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Saturday, February 16, 2013

16 February 2013 - Weather/Landscape Images Of Ireland (The Meteo Times)

Saturday, February 16, 2013 Clare, Cork, Donegal, Images, Ireland, iWitness, Kerry, Meath, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow

To submit an image to TMT email us at editor@meteotimes.net, post an image to our Facebook page or Tweet @meteotimesirl. Each month, we host a public poll on our Facebook page for The Photo Of The Month.

Click on any of the below images for a larger view.

Ireland, UK And Earth From Space, 8 September 2012

Saturday, September 08, 2012 Antrim, Argentina, Armagh, Brazil, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Galway, Ireland, Israel, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Roscommon, Tipperary, UK, Waterford, Westmeath, WFS

Ireland and Britain, as seen from space by the MODIS Terra satellite at 1pm on Saturday, 08 September 2012.

Planet Earth, as seen in this RGB composite image from Dundee Satellite, at midday on Saturday, 08 September 2012.

FEATURE - Oídhche na Gaoithe Móire “The Night of the Big Wind”

Friday, September 07, 2012 Antrim, Carlow, Clare, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Longford, Louth, News, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Waterford, WEATHER HISTORY, Westmeath

When the nation woke up to a snowy winter wonderland on the morning of the 6th January 1839, little did they know that dawning upon them was a day that would bring forth one the most exceptional and violent storms ever to hit Ireland, writes TMT's Patrick Gordon.

Ireland, UK And Planet Earth From Space At Midday, 06-09-12

Thursday, September 06, 2012 Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Ireland, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Roscommon, Tipperary, UK, WFS, Zambia

Ireland and Britain, as seen from space by the MODIS satellite at midday on Thursday, 06 September 2012.

Planet Earth, as seen in this RGB composite image from Dundee Satellite, at midday on Thursday, 06 September 2012.

GALLERY 21 January 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011 Images, iWitness, Roscommon

The following gallery features images sent in to Irish Weather Online from people across Ireland.

A view from the top of Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo. Pic Philip Dunphy

A view from West Clare of contrails over Shannon Airport this morning.

Full moon over Cork. Pic notoole

Lahinch, Co Clare. Pic Alan Vaughan

Mist rising this morning in Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Pic Val Robus

Muglins Moonrise, Dublin Bay. Pic John Coveney.

NASA image of Ireland and the UK

Weather News In Brief - Dec 29 2010

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 News, Roscommon

Local authorities across Ireland are today continuing attempts to restore water supply to thousands of consumers. Water shut-offs are continuing and further burst water main bursts have been reported in 21 counties.

Water shortages are believed to have been caused by pipes bursting during and after the cold spell, as well as the huge increase in demand for water. Northern Ireland Water says it is working 'as fast as we can' to restore running water to 40,000 people affected by burst pipes.

Water Services Updates By County:

Antrim

Armagh

Clare

Cork City and County
Donegal

Down
Dublin

Kerry

Laois

Limerick

Roscommon

See other local authority websites for more.

Ireland's best-known 'amateur' weather forecaster, who accurately predicted a white Christmas, has said Ireland will get a break in the new year -- but only briefly. The Belfast Telegraph reports that Postman Michael Gallagher, who forecasts his weather from movements of animals and birds around his Bluestack Mountains beat in Donegal, says the thaw will continue for another few days but we can expect the snow to return by mid-January.

Household bin collections which were missed during the snow will resume this week., reports The Irish Times. Waste collectors have said they will take extra bags left neatly beside bins on the next household collection date.

TRANSPORT

AIR: Airline passengers are advised to check with their airlines website before going to the Cork of Dublin airports. There has been major disruption to flight operations in the east coast of America due to severe snow storms in recent days. ROAD: Gardai are advising motorists to continue to avoid the Wicklow Gap and Sally Gap in Wicklow due to icy conditions.

