Winter 2019/2020 - General Discussion

m17

The phonex park this morning

appledrop

For those of you who like the freezing cold dry weather you got your wish today!

Sweet Jesus its freezing out there. We had about 50 layers on but very cold in park. Brrrrrrrrr straight in for hot beverages!

Kutebride

Beautiful sunshine Meath.
Chilly.

m17

Tuam Co galway 18/01/20 15.25 temperature 4°C

m17

Tuam Co galway 18/01/20 16.55 temperature 4°C

Hooter23

Very cold Galway looks like there might be some fog starting to form already as the sun sets...might end up getting some freezing fog sure...

sryanbruen

A lovely sunny day concluded by a red sky in Dublin.

Oscar Bravo

6pm
Mount Dillon -1

Going to be a hard frost tonight. Lovely clear skies this evening. Love this kind of weather.

pad199207

1038mb here this evening

Kingswood Rover

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

6pm
Mount Dillon -1

Going to be a hard frost tonight. Lovely clear skies this evening. Love this kind of weather.

Nah fecks up the golf in the mornings:mad:

Kutebride

Freezing at 6pm here. Meath.

Monkeynut

Kingswood Rover wrote: »

Nah fecks up the golf in the mornings:mad:

Bring a yellow ball.

Goldfinch8

Certainly one of my favourite days of the winter so far. A cool, crisp and pleasant dry day with ice already forming on the car as soon as the sun went down. This spell of high pressure is a nice reprieve from the Atlantic frontal systems.
Below a picture taken moments after sunset in Lough Lannagh, Castlebar this eve.

Oscar Bravo

8pm

Mullingar -3

m17

Athenry co galway 18/01/20 17.20 temperature 1°C

Billcarson

She's just gone below here in ashbourne, meath.

Danno

Close to -3c here in south Laois.

A few photos from this morning, this afternoon and this evening...

https://twitter.com/LaoisWeather/status/1218654448517636100

pad199207

-2.2c in Kildare and 1041mb rising still

Danno

pad199207 wrote: »

-2.2c in Kildare and 1041mb rising still

Below -3c now and just 1039.9hPa here in south Laois. Rising.

Danno

Massive nose-dive in temperatures in the last five minutes since my last post. Now -3.8c!

pad199207

Danno wrote: »

Massive nose-dive in temperatures in the last five minutes since my last post. Now -3.8c!

Yeah Dan, I’m having erratic temperatures here all evening despite being calm too!

Danno

pad199207 wrote: »

Yeah Dan, I’m having erratic temperatures here all evening despite being calm too!

Subtle winds around 10m are doing this causing downwelling of air under high pressure (which has breached 1040hPa here now). There is shallow fog around here and there seems to be some inversion cap in places at roof height of standard two-storey houses.

Snow Garden

Monkeynut wrote: »

Bring a yellow ball.

They tend to close golf courses if the ground is frozen.

Gaoth Laidir

Several stations at 1040 hPa at 2300: Athlone Costume Barracks, Cork Airport, Gurteen, Moore Park, Mullingar, Oak Park. Exact figures show Cork Airport the highest on 1040.3 hPa.

Lowest is 1037 hPa at Donegal Airport and Malin Head.

Freezing fog at Shannon Airport. Visibility 100 metres

METAR EINN 182300Z 09003KT 0100 R24/0900D R06/0275N FZFG VV001 M01/M01 Q1039 NOSIG=

Danno

Coastal and upland stations are by-and-large above freezing: https://www.xcweather.co.uk/observations

Mt Dillon's -4c along with Benson, England top the cold temperatures table.

Andy From Sligo

I dont want to come across as authoritative and telling people what they should do with their own pets but tonight in our neck of the woods the temperature will plummet to -4 degrees Centigrade or even colder and there are still people who will leave their dogs and other small animals out in the cold tonight , in the back yard or just letting them roam the streets . But could pet owners just imagine would they like to be outside sleeping in these temperatures. Just because dogs have fur coats this dose not necessarily mean they will survive or not be caused pain from the frost , especially animals like short haired dogs and the like . plus the frost (as baking hot tarmac in the summer) can damage the pads of their paws.

If you are one of these pet owners who don't allow dogs into the house , would you please even consider a dry and draught free shed or garage for them to sleep in when temperatures fall like this with preferably some kid of heat and a nice bed and some blankets - its only the humane thing to do on nights like this .

And if you hear your dog or other dogs in the distance tonight moaning/whining/barking and crying its a further indication that they are cold and need to come in.

Thank you.

GoneHome

South Co Limerick -2.1 at the moment, glad to be indoors with a blazing fire

GoneHome

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

if you hear your dog or other dogs in the distance tonight moaning/whining/barking and crying its a further indication that they are cold and need to come in.

Not a dog owner but a cat owner here Andy and she's in here asleep by the stove since 7 pm this evening.

Danno

Fog thickening here in South Laois. Hit -4.0c earlier, but yo-yoing between -3c and -4c since. Wouldn't rule out a -6c or -7c by dawn at this rate.

Mortelaro

Baltinglass Transport infrastructure Ireland site inCo Wicklow currently reporting -5.4c