Light Snow - Overnight Wed/Thu 6th/7th January 2021

esposito

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

Back Roads here snow covered but I guess the secondary and mains should be fine. Fog has returned here, keeping the temperature at or just below freezing. So the snow remains intact.

Ice day for you then

Humberto Salazar

An Ri rua wrote: »

A heavy fog has drifted in around Tullamore. Maybe 3cm of snow overnight. Very minimal melt.

Ideal for keeping the thaw away, if you want that. Temperatures won't get much above 0 in this. Us the ground is frozen, so untreated and shaded areas will be lethal later.

Meteorite58

No snow here on the Kerry coast outside Tralee but did rain early morning and froze on contact leaving black ice everywhere. Temps were hovering around freezing all night rose to 0.7 when the rain arrived and back down to -0.3 leaving the place with a clear ice glaze, glad I wasn't out early this morning.
2.9C now and thawing with clear blue skies and bright sunshine.

nacho libre

Even with the rain last night a couple of shaded spots still have bits of snow, it just shows how cold the ground has become. Unfortunately, the old saying about snow on the ground is not going to come true this time. Good to see this cold spell finally delivered for a lot of people before it ends.

Danno

Currently -0.3c and getting foggy. No thaw, yet in south Laois.

Samsgirl

Drive to work this morning. South Tipp. Ice with a snow topping. Slow going and slippy in places.

TheMilkyPirate

Quarry lake frozen over in Wexford this morning

https://streamable.com/866xvc

Apologies for the awful quality after upload

Cluedo Monopoly

A fair thaw in Galway this morning. Disappointing.

Danno

https://twitter.com/LaoisWeather/status/1347151479275216896?s=19

Hovering around 0°c

Cw85

Appears from the radar it has now passed, was nice to wake up to even though it wasn't enough for a snowman To get a lot milder now from Sunday but fingers crossed we'll see something nice and cold at the start of February.

murphyebass

Managed a couple of mini snowmen here in Clonee this morning.

Very light dusting really but the kids enjoyed it all the same.

CirrusBusiness

Cw85 wrote: »

Appears from the radar it has now passed, was nice to wake up to even though it wasn't enough for a snowman To get a lot milder now from Sunday but fingers crossed we'll see something nice and cold at the start of February.

Or sooner! ;-)

Foggy out there now in parts. Temps will struggle to reach above freezing today so the snow and ice should stick around until the weekend. Places could see it drop to around -6c or -7c this weekend before the milder air pushes across.

Gonzo

woke up to a dusting here in Dunshaughlin, maybe 1cm of snow at the most. Lovely to see and while it is a very light fall, it's more than I saw at any stage throughout 2019 and 2020 combined.

John.Icy

Did decently enough all things said here in D9. Got a better dusting than I expected, compared quite favourably to some locations who had more prolonged falls.

Doubt many others had a substantial thaw underway by 8:30am though. Nearly all gone now.

weatherfiend

murphyebass wrote: »

Managed a couple of mini snowmen here in Clonee this morning.

Very light dusting really but the kids enjoyed it all the same.

More than we got in D18 - lucky. Where are you?

Oops sorry you said clonee

lolie

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What's the location?

South Cavan.
I should have stated that in my post last night.

Probably little more than a 1cm here last night. Temperature slowly creeping up, 1.5c and thawing but at a far slower pace than last friday.

spoonerhead

What fell this morning has completely thawed out now in D12, did have a nice dusting this morning.

macnug

Danno wrote: »

Currently -0.3c and getting foggy. No thaw, yet in south Laois.

Is that for the snow in Laois or do you expect more?

Gonzo

thaw setting in here now, snow beginning to melt from the grass.

Artane2002

some sort of precipitation in Dublin 5, can't tell what it is though because it's so light.

spookwoman

Artane2002 wrote: »

some sort of precipitation in Dublin 5, can't tell what it is though because it's so light.

Probably like that dust we had falling down here. Like a mizzle but with fine ice or snow.

bosco12345

munsterlegend wrote: »

2 snow mornings in January where I am near Mallow.

Is mallow elevated much? I'm surprised at that as I lived in Cork for 2 years and couldn't get over how mild it is down there with very little frost compared to Cavan (where I Iive now)

Rebelbrowser

munsterlegend wrote: »

Are you in the city or up on higher ground?

Sorry, only saw this now. Was out sledding with the kids actually! I'm at about 80m ASL I think. We are on a hill, hence we could sled notwithstanding there wasn't that much snow. I was surprised how much fell as the NW radar showed v little by the time it hit us. In fact GL's ICON flash forecast which he posted just as the snow hit gave the impression nothing would fall. But in fact it snowed for a good 90 mins ultimately. Belatedly I saw that the Met.ie radar did in fact correctly show that level of precipitation - which is interesting to bear in mind for future events

pistolpetes11

There was not much snow in Newbridge just at the edge of the Curragh but not a single flake that fell was wasted , was up on the hills in the Curragh from 10am till now with the kids and they had a ball on there sleds , the frozen ground with the snow sitting on top made for absolutely perfect conditions .

munsterlegend

bosco12345 wrote: »

Is mallow elevated much? I'm surprised at that as I lived in Cork for 2 years and couldn't get over how mild it is down there with very little frost compared to Cavan (where I Iive now)

Not elevated at all. It’s kind of in a low lying valley and gets flooded mostly! Surrounding areas are higher up and get a lot more snow.

An Ri rua

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

Ideal for keeping the thaw away, if you want that. Temperatures won't get much above 0 in this. Us the ground is frozen, so untreated and shaded areas will be lethal later.

Fast thaw underway now. Strong sun. Very quick turnaround.

redsteveireland

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

There was not much snow in Newbridge just at the edge of the Curragh but not a single flake that fell was wasted , was up on the hills in the Curragh from 10am till now with the kids and they had a ball on there sleds , the frozen ground with the snow sitting on top made for absolutely perfect conditions .

Can't beat that sort of fun for kids. Very Jealous, the folks are near Naas and teasing me with pictures of snow and frozen sections of the canal.

Danno

https://twitter.com/LaoisWeather/status/1347174461209010178?s=19

Gonzo

thaw still going on here, even tho it was just a dusting I don't think it will thaw fully before nightfall. If this was March last nights dusting would be melted hours ago.

circadian

Looking out the window here and you'd be none the wiser to snow now. Short lived but nice.