WORLD NEWS

South Africa: South African authorities have begun the relocation of 3,000 families after huge sinkholes appeared close to their homes near Pretoria, reports the BBC. The depressions are said to be the result of a massive extraction of water by farms in the area, causing underground caverns to collapse.
USA: With more than 80 million Americans reported to be impacted by recent severe winter storms along the East coast; it’s not surprising that more awful conditions, bitter cold and more snow blizzards is on tap for the New Year, say forecasters. More
Canada: It was one of the three warmest years recorded since 1850. It also marked the end of the warmest 10-year period since the beginning of instrumental records, reports The Montreal Gazette. "The most extreme warm anomalies ... extended across most of Canada and Greenland with mean annual temperatures 3 degrees Celsius or more above normal in parts of west Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic," according to the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization. "Temperatures averaged over Canada have been the highest on record."
New Zealand: Holiday-goers were battered by severe gale-force winds and torrential rain that swept across New Zealand, wreaking havoc, according to the Manawatu Standard. The strong winds blew over tents and gave a cold shock to campers and trampers in Manawatu yesterday.

THE SUN: 29 DEC 2010

Sunspot 1038. Click to enlarge Image Credit: SOHO/MDI

Regional Snowfall Predictions For Ireland 16-20 Dec 2010

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 News, Roscommon, Tyrone

Issued 2210h Dec 15th, 2010 - The below chart outlines IWO's estimated snow accumulation totals for Ireland during the period Thursday 16 December 2010 to Monday 20 December 2010. All amounts are in centimetres. Accumulation totals likely to be greater in more elevated areas and somewhat lesser near shores and urban centres.

REGION ....                 THURS .. FRI .. SAT .. SUN .. MON

Ulster .....................    08 ...... 07 ...... 10 ..... 10 ...... 03
Connacht ................    05 ...... 10 ...... 05 ..... 05 ...... 02
Kerry, Clare            03 ..... 03 ...... 07 ..... 12 ...... 10
Cork, Tipp, Limerick         01 ..... 02 ...... 10 ..... 10 ...... 08
inland Wat/Car/Kilk/Wex 02 ..... 03 ...... 12 ..... 18 ...... 10
Dub/Wick/Mea             01 ..... 02 ...... 15 ..... 15 ...... 10
rest of Leinster ........ 03 ..... 04 ...... 12 ..... 12 ...... 07

iWeather Online forecaster Peter O'Donnell comments: Snowfall on Thursday and Friday will occur mostly in passing squally showers that may merge into longer periods of snow in counties such as Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Donegal, Derry, Tyrone, Fermanagh, parts of Galway and Clare. This may also apply to adjacent parts of other counties at times.

Snowfall during Saturday to Monday will occur mostly as a result of organised areas of snow that may sweep in from east or northeast. These systems are likely to affect Meath, Laois and Tipperary, as well as Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Kildare. These systems could also spread further north and west in other bands crossing Ulster and moving southwest.

If you experienced heavy snow in late November and early December, you will probably experience further heavy snowfall during this period.

Check out iWeather Online's Severe Weather Advisory issued tonight, 15 December 2010.

UPDATE (5.30PM 14 Dec) Cold Spell In Ireland

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 News, Roscommon

Wexford. Pic by Joe Whelan

(UPDATE 5.30pm, Tuesday 14 Dec 2010): The main thing to focus on at this point is the rapid onset of the cold spell and the sudden nature of the frontal passage on Thursday. This is likely to set off some very squally mixed showers turning rapidly from rain to hail then sleet and snow as it moves south at a very fast pace.

I will make an effort to time that for iWeather Online readers on Wednesday afternoon or evening, but at present, it looks like this front will hit Ulster between 0600 north to 0900 south, then should move through Connacht and north Leinster between 0900 and noon, and be clearing the south coast around 1500h.

