Ireland Regional Weather Discussion

[Guest]

1 minute ago, BREIFMAN11 said:

Hailstones

I always thought that hailstones preceding snow helps said snow lay? Would this be a correct assumption?

[Juuyoku]

Back home in Dungiven. Layer of snow here. Hasn't done a thing for the last half hour but it's not melting away either. 

[ronan]

Things looking very quiet on the radar to the NW/N. Hopefully it picks up!!

[Neiller22]

Yes I hope that's not it!

[mountain shadow]

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[ronan]

What you reckon MS. Will things pick up again? 

[Guest]

Its a foundation!! Don't let it wither away! 

[mountain shadow]

4 minutes ago, ronan said:

What you reckon MS. Will things pick up again? 

Aye. Just a brief lull. Forecast seems to show heavier showers around 2am and then at rush hour. 

As Briefman says, a nice wee base.

[Neiller22]

Met office have informed us that there will be more showers overnight but not as bad as that last fall  so nothing major to be fair.

[Longtimelurker]

6 minutes ago, Neiller22 said:

Met office have informed us that there will be more showers overnight but not as bad as that last fall  so nothing major to be fair.

I didn't hear that. What's your source? Their proper warning doesn't kick in until midnight. The one for this evening only mentioned slushy deposits 

Edited December 7, 2017 by Longtimelurker

[Neiller22]

Work at the airport and we are in constant conversation with them

[ronan]

9 minutes ago, mountain shadow said:

Aye. Just a brief lull. Forecast seems to show heavier showers around 2am and then at rush hour. 

As Briefman says, a nice wee base.

Yeah was out with the dog a walk there and things freezing up nicely so anything that falls from here on in should lye.

[Juuyoku]

Met Office forecast looking so tasty for my area too. Hoping things will pick up again soon. 

[ronan]

Few hail showers in the past hour but nothing more than that. Radar looks good just to my north with 2 separate bits of precip incoming. Then after that keeping an eye on that precip of the West coast of Scotland. Hopefully that intensifies as it moves south.

[draztik]

The fact there is heavy snow in Newtownards currently, tells me everything... quite the snow event developing in the province for sure.

[Rocheydub]

Still nothing. Off to the leaba! Sad face!

[Juuyoku]

I need sleep but I'm also watching that blob!

[ronan]

I am the same. Fighting sleep here. The blob looks good but up north looks even better. It's a few hours away and if it can keep it's intensity then happy days.

[Sperrin]

Heavy snow continuing here, must be 4-5cm lying now.

[Sperrin]

Are those showers destined for here Ronan? I thought they were coming from the NW rather than NNW? What radar is that you're using?

[ronan]

Its chucking it down here but really fine graupel and hail giving a good base if we are to get some proper snow later. I use http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ 

Updates at 15 mins then every half hour same as the Netweather snow radar but shows the direction of showers better. Looks NNW to me?

[Sperrin]

Ah right. It's a pity the radar doesn't show activity further into the Atlantic so we could get a better idea of what's coming next!

Edited December 8, 2017 by Sperrin

[Juuyoku]

Snowing here again. Fine powdery snow. Must have snowed when I wasn't looking at some point, a nice 2-3cm now. 

[ronan]

Into the Atlantic wouldn't really matter when its coming from the north but the met office radar shows everything off the west coast of Scotland which i think is heading our way. Pic from just now..

[Sperrin]

Btw, picked these up off the model thread. Looks good for Sunday on pub run.

Fax chart showing us in Ulster north of the front so staying on the cold side and the precipitation charts looking really good!