Snow showers, 27th/28th

sundodger5

FLASH,BANG....lights out. Thought it hit the house.
Mayo. Outside Castlebar.

daniel_t1409

are these thunderstorms going to reach the southeast? should I unplug my PC?

Mostly clear skies here currently

redsteveireland

amen wrote: »

Lovely thunder lightning here in athenry. Near instantaneous thunder after the lightning. Rain hail sleet everything but snow ��

Hello neighbour, great show for sure.

km79

Lookin at the ESB map we are very very lucky to still have power !

lolie

lolie wrote: »

Moderate sleety hail falling here now in South cavan. Temp gone from 1 earlier to 2 now.

My sister in Nobber meath just sent me this a few minutes ago.

Another one she sent me, taken about 9.30, shows how localised it was.

Rock Lesnar

Snow is melting fairly quick here now, i'd say there'll be nothing left in the morning except puddles of water

redsteveireland

km79 wrote: »

Lookin at the ESB map we are very very lucky to still have power !

That double strike was very close, a few neighbours lost power and had flickering lights.

Danno

bassy wrote: »

i suppose nothing for north kilkenny either by the sounds of that.

Sleet out there now - probably snow above 150m asl.

Danno

Heavy sleet and gusting winds. Horrible out there. (S. Laois)

Donegal Ken

Telecom poles damaged outside Kilmacrennan, Donegal tonight from the lightning earlier. Photos send to me via my page.

Danno

Donegal Ken wrote: »

Telecom poles damaged outside Kilmacrennan, Donegal tonight from the lightning earlier. Photos send to me via my page.

Unreal! No dial-up internet there for a while!

SeaBreezes

https://twitter.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1343333821236858882?s=09

tikkamark

Donegal Ken wrote: »

Telecom poles damaged outside Kilmacrennan, Donegal tonight from the lightning earlier. Photos send to me via my page.

Them pictures are unreal just goes to show the pure raw power of nature we are always just like match sticks at the mercy of extreme weather!!
(Just to add on tonight’s topic here on the Meath Westmeath border we got nothing only very heavy rain/sleet from 9.30 till now it’s still lashing it down outside.These northerly snow events coming from either greenland or Iceland are always very hit or miss the Atlantic usually always makes a slushy mess of the white gold!)

jambofc

heavy rain in kilkenny,ive lived here 6 years now and it must be one of the worst places for snow,ive seen nearly no snow since here

polarhullar

Benevenagh tonight roughly 350m ASL.

Absolutely hammered it down with snow, a good 2/3 inches, proper sticky snow too.

Storm 10

Could you imagine if you had been out hiking on that road when the storm hit it looks likes the poles are the tallest things in the area.

Samsgirl

Getting lightning alerts on my phone the past few mins. Can see some activity about 4 miles away.
South Tipp, Aherlow

physioman

Drove up the m1 northbound there near dunleer exit. Sudden onset of a heavy snow shower for about 5km. Traffic slowed to 30km/hr.

tikkamark

polarhullar wrote: »

Benevenagh tonight roughly 350m ASL.

Absolutely hammered it down with snow, a good 2/3 inches, proper sticky snow too.

Class picture!Out with the drone!

lolie

Donegal Ken wrote: »

Telecom poles damaged outside Kilmacrennan, Donegal tonight from the lightning earlier. Photos send to me via my page.

Wow, how many were damaged there?

polarhullar

tikkamark wrote: »

Class picture!Out with the drone!

I climbed a tree

redsteveireland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfoKcrBbnw

Missed the bigger ones after this.

kegg

Power gone in foxford in mayo.

greasepalm

One of the main things people miss is working lights on a car when this happens as tomorrow is too late when putting things off till another time.Great headlights on that car.

Nqp15hhu

polarhullar wrote: »

Benevenagh tonight roughly 350m ASL.

Absolutely hammered it down with snow, a good 2/3 inches, proper sticky snow too.

Binevenagh (385m) is my local hill. My sister got stuck just south of there earlier tonight. It had no snow on it this morning.

Anyway, if you really want to see deep snow go to Mullagheany. Last March I went hiking up there and there was still about a foot of frozen solid snow weeks after it melted low down.

Nqp15hhu

We rose to 5.6c and are on our way back down now, could’ve been a proper event had we not had that warm sector. The Met Office mentions wintry showers tomorrow afternoon, we will see.

But would love to go hiking tomorrow, hopefully the snow is still there.

Meteorite58

Donegal Ken wrote: »

Telecom poles damaged outside Kilmacrennan, Donegal tonight from the lightning earlier. Photos send to me via my page.

This might be the one I would think, powerful ,great pictures and video and follow up shots of the pole damage.

Nqp15hhu

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Sorry you feel that way, but there is no way that your house can be located from giving a general location (which you've finally done now). Nobody is asking for a post code, just whether you're reporting from the north or south, etc. The same way you were demanding that people quote their altitude in reports. It works both ways.

Anyway, water under the bridge now. That event you witness was most likely caused by you driving into a cold downdraft, which can measure only a few hundred metres or less across. It's fairly common in showers and in severe cases can lead to strong straightline winds.

That’s an interesting weather phenomena. The weather wunderground stations nearby (about 3 miles away) remained at 3c and did not fall any further. The hill is just behind my house so I wondered if the cold air had been blown down off the peak (as daft as that sounds) to produce a localised cold pool.

I did not know that was possible. Well I suppose that was a mini katabatic wind.

Slashermcguirk

I saw snow in Dublin 5 this evening and I am nowhere near high ground. Admittedly only a short shower but it still snowed

Rougies wrote: »

There's no snow in Dublin (except higher ground). Calling it "sleety rain" is even pushing it, more like cold rain with the odd whiteish mushy globule of disappointment.

Purple Mountain

To those reporting thunder and lightening, how in meteorology terms is that possible with snow/sleet?