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

Kutebride · 09-02-2021 8:44am

Some snow deposited here in Meath but not major blanket cover. We are under the precip radar as I type but nothing falling at the moment. 1⁰.

lawred2 · 09-02-2021 8:49am

North county Dublin has had a bit of a dusting

Snowbiee21 · 09-02-2021 8:49am

Under a heavy enough streamer in north dub. Precipitation definitely upped since yesterday. Boxes well for streamers today I would feel.

ffarrell7 · 09-02-2021 8:51am

Graupel and light snow again Dublin 9

punisher5112 · 09-02-2021 8:52am

All I'm seeing is what one could only describe as polystyrene pellets dusting the place the odd time.
Happened in Wexford and now in Northside Dublin near the airport.

Very cold and the wind makes that much worse.

Car wasn't even frozen but covered and it was like dust so just flew off.

DOCARCH · 09-02-2021 8:53am

punisher5112 wrote: »

All I'm seeing is what one could only describe as polystyrene pellets dusting the place the odd time.

Graupel.

Tyrone212 · 09-02-2021 8:53am

Nice morning. Despite it being clear all night with near calm conditions, -2 is the lowest I recorded.

piplip87 · 09-02-2021 8:55am

Nice Covering here in Virginia thus morning. Nothing major but enough for a snowman and a snowball fight.

punisher5112 · 09-02-2021 8:55am

DOCARCH wrote: »

Graupel.

Is this the actual name? Never heard of before.

Slashermcguirk · 09-02-2021 8:57am

Very light dusting in D5

DOCARCH · 09-02-2021 8:58am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Is this the actual name? Never heard of before.

Yes. You will see it referred to a lot on here.

Some light graupel falling in Dublin 16 atm.

acassells80 · 09-02-2021 9:00am

Any snow / streamers due to hit SCD today ?

Gaoth Laidir · 09-02-2021 9:02am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Is this the actual name? Never heard of before.

It's snowflakes that get bounced back up into the supercooled region of the cloud (where the cloud droplets are about -10 °C but still liquid). This supercooled liquid freezes on the surface of the flake, forming a rime coating around it. Think of it like a Malteser.

To distinguish between hail and graupel, graupel will bounce on impact and will crush very easily when pressed.

Chalkitdown147 · 09-02-2021 9:07am

Starting to come down heavy here now, mixture. Good start to the day

Edit: Clonee D15

Tyrone212 · 09-02-2021 9:13am

Met office for here forecasts showers to die out this evening and dry overnight and Wednesday. The window is closing.

Donegal Ken · 09-02-2021 9:14am

Status Yellow - Snow/Ice warning for Dublin, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow, Westmeath, Meath, Cavan and Monaghan
Met Éireann Weather Warning

Snow accumulations of 2 to 5 cm in places.

Valid: 08:00 Tuesday 09/02/2021 to 18:00 Wednesday 10/02/2021

Issued: 08:08 Tuesday 09/02/2021

circadian · 09-02-2021 9:18am

Very cold out there, brief blizzard conditions when I was driving about 30 minutes ago but it melted by the time I was in my return 10 minutes later.

This cold air seems to be bedding in, its very bitter.

Slashermcguirk · 09-02-2021 9:20am

The event is Wednesday night to Friday morning.

Tyrone212 wrote: »

Met office for here forecasts showers to die out this evening and dry overnight and Wednesday. The window is closing.

coconnellz · 09-02-2021 9:20am

Met only added cavan this morning South East of cavan got couple of centimeters, edit started to snow again ðŸ‘€

TTLF · 09-02-2021 9:21am

DOCARCH wrote: »

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

Must’ve been super localised, it’s not much but I managed a dusting that stuck to the roofs and to the ground too...

Pentecost · 09-02-2021 9:23am

Bishop of hope wrote: »

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

Snowing again in Longford town now. Not too heavy but nice to look out at, garden is nice and white

DOCARCH · 09-02-2021 9:24am

TTLF wrote: »

Must’ve been super localised, it’s not much but I managed a dusting that stuck to the roofs and to the ground too...

That here too....roofs have a good dusting.

There has been light snow/graupel showers here in Dublin 16 since I posted that.

King of Spades · 09-02-2021 9:26am

About an inch of snow here in central Meath and sky looks full of snow. Sounds like Thursday will bring a much more significant fall. Very happy with that.

Wine Goddess · 09-02-2021 9:27am

Nothing much here in Southwest Dublin Firhouse Dublin 24......
A few flakes dancing around in the breeze and a little reduction in cover since last night.
I'm confident of a few more streamers later on though.......