Ireland Regional Discussion - 29/11/2013 ----->

[smithyweather]

Biggest chance of snow is Sunday and Christmas eve. But very brief if it does occur.

 

Following on it's all a little depressing for coldies with continuous areas of LP coming off the north Atlantic - hopefully though we will get some windows for wintry weather no matter how brief.

 

Long way from any sustained period of very cold weather. Oh well.

Christmas eve (my birthday) is looking very cold. 0-1c max with snow showers, with the low pressure so close the snow may be frequent and heavy.

Looking forward to the snow starting tonight about midnight. 

Edited December 21, 2013 by smithyweather

[ronan]

Certainly the chance of snow over the coming days! I love this type of weather! Anything can happen due to the air being so unstable!

[bobbarley]

Oh my goodness smithy we share birthdays, maybe we're long lost twins:)

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Happy birthday lads - don't go too crazy on the drink now 

[smithyweather]

Oh my goodness smithy we share birthdays, maybe we're long lost twins:)

lol. No we are just 'special' pahaha. Everyone gets jealous when I tell them that my birthday is christmas eve. 

 

Oddly It is sunny right now. Calm before the storm tomorrow.

Edited December 21, 2013 by smithyweather

[smithyweather]

Latest run gives an ice day for christmas eve. 

[The Eagle]

 

Looking forward to the snow starting tonight about midnight. 

 

 

It does not look like the minimum parameters for snow in the west and north are met until after daybreak tomorrow morning. See here. Having said that there should be some wintriness to low levels in any showers later tonight.

 

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfs/royaume-uni/precipitations/3h.htm

[smithyweather]

The nae and Euro4 disagree. Tbh if the temp is about 3c and the shower is heavy it really doesn't matter. 

 

I was down in coleraine and it was ice cold. Oh my goodness, bitter.

Edited December 21, 2013 by smithyweather

[smithyweather]

Its 5c so temp hasn't got much to drop. I notice showers are forming and coming in. For tomorrow met office mention "merging". Exciting!

[ronan]

Very heavy shower here at the minute! Mix of rain, hail and sleet!

[smithyweather]

That shower came here and it dropped temp to 4c. Dew point is 0c now.

 

Latest nae. Suggests -7c uppers and seems to think  we will see snow on Monday too. 

Edited December 21, 2013 by smithyweather

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Again a lot colder this evening, another cold night for me to work and freeze whilst advising very drunk people that they can't come into the bar, last night was crazy its not called black eye Friday for nothing

[ronan]

I take it that your a bouncer Pom? Wouldn't fancy that at all! Lol

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Aye Ronan a part time job to go with the day job, needs must and all that, its not to bad a job as long as you like gobs  hites slobbering at you and woman throwing themselves at you.... hang on its just like this forum lol

[bobbarley]

Pom I must be missing those posts from the desperate women, smithy tomorrow looks like its turning into a western counties only event now!

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Pom I must be missing those posts from the desperate women, smithy tomorrow looks like its turning into a western counties only event now!

Well to be fair its mostly pm messages and (cough) they are probably men, but hey ho they are only human 

[smithyweather]

Showers keep missing ni because they just go from north to south. Winds need to go westerly and then game is on. Temp is stalled at 3.5c. Boring.

Think if we got the showers we'd easily see snow

[mountain shadow]

Latest Met forecast looked decent for snow showers tomorrow.

Then comes the storm..

[smithyweather]

The rain has finally arrived. It's 2.6c with a dew point of 1.6c. So the chance of snow is basically 0 percent. However, evaporative cooling will probably lower the snow level.

Edited December 22, 2013 by smithyweather

[gary1365]

i thought snow was marginal for tonight lets hope for tomorrow doubt i;ll get anything here at my parents house though

[smithyweather]

Yes it is but the colder upper air is making in roads.

Its just that icy rain that you get. But the sky does have the orange colour that you get. Im sure its snowing up the road. Temp is basically stalled about 2.9c with a high humidity so it will not drop without intense rain.

Sorry my camera is cat you can barely see the orange.

Edit: 2:44 the temp is away down like a rocket as the rain has picked up. 2.6c again.

Edit: 2:47 really fast now temp is 2.3c

Temp has been stuck at 2.2c for 50 minutes now..

Edited December 22, 2013 by smithyweather

[The Eagle]

This looks severe

 

[skywatcher]

This will make Smithy happy - it's snowing here. Or to be more precise, it's alternating between snow and sleet.

Yes,that storm's a worry. These dartboards usually downgrade but this one isn't.

Edited December 22, 2013 by skywatcher

[cue_killar]

It's wet snowing up here right now just when I was going to bed too!

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Snow in Pomeroy (theres a surprise), hope there is six foot of the stuff then I can't go to work tonight!!