Cold spell - 14/15th January onward

I'll weigh in the snow or no Snow debate

I think anywhere that usually get Atlantic showers in a North or North westerly at any time of the year will see snow showers next week and I expect this thread to fill with snow reports from those areas

LetterKenny will be a sweet spot as will Derry mainly because this is one of those flows that's not a transatlantic mixed northerly or northwesterly it's a true polar sourced air flow and travelling from where its come from and the route, it will have enough surface cold to keep the precipitation as snow

Also adding places like Tubercurry to the sweet spots and any western fringes with northerly coastal exposure

Areas like that should be able to peg snow balls and build snowmen no bother by next Friday in my opinion

Really feels like the UKMO stick their necks out more that Met E in these type of situations? Maybe I'm being overly simplistic.

You give us hope WolfEire, that's all you can do. And hope is wonderful. 🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️

It would be sort of funny if the cold zonal period-assuming the GFS is even correct- gives us more snow overall. Was it in 2018 that heavy snow showers pushed well inland from a cold westerly that was returning arctic air sourced from Greenland? Granted in that scenario you aren't going to have powdery snow or snow that stays on the ground for days, but you could get a temporary half decent covering in that scenario.

Northern Ireland already in a warning for snow on Monday hopefully donegal, sligo ,Mayo, Leitrim cavan and monaghan being added

Showers streaming down on the Northerly wind but many places dry . Id expect a snow/ice warning from Met Eireann for Sligo Donegal etc

Or the repeated insistance on saying Monday to Saturday is only 3 days :D

It absolutely does 💯 hopefully we get a cm of snow ❄️ that's all I'm asking lol

Alan Carlow weather posted this at 5pm ish

Yes because it's not a raging easterly some posters can't wait to downplay this upcoming cold spell and wish it away as quickly as possible. Most winters we struggle to get frost,let alone snow. We are in for a week of hard frosts and very low day time temperatures,a rarity these days imo. Let's just enjoy the dry crisp weather and see what happens after that. Its so much better than the mild muck we are so used to,I can safely say the majority hated that so why not just enjoy the next week🤷‍♂️

That UK met office outlook can change as well. Let's face it outside of 5 days forecasts are very less certain. Yes they can see trends but specifics for Ireland or the UK are very difficult to tie down.

12 ECM rolling out.

Massive 'mild' sector on Tuesday afternoon.

Orientation of the cold flow is more NW'ly than Northerly on Thursday:

No need to,probably was North tipp,Wasn't South anyway. Tipp is a long county

I wouldn't get over excited by this one. I'm not saying there won't be snow from this, for some favoured spots, and it will be cold for a couple of days, but if we're looking for holy grail cold and snow, which most of us are, we ain't getting it next week. We're gleefully licking up crumbs when it's the full apple pie we want. Onward to February, I'll leave on on optimistic note, some long rangers are saying we're going see a very cold month there.

I just dont see a zonal onslaught ensuing next weekend into early next, just an anemic attempt to try brush aside the colder air.

Infact if all the background noise is even 60% correct and with an entrenched cold pool in Scandinavia, an Iceland/Scandinavian anticyclone would be more my thinking to develop around last days of January into February.

I am expecting great weather model watching from mid next week...in my opinion.

( if you take anyones advice on a boards forum and not from Met Eireann you are off your tiny minds!)

Cold weather advisory set to expire tomorrow I'm sure they will give an extension to it till Tuesday anyway

I am in South Tipp, Fethard, and we got the snow then.

Suppose I would be more southwest,anyway this has gone totally off topic