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

giveitholly

Ninja snow

aidanodr

https://twitter.com/CorkSafetyAlert/status/971506647637118976

ninebeanrows

Can you imagine the panic if Dublin woke up white in the morning!!

sdanseo

Edit: Weathercheck got there first!!

HIRLAM wants a more substantial band to cross from NW to SE overnight.

It looks as though it will be cold enough in some parts and over high ground for this to be snow if it did occur but max 2-4cm

(see image posted above, no point posting it again)

Oscar Bravo

Cork airport, 1 degree with dew point 1 degree also. shower of sleet was reported at 2130

ninebeanrows

sdanseo wrote: »

Edit: Weathercheck got there first!!

HIRLAM wants a more substantial band to cross from NW to SE overnight.

It looks as though it will be cold enough in some parts and over high ground for this to be snow if it did occur but max 2-4cm

(see image posted above, no point posting it again)

Id ignore it though as it has totally different orientation of current precip over Munster!

gozunda

gozunda wrote: »

Currently snowing / sleet falling & sticking in places.....


130 m asl
North Cork Limerick Tipperary border

Ground and vehicles covered. All white again ...

Outside temp 0.8c

sdanseo

Weathercheck wrote: »

Id ignore it though as it has totally different orientation of current precip over Munster!

The Met.ie 3hr is showing a band pushing in off the NW at 1am as well which is a mix of HIRLAM and Harmonie right?

ninebeanrows

BB could get a fresh 5cm :O

ninebeanrows

sdanseo wrote: »

The Met.ie 3hr is showing a band pushing in off the NW at 1am as well which is a mix of HIRLAM and Harmonie right?

It is an absolute nowcast situation, with such a slack low pressure system, the hourly HIRLAM on met.ie is useless.

Watch the radar, satellite and obs for this one.

sryanbruen

https://twitter.com/romclaughlin/status/971492134510563329

tiegan

Heavy snow falling in Fethard Co Tipp, starting to stick, flakes nearly the size of a saucer, I kid you not!!

trixiebust

Same here in Tipp town - couldn't believe it when I looked out the window !

RobertKK

Snowing here in north Kilkenny.

wil

And so it begins.........again?
Didn't catch the forecast earlier, did anyone predict Groundhog Day?

Jim Gazebo

ps200306 wrote: »

The only time I was up Galtymore was in heavy snow sometime during the 90s. One of our party took a turn and we dug him a snow hole to shelter in while we went up top. Can't remember the year but there were three foot snow drifts, as well as some bare patches in places exposed to the howling, freezing wind. Those spots were frozen so hard I couldn't kick stones off the ground to use as weights for a wind shield for the kerosene stove. Please do post your pics if you get up there.

Sorry, only just looking back over posts. Never made it. Gutted.

Jim Gazebo

Hold on, is there another beast from the east?? Seen the snow reports there, could you just imagine fellas getting up for work tomorrow to a blanket of snow 😂😂😂 there would be havoc

aidanodr

Jim Gazebo wrote: »

Hold on, is there another beast from the east?? Seen the snow reports there, could you just imagine fellas getting up for work tomorrow to a blanket of snow ������ there would be havoc

Its called #pestfromthewest .. really

RobertKK

My car is white again, and where the grass was green, it is also white again, the drifts getting a top up.

Whiplashy

Echoing the thanks. I'm a bit clueless when it comes to the weather, but I've learned a lot from this thread. I really appreciate how those with the knowledge explained things for the rest of us.

It's snowing here again at the moment. The ground is far too wet for it to land. I only noticed because I had to go downstairs and the velux window on the landing has a nice covering. For once I'm not disappointed that it's not going to land! Tipp/Kilkenny border.

MassINeverHad

Whiplashy wrote: »

Echoing the thanks. I'm a bit clueless when it comes to the weather, but I've learned a lot from this thread. I really appreciate how those with the knowledge explained things for the rest of us.

It's snowing here again at the moment. The ground is far too wet for it to land. I only noticed because I had to go downstairs and the velux window on the landing has a nice covering. For once I'm not disappointed that it's not going to land! Tipp/Kilkenny border.

I'm on the Tipp/KK border too. Tipp side of Urlingford and it's snowing and lodging here now. I went out to get the dogs and nearly had a heart attack. According to google weather it's a 'heavy snowstorm'

RobertKK

This is giving a really decent deposit of snow, whether one wanted it or not...

Casualsingby

I noticed the Met office have a snow warning for Wales and the North Midlands. Issued earlier today from midnight to to 11am. From the system currently affecting Ireland.

