Cold Spell - Feb 7th to 13th 2021 - Chat

Humberto Salazar

Could be fun from Thursday though for more of the country. Very difficult to forecast next few days

glossy

Nice dusting of snow by me in D15. Was hoping for bit more. But happy enough that there is.
As I drove into work, looking how little some got and others none. In city centre.

DOCARCH

No sign of any overnight snow in south Dublin (Dublin 16).

speckle

Danno wrote: »

Weathercheck has been on the Twitter machine answering your question:

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1358803657354002435

Ooh.. that has to be one of the funniest twit threads I have read in ages laughing so loud I hope I dont wake the neighbours early... from clochini beag sneachta...to how do we make it stick....and everywhere in between..thanks.. great way to awake

guil

Very light snow falling near coill dubh, kildare

bazlers

The latest met eirean forecast indicates cold snowy conditions possibly persisting in midlands, North east and north leinster until Saturday.

redsteveireland

I am actually glad we have avoided the snow to allow search teams to look for those 4 individuals missing in Galway since December.

DOCARCH

redsteveireland wrote: »

I am actually glad we have avoided the snow to allow search teams to look for those 4 individuals missing in Galway since December.

DellyBelly

DOCARCH wrote: »

No sign of any overnight snow in south Dublin (Dublin 16).

Yes looks like we got lucky alright. A light dusting but nothing to bad.

Zogabomb

Met Eireann are quite bullish that the cold snowy weather will hang on in the North and East until Saturday / Sunday. Looks like a much quicker breakdown on Friday according to this mornings GFS and ECM.

Interesting few days ahead!

Slashermcguirk

Yes it really bodes well for east, north and midlands, sounds like really big snow potential from now until the weekend. Really interesting to see how this develops.

bazlers wrote: »

The latest met eirean forecast indicates cold snowy conditions possibly persisting in midlands, North east and north leinster until Saturday.

carltonleon

Very light dusting of graupel in Swords this morning

redsteveireland

DOCARCH wrote: »

Sorry, just sobering reading this morning about the efforts of the Oranmore Maree search team and the public searching for people who have gone missing in Galway recently, one from my workplace. I am sure they will be glad if the snow stays away.

DOCARCH

Zogabomb wrote: »

Met Eireann are quite bullish that the cold snowy weather will hang on in the North and East until Saturday / Sunday. Looks like a much quicker breakdown on Friday according to this mornings GFS and ECM.

Interesting few days ahead!

Interesting alright. Only issue is that our 'default' is mild....mild tends to win in these situations.

Slashermcguirk

Doesn’t really seem like a normal situation though this week. Any time mild has looked like returning the cold pushes back. Will have to see

DOCARCH wrote: »

Interesting alright. Only issue is that our 'default' is mild....mild tends to win in these situations.

DOCARCH

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Doesn’t really seem like a normal situation though this week. Any time mild has looked like returning the cold pushes back. Will have to see

Have been here before in the past, in similar situations, with high confidence of cold hanging on/snow, only for the mild air to very quickly overwhelm the cold.

Anyway....we'll wait and see.

Villain

That Met Éireann forecast would have been issued before the latest ECM, unless it’s a big outlier I would expect it to downgrade to reflect model changes.

DOCARCH

In positive news. very cold in Scotland this morning. -15c atm in Altnaharra. :cool:

Slashermcguirk

That’s one run, they are like musical chairs

Villain wrote: »

That Met Éireann forecast would have been issued before the latest ECM, unless it’s a big outlier I would expect it to downgrade to reflect model changes.

Zogabomb

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

That’s one run, they are like musical chairs

I'll take 24 hours of moderate snow at this stage, looks likely in my opinion!

Graces7

redsteveireland wrote: »

Sorry, just sobering reading this morning about the efforts of the Oranmore Maree search team and the public searching for people who have gone missing in Galway recently, one from my workplace. I am sure they will be glad if the snow stays away.

Thank you; I was shamefully totally unaware of this. And yes it adds a dimension of stark realism to the situation.

I was thinking earlier too about the homeless. Hoping they are all in safe shelter. Just going outside here is bitter. I cannot imagine being out there with no shelter.

And again; check on neighbours, please

THEN enjoy the snow !

DOCARCH

What's needed now is an uplifting/re-assuring Little Old Snowy Me post! :P

johnny45

DOCARCH wrote: »

No sign of any overnight snow in south Dublin (Dublin 16).

A non event after all the hype

DOCARCH

johnny45 wrote: »

A non event after all the hype

Still 4 days of a cold spell to go....

lapua20grain

johnny45 wrote: »

A non event after all the hype

1st day of it

Gaoth Laidir

Dublin Airport SNOWTAM (coded message regarding snow conditions), issued at 06:05. Nothing to report really. Runway is damp, no deposits, all runways and taxiways have been sprayed with potassium acetate salt solution.

SNOWTAM
A) EIDW
02090605 C) 10R F) 1/1/1 G) 00/00/00 H) 5/5/5
02090615 C) 16 F) 1/1/1 G) 00/00/00 H) 5/5/5
T) RUNWAY 10R/28L AND RUNWAY 16/34 HAVE BEEN SPRAYED WITH KAC.
TAXIWAYS FOX INNER AND OUTER, M1, W1, W2, W3, DELTA NORTH AND SOUTH
HAVE ALSO BEEN SPRAYED WITH KAC. EXERCISE CAUTION ON ALL TAXIWAYS
AND APRON AREAS.)

Bishop of hope

A nice covering of snow made it as far as north Longford overnight.

Zogabomb

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Dublin Airport SNOWTAM (coded message regarding snow conditions), issued at 06:05. Nothing to report really. Runway is damp, no deposits, all runways and taxiways have been sprayed with potassium acetate salt solution.



SNOWTAM
A) EIDW
02090605 C) 10R F) 1/1/1 G) 00/00/00 H) 5/5/5
02090615 C) 16 F) 1/1/1 G) 00/00/00 H) 5/5/5
T) RUNWAY 10R/28L AND RUNWAY 16/34 HAVE BEEN SPRAYED WITH KAC.
TAXIWAYS FOX INNER AND OUTER, M1, W1, W2, W3, DELTA NORTH AND SOUTH
HAVE ALSO BEEN SPRAYED WITH KAC. EXERCISE CAUTION ON ALL TAXIWAYS
AND APRON AREAS.)

Enough of this coded stuff

What we really want to know is how you see Thursday / Friday playing out?

Mimon

Was very surprised that we got far more snow on Meath/Westmeath border than they have here at work just outside Dublin.

Graces7

DOCARCH wrote: »

What's needed now is an uplifting/re-assuring Little Old Snowy Me post! :P

:eek:

be careful what you wish for!

And as I said ENJOY .

I am about to emerge from my snug cocoon to inspect the (bare) mountains as light is dawning. "Hope springs eternal" and they do look pretty when there is snow.