Cold Spell (of depth and duration uncertain!) starting Tuesday 7th March

Dublin added into a orange warning too yay

They're a bit all over the shop in MetÉ with the frequent warning changes.

However, it is promising to see the Orange extended to Dublin.

Here on the Dublin-Meath-Kildare tri-border, a light cold rain is falling and its 2C.

Possibly more for the potential to freeze over the wet, 'twould be treacherous.

3° & sleety rain the last 1.5 hours here in Ashbourne, pure muck

The snow is fairly heavy now and still not sticking. So maybe what I said earlier is wrong!

With this in mind I can't see anywhere near 10 to 20 cm settling on lower ground now, perhaps on hiller terrain in Connacht and Ulster it will . I remember back in 2010 M. T. Cranium mentioned how with the sudden and sharp temperature drop in temperature on the evening of the 16th of December snow would readily stick to the saturated ground. I had never seen anything like it before. It proved to me the difference between 0 to 2 C is huge when it comes to snow settling on wet ground. Granted a higher ground temperature does not help matter either.

There was about 10cm on the ground in west/mid-Clare this morning from what I've heard.

Tomorrow morning will be treacherous whether rain, sleet or snow falls, after the freeze.

After dark this event will really kick off - looks like snow will appreciate for many apart from some coastal fringes and windward coasts.

Met E called it exactly as it is playing out,the forecast last night warned of treacherous driving conditions in some places,because of the nature and complexity of this system it was impossible call exactly where these regions would be

Yeah i remember that, but taught it was january myself, anyway i was in secondary school, we played a gaa match at 11am and it was miserable, driving heavy rain, by 1pm it had changed to snow and by 4pm the bus nearly couldnt get us home, took over an hour for a 25min journey, good adventure though 😄