Feb 29th - Snowfall/Wintry Conditions

jackrussel

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Dew points beginning to drop. Shannon, Cork and Kerry airports all now with DPs of 0c. Temps in Shannon still 5c, Cork is still 3c. That 0c DP and 3c temp combo in Cork is still too high. Need them to sum to less than 1c I think (as well as many other factors). That said I note the next incoming shower to Cork on the netweather radar is a bit pinker than previous ones.

Getting there hopefully.....

Suns shining, blue skies here in the city

ednwireland

snowing now - donegal town roofs covered,roads slushy

temp drop from 3.6 at 10:20am (it was sunny) to 0.5 now !

mumo3

Sun splitting the sky here in Dolphins Barn but its freezing out there, finish work at 2pm hope it holds off until I get home from the school run

Oneiric 3

Latest satellite image. More showers to come, but nothing particularly organised in terms of minor troughing showing up as of yet. Maybe later perhaps.

aisling86

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Dew points beginning to drop. Shannon, Cork and Kerry airports all now with DPs of 0c. Temps in Shannon still 5c, Cork is still 3c. That 0c DP and 3c temp combo in Cork is still too high. Need them to sum to less than 1c I think (as well as many other factors). That said I note the next incoming shower to Cork on the netweather radar is a bit pinker than previous ones.

Getting there hopefully.....

Heavy sleet/ snow in macroom currently temps definitely dropping and it's so dark.

JeffK88

What a difference 10 minutes can make. Sticking in Newbridge now

pad199207

Snowing nicely in Naas

pauldry

Sunny and green here

TTLF

This clouds taking a fat minute to reach Dublin lol

Meteorite58

Caught in a huge blustery hail shower in Tralee, so heavy and squally the hail got into my boots!

yorlum11

Some beefy showers of hail/snow in Westport. It has the makings of a good day ahead for us all.

Ludo

Trying to snow in Bishopstown Cork City.

wazzer1

TTLF wrote: »

This clouds taking a fat minute to reach Dublin lol

In clontarf and think it's going to rain 🙄

SleetAndSnow

Lightly snowing in cork city, well heavily but small flakes. Too wet to stick but it’s something!

Edit:Heavy snow!!

Edit 2: and back to sleety stuff.

craicdood

Lads I've followed the weather pages on boards for about 5 years(a huge thanks to all who keep us all informed), finally I'm gonna jump in. In the recent snow events over the past weeks the snow line has never made it as far as Dublin and seems to dissipate just over the Dublin mountains. As the front is coming in from the west, do we need this event to ramp up in a big way in order for the showers to start hitting the band inside the M50? I know its early days but looking at the charts this just doesn't seem to have the consistency to make it close to the east coast over the mountains.

mumo3

If it snows heavy right now in Dublin we'd be in trouble, a really dry ground

brandy555

JeffK88 wrote: »

What a difference 10 minutes can make. Sticking in Newbridge now

Keep us updated JeffK88 - whatever about being snowed in I def dont fancy being snowed out!!!

Danno

A good hour plus of moderate snow across Laois between 11.15am and 12.45pm. Sticking on grass lightly and on cars etc... the hills between Stradbally and Portlaoise look like they have a good few cm accumulated. Skies are breaking now, so expect the sun to quickly thaw out what little bit there is. The concrete and tarmacadam surfaces are slushy - probably owing to the ground temperatures which were up between 3c and 4c at the 9am observations this morning.

Oscar Bravo

Knock 2 degrees now with the dew point now just gone below zero.

Super-Rush

Nice shower of snow in Kilkenny city.

Not sticking yet

marvsins

Some lightning and thunder about 10 minutes ago in Shanbally near Carrigaline. Came in a blast of heavy rain, hail and sleet.

highdef

Needs a few more frames to be more sure but there are hints of cyclonic circulation to be seen in the shower clouds several hundred kilometres off the north west coast. Perhaps something to keep an eye on.

Graces7

highdef wrote: »

Needs a few more frames to be more sure but there are hints of cyclonic circulation to be seen in the shower clouds several hundred kilometres off the north west coast. Perhaps something to keep an eye on.

OK: so what does that mean in weather terms/effects please?

nthclare

Sunny and damp in Clare
Bit chilly

East Clare today, in the woods... Cratloe area

Graces7

Sudden squalls and heavy noisy precipitation against the roof and windows every few minutes, Sounds like hail more than snow..

west Mayo offshore

pauldry

highdef wrote: »

Needs a few more frames to be more sure but there are hints of cyclonic circulation to be seen in the shower clouds several hundred kilometres off the north west coast. Perhaps something to keep an eye on.

Great ! A Cyclone. That's all we need

Danno

Graces7 wrote: »

OK: so what does that mean in weather terms/effects please?

A polar low. Can deliver potent spells of heavy squally snow. Christmas Morning 2004 was one such event that some of the nippers might remember.

Gaoth Laidir

Polar Low!

Oneiric 3

A shower passing here that has rain, hail and wet snow all falling at the same time and coupled with a jarringly chill wind to add to the delight. This is the Irish weather at its most hideous.

Danno

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Polar Low!

http://sat24.com/

One is tempted to spin up - keep an eye on the dark centre dropping SSE from the letters CET on the top of the animation! :eek: