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SURE, IT HAPPENS every year – but the first snow of winter (no matter how insignificant) always elicits a flurry of interest.
We’ve had the odd, isolated wintry shower in some areas recently, but this morning’s showers hit just as rush hour was coming to an end, and affected much of the east of the country, as well as the Midlands.
In case you were wondering, the forecast for the rest of the day isn’t great either, and there are further warnings of hail and sleet. Expect to see snow cover on the tops of mountains by sunset tonight, Met Éireann says in its latest forecast.
CoalMerchantsDublin / TwitterThe Largest, Fluffiest Snowflakes falling gently over #Dublin Today ❄️⛄️#StayWarmStaySafe🔥#Snow #Sneachta#Snow2016 pic.twitter.com/RCJffckODB
— Robert Hudson🔥 (@CrumlinFuels) November 17, 2016
Riverdance / Twitter#Snow is falling all around us here in #Dublin #novelty pic.twitter.com/n7s35aZTZP
— Riverdance (@Riverdance) November 17, 2016
The wintry showers added to misery on the nation’s roads first thing (as if the heavy rain wasn’t already enough to deal with).
And at offices, homes (and farms) around the country, people have been taking to social media to share their photos and videos of the sleet and snow.
Proof that winter is here… Sure, we were expecting it – but that doesn’t mean we can’t complain a little.
Dublin Airport / TwitterThere’s snow @DublinAirport Wrap up well. #snowindublin pic.twitter.com/ih2nGR2fpR
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) November 17, 2016
Philip Bromwell / TwitterDusting of snow on the Dublin Mountains pic.twitter.com/e93EZNQo4Z
— Philip Bromwell (@philipbromwell) November 17, 2016
Stephen Adam / TwitterSnow on the M50 and traffic at a standstill on both sides. Happy Thursday. @aaroadwatch #Dublin pic.twitter.com/w4hZBOJeIU
— Stephen Adam (@Shaazaadam) November 17, 2016
David Clarke / TwitterLoading #spring calving heifers in the #snow in #mullingar for a #dairy #farmer in #monaghan pic.twitter.com/bCc02Q9gRe
— David Clarke (@DavidClivestock) November 17, 2016
The wintry conditions struck a little earlier across the water – this was the scene on on Middleham Moor, North Yorkshire, last week as snowfall made travel difficult across parts of the UK.
The falls here this morning weren’t quite so picturesque, as one or two people observed:
Dublin Jock⭐️ / TwitterPiss off snow.
— Dublin Jock⭐️ (@DublinJock) November 17, 2016
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Snow news day?
I’ll get me coat!
@Les Behan: Don’t go Les…..
That was a good un.
“Don’t make unnecessary journeys, don’t take risks on treacherous roads.”
Especially true if the driver behind you is taking pictures on motorway
Anyone stupid enough to tweet a pic from the driver seat of a car should be banned immediately
What if they’re parked?
It’s snowing … I should post a picture so everyone knows.
#snow #nofilter #nolife
Oh ffs !
Oh look! The easily impressed,snowflake generation,are very excited by a few snowflakes, in november,in Ireland.Well i never….
Oh you sweet summer child. Prepare yourself because winter is coming
Stephen Adams put the phone down and concentrate on the road and what’s around you, even when stopped.
Ah come on.. Before social media this would have been a non event, just the start of winter.. Now apparently a bit of sleet is newsworthy and a main headline on a news site..
How is Martian king going to exsplain this eh eh bit a white stuff falling down from the sky, cause by I don’t really know, but it’s ok,
Martin King is one of the most respected meteorologists in the country, right after Alan Hughes. If he can’t explain it, nobody can.
The Martian King doesn’t exist. He is just a false flag planted to take the focus off the lizard people and the Venutians, who use Flouride and chemtrails to keep us making CO2, which they need to breathe, in order to have a habitable planet when they wipe us out at the rapture. It all makes sense.
“Proof that winter is here”……”the first winter snow”…….IT’S AUTUMN!!!! You learn the seasons when you are in baby infants!
When I was in school we were taught November, December and January were Winter. Plus, what kind of season? Meteorological winter, astronomical winter, traditional winter. There are lots of different types of seasons.
Sounds like you had poor teachers. Regardless the measures you choose none start in November.
Actually, the traditional seasons, used in Ireland for centuries, and as reflected in the Irish language, had November as the first month of Winter. The Irish for October is Deireadh Fómhair, or literally translated into English as Autumn’s End. In Manx Gaelic, who used the same traditional calendar, January is Jerrey Geuree which literally translates as Winter’s End. It’s not about poor teachers. It’s about the type of season you choose to use.
It’s Autumn not winter! Do people not know the seasons??? ‘First snow of winter’…….’proof winter is here’
You journos have a real iHorn.
Not every smartphone is an Apple you know.
“Snow in November!!! That’s unheard of. I better grab my phone for some pictures nobody will give a bollox about.”
It begins
Should license plates not be blurred?
I was a spit
Never a swallow?
It
Snow joke!! Not a single flake fell in costa del cork, just heavy cold showers that would soak you…
See what the weather is like by the 1st and 12th December?
I bet Mrs Mac Shite has one ….
@Nucky: No…..
She has an Alfa Romeo.
Leaves on the trees by mid November is a bad sign for snow but snow before Christmas means nearly no snow after Xmas, so who knows?
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