Ireland Regional Weather Discussion

[Guest]

Having little luck with the showers here, most are too brief to lift any melt worries however the temperatures been low enough to keep the snow that came locked in place especially on grass.

[Sperrin]

Work sent us home early, hard to beat the Ott health and safety mindset! 

Took a detour home and drove three mile out of Omagh up Mullagharan mountain. It went full on blizzard mode up there, got some great video that I'll post later. Took these shots will I was there.

[Weegaz]

Still a constant stream of showers heading in, not adding much to totals but nice to see all the same.

[jello]

I see NI Weather has an amber warning out for Southern counties for Sunday, Fingers crossed

[Longtimelurker]

GFS looks a little further North this run. Still much uncertainty IMO. Hopefully comes further north

[Rocheydub]

11 minutes ago, Longtimelurker said:

GFS looks a little further North this run. Still much uncertainty IMO. Hopefully comes further north

Boooooo

[Guest]

Latest shower welcomingly topped everything back up seemingly to where it was this morning. Hopeful! 

[snowydog]

Sandyknowes at 4.30pm 

[Rocheydub]

Just an update from Dublin... Clear blue skies!!!

[Juuyoku]

Wee showers on and off here all day. Currently on. Nice to see and it's providing a top up. The parts that thawed are freezing over again so that'll be good craic for people driving or in footpaths later. 

[Sperrin]

My work do is on tonight, id struggle to stay on my feet even if it wasn't icy! Pretty sure I'll be the only one checking the 18z too haha!

[Sperrin]

12z out

GfS brings slider further north and looks better for snow but doesn't hang around as long before drifting south. 

Arpege has the slider hanging around for longer but only showing as snow for the west of Ulster. Midlands north should do good too.

Unfortunately Dublin gets nothing white!

Edited December 8, 2017 by Sperrin

[Sawel]

2 hours ago, Sperrin said:

Work sent us home early, hard to beat the Ott health and safety mindset! 

Took a detour home and drove three mile out of Omagh up Mullagharan mountain. It went full on blizzard mode up there, got some great video that I'll post later. Took these shots will I was there.

Never heard of Mullagharan. I'm familiar with Mullaghcarn which is a few miles from Omagh and is the most southerly peak in the Sperrins. The northern Sperrins have a couple of separate peaks called 'Mullaghclogher' and 'Mullaghclogha'. Is Mullagharan definitely a separate hill from Mullaghcarn?

Edited December 8, 2017 by Sawel

[Sperrin]

You are right Sawel, I've made that mistake before. Around Omagh we'd pronounce it mullagh-har-an. Guilty of my p2 kids mistake of spelling phonetically!

[Sperrin]

Anyway, more 12z updates. Euro4 and 48hr fax charts looking better for us in the north on Sunday.

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Frank is teasing us about snow on Sunday, stay tuned to hear more on UTV ?

[Longtimelurker]

Looks like we'll have to wait until tomorrow evening to be sure where will get it worst. 

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Sunday still holds a lot of interest going by the regional weather forecasts

[ronan]

Roads have been left in a bad condition after the last shower considering these roads were clear 30 mins ago. Really slippy!

[booferking]

Still getting beefy showers every now and then topping up the snow pack.    

@mountain shadow have you spotted the convergence slow moving trough line on fax charts you could get mighty close to this Saturday morning pep up them showers.

Edited December 8, 2017 by booferking

[BIG LAD]

not too many more showers here this evening but very little thaw and all froze solid again. -1c on way home from work there. very bad snow for building snowmen though! far too dry and powdery. kids not too impressed.lol

[SnowJon]

Massive snowflakes here now - bigger than 50p pieces! 

[Longtimelurker]

@booferking Where do you reckon the northern extent of snow will be on Sunday 

[booferking]

18 minutes ago, Longtimelurker said:

@booferking Where do you reckon the northern extent of snow will be on Sunday 

My guess is along the lines of the Euro4 chart below, there's been a slight shift north every run since this morning's runs plus the metoffice seem to be backing it with something similar in there forecast.

But it is still a nowcast event at best.

Edited December 8, 2017 by booferking

[Longtimelurker]

F0ok that's tasty. For what it's worth Met office don't have an automated FC for my location in Donegal but closest place to me over the border showing a lot more snow falling on Sunday than it did earlier. 

Edited December 8, 2017 by Longtimelurker