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

It shouldn’t be the main headline IMO. If it was a red warning, yes.

I think we are bunched here on Dublins east coast. Not expecting much. Might get in the car later and drive up the mountains to build a snowman

@Kermit_de_frog , fair to say Howth will get nothing but rain overnight? I'm a little bit up the hill so still keeping a wee bit of hope alive!

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Not overly hopefully for Dublin myself. Mostly fear of the front dying off in a significant way so there's not enough intensity to help us along later, as we need an appreciable drop in temperature at least in north county.

Seen it before with these stalling fronts, the pivot can kill them. The western portion of the precip., out over Connaught and Munster has notably weakened in the last two hours and every 5 minutes on radar it continues to contract/weaken as it starts to move back on itself. I'd worry the remaining front does something similar as it starts to wrap around and pull back south. On the East coast we are very much relying on a sizeable band of precip to survive later tonight and deliver the goods. Anything light and I don't see the ground cooling enough to allow any sort of covering.

A general comment on the model accumulation charts. They are 99/100 nonsense. A lot of them assume everything that falls, sticks (it appears at least?) - reality is a totally different scenario and lots of factors can prevent that from happening.

Still think there'll be some sweet spots who will see further accumulations this evening and make a proper event of it.

EDIT: At the same time re: the radar, hard to know what is happening. It looks completely off again on both Met E and Netweather. It's like Shannon can't detect as well as Dublin? Using NetWeather as the different key makes it easier to see.