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Its been snowing all morning.
Theres more snow today on the hills than on thursday.
Temp is 1.5c. Will drive up later
Theres far more snow on binevenagh, its all foggy so I cant see it.
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Yes it is but the colder upper air is making in roads.
Its just that icy rain that you get. But the sky does have the orange colour that you get. Im sure its snowing up the road. Temp is basically stalled about 2.9c with a high humidity so it will not drop without intense rain.
Sorry my camera is cat you can barely see the orange.
Edit: 2:44 the temp is away down like a rocket as the rain has picked up. 2.6c again.
Edit: 2:47 really fast now temp is 2.3c
Temp has been stuck at 2.2c for 50 minutes now..
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The rain has finally arrived. It's 2.6c with a dew point of 1.6c. So the chance of snow is basically 0 percent. However, evaporative cooling will probably lower the snow level.
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Showers keep missing ni because they just go from north to south. Winds need to go westerly and then game is on. Temp is stalled at 3.5c. Boring.
Think if we got the showers we'd easily see snow
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Temp is 4.3c
Dew points is 0.0c
Both dropping snow by midnight i'd say.
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That shower came here and it dropped temp to 4c. Dew point is 0c now.
Latest nae. Suggests -7c uppers and seems to think we will see snow on Monday too.
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Its 5c so temp hasn't got much to drop. I notice showers are forming and coming in. For tomorrow met office mention "merging". Exciting!
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The nae and Euro4 disagree. Tbh if the temp is about 3c and the shower is heavy it really doesn't matter.
I was down in coleraine and it was ice cold. Oh my goodness, bitter.
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Latest run gives an ice day for christmas eve.
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Oh my goodness smithy we share birthdays, maybe we're long lost twins:)
lol. No we are just 'special' pahaha. Everyone gets jealous when I tell them that my birthday is christmas eve.
Oddly It is sunny right now. Calm before the storm tomorrow.
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Biggest chance of snow is Sunday and Christmas eve. But very brief if it does occur.
Following on it's all a little depressing for coldies with continuous areas of LP coming off the north Atlantic - hopefully though we will get some windows for wintry weather no matter how brief.
Long way from any sustained period of very cold weather. Oh well.
Christmas eve (my birthday) is looking very cold. 0-1c max with snow showers, with the low pressure so close the snow may be frequent and heavy.
Looking forward to the snow starting tonight about midnight.
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The 850hPa temperature is the temperature at the level where the air pressure is 850hPa. On average, the 850hPa level is approximately 1500m. However, when it's lower pressure at the surface, this level is lower. So, say you've got -5c 850hPa temperature, this -5c level will be lower during lower pressure than higher pressure.
A hypothetical extreme case is where the surface pressure is at 850hPa, then the 850hPa temperature will be at the surface!
I get you now.
What you have to do is convert the pressure into altitude at sea level and then the pressure at 850 into an altitude and then calculate it from there. Or something like that.
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850 hpa temps are what "uppers" show; that height will be lower when pressure is. When it's 950hpa at sea level, 850 won't be very high up (about 800-900m?).
What do you mean? Are you saying that the 850 temps are not always at 5000feet? Explain to me how to work out what height it is please.
Evaporative cooling brings the freezing level down if only temporarily with heavy ppn.
West country saw snow also although it melted quickly after on high ground
No it wasn't evaporative cooling. It maxed out at 2c.
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Lately it has cooled down significantly with yesterday being my 4th day of snow falling this season.
However, uppers are not really that cold with freezing levels at 700m yesterday. We had snow lying to 150m and max temps of 2/3c.
Looking at next week bar today it is looking sub 5c. Yet uppers are only -5c at lowest. Why is this? Someone on the scottish thread mentioned low pressure, but I don't understand what effect that would have?
And surely if the freezing level is 700m there would be no snow lying below that? Explain then why we had lying snow to 150m yesterday?
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Think I will personally see snow with a max temp of about 2c.
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Bobbarley I think they are just being very biased to their location.
They don't do good in any cold spell except from the east to be honest. I feel sorry for them, 9c on christmas day. BOKE. Looking forward to tomorrow night onwards. Forecast for Sunday shows snow, I expect the coldness to upgrade - especially on Monday, they overdoing that warm up. I think we will see some proper lying snow soon, it is only around the corner.
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Sunday is shaping up to be colder than yesterday.In other news. Struggling to understand what is 'bleak' for coldies?
Model thread are dying saying that it is the end etc. Don't know about you but it looks fab for us. A couple of days showing snow potential next week.
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Well met office have me down for snow and 3c on Sunday.
So I guess thats when we will see our next snow. In a mild blip today, the snow is melting off the hills already.
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Yes showers have turned back to rain but its still snowing above 150m.
The temp right now is 1.5c so it is a very cold rain. Snow will be back for Sunday though so I don't really care as we will see it again. And Tuesday aswell.
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Yes I can see them on the radar. Lets hope the snow continues and the temps drop so we can ALL get a dusting.
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Couple of big snow showers today, its lying but then melts, so no accumulations, does anyone know if its to last all night or will milder temps return by morning?
The mild uppers will come in at 12pm. The met office have me down for snow at 6am.
So we may just get a dusting it depends.
Whatever the case it started to stick in the last shower, there is ice/slush on my car and on the deck.
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The temperature is 0.8c. A heavy snow shower which lasted 90mins has just passed. Temp is down to 0.8c. There is a cm on all surfaces including the road at 150m, I am at 50m so the snowline is very close.
I am hoping this next shower will drop the temp sufficiently for me to get a covering.
A few pics and a video form the Galtees. I didn't go as far as the highest peak as I'm just recovering from some knee and ankle problems, but I did get to see some lying snow and got caught in a brief snow shower!
First patch of lying snow I've seen this Winter... pathetic, I know!
Walking through the forests was nice
A bit more snow and some nice views
This is pretty much how it was at at around 6-700m
A snow shower to top it off
Not a whole lot, but nice to see at least some lying and falling! Hoping for plenty more over the coming months
Theres more than that here at 200m...
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Snowing.
1.5c nothing spectacular just your average wet snoe. Expected more tbh. But sure
Very sleety.
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Its calm but when it gusts its really gusty.
Temp has dropped to 4c and dew point is now -1c. Probs snow from now on
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Father is taking me to coleraine.
I will get clearer pics then. Notice a heavier shower is inbound.