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

Stevieluvsye

For nearly 2.5k posts, hyperbole on 3 different threads like this is 2010 again, this is going to turn out to be massively underwhelming. This is no more than a winter snap.

I'm sure lessons will be learned from this as the quality of the threads is extremely poor with a lot of negative and agressive posts.

Appreciate the MODS are more flexible than AH and CA forums but a lot has been let go by that has allowed the weather section to become rather unpleasent over the last week.

Thankfully and no doubt it'll return to some levels of normality in a couple of weeks time

EMPotatohands

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

For nearly 2.5k posts, hyperbole on 3 different threads like this is 2010 again, this is going to turn out to be massively underwhelming. This is no more than a winter snap.

I'm sure lessons will be learned from this as the quality of the threads is extremely poor with a lot of negative and agressive posts.

Appreciate the MODS are more flexible than AH and CA forums but a lot has been let go by that has allowed the weather section to become rather unpleasent over the last week.

Thankfully and no doubt it'll return to some levels of normality in a couple of weeks time

*writes a big long negative post about the negative posts*

Fics

BrandonBay86 wrote: »

Light snow in Drogheda (not snizzle)

Picture?

highdef

Activity seems to be picking up a little with a cell just NW of Anglesey. Cloud tops are also beginning to increase a little and are starting to look ever so slightly more convective.

Tyrone212

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

This is probably as good as it will get today. A slightly better chance of something a bit more respectable tonight and tomorrow but really not much to write home about. Mid levels are just too stable for anything of any real intensity.

Maybe a yellow warning later.

Kermit.de.frog

Temperatures will be lower tonight under clearer skies so snow/graupel more likely to start accumulating particularly inland.

PokeHerKing

I spy a wee blob forming that should have dublin in its path.

positron

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Smallest shower in cork city, snow pieces smaller then individual styrofoam balls and just blows around and dissapperes. Barely visible.

That's it - Styrofoam snow or fluffy hail floating in the air here in Drogheda, last night and now again this morning.

PokeHerKing

Bit if graupel falling in D24

Fics

BrandonBay86 wrote: »

I have a video but file is too big. Streamers really picking up off Louth / Meath coast.

Oh, maybe something nice to come home to later, nothing here in Kildare the odd spec drifting around disappearing when it hits something.

deRanged

light graupel now in East Cork.

Thelonious Monk

Was down at the seafront this morning in Clontarf, it's rough af, pretty cool.
What is a streamer?

Greenlights16

PokeHerKing wrote: »

I spy a wee blob forming that should have dublin in its path.

That’s washed diesel fumes from south louth

wicklowdub

Continued light snow/grauple in Shankill D18 on and off since early this morning.

Not enough to accumulate in any meaningful way. Bitter cold too.

Supercell

wicklowdub wrote: »

Continued light snow/grauple in Shankill D18 on and off since early this morning.

Not enough to accumulate in any meaningful way. Bitter cold too.

Same here just up the road, not amounting to much.

lcasey90

What radar services ye use?

TheMilkyPirate

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Was down at the seafront this morning in Clontarf, it's rough af, pretty cool.
What is a streamer?

A train of convective showers from the sea/ocean/lake

TTLF

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Was down at the seafront this morning in Clontarf, it's rough af, pretty cool.
What is a streamer?

A streamer is a band of precipitation which forms off the coast and heads inland in a line or curved line towards land, it can also be seen as an area of bubbled up clouds with precipitation which head inwards towards land.

In our example, the "streamers" we see today are forming off the Irish sea due to the Easterly wind direction, and are moving inland towards Dublin/East Coast and parts of the South coast.

If you look on Met.ie and see the rain radar, you'll get an idea of what I mean.

Trebor176

Not much to report in Clondalkin, apart from a short shower of graupel.

It looks like it will be light showers for us from now until Wednesday, when heavier snow will hit.

The chan chan man

Never heard the word graupel so much in my life..

Kermit.de.frog

Burst of Moderate snow/graupel trying to settle

Artane2002

heavyish snow grain shower in Dublin, didn't think I'd ever say this.

Roanmore

Very light shower in Dungarvan for the past 20 mins, stopped now.

If the 06z were to verify,the snow would still be going in leinster, particularly heavy at times in wexford Cstlow Kilkenny kildsre Dublin and Wicklow
Aunty would be needing more shovels
As we say around here Nare a sign of a thaw

Friday morning



Saturday Evening !

Reckless Abandonment

Radar definitely looking more streamer ish

TTLF

heavy burst of grains for a bit there... kind of meh but it' a good start?

almostthere12

Streamer heading for south Dublin according to Netweather radar!

nacho libre

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

For nearly 2.5k posts, hyperbole on 3 different threads like this is 2010 again, this is going to turn out to be massively underwhelming. This is no more than a winter snap.

You should have stuck to your first dismissive post from last week.
It will always be underwhelming when expectations are set to 2010 and 2018.
It was made clear by several posters with good experience and knowledge this would be akin to the meow of a cat rather than the roar of a true beast.
People need to realise that events like the ones mentioned above are rarities. Also despite the perception created, good easterlies, just like good northerlies, are not all that common

Nabber

Prepare yourselves for the non stop Graupel updates

KingdomRushed

Beefier showers finally showing out to sea and seem bound for Dublin Bay