If you have travel plans that places you and this front in the same place at the same time, expect some slow going or perhaps the need for a well-timed meal break while it blows through. The further north you are, the more likely it will be that instead of just blowing through and clearing afterwards, the front will be followed fairly quickly by further snow (except along the immediate west coast, everything behind this front should be snow or hail).

There is potential (80% confidence) for accumulations of 10-20 cms in some parts of Donegal, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim and Ulster, from Thursday to Friday. This would be in advance of any more widespread snow that could develop with low pressure systems circling around on the weekend into Monday. I don't want to be too specific yet on that period as the details will be all-important, but could say that the current maps show potential for several inches of snow in many areas over that later time period.

Snow risk chart for Saturday. (c) Meteociel

I've noticed an expected tendency for the longer-term maps now available to begin a delaying process for any potential warming trends mid-week. I guess it's almost inevitable that one or two days between the weekend and New Years will be milder than most, although there is some chance of a complete "locking in" of a cold northeast flow pattern too.

The thing everyone should keep in mind here, I would conclude, is that even today's relatively reliable weather models are being challenged here by the very large-scale changes underway, bringing the polar vortex which usually stays up around Svalbard or Greenland, right down across Britain and Ireland by Friday night.

Analogues for this are scarce, so the models are working off a very limited data base in terms of modelling how the atmosphere will respond with this frigid air spilling out over the 10-12 deg North Atlantic where storms will then develop along a boundary. Just slight changes in the track or intensity of those features still 4-6 days away, would mean large differences in snowfall forecasts for any part of Ireland or the U.K. ... but in the more general sense, I think we can say that snow is likely on a fairly widespread basis given this pattern development.

The fact that my research energy peak for 20-21 December is right in that time frame has me concerned that a major snowfall event is very possible, and of course it could begin as soon as the event starts to take shape rather than waiting until those dates.

UPDATE FROM iWeather Online forecaster Peter O'Donnell (issued at 3pm Tue 14 Dec 2010): After reviewing the most recent GFS weather model output, the only real change to previous forecasts is to upgrade the severity of the outbreak on Friday with a fast-moving reinforcement of the Thursday initial blast. This may give a mechanism for snow showers to reach the east and south at times, rather than keeping most of the initial two days snow potential confined to the west and north.

Beyond that, there is enhanced potential for snowfalls of 5-20 cms through the weekend and Monday.

Our readers in all parts of Ulster, Connacht and parts of West Munster, as well as now north and west Leinster, should be on alert for rapid onset of wintry conditions mid-day Thursday with several waves of heavy snow possible in some areas on strong NW winds.

Don't be caught napping by the direction here, this air is super-cold and can withstand the Atlantic passage. There are sure to be reports of rain and hail at sea level where this sweeps in, but 90% of residents of the affected region are not at sea level, and even those who are may have to drive places.

I envisage a snowfall map by late Friday with 5-10 cms over a large part of inland Connacht, most of Ulster, and pockets of north Leinster, as well as some inland parts of Clare, Kerry and west Cork. Further east in Munster, it may be more hit and miss but these will be powerful streamers with potential to bring some snow almost across the country, and there will also be troughs embedded to promote some convection. Amounts of 2-5 cms could fall almost anywhere.

For Dublin, the most likely amount by late Friday would be 1-3 cms coming from a few passing snow showers. Some places will get no covering but maybe fewer than we were speculating earlier.

Friday night and early Saturday could be bitterly cold with clearing skies following this fresh snow. Then outbreaks of snow appear likely through the weekend and these could even include normally temperate south coast regions because a lot of the emphasis will be on bands coming in from the southeast in association with low pressure circling around the west and later south coasts. But the whole country including the NI portions of Ulster are likely to be significantly affected with considerable snow potential extending across Britain also.

I would say the risk of disruptive amounts of snow is increasing with these model runs trending towards a snowy pattern. Will update my perspective after the 12z runs have come out.

Further updates will be issued throughout the day. Watch for updates on Twitter and Facebook and visit the IWO chatboard. For the weather forecast anywhere in Ireland and the UK visit our local weather page.

