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Irish Met office forecast this morning, 'During Friday, outbreaks of rain will spread eastwards across the country and, coming up against very cold air, will turn to freezing rain, sleet or snow in places further east for a time. However, with southerly winds freshening generally, temperatures will rise sufficiently by the end of the day to melt any snow which might briefly accumulate. Rain will clear for a time early Friday night and, with winds easing, temperatures may dip low enough for frost to occur. However, southerly winds will pick up again later in the night, with cloud increasing and outbreaks of rain spreading to the west and north once more. Saturday will be a much milder day countrywide, with extensive cloud, spells of rain or drizzle and moderate to fresh, south to southwest winds; however, the rain will clear away on Saturday night, winds will ease and frost is likely to develop in many places causing damp surfaces to ice over. Sunday should start dry and bright but rain will spread east later and it will turn considerably milder. This rather mild theme will continue into the early days of next week, with occasional spells of rain or drizzle and predominantly southerly winds which will strengthen at times.' Inspiring stuff!

A non-event for us this easterly. The orientation of the high was beginning to look dubious in terms of cold potential for us over the last few days and it pretty much certainly seems to have settled on bringing back the atlantic mild muck. As much as I enjoy cold and snowy conditions I never tend to fret while model watching because it has to be a seriously fortuitous synoptical set-up for us to get properly beasterlied anyway, c'est la vie. The Feb 1991 easterly brought over a foot of snow in my area so it can actually deliver the goods, I swear it did happen!! There is of course still a possiblity of a reload and a more favourably positioned block over the coming weeks if GP the Genius's retrogressing high forecast is anything to go by. This winters waiting game gets ever more tedious all the same.

Kildare, in the east of Ireland here. Its been Snowing here on and off since i got up at 6:30 and has been really coming down the last half hour. Its sticking to most surfaces but will melt away once it stops. Its been a long time since I've seen snow like this or of any kind from a westerly air flow, especially this persistent and heavy. I'd say you would have to go back over 20 years for something like this, an 80's phenomenon if you will. We got a foot and a half from the easterly here last year which again was a 20 year gap going back to Feb 91....I have a feeling about January this year....damn! Jinxed it! Lashing out now!

Here in north kildare theres been a couple of inches or so of lying snow with little or no thaw since new years eve. We had a couple of inches here yesterday and its -3 out there now...this is real winter at last! Of course id love a good dumping(a foot please thanks very much) but so far im loving this cold snap in all its freezing rarity

Look at that radar, its hammering down sleety rain all night...SO close to armageddon. Damn you RTE and the Met with your bogus predicted snowfall

Heavy sleet from about 8 o clock here that turned to heavy rain at about 10....id say if it was just one degreeC lower we'd be digging ourselves out at this stage :o ah we've had a good bit here so im not that sour

Quite sleaty here at the minute, up until 20 mins ago we had some lovely heavy stuff that I was caught driving in which gave another good covering on top of what was there, even on main roads. Judging by the latest radar, if the temps drop a little theres a chance of a good prolonged spell of snow. Is maith liom sneachta mar caithi me sneachta learoidi ar mo neighbours cheann. :lol:

We've jut had 20 minutes of the heaviest snow I can remember...and im an 80s child! The flakes were about the size of a melon. We had a good 3 inches yesterday but there was quite a bit of melt over night. It was time for a top up :wacko:

Its been snowing consistently since 4pm here and its still at it out there(heaviest between 4 and 8 ). I was just out for a walk and it seems the temps have gone up and the dreaded sound of dripping water seems to be building. Does anyone know if theres a chance this is just a mild interlude or something?

probably 3inc here in nth kildare and still coming down. Is this overnight trough still on the cards? Its great to hear the sound of kids playing in their very first snowfall!

its been belting it down here for 20 mins with a little light snow in between. All surfaces are covered. I havent seen this for years!

The 3-5 day outlook this morning from the met is excellent! They seem to have dropped the idea of the precip turning to rain on monday night! Im on the mobile here so i cant paste it, heres the link www.met.ie

Its back to the drawing board for us rain soaked outcasts. Im giving the charts another couple of weeks then im done till next year. I hope you all do well tonight and get some much needed snow(necessary for survival for some it seems, not mentioning andy_leic22) : dont forget to put your photos up. I have to go to bed now with the rain lashing against my window just above my head, awww poor me.....i may just cellotape some pillows to my ears and sleep standing up in the wardrobe. nighty night night

where are u getting that info from Darkman? Has anything reached your area yet?

15 miles west of where I am theres heavy snow(my sisters house to be exact(who couldnt care less))..... i dont care what the neighbours say im building a snowman out of grass in the morning, a grassman if u will. Then im going to set him on fire using printouts of yesterdays forecast.

dry?? im in North Kildare and its been raining for over 2 hours :lol: Where abouts in Co. Dublin are you? By the way how did you get the info about laois?

Its been coming down heavily the last 1 1/2 to 2 hours now. The rain that is. Fingers crossed ill wake up tomorrow and itll be the 1st of June, 22 degrees and im surrounded by beer. Btw my area was progged for heavy accumulating snow and we didnt get one solitary flake so dont count your chickens before u throw them on the pan. :lol: Darkman, are you faring any better? Just to add :lol: 8P :wacko: 8P :wacko: :wacko: 8P

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0207/1news_av....216991,null,230 anyone anyone?

Check out the Irish forecast.....long time since ive heard a warning like that http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0207/1news_av....216991,null,230