Casualsingby

No warning from Met Éireann

sdanseo

If anything makes it to Dublin while people are asleep it'll be falling as snow for sure. -1 DP -2 even though they are forecasting light rain.

There would be war.

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Whiplashy

MassINeverHad wrote: »

I'm on the Tipp/KK border too. Tipp side of Urlingford and it's snowing and lodging here now. I went out to get the dogs and nearly had a heart attack. According to google weather it's a 'heavy snowstorm'

Maybe I'll wake up to a surprise in the morning! I'm not far from Callan, so a good bit down the road from you.

mickmackey1

At midnight it was -2 in Roscommon and +6 in Mayo.

Danno

Heavy Snow falling in Durrow since midnight, grass and cars and roof tops white. Big flakes at times.

Skedaddle

Came through really heavy snow in Tipperary on the M8. It's building up on the road surface.

Very dangerous driving conditions.

patneve2

I knew this slack low would produce at least one unexpected snow event

Skedaddle

It was extremely heavy. I couldn't even see the road surface and had to drop to about 50km/h.

There was a covering for snow on both lanes enough to totally obscure the markings and that happened within a few minutes.

Danno

Down to +0.4c and fine flakes falling. South Laois.

BLIZZARD7

1.6c In D14, DP at 0c. Dublin airport much colder at -2c. As much as I'd love to see ninja snow here I Don't think the precip will make it.

Danno

Pegging it down again. Patchy accumulations on the road now. 0.4c still. South Laois.

RobertKK

I went out and measured the snow, it is still pelting it down.
5cm on the concrete surface, 7.5cm on the car.
There is going to be a lot of shocked people around here tomorrow morning.
Looking at the radar, there could be a lot still to come here for north east Kilkenny.

Autosport

Snowing here in south Kilkenny too, we still have a lot of snow still left from last week. Should be fun in the morning

splinter65

Snowing heavily in Thurles.

Kermit.de.frog

BLIZZARD7 wrote: »

1.6c In D14, DP at 0c. Dublin airport much colder at -2c. As much as I'd love to see ninja snow here I Don't think the precip will make it.

Rain shadow. Ah well.

RobertKK

It looks like the snow is stuck in the same area and is dying out slowly.

sdanseo

RobertKK wrote: »

I went out and measured the snow, it is still pelting it down.
5cm on the concrete surface, 7.5cm on the car.
There is going to be a lot of shocked people around here tomorrow morning.
Looking at the radar, there could be a lot still to come here for north east Kilkenny.

That's almost a red warning :pac:

What are the odds Gerry was in charge of this forecast

Cold and frosty overnight, with some patches of ice and fog. Showers at times too, with sleet in places and with a little snow on some hills and mountains, especially over parts of Munster and south Leinster early on and in other areas later tonight. Lowest temperatures -2 to plus 2 C.

Kermit.de.frog

Could be an "interesting" rush hour around Dublin...

sdanseo

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Could be an "interesting" rush hour around Dublin...

Can't see temps holding once the sun comes up. Looks like game over now that this band hasn't reached us. Unless of course the wind swings east/southeasterly in which case I'm having another snow day!

bassy

Pegging down snow here in north kilkenny

RobertKK

We will need the snow plough out again.

bassy

Ah its not sticking as roads are wet,only see it on the grass and cars.its turned to a sleety shower now.

RobertKK

My satellite signal is gone from a build up of snow on the satellite dish, it will have to wait till morning.

RobertKK

bassy wrote: »

Ah its not sticking as roads are wet,only see it on the grass and cars.its turned to a sleety shower now.

Higher up it has stuck everywhere and still coming down hard.
Near 9cm on the car now. over 6cm on the concrete surface.

4ensic15

patneve2 wrote: »

I knew this slack low would produce at least one unexpected snow event

Then it is not unexpected!

Artane2002

Nice, clear, frosty morning in Dublin.

gozunda

sdanseo wrote: »

That's almost a red warning :pac:

What are the odds Gerry was in charge of this forecast

And once again the mid Munster area gets a pasting with adverse weather and nothing from the weather forecasts accurately gave proper warning of the event.

I know I've posted about this before before but there are large areas of mid Munster that no ME weather stations with the result that weather details/ variables across a huge swath of Limerick/ North West Cork / Kerry / Waterford/ Klkenny and large tracts of Tipperary don't get accurately recorded or reported. Forecasts ditto.

Woke up to a solid covering of snow this morning - and I'm not an isolated case either looking at the reports on here ..

Not even a mention this morning on the RTE radio weather report ...

:mad: