Sleet and snow overnight and morning south Ulster and Leinster

38.6mm of rain and I think it's still melting in my rain gauge so a pretty impressive total, must be massive amounts of snow in the Wicklow mountain peaks.

All snow has melted here in carrick but there was snow as far as Longford still on the ground , hope its gone by Monday when I'm travelling back up to Dublin

Near Blessington

I normally use you as my weather benchmark for what to expect locally as I live near Clonee and we'd have similar conditions but its mad how localised this was for a general front of precipitation where various locations either well inland and usually favourable got no snow yet coastal areas like Clontarf and Sandymount got whiteout. Clonee/Ongar got a dumping of the white stuff as well. All melted into a slushy rainy mess now!

Meath was on the wrong side of the low, the onshore side. Dublin was on the right side of the low and recieved offshore wind. So for dublin the air coming off the land rather then the sea made the difference. So even places near the coast on the right side of the low were able to get snow.

Some of my snaps from Kilakee Road and Phoenix Park earlier today from the DSLR. Kilakee Road was getting too much for my FWD car so didn't spend as much time as I would have liked here and went to the Phoenix Park after.

Can't believe how close and marginal this was at sea level. Clontarf and Coolock snow covered but Donaghmede/Baldoyle zilcho! Kind of like a reverse 24th January 2021 in a way..

That’s a fair observation. In Canada, we have the biggest snowfalls occur in March. Right now, we are having record warm weather. I am on a lakefront and the ice on it has melted and frozen in yo-yo bouts since December. The ice fishing tents were not to be seen except for a week. One guy I met wrapping up his gear told me 5 cop cars came and officers told him to get off the lake a coupla weeks past.

There is no snow on the ground, and we have had 15c days followed by-15c days a number of times. Now, 15c days for us is like mid April weather. It is freaky as hell.

Enjoy the snow

Fading into the sunset.

Left the house this morning to cold rain and assumed nothing of interest, 3.5 degrees in the car. Was a bit surreal to shortly start seeing cars with decent snow on the roof around Swords and then by the time I got to work near the airport not 15km away total it was 0.0 degrees with a slush/sleet/snow mix and a thin patchy layer on the ground. Nice to get a little taste of winter but would have preferred Emma v2 - half measures of anything get boring fast!

Now, bring on the summer.

Continuous Sleet here in Kildare. 35mm in the gauge.

According to the Met obs, Dublin Apt has seen 42.2mm of rainfall since midnight. Could be its wettest March day on record (at least for 00-00).

Its wettest March day on record I am aware of is 18th March 1971 with 35.7mm (00-00?).

9th March 2023 last year (another big snow event for the mountains) was also very wet with 30.2mm from 00-00.

Some of the pictures here are amazing, I'll never understand why some people grumble and wonder why the rest of us are mesmerised by the increasingly rare snow events.

I say this as someone who had a last minute scramble to get snow off the car and a slow crawl into work this morning.

The insulated silence in the air, the cold air when you breathe, the beauty of snow on the ground and on the trees - it's just lovely to see.

Very heavy hailstones all evening here in Arklow and windy pounding the window with pure icy slops

A vile night out

This app I use was predicting snow since start of week. I told my wife somewhere will get a dump of snow on March 1st if this app is right. It was. IIRC the last snow it was right too. What model does it use? UK Met Office had snow too far North and Met Eireann had it North too but mostly falling as rain.

They need to change their graphics on TV. BBC ones are like another century compared to the basic ones on RTE.

PREDICTED SNOW

ACTUAL SNOW

P.s Temu seems to have picked up on my point addiction.