Severe Weather Snow / Ice Weds 28 FEB ( Onwards ) ** READ MOD NOTE POST#1**

Steopo

Lights flickered here in Donabate... it is surprising how those light snow grains can actually build up over several hours

The Specialist

Kingrosie wrote: »

Is this only the beginning? Is it actually going to increase?

Yes, we are only watching the adverts before the movie at this stage.

Skedaddle

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

what I am surprised about is the lack of wind in cork, its very little and according to cork airport updates every 30 mins its actually dropping (which i guess could be calm before the storm? )

+1

Very little evidence of any wind.

northgirl

I live fairly high up in Cobh and not hearing even a rattle which is unusual here.

Midnight Sky

Hi all. The attached car pic was Castlewarden earlier tonight fyi. We have deep snow in the fields from yesterday and last night. About 12 inchs in parts as seen in the other pic of my bro in law.

lolie

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Accumulating fast near Santry now.

What depth of snow have you now at your location kermit?

wicklowdub

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Eye of Emma in Bay of Biscay still ?

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-10.88,53.47,1745/loc=-3.701,44.343

Nowhere near Ireland, though it's effects are increasing.

no thats stale data at this stage - from 9.00pm

Real 007

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Is anyone in Dublin getting proper snow? Still getting them ice pellets in Blanch

D14... snow for ~30mins now. Has moved up a notch or two alright. There is 2 x cavity blocks out back stacked one on the other and they're covered. both were visable this afternoon!

aurora 527

Really after deteriorating in Waterford, there will be a serious amount of snow by the morning..horizontal driving snow!

Ludo

After a few hours of constant very light snow, it is finally getting heavier in Rochestown. Road has regained it's cover which it lost from everyone walking on it today. Gusty out too. Can see the snow swirling and going horizontally past the lamp post.

hawkwing

Growzel turning into more flaky type stuff now in D7.

Shakey_jake

Bloody mad here in d13

Hasn't stopped and looking like its getting worse and worse

Cant stop looking at it proper siberian stuff goin down

Goes great with REM and Alcohol

gabeeg

Sandyford D16, still frozen drizzle, still accumulating

hard to say how much in the last few hours, drifting is really kicking in

jackie1974

What are all these different types of snow? Here's a 60-second crash course!

▪ Wet snow: Snow flakes with a relatively high liquid water-content due to the lowest 1-2 km of the atmosphere being close to zero. They're usually large as they stick together easily as they fall. Good for snowballs but doesn't drift easily. We normally get this type of snow.

▪Dry snow: Smaller snow flakes with very low liquid water-content due to a very cold and dry lowest 1-2 km. This beast from the east is very cold and dry so the snow's been dry. It's not good for snowballs but drifts easily. Forms a much deeper covering than wet snow.

▪Snow grains: Tiny opaque grains of snow formed in cold but more stable conditions (like where we'd expect to get drizzle). We're getting these this evening as the air over the Irish Sea is stable above about 1 km.

▪Ice pellets: Smaller pellets of clear ice, formed by the partial melting of snowflakes falling through a warm layer, but then freezing again in the cold surface layer.

▪Graupel: Little balls of snow, but actually a snowflake covered by a layer of ice. Formed when a snowflake is blown back up into the supercooled region of a cloud (liquid water below 0 °C), where the liquid freezes around the flake. Formed at the edge of cold streamers.

▪Streamers/Sea-effect showers: Lines of showers formed by the heating of a cold airmass over a warmer sea surface. If the air at 850 hPa (~1400 m) is at least 13 degrees colder than the sea surface then these showers can form, as long as the sea track is long enough. In an easterly like this week Wales or the Isle of Man can reduce or prevent their formation due to the reduced sea track between there and the east coast.

▪ Dynamic snow: Snow formed by the more familiar weather fronts and not through convection/sea-effect action. Covers a wide area. This is what Emma will bring us tonight.

▪Freezing rain: Supercooled rain (rain that is still liquid despite being below 0 °C) that freezes on surfaces still cold from a preceding cold spell. Forms when snow falls through a warm upper layer thick enough to melt the snow, but then falls back down into a sub-zero surface layer.

Fergal - IWO

Lost4Life

Dublin 7 - blizzard conditions and heavy snow accumulations now. Snow particles small. Doubled depth in last 30 mins. This could get interesting..

Davaeo09

^ Had just read on FB ty

Bonzo Delaney

Just outside there. The north side of the house is next to an open field so getting the full belt of the wind it looks like someone went around the house in a rally car, bare tarmac for about 6 ft then up to the front wall a 28inch snow drift in a perfect curve around the corner . Been constant flurries all day and windy about 10 miles north of Naas Co. Kildare

nibtrix

Calibos wrote: »

Its obviously all just blowing up the Putland Road then. Seriously. Maybe the wind is at its strongest down here as it has no obstructions over the sea and after it climbs the Putland to the Boghall where ALDI is @ 157m the clouds are dumping what the winds down here kept aloft and then even more due to orographic lift

How about a pic? I’m less than 500m from the Meath Road and we have several cm at this stage, with drifts of deeper snow up against the house.

mickmackey1

aurora 527 wrote: »

Really after deteriorating improving in Waterford, there will be a serious amount of snow by the morning..horizontal driving snow!

fyp

topcat72

No wind at all here in Limerick city suburbs, consistent unbroken light snow since 9pm, approx 3cm, so 1cm per hour, approx 20m asl. No lying snow at 7pm-last nights snow had thawed in sun. Radar shows more to come.

ZX7R

I am a little disappointed at the moment, I was full sure that the perception would be heavier by now but along way to go yet I hope

lucernarian

northgirl wrote: »

I was just going to have a hot toddy (craving sugar) but I opened the bottle and well I don't like whiskey at all

Whiskey is overrated

Port has that sweetness and warms you up nicely. Especially if snow starts to drift outside!

d'Oracle

Gonzo wrote: »

Cracked open the Jack Daniels, not sure i'll ever witness an event like this again in my lifetime!

Ah, I'm sure you can find Jack Daniels <i>Somewhere</i>.....


Drifts by my bins in the front garden are up to the garden wall now.
I want to do a quick walk but my missus would kill me.

Amprodude

Got the snow but where is this storm?

Shane O' Malley

Made the mistake of opening my front door to get a feel for the weather and a wall of snow came in.

km79

Pelting down in East Galway again

kirk buttercup

Power gone in wicklow . But sure we will survive

Assetbacked

Wind howling now in dublin 1 and snow getting heavier (but still the dusty stuff). Accumulations from the last few hours dust gradually have now left approximately a kerb’s worth on the road!

ibarelycare

I know this has been asked a few times but may have missed the answers. When is Storm Emma due to hit Dublin? Or has it hit yet? There's a bit of wind and constant light snow where I am, but wouldn't consider it too stormy.

q85dw7osi4lebg

About an inch here in Coastal Meath this evening. Total up to about 6/7 inches now which is incredible for right at the beach. Temp 0.1 degrees but can hear dripping in the gutters from the wetter now. Incidentally all of our snow over the past 2 days has been from small flakes / graupel / hail and now this diamond dust. However it has all accummuated nicely and has barely stopped falling for 24 hours now. Wind howling.