Storm Ciara - Reports/Chat/Non Technical

Danno

Hail and sleet in Portlaoise.

Danno

Massive rumble of thunder in Portlaoise just now.

Mam of 4

Danno wrote: »

Massive rumble of thunder in Portlaoise just now.

Cane on to post that also !

Thunder snow or more rain/hail ?

Danno

Impressive cell over Mountrath... moving towards Portlaoise. Expect it to downpour hail or something.

Danno

Mad wind and blowing hail/graupel/snow mix in Portlaoise. Lightning and thunder also!!!

Daffodil.d

Sunny with showers of cold rain here in Waterford city. We had some sleet but nothing exceptional.

Danno

Lights dipped for a moment in Portlaoise. Don't know whether its lightning related or wind related. Snowing.

Kermit.de.frog

Should get some snow from that as the cold air is just north of that rain band. Everything north of that is sleet or snow mainly.

giveitholly

Can see the snow drifts been blown across the top of the galtees and down into one of the lakes,quite impressive

Darwin

Went out in the car had to pull in the hailstones were hitting the windscreen so hard. That squall like feature that is going through Laois right now is packing some unbelievable gusts.

Mortelaro

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Should get some snow from that as the cold air is just north of that rain band. Everything north of that is sleet or snow mainly.

Near Avoca Co Wicklow
About 5 miles from Arklow

Oneiric 3

Good discussion here on what ground conditions are need for snow to stick:

https://www.iweathernet.com/educational/warm-snowstorms-and-atlanta-biggest-snowfalls-on-record

Abstract:
Sufficient conditions for snow or sleet to accumulate:
(1)The temperature of surfaces upon which the precipitation falls must be subfreezing;
(2)If surfaces are above freezing, the precipitation rate must exceed the melt rate;
(3)Melting snow/sleet can cause the temperature of surface to drop rapidly due to the latent heat of melting (very efficient)

Cw85

Thunder and lightening in Carlow, lights flickered but still have electricity. After heavy snow earlier the sun came out and it all melted. Sky has now turned very dark, hoping it's more snow

Cw85

The black sky has only produced hail in Carlow

Calibos

Caught the edge of a shower in Bray the last 20 minutes with mixed precipitation down here on the Seafront. Bit o’ shleeet, bit o’ graupel, bit o’ hail, bit o’ rain. A mm of slush on car roofs. Getting bright again so thats the end of it. Mortelaro in Arklow should be doing well out of the current precipitation band that was just a bit too far south for me in Bray such that we only caught sections of the edge of it.

Cw85

Cw85 wrote: »

The black sky has only produced hail in Carlow

Now sleet

Cw85

Cw85 wrote: »

Now sleet

and back to sun

Drumpot

Don’t suppose anybody has a summary of what we are looking at over the next 24 hours?

I’m on east coast just down from Drogheda , seems like we’ve gotten off pretty lightly.

piplip87

Some big show showers here in Cavan today. One was outrageous with the wind but nothing sticking.

Here's hoping they keep coming though

Mortelaro

Blizzard in Arklow
Full on

Sammy2012

Blizzard like conditions here in north wexford at the moment. Snow still on the ground from the earlier heavy shower we had.

Is it supposed to freeze tonight? It's very windy so could be too windy for frost but roads will be treacherous if it does.

harr

One of the wildest days I have seen, blizzard like conditions currently passing through Monasterevin on the m7 and it’s a whiteout...

fred funk }{

Mortelaro wrote: »

Blizzard in Arklow
Full on

Massive gust of wind with it. Blew all the garden furniture over.

BLIZZARD7

Mortelaro wrote: »

Blizzard in Arklow
Full on

Pics please !

2.4c and dropping in D14 now. Mostly clear sky.

Thewife

No snow in west county Waterford only rain off and on all day! About 30 minutes ago we had about 10 minutes of strong gusts accompanied by rain / sleet with a very dark sky , it passed over and the sun is shinning now ! How are we looking for any snow accumulation over the next 24 hours down here in Waterford ?

adocholiday

Would really love a big white out in the general Arklow area tonight

yop

Finding today worse than any other day here in Castlebar. Some really heavy gusts. Bitterly cold and hail.

SleetAndSnow

Getting some sleet and hail showers now in cork city so stuff is starting to change but not sure if we will get snow

Graces7

yop wrote: »

Finding today worse than any other day here in Castlebar. Some really heavy gusts. Bitterly cold and hail.

Same out here; I heard something depart from the roof; I think guttering but too wild to go out to see.

NIMAN

Similar up in north Donegal.

I'd say wind was rougher today than it was yesterday.

And by god it's bitter in that wind. Lot of hail showers today.