Colder this week, some wintry/snow showers, widespread frost and ice.

Knock airport reporting -1°c and a light shower of snow at 8am.

Casement at -6°c at 8am.

Athenry, Markree Castle, Gurteen and Mt Dillion all reporting -7°c at 8am.

I'm in coastal Dublin at the moment but unfortunately comms went down late last night with the Longford house so can't check the temperature and no access to the cameras. The house is located in that higher bit of land between Edgeworthstown and Longford town @100m ASL but close to a local low point as a small river flows past the edge of the townland. I'm slowly learning the microclimate of the area so if I was to hazard a guess, I'd say it's currently about -7°, give or take about 1 - 2°.

A couple of photos of the inside of one the windows in the longford house yesterday morning, apologies for them being not orientated correctly as I took the photos in portrait mode, forgetting that Boards demands landscape photos only.

Curious goings on with the temp profile around these here parts last night. At the nearest Met Eireann 'WoW' station, it got down to -7.5c; at another Davis station here in town it got down to -6.0c, Here, my Davis (which stands at a height of 12ft) recorded a min of only -4.3c, yet my La Cross sensor at 1.5m recorded a low of -5.4c and still showing -3.4c now while the Davis is -1.9c. I can only conclude from this that the cold air here is very, very shallow based.

Normal service resumed.

High pressure in all the wrong places and we’re stuck in no mans land nothingness. .... and it appears the cold is heading for Greece.

Didn’t see that coming.

A pal I work with has a week booked there over the Christmas. Talk about unlucky.

This was good while it lasted but it's probably been long enough. I'll be having beans on toast for Christmas dinner than to the heating bills !!

Indeed, if you could see cold air, it'd flow like water to seek out the lowest point. The odd thing here though is that both the other stations I mentioned are all within about 2 miles of me and all more or less on the same altitude (just under 40m) and no great hilly areas around. The Met Wow station is just a little outside of town so nearly always naturally cooler, but maybe the other Davis station in town was more sheltered from that light but constant breeze last night, which would have allowed for the air to settle and cool just that bit more than in my spot. I can only guess at this point.

The sun is coming up for another bluebird day in Galway. I haven't seen so many blue skies in winter for years.

I don't think so Danno. The whole town and surrounding area is located on reclaimed bog/marsh land, but I'm no expert on soil types at all.

Can you see this cold returning next week so?

Did anywhere actually hit the -11 that was being hammered home by Met Eireann and the media?

is sunday still on track to be mild? Trip from dublin to cork planned.

Thanks,

Mick

10-13 degrees of wet, windy, $hite. You're bat $hit crazy imo to be wanting that over the current weather.

If it was 13 degrees, bright and dry id say fair enough. But to each their own I guess, takes all sorts to populate this blue space ball.

I guess this spell is the best a 21st century winter can throw at us, cold yes but think of those winters over 50 years ago.

Two severe and snowy February’s in a row 1955 and ‘56, the last cold Feb worth talking about was almost 37 years ago! 40cm at Malin Head in Jan 1958 (obviously a polar low, something unheard of now) snow lay for a week in Dublin in Feb 1960 in what was an average winter, 62-63, Feb 1969 .............

Temperatures of -30 in places such as Helsinki and Moscow are unheard of now.

moan over.

*2010 was a once in a lifetime event and what caused it is a mystery, it was the first month with a sub zero mean at the Phoenix Park since Feb 1895 to put it into perspective.

I saw at least 2 inches of ice on sheltered bays of Lough Corrib yesterday.