Severe Winter Weather, Snow/Ice - Sun 25th Feb (Onwards) ** READ MOD NOTE POST #1 **

PowerToWait

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

This what was quoted in the OP many days ago

Tuesday

Increasingly frequent and heavy snow showers effecting eastern counties (these may fall as rain, hail or sleet in the morning/early afternoon). The snow accumulating by evening.



Raw. Top temperatures 0 to 6c (coldest in the east)

So far from a Dublin perspective that forecast is bang on.

Mantis Toboggan

endacl wrote: »

Nice and sunny now. Hope there’s not another blizzard!

Sunny and snowy, fantastic.

irish1967

schizo1014 wrote: »

Light shower in around Barnesmore Gap outside Donegal Town

Never made it into The Diamond here. 😕

Shlippery

Citywest gone mad again. Snowflakes getting bigger. And sideways. Road starting to whiten.

Won't say blizzard

(can confirm the road is now white - with mild "hail" - but it has stopped again)

edit: now the sun is making it all disappear.

a rollercoaster watching the window waiting for an opportunity to go home

PukkaStukka

The RTE1 lunchtime TV forecast said it will be heavy rain on the south coast Friday / Satuday and an indicated 6C temperature.

Or did I see that wrong ??

igCorcaigh

squarecircles wrote: »

Heavy rain forecast for the south on Friday on lunchtime forecast.

Also mentions the word sleet alot.

No!

guil

Roads are starting to get a bit slippy now between Blessington and Ballymore Eustace.

seamus

KingdomRushed wrote: »

Also, it is only in the last 24 hours that people have had their expectations managed for graupel/hail/sleet to be falling at this point rather than snow. So that to me is a MAJOR downgrade. And yes, I am aware it is snowing it south wicklow.

This is just not the case. For several days now, all of the known and trusted forecasters on this forum were very clear that there would nothing significant on the East coast until Tuesday evening into Wednesday. That's been unwavering.
The only expectation managed in respect to this morning is that it was initially predicted that there would be light rain and sleet, which has since been "upgraded" to graupel/light snow.

It's not wonder people talk about overreactions when they hear forecasts that nobody made.

I mentioned earlier in this thread that some radio stations appeared to be relaying weather warnings last night about snow and ice without any information on when to expect them. I wonder if that's playing a part in some people's rush to claim that the weather has been downgraded?

Clouds just opened up here in D16. Lovely sunshine.

SleetAndSnow

Ah no! Just when we were gonna get a blizzard we have rain

mobil 222

I t has been lovely with a stiff eastern wind all morning in Sligo.
But a big change in the last hour,the wind has changed to a northerly direction and it has got brutal cold
Blue sky is nearly gone to been replaced with a very dark area of cloud coming from Donegal area ie across from Mullaghmore

aidanodr

https://twitter.com/deric_hartigan/status/968420923165593600

harr

This is why people are confused...Lunch time weather giving it cold with snow and sleet but again they seem to be playing it down..a brief mention of the orange warning. While other forecasters are saying it differently.
They should all read off the one script...

wakka12

Rain on Friday ? Is there chance of upgrade , snow for east or other regions Friday ?

Pussyhands

So looks like it's not gonna be bad as initially forecast...what a downer!!!

Casualsingby

Weather FC just now on RTÉ she said wintry showers 50 times. Very little mention of snow, disastrous forecast by her.

syngindub

some light snow in London ( Abbey Road )

https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk

In Ballymount, Sun slipping the trees. mind you it's freezing

squarecircles

Casualsingby wrote: »

Weather FC just now on RTÉ she said wintry showers 50 times. Very little mention of snow, disastrous forecast by her.

Just wouldn't be trusting to those lunchtime forecasts by those non metrological folk.

Michelle Dillion forecast Along with Siobhan Ryan's were severe.

thecretinhop

aidanodr wrote: »

https://twitter.com/deric_hartigan/status/968420923165593600

can we bank this one please??

JoeyJJ

People will be making trifle and bread and butter puddings to use up all the bread they bought yesterday ?

mobil 222

pauldry wrote: »

Not cold in Sligo now

Its 6c

I thought from been outside in the last half an hour it has got brutal cold.
Do you think that there has been a change in wind direction.
I am about 6 km the Northern side of Sligo towards the sea.

Mobhi1

A fair few hail showers here in D11 and a good bit of sunshine, so bang on what was predicted so far. 4.3C. DP -0.5C, and rising.

Pangea

A light shower of grauple has made it all the way to Donegal here. Hopefully a sign of things to come

Gonzo

BBC still showing all snow for Friday and another band of snow on Sunday.

Friday still doesn't looked nailed, still so much chopping and changing between forecasts.

Mantis Toboggan

Pussyhands wrote: »

So looks like it's not gonna be bad as initially forecast...what a downer!!!

Surprise surprise!

force eleven

Pussyhands wrote: »

So looks like it's not gonna be bad as initially forecast...what a downer!!!

I want a refund if so. Lot of emotional time invested in this....

Bert Cooper

Dublinlady1513 wrote: »

I hate this saying.
It snows in most Eastern European countries where it is much colder than anything we will ever see.

Its different kind of cold, you’re displaying an awful lack of understanding of the cold.

lolokeogh

whooper day here in swords,slight wind chill but nothing more,fine bit oif sun out there

Mam of 4

It has gone from a beautiful blue sky , but bitterly cold to sky clouded over here , Portlaoise .

George Sunsnow

Gonzo wrote: »

BBC still showing all snow for Friday and another band of snow on Sunday.

Friday still doesn't looked nailed, still so much chopping and changing between forecasts.

They courtesy of meteogroup had the precipitation only over east munster and much of leinster
Quite the uncertainty

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Heavy hail in Drogheda