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    Ireland Regional Weather Discussion 16/01/2018 Onwards

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    20 minutes ago, Neiller22 said:

    O I still think the east will get loads of snow showers it was just the mention of snow often turning to rain at low levels. That’s for the red I’m afraid so that’s a downgrade for everyone tomorrow afternoon as all snow that lies will be gone by evening. 

    I see what you mean but was always expected. The snow last night thawed from a ground thaw because it was so wet over here and didn't freeze after it fell. So with lower temperatures tonight it'll set better and have more resistance tomorrow. Sleety in the afternoon, so just a couple of ropey hours ha. Still have patchy snow cover btw

    Ireland Regional Weather Discussion 16/01/2018 Onwards

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    9 minutes ago, Neiller22 said:

    Yeah met office update def not as good. This is going wrong way as we get nearer the time. Ah well. 

    Just for the East. Looks great in the west. Sort of a reversal of Tuesday, thanks to the lighter winds.  She did mention a band of snow showers making there across all parts in the morning. 

    Ireland Regional Weather Discussion 16/01/2018 Onwards

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    Just for fun I checked the weather for Slieve Donard on the Met office website. It's -3 to -6 today, with a constant gale blowing, gusts in the 50s with a windchill of -16 at 852m above sea level. Altitude makes such a crazy difference especially  in our marginal set ups. Different world up there. Just out of curiosity, anyone know roughly where the highest house would be in NI or Donegal and what M Asl haha

    Ireland Regional Weather Discussion 16/01/2018 Onwards

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    1 hour ago, Hegzyy said:

    Some amount of crying here, aslong as you get to see it fall who cares, its not gona lay for weeks like 2010 lol 

    Anyyyway, coming from the ole man, Rain turned to snow in strabane last night, got a nice wee covering, and thats 15 foot above sea level, if you check the radar always last place to turn pink lol
    Belfast just got rain/heavy sleet last night, had to play football in it. Tuesday evening the snow started to lay and an inch or 2 was laying on all roads!
    It seems the west/north west always does bad from west/northwest winds, it comes in too warm off the sea and stays as sleet til it reaches the sperrins. only way for a proper dumping there is a direct northerly, with uppers -8 and below.

    Also, I'm sure its harder to get snow in limavady compared to derry, even as close as eglington is usually 2 degrees + warmer than derry, and you're closer to the sea again

    I'm about 20 mins away over the border and 60ft or so up. 3 inches fell here last night. 

    I disagree that we need a Northerly. I've always done well out of NW and W and even a couple of SW of Canadian Arctic origin over the last few years. SW surprisingly was very good. 

     

    The reason the West didn't fair as good this time was because the wind was so strong, it reminded me of a similar espisode back in Jan 2015. Cavan Monaghan and same areas of NI did well then two when the West was pronged to get the worst. Under the strong winds the coastal hail pushes way further in land than usual. I'm 20 miles from the coast but with both these events 85% of what fell was hail, still had snow too and a covering but nothing like the above areas. Having said that above 100m faired much better, our problem wasn't being less cold, it was the unstable flow under strong winds brought us mostly hail. 

     

     

    In regards to this warning, Western Areas will fair much better as the wind won't be as strong. As usual places right at the coast won't fair as good, but areas in the West which didn't fair as good on Tuesday will do much better. Anyway we did better last night so nothing to complain about from me. Good to see most getting in on the action. 

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