DaBrigg

Its now RAINING on the North Co Dublin coast. temp here is now +1.7C

I agree, this spell has been almost unprecedented! It also seems to have come out of the blue. I dont remember any longer term forecasts going for anything like this. However, from a very selfish local point of view, I STILL have not yet seen a proper covering of actual snow, deeper than 1cm, and lasting more than a couple of hours, since FEB 1991! Any snow since then has either thawed after a few hours, or has only amounted to a slight dusting at best. Most of the showers in the early February cold snap produced rain here. That is why Im a little cynical at times about these things. :lol: Any heavy showers drifting in from the Irish Sea would be great if you want a covering of snow, provided you dont live within half a mile of a northeast facing coast!

Let them stay out there! If the winds go slightly easterly a thaw will set in by the coast, and my temps will probably hover at +2C, or thereabouts, all night! Seriously though, this morning's GFS had the winds tuning more to the NE than previously forecast, for tonight and tomorrow, so there may be some more showers for Irish Sea Coasts. However, unless they produce heavy snow, as opposed to graupel or hail, then I wont be interested.

It has missed you and is hitting Donegal right now, judging from the latest radar!

Heavy snow, starting to settle, at sea level in Balbriggan.

Light sleet for about ten minutes, before turning to snow, its still snow lightly. The ground is now... slightly damp. Mist??? Whats that on the radar then. Im 20 miles north of the city anyway, its not at Dublin city just yet.

Its started do something here, but I cant quite figure out if its light sleet or snow. Ill have to head out to have a closer look... Its 0.7C here, just above sea level in North Co. Dublin. Unfortunately I have no idea what the dew point is at.

It looks good on the radar, that heavy stuff is moving into Louth now from Armagh. If it holds together I should get something within the next hour or two. Looks like the heavy stuff might just miss me.

I suspect rain may cause more disruption than snow. The ground is so cold it will more or less freeze on impact. Ill be watching the radar carefully, usually these features break up and fizzle out before making it this far south, leaving us bone dry. The BBC precipitation forecast suggests the front will still be still fairly active down here, so I expect to see something fall from the sky, whatever it may be.

I think it is actually a little more conservative than recent days! The forecast on Wednesday was so over the top I saved the whole forecast to my PC! The outlook started with this: Happy New Year all!

I stayed up lampost watching 'til about 6am. Most of stuff that fell and accumulated on the ground here, at sea level in Balbriggan, was soft hail, rather than actual snow. It did snow for a time, but didnt amount to very much. At best, theres a 1cm thick covering of this hail/snow/hail mix on most surfaces. Oh joy! Temp eventually bottomed out at -2.2C, but is now at a balmy +1.2C.

Dublin airport is reporting -3C with a westerly breeze, while here, 15 miles away, it is +2C with an easterly breeze. No snow, no frost! The joys of living by the sea!

Just flicking between Met Eireann and UKMet, nothing special. The heaviest stuff just missed me in Balbriggan, I just got a short burst of soft hail and sleet. Temp is now 2.6C. Plenty of snow in Dublin City by the looks of things. The showers and cloud should clear away by morn, leaving us in sub-zero temps.

Some lovely radar echoes heading straight for me just now. They will probably head in your direction after they pass through here. The temp on the coast is 0.6C, with a cold NWly breeze blowing off the land. The wind aloft is increasingly more easterly and less northerly than earlier, helping the showers come ashore further up the coast. North Dublin, Meath, and possibly south Louth, may get some showers soon.

Isnt that in south county Dublin?:lol: I hope to head to the Dublin mountains on Saturday, presumably there will be a decent covering higher up.:lol: Its 3.0C here in north Co Dublin, with relentless gales blasting in off the sea. Easterly gales are always fun at an east-facing coast, especially when combined with persistent rain.

I noticed a number of posters dismissing you, but I have to say I agree from a local perspective. The Irish Sea is too warm. Im on the coast also, and Ive seen rain here with 850hPa temps sub -10C, and thicknesses sub 520. Go a few miles inland and its all snow, but along the coast, forget it! We will do better temp-wise later in the week, once we loose the easterly. Unfortunately, we will then also loose the showers. However it is an amazing weather pattern and long may it continue! Have a look at some charts from around Jan 2008, for a reminder of what winter used to be like.

Just had a snow shower at sea-level in north Co Dublin. It had some fairly large flakes, a powdery covering has been left. The snow is blowing about on the roads and paths like sand on the beach. I was not expecting the showers to make it this far southeast. Its has risen to -0.9C from a low of -2.4C overnight.

A balmy 2.7C here in coastal North Co. Dublin, almost half a mile inland. A min so far of 2.4C in a recent clear break! Quite windy also, with a sub zero dew point making it feel very cold. Im not a big fan of easterlies at this location. Its practically impossible to get frost, temps rarely get below zero, any snow never settles, and showers are mostly of soft hail.

Great to see it starting already up there. Im planning to go that way on Sunday for a hike. I love a good prolonged freeze to get rid of the muck and slop. Lots of snow may not be ideal for me, but I certainly wont complain!

I have noticed the GFS in recent runs predicting some very high upper level temps with the warm-sector on Wednesday. -4C at 500hPa is unusually high is it not? I assume this is something to do with Bill. IMO ex- tropical cyclones that approach us from the west, having coming up the eastern seaboard and swinging by Newfoundland, tend to be little different from standard Atlantic depressions. However, ex-storms that approach us at speed from the vicinity of the Azores tend to be more interesting events. Usually these beasts will have been extra-tropical for a shorter amount of time when they arrive here. The remnants of Hurricane Gordon in September 2006 was one such storm. It raced up the Irish Sea from the south, giving a short blast of stormy conditions over a small area on its northern edge. It downed many trees in this neck of the woods, due to the easterly wind direction (offshore), plus the trees still being in full leaf. It was 18C here at the height of the wind, which was quite mild for 10pm in mid-September. Funnily enough we got almost no rain locally from that event, despite a sudden and dramatic drop in temp once the low centre had passed northwards.

I was on my way to bed when I noticed an unusual glow in the northern sky. I thought it was suspicously bright for 12:30am! I suspected noctilucents, though I had never seen them before tonight. Certainly a great display, if I had spotted it earlier I might have gone out for a walk to get a better view. Only had a poor quality camera to hand, but it shows up well in my pics despite local light pollution, Ill have to sort them out tomorrow.