Saturday PM (10th) - Tuesday AM (13th), Snow and Ice

Strangegravy

mickger844posts wrote: »

Getting hammered here with strong gusts in Waterford City. The loudest of the Winter so far but stats would say otherwise. Max gust 70km/h just now

www.waterfordcityweather.com

That is crazy... It's so calm here in Limerick, not even a light breeze.

giveitholly

Snowing heavy near tipp town

Speak Now

mickger844posts wrote: »

Getting hammered here with strong gusts in Waterford City. The loudest of the Winter so far but stats would say otherwise. Max gust 70km/h just now

www.waterfordcityweather.com

81km/h in Airport Mick. You have some shelter. Airport good location to get those gusts.

lucernarian

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

A lot of regulars left for a while and at that stage Maq not far off kept the forum going. Badly missed.

Well said, I hope he or she is reading. Neither melodramatic or pessimistic, had a good eye for forecasting too.

mickger844posts

Strangegravy wrote: »

That is crazy... It's so calm here in Limerick, not even a light breeze.

Such extremes for a small island. Another 70km/h gust just now. Also our Virgin Media Tv and Broadband went down at 9.30pm so im using mobile to update posts here and also my website from Waterford City

www.waterfordcityweather.com

Aurora1966

Wind howling now, very gusty, rain about to arrive, 6c so the snow simply cannot fall, simply simply loveleh 🌫🌧

madmaggie

It's getting wild here now in south Carlow, still lashing.

gozunda

Serious winds for about 3 - 4 hours. Then it all went deathly silent...


And now it's snowing like there no tmrw -
Big fluffy stuff - everything is white again!

Temp just above 0c

130 m asl
North Cork Limerick Tipperary border

pad199207

Lashing rain here now in N Kildare with very strong winds. 5c

Temperature is falling so good sign

mickger844posts

Speak Now wrote: »

81km/h in Airport Mick. You have some shelter. Airport good location to get those gusts.

Yeah the airport is on the coast and well exposed so will always get higher gusts than my Waterford City suburb location.

An Ri rua

Torrential rain Mountmellick. Strong winds, though eased somewhat since 11pm.

As heavy as what caused the November flash flood here. Here's hoping it upgrades to snow asap.

Gaoth Laidir

Arpege soundings for Celbridge later. Going by this not much hope of snow at low levels in Dublin.

2 am: Ahead of the front, winds southwesterly, deep warm saturated surface layer, wet-bulb zero around 800 metres. Rain.


3 am: Frontal passage, wind now northwesterly, surface layer starting to cool but wb zero still ~500 metres agl. Lighter rain (upper layers less saturated).


4 am: Further cooling and drying out, wb zero ~300 metres agl. No precip., thin layer of stratocumulus.


9 am: Cold surface inversion but clear skies.

kod87

Sleety wintry slop now falling here, central tipp

pad199207

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Arpege soundings for Celbridge later. Going by this not much hope of snow at low levels in Dublin.

2 am: Ahead of the front, winds southwesterly, deep warm saturated surface layer, wet-bulb zero around 800 metres. Rain.


3 am: Frontal passage, wind now northwesterly, surface layer starting to cool but wb zero still ~500 metres agl. Lighter rain (upper layers less saturated).


4 am: Further cooling and drying out, wb zero ~300 metres agl. No precip., thin layer of stratocumulus.


9 am: Cold surface inversion but clear skies.

Probably the same for here so too?

Gaoth Laidir

pad199207 wrote: »

Probably the same for here so too?

At 116 metres a better chance, but going by that still pretty wet stuff. It may be just a bit on the warm side of the fence, as has happened a few times with that model, but the WRF 0.05° is showing similar.

lucernarian

Worth noting that Arpege isn't the be all and end all.

One thing I noticed with interest is the strong wind reports from Waterford. Thanks for those, kind stranger! My hope is that this evidence of properly cold air digging in right where it needs to. I'm encouraged by the heavy precip reports and reports of snow near Limerick. It might not stick but it'll fall pretty.

If anyone can remember 31st December 2009 or March 2013, there's not much worse than cold rain falling while you see the snow pics from NI

pad199207

Very sharp and sudden drop in temperatures at Durrow

Rougies

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

At 116 metres a better chance, but going by that still pretty wet stuff. It may be just a bit on the warm side of the fence, as has happened a few times with that model, but the WRF 0.05° is showing similar.

You posted the WRF sounding images, not the ARPEGE.

Gaoth Laidir

Light snow at Gurteen at midnight, temp 0.5, dp 0.3, wbt 0.4. Pocket of cold air from Limerick advecting eastwards and now towards Laois (Durrow). Further north, though, heavy rain at Mullingar, temp 4.9, dp 3.4, wind southerly (pre-frontal). Knock currently temp 1.6, dp 1.2.

Gaoth Laidir

Rougies wrote: »

You posted the WRF sounding images, not the ARPEGE.

Ffs, time for bed! Anyway, the ARPEGE are similar!

giveitholly

Heavy snow near tipp Town,sticking everywhere,least an inch at the moment

Gonzo

temp risen here again, 7C now. By the time temps drop here it will probably be too late for any lying snow.

lolie

Horrible dirty night out here, heavier rain than the 3mm per hour on the met eir radar.
Such a contrast to 24 hours ago, calm frosty and every thing coated in a nice white layer.

Edit: turned to sleet now, big wet flakes.

pad199207

giveitholly wrote: »

Heavy snow near tipp Town,sticking everywhere,least an inch at the moment

Extraordinary

pad199207

Turning into proper snow territory in Laois now

Danno

Interesting passage of the front here, freezing rain, then hail, then sleet. South Laois

lucernarian

Not many posts from the pale right now. But then outside my own house, it really doesn't feel that cold and especially not compared to the almost-sleet shower i walked through in the city centre at around 9.30

dexter647

Snowing here now in my part of south west Laois with it already starting to stick...126m asl:)

Danno

Snowing and sticking in South Laois. 0.8c

John.Icy

No worry at all of falling snow in Dublin anyway as long as there's no precipitation.

Didn't one of the hi res models have Dublin in a very low precip bubble yesterday? Good call, though with the direction the front has been approaching so far you would expect the Wicklow mountains to keep Dublin mostly dry.