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Sorry to hear about that now. I had a few situations like that a few weeks ago in our North Westerly setup, plenty of showers passing to the north over Lough Foyle with bunches going over to the south of me. Hopefully you'll get something of significance!

Looking good for us up here certainly, continuing to grow and intensify nicely too!

I'm quietly optimistic for next week despite being a general pessimist these days! All I'd say is that the ECMWF's precipitation output is wildly overdone sometimes in my eyes. Especially when the white stuff is involved. Always good to look at them! Here they are for the end of next week from tameteo.com:

Sorry to hear about your hearing! Yep that's certainly it too, the NW sure is a nice area to be flying around, especially on a crisp winters morn.

Yeah that is true, I'm close to sea-level in quite a narrow but steep valley so whilst I don't get pasted, I do get to see it I suppose! No I don't actually, just involved in aviation more generally in NI/ROI. I do know people who do however.

I wouldn't rule out everything just yet. As a matter of fact, I personally believe that for my location this stint over the coming days could yield better (albeit it wouldn't take much). At the end of the day we could be in a very different position such as the one seen last year. There has been plenty of opportunities to get out and about as much as we can which is something we all need in these times.

Completely agree there. The coming days will certainly yield better for the far NW of the island than what passed a few days ago. Dewpoints here have dropped ever so slightly below 0 here and I'd expect them to continue to decrease. I also wouldn't be surprised to see the showers intensifying slightly as the night progresses as they come off the coast.