Tuesday 9 January, chance of lying snow Munster / South Leinster

Kicking and Screaming they come to the party!! 😆

Several SE England reporting showers of snow - two of which are sleet: Andrewsfield and Heathrow. Temperatures generally around 2c in the region this lunch time. I would think this is a decent chance of some light snow showers into the southern third of Ireland tonight. One to watch.

I saw a video of snow in North West London. If you believed some of the models a few days back it was going to be bone dry in the South East of England, so it just shows you ninja snow can pop up. So maybe some places in Munster could wake up to a nice surprise tomorrow morning

The same snow that hit southeast England this morning also hit Brussels and much of Belgium here earlier. A flurry or two was all that was forecast, it ended up snowing heavily for about three hours with a good coating on the ground. Very much a ninja snow episode.

Hopefully we'll see something similar for the south of Ireland later!

I know I'm the sceptical one here but showers making landfall tonight in South waterford once they go inland will most likely be snow and its those that will make their way across North Cork and Tipp if they survive the journey that will give a dusting

I'm more sceptical of showers where they make landfall being snow because of that marine element and of course that's dampening Cork city's chances

Not so sceptical inland

I'd forgotten tbh about the sea-level pressure and 850mb levels being higher,you can probably add at least half a degree onto the predicted temp at 5000ft with that and every little bit doesn't help

All of the country was under a Fog/ ice warning⚠️

Showtime now in a few hours!! We should see the radar kicking off around 10pm in the Southeast. My bet is a late yellow warning but not issued until after midnight!

Thought that was only an advisory?

The Kermit of Cork……..great updates, keep them coming!!

Right, I'm heading out now to sabotage the snow shield.

Temperatures are not very conducive for lying snow, never mind falling snow, in southern and eastern coastal areas. There'd want to be a fairly significant and rapid drop in temperature for anything wintry to materialise in those areas.

Very light snizzle here in Wexford, about 10k east of Enniscorthy

Currently in Arklow 👇 Feeling Baltic in 30kmh Easterly gusts

I'm in South Kilkenny(fairly close to Waterford City). I'd say you're right about not worrying too much about the temp. It's 3c here but we've just had a few snow grains/graupel so I can only assume that we've got quite low dew points. My guess is that many parts of the South and East will see falling snow. However, the question is whether it will be heavy enough to allow accumulations given the temperatures. My guess is that there won't be a whole lot on the ground come the morning. Then again, I'm a pessimist when it comes to snow(many decades of bitter experience!). So hopefully, I'll be proven wrong.

Final ppn chart of the event! The best yet both in intensity and coming in off the coast...18z

Even for me in carrick on shannon snow is expected at 3am or so but even a flake I see falling I'll be happy 😊

Nice moderate burst of grauple here near Enniscorthy. Radar looks lively for a while, those lower 850hpa temps moving in over the southeast are kicking off convection nicely.

Dps are low but temps are relatively high. I don't expect to see any accumulations, but falling snow will be nice to look at.

Snizzle / sleet / cold rain in Wexford town. Encouraging really as didn't expect anything till later.

West waterford the sweet spot I think and somewhere will definitely have a nice little covering overnight.

That pink is over Mt Leinster I think

We've had ice pellets like sand blowing in my face here just outside Arklow

Dewpoint is a respectable-2.4c with winds due East gusting above 40kmh...Brrrrrr !

Here's a current shot from weather display from the Davis

The wind is actually howling