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ARCTIC CONDITIONS ARE set to bring hail, sleet and snow from the middle of this week.
Today will be cool with a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers, while tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with some patches of mist, drizzle and light rain.
However, Met Éireann says it will turn bitterly cold from Wednesday through to Saturday with northwesterly winds drawing cold air down from the Arctic.
Wednesday will be very cold with gusty winds and afternoon temperatures as low as four degrees.
It will turn increasingly wintry with hail, sleet and snow possible on Wednesday night and lowest temperatures of -1.
There will be a risk of hail, sleet and snow on Thursday with frequent showers also expected and afternoon temperatures could be as low as 1 degrees.
Friday and Saturday are also expected to be cold and frosty, however Met Éireann says “current indications are for less cold conditions” from Sunday and beyond.
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Yes – wintry showers on mountains in the north, The Wicklow Gap will , as usual on Morning Ireland, be reported as ‘impassable’ , Footage from RTE of a man standing on a motorway overpass as a normal line of cars move ( steadily enough) past him in about 1cm of sludgy wet snow. Perhaps footage of cows in a field too ( naturally in Wicklow) . Even better if it’s early lambs. Footage of some gowl getting their card towed on the said Wicklow Gap.
Footage of someone who decides to climb Carrountuathail in their slippers at night and needs rescuing.
Have I left anything out?
@Thomas Conneely: yes – a headline saying that it is colder than [somewhere really cold], and some journalist (not here of course) telling us that ‘the mercury plummeted’.
@Thomas Conneely: yeah you forgot the footage of the fella falling on rte news
Yep – you forgot to call it the obligatory “Cold Snap” – maybe someday we’ll have a “Hot Snap”
@Thomas Conneely: Brilliant!
@Yeera Yeahboy: Ah yes, Winds that may have ”originated in Siberia”. Forgot that one.
@Thomas Conneely: Fantastically well summed up.
@Enda Kennny: Did they pee on the studio floor again lol.
@Thomas Conneely: It always gets colder by the 3rd week of January to the 3rd week in February and then the first 3 days of April?
lowest temp of -1? thats not too bad
It was much colder last November.
@Do the Bort man: it is if you have snow, strong winds and no lift in day time temperatures
@Joe Smith: sounds Wintry.
@Do the Bort man:
I went to college during a winter in Finland. It was as low as minus 16 at lunch time, a balmy day was minus 10. Minus 30 at night, so cold the inside of your nose froze. But they have this magic invention in their buildings to keep them warm, I believe it was called “insulation”. Not sure if that’s a Finnish word, I hadn’t heard it before.
“Don’t make unnecessary journeys, don’t take risks on treacherous roads and don’t swim in the sea!”
Good advice George.
@George Vladisavljevic: add “Don’t sun bathe”.
@George Vladisavljevic: Do swim in the sea, it’s exhilarating and very good for you!
@Michel Fitzgerald:
Only in a dry suit Michel :o)
And above all else don’t eat yellow snow
@DJ Dave Wexford: Brown icicles are ok then ;)
Its good to know in advance though to guage driving conditions.
Bitterly cold from Wednesday. Anyone might think that it was Winter.
I won’t hold my breath the only thing predictable about our weather is its unpredicatbility, just getting out the Safari shirt and Panama hat.
This is a non-story. It’s January, and snow in hilly areas that regularly see it is not a big deal. It’s normal event for Ireland and localised to the NW.
Artic conditions. Really!!! Its minus 1 ffs. Brace yourself people. Just imagine people from countries where winters are harsh reading this content. Winter is coming people.
Podge it’s -47 in some parts of Europe at present. But will be – 1 here !! Quick Quick it’s a state of emergency , call out the army , stop all trains and buses . But an extra 300m tons of grit straight away !!! What a bunch of wussies we have in this country.
Actually we are quite robust in the face of the weather. Its the meeja who love apocalpse style reporting
@Podge Cannon: “We didn’t listen”
@Podge Cannon: It started 21st December to 21st March…
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/751681/UK-Weather-forecast-snow-cold-winter
@Kevin Slater: Could be worse?
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/488964/Mystery-alien-noise-UK-world-trumpet-sounds-UFO-YouTube-video
Time for the annual freezer defrosting ritual, so. Also dusting off my Yaktrax from 2010, lifesavers.
-1c?! I better purchase 50 bags of coal, get snow tyres for my car and refill the home heating oil…in other words it’s Winter and it has been for the past few weeks.
Brace yourself folks
So it’ll be glorious compared to other parts of Europe. Lovely.
Lets get Teresa Mannion on standby..
Minus 7 here in Burgas, Bulgaria at present. Still in the middle of this Artic chill. Will hit minus10 by this evening. Covered in snow, but main roads clear, but many villages are cut off with no power, no internet.
Travel restrictions were in place, trucks banned from roads, cars not allowed travel. Snow ploughs and other snow clearing machines couldn’t cope with the conditions.
No. Bitterly cold is Moscow at -30. Perspective
All in time for the Apollo House eviction party.
Yerrah yeah.
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