridge, Co. Down.

mickger844posts

Wet snow shower in Waterford City, have to say I'm surprised we got on the right side of marginal for snow

www.waterfordweather.com

George Sunsnow

Bone dry up here in Arklow
Sunny
But feeling bitter in a wnw wind gusting to almost 50kph

Gonzo

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Bone dry up here in Arklow
Sunny
But feeling bitter in a wnw wind gusting to almost 50kph

same here, there was a shower at 10am but nothing since then, mostly sunny here all day. There is a big shower moving into west and north-west Meath now, I'm wondering will it break up before it gets here.

Gonzo

that shower made it here, just cold rain.

Gonzo

rain turning quickly to wet snow.

highdef

Good to hear you are seeing snow falling at your location Gonzo, particularly as Net weather currently has it as all rain. Getting quite dull and overcast in Dublin city now - I would expect rain here but maybe a few flakes thrown in.

There is a large area of thick cloud moving into northern and northwestern areas now. This has been consistently forecasted by Met Eireann and they seem to be bang on with it again. I'm guessing there may be some warmer air within this band (my reckoning is it's an occluded front) so it may be a messy mix of rain and sleet with snow mainly on higher ground but I am really hoping to be surprised by something more wintry for a greater amount of the population, especially as nightfall is almost here.

Soccarboy11

one of the blackest clouds i've seen in a while to the left of me on cork city, wonder if it will hit or not, looks like it should

jon burrows

Freezing rain here in D15

Cold rain here in D15

highdef

jon burrows wrote: »

Freezing rain here in D15

With air and ground temperatures above freezing, I'm highly doubting that you are getting freezing rain, assuming that is where you are......cold rain sounds way more likely

DOCARCH

A little bit of icy rain/sleet here now in Dublin 16. 4.2c atm.

jambofc

sleety shower in Kilkenny City but the hills to the north are white

Gonzo

just had another shower but it's back to rain. it was really the backedge of that last shower that had wet snow in it.

highdef

Gonzo wrote: »

just had another shower but it's back to rain. it was really the backedge of that last shower that had wet snow in it.

Yeah, looks like almost everywhere is currently on the wrong side of marginal. The front moving into the north and north west now appears to exist due to some warmer air. There's a distinct change from a north west to more northerly flow at the back of the front. Temps in Ulster are ranging from about 2 - 4c at the moment and milder again on the coasts.

I think the front will begin as rain for all but those on very high ground. As the colder air then digs in, combined with some evaporative cooling plus night time cooling, I would expect it to turn a little more wintry in many areas and possibly some snowfall for those on higher ground, more particularly above above about 200m, maybe a bit higher, maybe a bit lower.

Between 100m and 200m, I would expect rain turn to sleet with some wet snow but probably not much lying snow....never say never though.

Below 100m, I'm thinking mainly rain with a wintry mix from time to time but nothing to get excited about.

Fingers crossed I'm wrong and I am underestimating this :P

pauldry

Suddenly turned tornado like here.

Severe gales hail and sheets n sheets of rain mixed in

I guess we have to be punished for 3 or 4 days where there was only a few mm of rain. Back to the normal 10mm plus a day now

Periscal

Hail and sleet shower now in Blessington,car reading 2c ,turning to wet snow,how come? Yn.no had us under +3 and rain for this evening

highdef

Moderate wet snow shower has just passed, on the Meath/Kildare border. Some of the flakes were very wet but there were a good few large proper flakes....not a hope of it sticking but was still nice to look at.

Gaoth Laidir

highdef wrote: »

Moderate wet snow shower has just passed, on the Meath/Kildare border. Some of the flakes were very wet but there were a good few large proper flakes....not a hope of it sticking but was still nice to look at.

Rain here in Celbridge, just down the road.

MidMan25

Soccarboy11 wrote: »

one of the blackest clouds i've seen in a while to the left of me on cork city, wonder if it will hit or not, looks like it should

Spotted that too, sky went extremely dark for 10-15 mins.

sdanseo

It was trying really hard to snow all the way round the M50 just now. Lashing sleet really heavily, flakes both visible and audible, unusual combination! Sadly just a degree or slightly more too warm.

I'd say Dublin Mountains above 300m or so are a winter wonderland again.

gabeeg

Bugger all happening at 150

George Sunsnow

1st rain shower of the day here near Arklow just now

https://twitter.com/arklowweather/status/958795868236328961

Neddyusa

Horrible, awful, brutal night here! Worst of the winter so far. Just 2 C and 6 hours of constant torrential rain driven by a gale force Northerly wind.