Rain or shine - you may post it here

Paddy20

Well, I must be going GaaGaa, your right. It was Ultravox, it's on Disc One of the LiveAid DVD boxset. Still, thats what old age is doing too me :cool:

Getting really windy now up here in the Ballybofey bogland region.

Never mind, it's Christmas time, after all

P.

DMC

Misty, dank and grey in Dublin this AM....

Paddy20

Very wet, windy and dark in Ballybofey , but very mild.

P.

BEAT

well it has begun snowing again and the weather has predicted we will get 18 inches of snow over the next 3 days!!!
18 inches!!
someone please....

shoot me.

Mothman

Windy and still a mild 13C
Only March 20th had stronger wind this year.

Beat is in cleveland ohio USA by the way.
Very windy here still in wicklow but dry and deceptively mild!

ninebeanrows

Very windy here in North dublin too!
Last night was wild here and i woke
up numerous times to ghostly noises!
I thought the Sky Digital Dish was
going to fly away lol

mike65

Ridiculously mild. A bit damp too. And windy.

Mike.

ninebeanrows

Heres a Mesoscale precipitation chart it shows that most
areas will be affected by some wintry stuff at some
time The worst place seems to be Eastern NI with
plenty of snow for there as well as a feature moving
south through the Irish sea late Christmas day which
may clip the Republic east coast

http://www.unibas.ch/geo/mcr/3d/meteo/nmm22/LYUVLV.htm

Very very windy here now :eek:

Paddy20

A really wet, windy dark but mild sorta day in Ballybofey , but, last night was something else, wild winds in the wild west :eek: kept me awake most of the night, and even the damned cat refused to go out!.

P.

BEAT

so far a foot of snow has fallen, the snow drift makes it 2 feet and more on the way...right now the snow comes up to my knees in my back yard...
tonight its going to be below 0 farenhite so all that snow will be frozen.

did I mention that I hate this place?

Johnny_the_fox

its was windy all evening up north here.

and its still blowing now.

no snow yet.

Gonzo

dry clear outside, about 6C... starting to feel a wee bit nippy for first time in about 3 days.

Paddy20

It's now Christms Eve Morning 00.55am, and outside in Ballybofey the wind has eased, it has stopped raining. It is a silent night, everything is surprisingly quiet, and there is a strange stillness in the air.

Merry Christmas to you all.

P.

Agent Smith

having just came back from tesco in ballybrack to my humble abode in killiney i can say
that the wind has also esed here. its still cold and there is a good bit of cloud in the air.

snow perhaps?

ninebeanrows

Well the cold air is duely arriving in the north
Malin Head recorded a 3c drop between 8am and 9am
From 6c to 3c

LoL and kilkenny rose from 5 to 7

Cloudy but dry here at the moment

ninebeanrows

yes whats happening is the rainband is introducing milder
weather for a short time as it is a warm cored depression.
Temperatures will drop dramatically behind this front.
Temperatures will be totally different in 4-5 hours time

mallin head is now reporting sleet.
Kilkenny temp rises to 8
(yes I do know the cold air is at the back edge)

Raining here now with a temp of 6 degree's in south Wicklow.

Victor_Meldrew

Here in North Wicklow, it's raining at the moment, but there seems to be a bit of hail or something falling with the rain...

Gonzo

its only about 4 or 5C here in south meath and raining, we had a very heavy burst of rain about 20 minutes ago and there appeared to be a wee bit of sleetyness mixed init during the heaviest moments.

ninebeanrows

From now on keep any eye ont this satellite, a very good one
which is updated every 30mins, it clearly shows two
troughs to the northwest and a blob of something coming
into Mayo. It will be good to see how these develop

http://www.meteoam.it/satellit/WWW/infrarosso4_2004-12-24%2010:30:00.jpg

A Dub in Glasgo

The rain has turned to sleet which has just turned to snow in Glasgow. Big snow flakes although the ground is very wet at the moment.

Shrimp

Looking Out My Window..... By Shrimp

As I look out my window,
There're coulds to be seen now,

The wind whisps,
In the Air so crisp,

The tempeture so Low,
Oh please, let it snow.




Lol, dont worry ony took me like 3 minutes! :D

Gonzo

things seem to be clearing up here in meath, mostly cloudy but dry, the cloud seems more broken so its some sort of a clearence, ground very wet tho, temp around 5C

ninebeanrows

Snow being reported in Knock!! it begins...

Gonzo theres a pile of showers currently around Mayo
and there making good progress across the country
so they should make Dublin and Meath

http://www.metoffice.com/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html

Shrimp

Oh yeah, BTW.. My lil poem was of the Rathfarnham area...

Gonzo

that chart looks promising, i just hope all those showers dont fade into nothing by the time they get here as can often happen, at this stage id be happy with an inch or two on the ground at some stage tomorrow before nightfall:) the ultimate would be to have the snow falling heavy while eating my christmas dinner and the fire blazing inside:)

Weathercheck

Weathercheck wrote:

Snow being reported in Knock!! it begins...

Well not quite yet
Updated: 12:30 PM GMT on December 24, 2004
Observed at Knock Airport Connaught, Ireland (History)
Elevation: 210 ft / 64 m
Light Rain Showers 34 °F / 1 °C
Light Rain Snow Showers
Windchill: 25 °F / -4 °C
Humidity: 100%
Dew Point: 34 °F / 1 °C
Wind: 13 mph / 20 km/h from the NW
Pressure: 29.33 in / 993 hPa
Visibility: 7.0 miles / 10.0 kilometers
UV: 0 out of 12
Clouds (AGL): Few 900 ft / 274 m
Scattered Clouds 1600 ft / 487 m
Mostly Cloudy 2800 ft / 853 m
________________________________________

But nearly
Rain and snow reported is a euphimism for sleet. But 100% snow there by now or very soon with those temperatures.

I'm temporarally closing this thread so as to keep all talk of snow in the white Xmas thread.
I'll re-open it when the snow has gone on the 27th.

Ok thread re-opened.
Reports of Xmas snow are all in the White Xmas 2004 thread here

Today in South Wicklow -Beautifull sunny and 4 degree's at the moment with a backdrop of very white hills