10TH-19TH December 2011



After a cold windy week in Ireland, the coming week looks quite similiar with stronger winds and potentially stormy conditions with Blizzards on high ground. Today will start very cold and frosty countrywide, sleet/snow showers will affect parts of the North-West during the early hours of the morning. Later on during the day, A band of rain will come in from the west, affecting most of the country. Sunday will start mild, but by the evening it will feel cold again, sleet/hail showers affecting the North-West by evening and continuing throughout the night. Monday will start cold, with frost in some parts , then winds will pick up from the west and strenghten during the day, bringjng in milder air. Monday night has the potential to be extremely stormy with damaging winds for the country as a deep low passes by. This will continue into tuesday with gusts up to 180KM/HR. *Confidence is low on the timing/position of this low*.

Tuesday night will see the return of colder air from the North-West, with snow showers affecting the north and west. Wednesday will be cold and frosty in sheltered locations. Possibility of Sleet/snow falling in other parts of the country with accumulations likely on high ground and possible in certain low-level areas. Confidence in outlook for Thursday/Friday is quite low at present, but another big storm is likely to affect some part of the country on one of these days, this could bring more damaging winds too.

In summary, cold start to the week with extremely strong winds possible on several occasions during the week. Snow will fall in parts of the North/North-West with accumulations likely on high ground.





Dan