Cold spell - 14/15th January onward

First time I saw -4.6c in Limerick City this morning for a few years.

Some interesting ferns on the windows:

Pretty heavy snow here in North Mayo. I know it probably doesn't make much difference but surely this should have been a yellow / orange warning for some counties?

All white with a hard frost in Southwest Mayo this morning, even along the sea, many roads very icy and there is significant disruption. Inland some areas had quite a nice amount of snow yesterday evening. Lots of schools had to close as roads were too dangerous. Beautiful sunshine now over the white fields.

This has been quite an amazing settled and cold spell which delivered so.much beautiful weather and a bit more snow than we were expecting here.

Mayo is under a yellow warning for snow/ice until 11am today

MacDanger doesn't heed warnings! 😂😉

Haha true. I go abroad for the sun all year round though. :)

Dry snow

They do indeed but they choose to do so, if they can afford to do so (most of the time!). The extra cost of heating bills due to cold weather is not a choice that an individual can make if they want to stay warm and comfortable. There's simply no comparison between the scenarios described.

Agree. It’s just a few days every year. We have been pretty fortunate in recent winters not to have had extended period of derp cold. I find in putting in the heating more because it’s a damp dark day than because it’s icy.

I'd guess no.

Nice clear satellite. Ya can make out the snow fields in the West and North. A light covering of talc in Sligo last night

I don't think so, it will freeze hard tonight- it will be the coldest night of the spell. Although it will turn milder quickly tomorrow, but I think it will still be frosty during the early morning in North Kerry.

Yes, looking at it objectively it definitely wasn't a bust, but if you think about it subjectively nearly every cold spell is a bust for someone in the country. Indeed i remember a poster last winter saying December 2010 wasn't great because they had very little snow in their backyard:)

Woke up to a snowy scene at my own location (east of Castlebar) this morning. We had a decent shower early last night that put down a foundation of snow very easily. Then between 3.30 and 5.00 am this morning, my own location was in the firing line of some snow showers in that northerly flow that topped up the earlier snow nicely. Enjoyed the bit of radar and lamp post watching in the wee hours! Real dry snow also which often isn't the norm in these parts with showers coming in off the Atlantic.

A wintry scene at the dawn of day in this part of Mayo this morning.

The dying embers of a snow shower ahead of the sunrise this morning.

Followed by a snowy sunrise.

A few other shots above from a snow crunching ramble this morning.

It rained there. What's that?