Ireland Cold Spell Discussion

[frostyjoe]

snow coming tomorrow! if it lies i think i could get maybe 5cm.. im sick of getting 2cm... why does the meto have snow on hills then have a warning out for low levels weird... the snow might last the entire band here im thinking because of how far north i am... the bbc graphics showed snow in the forecast for here the whole way through..

Edited February 2, 2010 by frostyjoe

[mountain shadow]

I would be very very surprised to see any low lying snow tomorrow afternoon, it's just too warm. Personally, I hope the precipitation is delayed too about 4pm as the sun sets which might help.

Cannot see how 2cm is classed as heavy snow though.

[ronan]

Frosty there will be snow and i think we could see a good inch. Look at saturday night. No warnings or anything and we had about an inch and a half. Didn't last very long but it was nice to see!! Roll on 9'oclock in the morning. Could be a tricky drive to work at 11!!

[frostyjoe]

Frosty there will be snow and i think we could see a good inch. Look at saturday night. No warnings or anything and we had about an inch and a half. Didn't last very long but it was nice to see!! Roll on 9'oclock in the morning. Could be a tricky drive to work at 11!!

If the cloud dosnt drag the temp above 0c and melt the frost. but if that doesnt happen then we could see very deep snow i think say 10cm is possible considering how heavy it is forecasted to be and the rate its moving at... and if it stays as snow the whole way through then it should be fine.

[BIG LAD]

moderate wet snow here in monaghan this morn. left a half decent covering.

[summer blizzard]

Any updates guys, radar shows precipitation intensifying rapidly.

[Intrepid]

light rain here and temp up to 3c...

[somofagun]

Snowing here in dungannon from around 9.00am. Light enough at the moment, from the forcast it won't be lying to long

Coming down heavy now

[ronan]

Moderate snow here in Derry for the past 2 hours. Have 2-3 cms on the ground. Some nice chunky flakes coming down. Nice to see but it will be all gone be tonight or tonight as it gets milder.

[BFS/BHD]

Light and moderate bursts of wet snow here in East Belfast atm.

[Baltic Regions]

Started snowing in Coleraine around 11 or so. Really started coming down. I thought the journey home would be disasterous for me. Thankfully things started to melt fairly quickly.

Love the snow but don't really want to be stuck away from home in it. Don't mind being stuck at home (thats a diferent matter altogether!).

[stormforce 10]

cold overnight here.

overnight min -1.1c

[mountain shadow]

As I thought the snow forecast for yesterday was highly optimistic by the Met Office.

Hopefully the forecast North Easterly will be less boring than the last one.

[mountain shadow]

Overnight models are not good for snow from the short lived easterly. Our hopes are on a quick retrogression to Greenland and a northerly to follow.

It would also be a laugh to see a west based -NAO set up with Ireland on the cold side of the arctic front and most of the Britsh mainland in milder atlatic air.

[stormforce 10]

quite cold here overnight. overnight low of 1.8c.

looks like cooling down going in to the weekend.

[stormforce 10]

yet again another cold night here.

overnight low of -1.9c

current outside temp 2.1c

beautiful sunny skies and dry.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Quite chilly out and the fog has thinned very slightly. Currently 4.9C

[stormforce 10]

gonna be a cold one tonight.

outside temp 0.6c

[DaBrigg]

Ill be lucky to manage below average temps this week.

5.5C, by day, 4.5C by night.

Cloudy skies, light winds. Its more or less just anticyclonic gloom!

A few very light showers of rain or graupel now and then, just to liven things up.

The only thing Ill be model-watching for is a change in wind direction.

[mountain shadow]

According to the GFS 6Z - SNOWMAGEDDON IN T+6 DAYS

[DaBrigg]

According to the GFS 6Z - SNOWMAGEDDON IN T+6 DAYS

A retrogression of the high to Greenland, giving us a northerly, will be great. I suspect it will happen sooner or later.

However, we all know how reliable the models have been lately. We shouldnt get too excited just yet!

[stormforce 10]

a cold night here.

outside temp -1.7c

todays max temp 5.1c.

ive recorded my lowest humidity here since i got my weather station 5 years ago.

todays lowest humidity recorded was 57%.

[stormforce 10]

very cold and frosty.

outside temp -4.4c

[stormforce 10]

very cold and frosty

outside temp -1.5c

overnight min -6.6c (could have gotten much lower if not for cloud cover at 04:45am)

[stormforce 10]

very cold and frosty

outside temp -2.2c