Sleet and snow overnight and morning south Ulster and Leinster

Surely it’s not just met eireann what about right here on boards

lost count of the amount of threads about possible snow and nothing happens and then today no thread so it’s not confined to met eireann

Ah look, freak snow. Big deal. It’ll be gone by lunchtime. Glad people got a covering but listening to Clare Byrne you’d swear the world was ending. It happens every year that various places get unexpected snowfalls. This time it happens to be Dublin but it’s no different to the localised dumping here on March 09 last year. Sounds like people didn’t exercise personal responsibility and decide to work from home or take a holiday. Some things you just can’t predict with the best will in the world.

Snowing in Tipp. Met E are useless. Yesterday I saw a UK thread warning of a possible 68 hours of snow and model maps showing ireland about 80% covered. 'It wasn't clear'.. Perhaps they should keep an eye on the UK news, instead of that cracked crystal ball they use.

Clontarf covered in snow this morning. A few hundred metres up the road in Raheny no snow, just soaking wet! You can't beat Dublin bay for weather transitions like that.

Nothing recharging about a 3 hour drive for 20km to work this morning. There should been a warning about a possibility of snow and more people would have been prepared and made a calll to work from home.

Fact that a light snowfall like today brings chaos to roads and schools closing is ridiculous.

Johnson Mooney and O’Brien shares surge amid snow flake or two.

Last night was unusual. It’s the first time I ever witnessed snow turning increasingly to rain to the NE of my location while still snowing to my immediate SW. There was a couple of cm outside before it turned to sleet while it was still snowing to the SW of me. M.E issued a snow warning for Donegal at 1am to come in to effect at 4am. It was already snowing at 1am and it turned to rain after 4am in NE parts of the county before spreading SW.

Regarding warnings, granted didn’t look merited for Dublin from the short range models I checked yesterday but various models did show a decent fall in areas, plus parts of the country had accumulated snow before late evening so I was surprised there wasn’t a warning issued or the mention of potential accumulations in the text forecast. I feel standards have slipped a bit over the last 2 years or so.

1.4c here and absolutely dinner plating it

That's all folks, until the next leap year!

Don't see why anyone would get excited for snow.

Makes travelling treacherous. Roads are lethal. Now it's turning into a mucky slush where the footpaths are now dangerous to walk on. Leaves nothings behind only dirty water everywhere. And all for what? So we get a few nice pictures?

Down with this sort of thing!

It was lovely on Sandymount Strand earlier!

Snap

Rocky very hungry along with the rest of the birds outside.

Just mostly rain here aswell. I suppose at least it isn't the middle of winter which would have made it much more annoying to miss out. Not quite as annoying now that we are in March now anyway.

If it isn't essential I'd leave it until tomorrow. Roads could be lethal

The snow has all gone. I hope we get a bit more in the next couple of weeks, I don't want to wait another nine months for some. I wonder how much snow fell on mountain tops.

25mm in the gauge from the snowmelt in Kildare