Sneachtastorm

Does an SSW ever lead to a Northerly flow for example Greenland high or is it always an Easterly if we manage to get lucky from it?

Fair enough, no one or no thing is above criticism. Pointing out they're wrong and you get some shyt about how dare you, you don't have a degree in meteorology so keep your mouth shut. Hate that sycophantic shyt. I don't remember it happening when the Met office were wrong to go Amber northern Ireland wide a couple of weeks ago and we couldn't understand it, we were right. Similar tonight. Although met office said snow across NI for this evening so they certainly didn't see it on the warmer side of marginal as previously mentioned.

The showers mostly of rain at 5pm, 30 mins after the update from met eireann of mostly rain showers across the North West for the evening.

The snow showers for this evening weren't on the warmer side of marginal,thats wrong. It was a ridiculous forecast to say mostly of rain in the NW when it was snowing outside at sea level when they issued it. And continued to do so across the NW wherever there was shower activity. That's my point. So I have every right to criticise a forecast when it was blatantly bizarre, it wasn't s a forecast for days ahead. It was what was currently happening. Apparently you need a degree in meteorology to point out they didn't know their a r sé from their elbow this evening.

@Sperrin Aye decent. About 1 inch on the ground and another shower on the way. Have to say met eireann update at 4pm was thick, said wintry showers mainly in the NW, mostly of rain and hail dying away this evening . Mostly rain and hail? What are they on.

From Facebook. Around this area took the brunt of the shower I just had. Outside letterkenny.

Very Light now. Got roughly 2cm from it. Everywhere white. I got about 60% of it looking at the radar.

@Sperrin Did your snow survive today?

Quoting messed up. For that warning it's on the lowest tier of likelihood and impacts. Will be changes to the text and maybe impact prediction tomorrow before 12pm so worth keeping an eye on. Sunday looks great on automatic FC for what it's worth. Thursday/Friday warning

Also the air pressure is unfortunately high, it raises the altitude level of the 850 uppers even tho they look great.

It's a pity we didn't get more shower activity today, everything that fell today was 100% snow. Temperatures would have hovered around freezing in frequent showers. Yesterday the Met office changed their snow warning today, downgraded it. It had been on the moderate side of the bar as shown below. Subtle changes make a big difference even when it's a yellow warning. 5 different types of yellow warnings. Once you make it to the second bar, it's almost always good. First bar can deliver too but less likely. Always worth looking at.

Woke 10 minutes ago and nothing. Looked out just now and it's snowing. Place already pure white. The difference a frozen ground makes. Just the tiniest spec on the radar

Hoping I do better tomorrow from the showers.

I knew it wasn't going to amount to much when I saw how light it was. Had the lightest sleet earlier in the day, then spat tiny bits of snow. Covering on the higher roads that's about it.

GFS upgraded Thursday massively. Frontal snow.

That's true lol. Yeah hopefully we get a potent Northerly at some point, then a potent easterly so everyone is happy. I've a feeling we'll get a decent Northerly before the 20th. Just a hunch based on nothing more than a hunch lol

Text update from met office. Going for a spell of snow Monday night and coastal rain. UKMO 144 chart looks good too. I think it will be a good month for snow, whatever happens this week.

T60 looks exact same lol

I think it's a case of waiting until Sunday before writing it off. The last cold spell across the NW, the output went pear shaped on the Friday concerning the LP centre moving through Scotland for the following Wednesday , by Sunday it pushed further south and went through central Ireland that Wednesday . I know it didn't make much difference for those in the south but it made a huge difference for areas of NI and Scotland. There will be more changes, maybe for the better. I'll wait until Sunday before passing judgement.

Could still be changes for the better. Come Sunday we'll have a better idea so I'm not despondent just yet.

It's always showed the milder patches even at its best but they've grown and the colder spells have shortened. IMO never looked brutal longevity wise because of the milder blips. This is why I want a Greenland high lol. Anyway still looks good for seeing some lying snow this week up here, that's always a positive.

Yep. Shots of cold of -8 and below quickly followed by milder temps then another shot later.

I disagree. T96 ECM has -9 uppers across the North, -8 widely and GFS has -10. For me the biggest issue how fast it pushes east.