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

nacho libre

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Met Éireann just updated their website in last half hour. Looking like heavy snow in midlands, east and north on Thursday until Friday.

Rain applies to areas further south

It's the same as it was earlier on this morning:

Thursday: A very cold day on Thursday as rain, sleet and snow spread northeastwards across the country, with accumulations leading to hazardous conditions. Quite breezy also with fresh southeasterly winds. Afternoon temperatures of just 0 to 3 degrees generally.

Thursday night: Further falls of snow in Ulster and Leinster on Thursday night, with outbreaks of rain elsewhere. Lowest temperatures of -1 to +3 in fresh southeasterly winds.

A disappointing forecast for those of us in the West and South who wanted more than a snow to rain event. We do get a decent fall, but it's a bit of waste if it gets washed away quickly.
Although it is great for those of you in the north and east. It's rare we all do well in these situations.

Kermit.de.frog

That distortion on the Dublin radar is irritating. Nothing particularly heavy has developed in that line of showers as of yet and it looks fairly diffuse for now.

Light snow here atm.

LEIN

Mainly light graupel here this afternoon.

TTLF

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

That distortion on the Dublin radar is irritating. Nothing particularly heavy has developed in that line of showers as of yet and it looks fairly diffuse for now.

Light snow here atm.

seems a bigger shower has managed to form off of Anglesey now, not huge but better than the others.

Regardless, it's a start, it is only 3pm...

DOCARCH

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

That distortion on the Dublin radar is irritating.

Very....

Some better looking stuff on UKMO radar in Liverpool Bay. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation/rainfall-radar#?map=Rainfall&fcTime=1612754100&zoom=7&lon=-3.94&lat=54.23

Kunta Kinte

Kunta Kinte wrote: »

Hence why it`s particularly important that they be kept fed in these cold wintry conditions.

Easy enough in the back garden, but wildlife generally live in the wild.

pad199207

Dewpoint of -6°c and an ENE wind at Casement

LEIN

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

That distortion on the Dublin radar is irritating.

Only on the IE Met output too. Netweather not picking it up.

PokeHerKing

Few decent looking blobs starting to build up now on radar that should be Dublin bound.

Ish66

Just starting in Clontarf, just a small flurry but constant for 5 mins now

nacho libre

Friday looks a horrible mess for some parts of the country:

"There is some uncertainty in the exact details for Friday. Current indications suggest that sleet and snow will continue for a time in Ulster and north Leinster with outbreaks of rain elsewhere. Highest temperatures of 1 to 5 degrees over Ulster, Leinster and north Connacht and 6 to 10 degrees elsewhere."

I certainly hope this does change for the better!

DOCARCH

M2 buoy wind is ENE....good....3c with a DP of -4c....very good!

Larbre34

Choo Choo I'm thinking.

pauldry

Going by the past 10 years experience it will probably change for the worse!

d51984

Light flurry now Dublin 5.

Nqp15hhu

Snowbie wrote: »

800mb layer is at 2000m, our stratiform layer is below 925mb or at it.
If your air temps are above freezing, then you have a melt layer which currently rises to 350m right now

So I just drove to 300 metres. The freezing level where I am is 200 metres.

My father says it was graupel at 400 metres, so it couldn’t have formed through a melt layer. Graupel is not a form of mixed precipitation or frozen ice, it is simply snow that has had supercooled (sub zero water) freeze on to the individual flakes.

If this had happened in a layer of subzero temps, the snow would just be wet snow or sleet.

“ Graupel are soft, small pellets formed when supercooled water droplets (at a temperature below 32°F) freeze onto a snow crystal, a process called riming. If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches. Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail, as the graupel particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled.”

Kermit.de.frog

Beefier looking stuff off Angelsey. Now we wait and see whether that's just the temporary Angelsey boost or they continue develop further...

Slashermcguirk

Ehhhhh the last 10 years have produced two of our best snow events in Ireland of the past 30 years.

pauldry wrote: »

Going by the past 10 years experience it will probably change for the worse!

ninebeanrows

Some genuine showers look to be forming north of Anglesey now...It is going to be a long night. Probably chasing a dandruff dusting by the morning

Gonzo

very disappointing here today, no better than yesterday in reality, a few random grains blowing around in the wind. If tomorrow ends up being not much better than today or yesterday then this easterly will be pretty much a bust. The models are predicting little to no snow cover until Thursday.

nacho libre

pauldry wrote: »

Going by the past 10 years experience it will probably change for the worse!

Probably! Some folks will not agree, but i'd prefer it all fizzles out than several hours of cold rain

typhoony

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Beefier looking stuff off Angelsey. Now we wait and see whether that's just the temporary Angelsey boost or they continue develop further...

Some heavier stuff on the way just has temps are starting to drop, evening snow Dublin

DOCARCH

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Beefier looking stuff off Angelsey. Now we wait and see whether that's just the temporary Angelsey boost or they continue develop further...

Looking better again on UKMO radar.

As Snowbie suggested, looks like streamers are making it more intact across northern England and leftovers heading out into the Irish Sea.

LEIN

Heavier graupel here now but still nothing significant.

pad199207

https://twitter.com/kildaremet/status/1358782883016683523?s=21

Larbre34

Gonzo wrote: »

very disappointing here today, no better than yesterday in reality, a few random grains blowing around in the wind. If tomorrow ends up being not much better than today or yesterday then this easterly will be pretty much a bust. The models are predicting little to no snow cover until Thursday.

I'm not too far from you G and I'm feeling quite optimistic for the next 24hrs. Shower activity will increase significantly in the next few hours.

sicknotexi

A bit more shower activity shown up on Met Eireann radar in the last half hour.

nacho libre

Gonzo wrote: »

very disappointing here today, no better than yesterday in reality, a few random grains blowing around in the wind. If tomorrow ends up being not much better than today or yesterday then this easterly will be pretty much a bust. The models are predicting little to no snow cover until Thursday.

You will do well tonight Gonzo. You'll have a covering by morning.

JCX BXC

Out for a very cold walk in West Clare and to my immense surprise there is grauple/snow pellets falling lightly.

DOCARCH

Showers off north Wales look to be moving south of west....so south county Dublin bound!

Graupel showers getting a little heavier now in Dublin 16. 2.2c atm.