Snow/Ice warning: 26 / 27 / 28 Jan 2020

Rougies

Dublin mountains about an hour ago; light rain at 400m transitioning to light snow above 500m. Need a good drop in temps to get anything at low levels tonight in Dublin.

DOCARCH

Rougies wrote: »

Dublin mountains about an hour ago; light rain at 400m transitioning to light snow above 500m. Need a good drop in temps to get anything at low levels tonight.

Would also be useful to get some precipitation!

yorlum11

Coming down heavy in Westport. Sticking readily.

Rikand

Donegal Ken wrote: »

Top of Mount Errigal, Donegal

https://twitter.com/DonegalWeatherC/status/1221819492084461568

Be great craic if he got stranded up there and someone had to go rescue him

lcasey90

Rikand wrote: »

Be great craic if he got stranded up there and someone had to go rescue him

Would it though?

Oscar Bravo

Heavy snow ,Castlebar

Xenji

Heavy white gold falling in Castlebar currently.

TTLF

still dry as a bone in Dublin,

Goldfinch8

Lampost watching in Ballaghaderreen at the moment!

Gonzo

TTLF wrote: »

still dry as a bone in Dublin,

dry here in Meath too, had a few spits of rain earlier. I don't think we'll be getting much in the Dublin/Meath/Kildare areas but we shall see. There is a band of showers crossing the country, getting towards the midlands now, not sure if they will make it here intact. Even if they do make it here, temperatures still too high for snow. Looks like the north-west and Northern Ireland could get plenty of heavy showers over the next few hours. Looks much patchier further south.

Monkeynut

i say about an hour or so for that precipitation to reach us.

squarecircles

AllForIt

Xenji wrote: »

Heavy white gold falling in Castlebar currently.

I haven't seen such thick heavy snowflakes in a long time - this is a surprise.

Mortelaro

Sub zero dewpoint in Arklow

DOCARCH

Monkeynut wrote: »

i say about an hour or so for that precipitation to reach us.

I would not be overly confident of that hold together to reach Dublin! It's already splitting.

km79

km79 wrote: »

Snowing heavy in south mayo apparently
Gonna be a nasty commute tonight and morning

Yeah that was no fun
But nothing compared to the morning if all that slushy mess freezes over

Monkeynut

DOCARCH wrote: »

I would not be overly confident of that hold together to reach Dublin! It's already splitting.

i was thinking the same thing. it happened all last year too, it just couldn't make it to us. except for the one day of last year it did snow.

Oneiric 3

Stopped here now with the inevitable sounds of dripping. If it freezes tonight though the roads and pavements will be absolutely lethal. Nothing more dangerous than frozen over partially melted wet snow.

One odd thing about this current clearance is the strange looking blue/grey thick haze/fog that has formed. Very atmospheric but slightly peculiar.

Donegal Storm

Rather bizarrely, despite the forecast and despite what the radar looks like, we haven't had a single drop/flake of precipitation all day in Letterkenny. Seems to be a clear slot from here right down to Mayo all day.

Last night's snow is pretty much all gone now other than some patches in the shade. Hills still white though

TTLF

Is it actually COLD enough in Dublin for it to snow?
(not sure of the DP atm, but temp wise Idk....)

The ground (from what I was told from a friend) is also quite warm still due to the lack of a frost last night.

Not sure how this will play out.

Andrew00

Nothing in East Galway (near Athenry)

Tuam is completely white

Micheal H

History repeating pretty much exactly 5 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbkOwoZLey0

pauldry

Goldfinch8 wrote: »

Lampost watching in Ballaghaderreen at the moment!

Theres not much else to do in Ballaghaderreen at the best of times

Pretzill

double post

pauldry

This is before it got dark

I fell over with the shock of it

Pretzill

Came down heavy the last 40 minutes - surprised how quickly it stuck.

South Sligo
90m asl

DOCARCH

TTLF wrote: »

Is it actually COLD enough in Dublin for it to snow?

Temp is dropping away slowly. For my part of Dublin (16), 4.1c DP 0.6c atm.

Honestfrank01

Andrew00 wrote: »

Nothing in East Galway (near Athenry)

Tuam is completely white

I was driving home from galway City to tuam was heavy rain and temp on the car was 5oC soon as I hit the corofin area it dropped to 1 and heavy snow out of nowhere

redsteveireland

Andrew00 wrote: »

Nothing in East Galway (near Athenry)

Tuam is completely white

Heavier precipitation is just a little bit too far North for us unfortunately, we will see how the night goes.

TTLF

DOCARCH wrote: »

Temp is dropping away slowly. For my part of Dublin (16), 4.1c DP 0.6c atm.

Yeah im only up the road from you actually!
I think with the night falling now, the temps will be cold enough
Sadly no precip though lol