Ireland Regional Weather Discussion

[snowice]

Hi all I wonder will we get any heavy snow showers away from the coast. You can never tell until it happens I find. 

[Neiller22]

Still not convinced there will be much snow. ECM very poor for us generally bar a 2 day limited chance of snow. But I hope I’m wrong. 

[Aliaalu]

Hey guys, I'm a winter lurker.  I spend hours on here over the winter months reading posts, but have nothing new to add so never/rarely post. Sincerely hoping for a wee bit of the magical white stuff this coming weekend in East Belfast. It's my birthday too so would be a perfect present.

I'm not going to get too stressed about snow charts predictions for here. Experience tells me that they are somewhat inaccurate especially for N/NW flow  As they say let's get the cold in place and pray for some serious precipitation ?

Good luck!

Ali

[Guest]

The BBC/Met automated forecast is changing now. Eyes are peeled.

[Neiller22]

The lack of posts says it all for us I’m afraid. As feared latest output wind direction heading more NW than N. Still good for NW areas but pants for most others. Prob change in morning though with a bit of luck. Sliders not much use for us either at present. Obviously subject to change. Hopefully for the better the closer it gets. 

Edited December 4, 2017 by Neiller22

[mountain shadow]

You must be looking at different charts to me Neiller. 

Chill.

[ronan]

All good from where I am sitting! As usual Neiller you look in to each run too much. Precip from sliders won't be nailed till closer to the time.

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Interesting wee update on radio Ulster from Geoff Maskell?  This morning, wet, windy then sleet, hail, snow and thunder Thursday into Friday even to lower levels. Love Thunder snow, my favourite weather type have only heard/seen it a couple of times 

[Neiller]

9 hours ago, ronan said:

All good from where I am sitting! As usual Neiller you look in to each run too much. Precip from sliders won't be nailed till closer to the time.

Is'nt the point of watching each run to comment on that specific run if one would like 2. It does not necessarily mean i take each run as gospel. If you read my previous post you can clearly see that i stated things can obviously change quickly, which would imply that i don't read too much into each individual run. Anyhow i hope we all get what we are craving. Time will tell.

[mountain shadow]

Mention of moderate falls of snow on Met Office website, that would do me.

[Weegaz]

I've purchased the shift for my snow shovel, tomorrow I will purchase the blade, or maybe even this afternoon 

[Weegaz]

MetO Update 

Between 00:05 Fri 8th and 18:00 Sat 9th

Snow showers are expected to become increasingly frequent over northern Scotland late on Thursday and are expected across many other parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and western England on Friday. 2-5 cm of snow is likely for some, with 10-20 cm possible over high ground, mainly Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Icy surfaces are also likely to be an additional hazard, especially overnight. Strong northwest winds may cause drifting of the snow in places with blizzard conditions possible at times across northern Scotland. The heaviest and most frequent of the snow showers will progressively 

[SnowJon]

First snow warnings are out!

Snow showers are expected to become increasingly frequent over northern Scotland late on Thursday and are expected across many other parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and western England on Friday. 2-5 cm of snow is likely for some, with 10-20 cm possible over high ground, mainly Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Icy surfaces are also likely to be an additional hazard, especially overnight. Strong northwest winds may cause drifting of the snow in places with blizzard conditions possible at times across northern Scotland. The heaviest and most frequent of the snow showers will progressively become confined to northeast Scotland during Saturday. Some roads and railways likely to be affected with longer journey times by road, bus and for train services. Probably some icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths. Some injuries from slips and falls on icy and snowy surfaces.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings#?date=2017-12-08&lat=54.6629&lon=-5.6619

[SnowJon]

Beat me to it Weegaz!

[ronan]

Great to see the warnings out. It's been a while. Roll on Thursday night now!

[Sparky72]

The amount of snow forecast and duration seems to be getting more diluted the closer we get... is that just because it's hard to forecast precipitation amounts? 

[ronan]

Anything can pop up out of these setups. I would be happy with 1cm of snow as i am sure most on here would. Lol

[Daniel*]

27 minutes ago, Sparky72 said:

The amount of snow forecast and duration seems to be getting more diluted the closer we get... is that just because it's hard to forecast precipitation amounts? 

Not seen that...

You folks will do really well it goes without saying even to the coast, frequent snow showers clumping together to form longer spells of snow some decent accumulations to low levels possible. Thundersnow too a possibility. 

[Weegaz]

7 minutes ago, ronan said:

Anything can pop up out of these setups. I would be happy with 1cm of snow as i am sure most on here would. Lol

Me to Ronan, anything more's a bonus.

I think the excitement is in watching the models, the radar and then seeing the first few flakes fall to give a covering.

[ronan]

NI weather just gave a nive wee update. Also mentioned the chance of a little feature coming in on Saturday. 

[bobbarley]

Haven’t seen the dreaded words yet “away from the north coast” sometimes in these setups, rain sleet on north coast and only 2-3 miles inland they get a proper dumping of snow!

[Hegzyy]

the generated forcasts for my area have now changed to rain thursday night adn friday, how could it be rain with -10 uppers :S it doesnt get much colder than that

[Guest]

55 minutes ago, Hegzyy said:

the generated forcasts for my area have now changed to rain thursday night adn friday, how could it be rain with -10 uppers :S it doesnt get much colder than that

At this point I'm not looking at the generated forecasts until they are all hourly. The temperatures are all higher than everywhere else and its showing rain when you'd expect snow, even though a yellow warning is in place. 

[Hegzyy]

15 minutes ago, BREIFMAN11 said:

At this point I'm not looking at the generated forecasts until they are all hourly. The temperatures are all higher than everywhere else and its showing rain when you'd expect snow, even though a yellow warning is in place. 

yeah, its showing us at higher temps than london! seems impossible but what do I know

[Longtimelurker]

It's only the first week of Winter guys and we have a snow warning already to kick in in 52 hours. Just enjoy it and chill lol