GALLERY Pics of The Week - Ireland Under Snow

Saturday, December 04, 2010 Images, iWitness, Roscommon

Ireland's 'White Isle', Dec 2 2010. Image from Modsis

Some of the best images from around Ireland during the period 27 Nov-03 Dec 2010. All images were submitted by visitors to the iWeather Online website.

Images sorted alphabetically by county.

CARLOW

Snow in Carlow Hills.Dee Sewell

Snow in Carlow Hills. Dee Sewell

Tullow. Pic naughtynickett

CLARE

Connolly. Pic Mark Dunphy

CORK

Near Kinsale. Pic by Michael

DONEGAL

28 Nov in Donegal. Pic Tony Brogan

Donegal Bay. Pic by Matt Britton

Red on white. Pic by Matt Britton

Swan Lake. Pic by Matt Britton

Close to Ballybofey. Pic Tony Brogan

Letterkenny. Pic by Harps

DOWN

Slieve Bernagh. Colm Hurley

Pic by Colm Hurley

DUBLIN

Ballycragh Park in Snow. Pic John Murphy

Clontarf. Pic Edith Heffernan

Drumcondra by Cionad

Phibsboro. Pic by Brian

Goatstown snowcouple. Pic by Gavin Moloney

Knocklyon, Dublin on the flyover over the M50 on Saturday night. Daire O Suilleabhain

North Strand looking towards Croke Park. Pic by Kevin

On Thin Ice. Pic John Murphy

Finglas. Pic Ian Carruthers

Five Lamps. Pic Dave Casey

Symmetry on Ice. Pic John Murphy

Henry St. Pic cosmofountain

Terenure graupel. Pic by Robin Shepperson

Powerscourt. Pic Brian Dunphy

Grand Canal Quay Basin by Danni

Knocklyn. Pic by giker.

View from Howth summit back towards Dublin. Pic Brian Dillon

Dublin Airport. Pic by Commander Byrne

Citywest

O'Connell St. Pic Brian Gallagher.

Carpark in Tallaght. By Nadia

Phoenix Park. Pic lightnessalways via twitter

Tallaght. Pic Fergal Tierney

Dublin Airport

Red sunset with steady snow, Dublin 20. Pic by eolai

TCD engineers construct a rudimentary pyramid. Mark

Shankill by Jenny Stapleton

Marlay Park. Pic Killian Byrne

Dundrum. Pic Tyrestigue

Connolly Station during rush hour. Pic mrhotspots

PS Eircom sent this image of Killiney Hil

GALWAY

Knockdoe Hill. Peter Gallagher

Galway City. Pic Fiona Gavin

Looking towards East Galway from Knockdoe Hill. Peter Gallagher

KERRY

Stacks Mountain. Pic by Liam D

Stacks MOuntain. Pic by Liam D

KILDARE

Naas, Kildare. Pic by Roger Parrow

Corbally Branch of Grand Canal in Naas. Pic Roger Parrow

Newbridge. Pic by Hilary Costello

Under cover in Naas. Pic Roger Parrow

Naas. Roger Parrow

Curragh. Vinny O'Brien

Kilcullen. Pic by teker


Coneyboro in Athy by Roxy

Sallins co Kildare. Pic tigertacey via twitter

KILKENNY

Graignamanagh, Co. Kilkenny. Pic Susan Suz

Sleigh run in Ballyhale, KIlkenny. Pic by Robert Challoner

Graignamanagh, Co. Kilkenny. Pic Susan Suz

Mullinavat snowed under. Pic Mark McDonald

Mullinavat. Pic Mark McDonald

Kilkenny Snow by Annette Byrne

Looking east from overhead Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny, Kilkenny City at the midpoint, Johnswell Hills just behind and Mount Leinster further East. Freezing fog beginning to form. Pic Tom Britton