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The chan chan man wrote: »

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

Get used to it!

Light graupel/snow showers on and off in Dublin 16. 2.1c atm.

RugbyLad11

Extremely light snow in D24. However it's too light to amount to anything

YanSno

Light snow @ Glasnevin Hill

Kermit.de.frog

Snow grains falling @ Howth (play feed)

http://www.howthweather.com/

Humberto Salazar

Nabber wrote: »

Prepare yourselves for the non stop Graupel updates

Light graupel in Offaly. Squinting at dark surfaces to see it. The wife thinks I'm nuts. She'd not be far wrong.

mcburns07

Graupel central in coastal East Cork

Graces7

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

There IS a separate technical thread on this event. Folk need to be lighter-hearted just now and there is no harm in it.

Whatever it turns into or does not; folk are involving and that is good. And why read the thread if that is your feeling? Just gloss over the posts you don't like; as I do.

Danno

Very light snow in south Laois, and I cannot emphasise "very light" enough!

JanuarySnowstor

Snowing in cork

Kermit.de.frog

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Snow grains falling @ Howth (play feed)

http://www.howthweather.com/

We are having bursts of them too here near Arklow
As they're not on the radar,my hunch is if you are seeing something heading for you on the radar,it will be proper sthuff
2.5/-3.6c here
Wetbulb -0.3c

SEPT 23 1989

snowing lightly Newcastle Dublin

Artane2002

at least the graupel is getting bigger :P

Slashermcguirk

A couple of weeks ago here in D5 we were caught in an Irish Sea streamer and if resulted in about 5 hours of consistent snow and 6cm accumulation. It was a narrow strip meaning even 10km away saw next to nothing on either side but anyone within that streamer was a winter wonderland. They can be really impressive if you are located under one

uote="Thelonious Monk;116205079"]Was down at the seafront this morning in Clontarf, it's rough af, pretty cool.
What is a streamer?[/quote]

KingdomRushed

Irish Sea is certainly livening up. Hopefully the trend continues.

bazlers

Nabber wrote: »

Prepare yourselves for the non stop Graupel updates

Yes and if people do get a dusting please please please dont start measuring with a coin. If you have to measure it with a coin its not worth measuring. Be out with micrometers next..

Slashermcguirk

Consistent light snow flurries in D5

gerrybhoy

That's just a tease what's falling,give us some snow

highdef

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Snow grains falling @ Howth (play feed)

http://www.howthweather.com/

Light snow now falling in front of that camera with a heavier area a km or 2 to the north. That should be hitting Baldoyle about now.

sjb25

bazlers wrote: »

Yes and if people do get a dusting please please please dont start measuring with a coin. If you have to measure it with a coin its not worth measuring. Be out with micrometers next..

At the ready

leahyl

It’s so trying to snow on the northside of cork city - flurries aplenty!

Donegal Ken

UKV shows much heavier showers this evening and tonight over the eastern half of Ireland. Here is a image from around 8pm. Id attached gif file showing the animation but its to large of a file for Boards.

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Slashermcguirk

Is it just me or does it look like the Irish Sea is coming to life slowly but surely? Hopefully those showers start to beef up through the day

To Alcohol

Snowing in Sallins

PokeHerKing

That blob that was heading for Dublin has disappeared from radar:rolleyes:

Rebelbrowser

leahyl wrote: »

It’s so trying to snow on the northside of cork city - flurries aplenty!

At current rate if we can just keep thus shower going until Valentines day we'll have a good cm or so on the ground! Seriously though, nice to see anything falling. Augurs well perhaps

Rebelbrowser

Donegal Ken wrote: »

UKV shows much heavier showers this evening and tonight over the eastern half of Ireland. Here is a image from around 8pm. Id attached gif file showing the animation but its to large of a file for Boards.

viewimage (1).png

Thanks Ken. Not very big showers unfortunately. Much prefer what the North Sea appears to be offering up

CirrusBusiness

Light flurries north of Carlow town. (Most snow grains but a few bigger flakes too)

End of the week looking very interesting for the east and south-east if you like snow!

Slashermcguirk

Heavier graupel / snow shower in D5 now

Irish Steve

light dusting on the ground here in Ashbourne this morning, and there's been a few grains blowing in the wind in the last half hour.

The small birds are literally queuing to get to the 6 hole feeder, with some of them also going for the seed that falls on the ground, counted over 10 on the ground a few minutes ago, sparrows, greenfinches, and even a couple of robins, the larger birds can't get on to the stands on the feeder, but that's not stopping them going for the seed on the ground. I filled the feeder yesterday evening, it takes about 6 mugs of seed, and it's half empty already.

Apart from the annoying interference band on the Dublin Airport radar, the Irish Sea seems to be starting to generate more streamers, so it's going to be interesting to see how many there are, and how far inland they manage to survive, I wasn't expecting to see anything here overnight. The streamers look to be getting inland to around Dunshaughlin at the moment, and further north, the line seems to be getting to around the N3 as well, but it's further inland up towards Kells and Virginia.

highdef

PokeHerKing wrote: »

That blob that was heading for Dublin has disappeared from radar:rolleyes:

I can still see (and the even bigger one east of Dublin) on met.ie