Snow Watch: Ireland

[Matty M]

Not like that here at all unfortunately quite wet out on the ground at the moment!

Just some snow on grass, roofs..

[noel]

matty see that big area of snow coming over liverpool at min, thats your big fall, should be with you about 10 and looks like a good hour or two's snow

[John Cox]

Hi Matty and all Irish weather companions,

Here in Palmerstown, West Dublin, we have had constant heavy snow showers since 4pm and it is accumulating.

We have about 2/3 inches everywhere, on roads and everything.

Best snowfall here since 2001.

I am one happy male bunny, have taken loads of photos and videos. will post tomorrow.

Edited February 2, 2009 by John Cox

[SNOWPLOUGH]

heavy snow showers are passing over every few mins,the concreate is a slushy mess,the grass has 2.2 inches of snow on it :lol: ,and the cars are nice and white

does anybody think there will be more snow tonight?

SP

[sundog]

Snow showers hae become more frequent here the last few hrs giving a covering, current temp 0.6c

[ronan]

They will be plenty down your way. Enjoy!!!

[Northern gap]

Worryingly the radar has this front turning to sleet after an hour or two. Temps need to drop a couple of degree.

[The watcher]

Light precipitation in the band now only minutes away, should be able to tell soon what will come of this. Also on the netweather radar precip type, theres a large secion in the Irish Sea now classed as rain.

[minus86BriJ]

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!

[Snowaddict]

Fantastic conditions.

6cm of lying snow, up to 8cm on grassy surfaces.

The best snowfall that I have seen in over 4 years.

Absolutely stunning!

Let's hope the main band of precip now arriving delivers.

[shrike]

Can't believe lookin at precip netweather charts how quickly the mild sector has caught up - Nearly into Isle of man with sleet and through the spine of the country

Not lookin to good

[johnny1972]

Can't believe lookin at precip netweather charts how quickly the mild sector has caught up - Nearly into Isle of man with sleet and through the spine of the country :lol:

Not lookin to good

Shrike

You should know by now the East coast snow shield has gone up !lol Its the same in the summer - shield goes up for thunderstorms ! We live in a very uninteresting part of the world unfortunately when it comes to these two events ! Temp is 2.3C here in Carrick with a D/P of just below -2C so sleet is the most i think we will get. It looks like another winter without snow on the ground which given the conditions in the rest of the country is very very disappointing. Doesnt matter what direction the weather comes from we seem to miss out ! :lol: Rant over. Maybe i will be wrong but i doubt it.

[The watcher]

To be honest its a grave possibility that many of us Northern folk will have a big let down, but, remember last year, nothing at all was expected and wham, we hit the motherload....sometimes meto can underestimate or overdo temps and things here....hell they may have done so this time....but theres only hope and no certainty at all as to what we will get tonight. Still nothin here and my temperature has went up by 0.1c...although DP is still -2c.

[johnny1972]

To be honest its a grave possibility that many of us Northern folk will have a big let down, but, remember last year, nothing at all was expected and wham, we hit the motherload....sometimes meto can underestimate or overdo temps and things here....hell they may have done so this time....but theres only hope and no certainty at all as to what we will get tonight. Still nothin here and my temperature has went up by 0.1c...although DP is still -2c.

Watcher

That precipitation should be on your front doorstep now according to the radar.

[ronan]

Well showers are pretty frequent now here. Mostly light with the odd heavier burst and mostly of hail with snow mixed in. The next 3 - 4 hours will tell. Hope yous people that are doubtung this get something.

[The watcher]

Starting to.....

SNOW....moderate flakes and not wet as of yet.

Temperature now 2.8c, but by sensor is inside a coal bunker so maybe a couple of decimel points too high.

[ronan]

Just noticed that the met office has upgraded their warning for my area to orange, be prepared for tonight and tomorrow. Happy days.

[BFS/BHD]

Starting to.....

SNOW....moderate flakes and not wet as of yet.

Temperature now 2.8c, but by sensor is inside a coal bunker so maybe a couple of decimel points too high.

Ditto that . Lets hope it stays that way!!

[mountain shadow]

Light snow here.

Temp - -0.1oC

Dew - -2.2oC

I'm up in Carryduff in the Castlereagh Hills so might do a wee bit better than you lot down on the lough side and in the valley.

Edited February 2, 2009 by mountain shadow

[Crispo]

Hi folks.....

Very light flakes just started falling in Newtownabbey..............

[delq]

Well Met Eireann reckon it's still game on tonight - latest warning update below -

Issued at 02 February 2009 - 20:26

Severe Weather Update

Further heavy snowfalls at times this evening and overnight in Leinster and Ulster with blizzard conditions in places and further falls of 10 centimetres or more.

Heavy snow showers expected later tonight in Connaught and Munster also, falls of 3 to 8 centimetres expected.

Widespread frost and icy conditions in many areas tomorrow morning also.

Q

[ronan]

Anybody got a decent radar so i can track this band of precip??

[BFS/BHD]

Anybody got a decent radar so i can track this band of precip??

Well this is the current net weather radar. Showing lots of snow moving in atm!!

http://212.100.247.145/viewimage.pbx?type=...99debe563b4ee9d

[delq]

Anybody got a decent radar so i can track this band of precip??

Here's one someone posted last night -

http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/uk/home/weathe...ed_kingdom.html

Q

[ronan]

Nice one. Thank you.