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

madds · 27-02-2018 6:21pm

madds wrote: »

Has been sunny in North Kildare all day. Dark clouds now approaching from the east. Sun will disappear in ~5 minutes and then......?

And it's begun. Heavy snow & hail has started in Leixlip. Paths & roads white within 2-3 minutes.

Pique · 27-02-2018 6:21pm

2deg C (and falling) in Roscommon and the first light flurry of snow just falling.

Eoineo · 27-02-2018 6:22pm

In Balbriggan area (North Dublin). Have been getting a pasting for the past 20 minutes & it's sticking. I suspect it's more due to the volume than the ground temps and we might get a slight thaw ahead of the real deal later.

UMOT · 27-02-2018 6:23pm

Proper white stuff falling in navan

Kermit.de.frog · 27-02-2018 6:23pm

madds wrote: »

And it's begun. Heavy snow & hail has started in Leixlip. Paths & roads white within 2-3 minutes.

As temperatures fall toward freezing this evening it won't take much for graupel and snow to settle.

There will be heavy showers but you won't actually need them to be particularly heavy to give accumulations.

Pangea · 27-02-2018 6:24pm

You know it's busy when you press 'post' and immediately your post is on the previous page..

Snowbie · 27-02-2018 6:24pm

Broken clouds here atm but shower incoming off the sea soon. Can see decent height to the cloud too. I dont see things getting going proper over the Irish sea until later this evening.

Temp falling away with Dp way in the comfort zone.
1.3C
Dp -3.0C

Kermit.de.frog · 27-02-2018 6:25pm

Temp falling away at Howth 0.8

Deep cold air now starting to arrive.

ollie1 · 27-02-2018 6:25pm

Hailstones now in south Dublin

SleetAndSnow · 27-02-2018 6:26pm

As we seem to be giving out thanks, could we say thanks to other regular posters such as MT, Kermit, JCX BCX, Gaoth Laidir, Sryan, MJohnston, Weathercheck and everybody else who has been giving regular updates in both the technical thread and been posting in here and helping people like me learn so much about reading weather charts over the week or two.

Also thanks to the mods so far for working overtime on keeping threads in check as best as they can and keeping everything running as smoothly as they are! Busy time!

Shlippery · 27-02-2018 6:28pm

A light peppering of dust in Citywest again.

Starting/Stopping.

Pinch Flat · 27-02-2018 6:28pm

My go to place for weather info. Fair play guys.

27-02-2018 6:29pm

First proper snow shower of the day in Dundalk. Lasted around 15 minutes. Covered car tops pretty quickly.

wakka12 · 27-02-2018 6:29pm

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

The media seem to be totally confusing the public with regards to storm emma, with the Irish Independant stating the 'Beast from the East' has been named storm emma, and twitter latest now shows 'Storm emma is already raging over europe why isnt anything here'. *Sigh*

Are you surprised? Storm emma raging in europe and seeing exceptional pictures of rome covered in snow sounds cool, its why they made it their headline, doubt they thought about it very much beyond that:P

munsterlegend · 27-02-2018 6:29pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Temp falling away at Howth 0.8

Deep cold air now starting to arrive.

Was just about to ask you that question!

John.Icy · 27-02-2018 6:29pm

Watching the satellite loop for the last half an hour - even in just those 30 minutes there's been plenty of cloud bubbling up South of the IOM - also can see a 'shadow' forming with more clouds bubbling up to the North of the IOM and the dreaded clear slot forming in between. Wonder will we see any radar returns start cropping up in the next while as a result.