I’ve seen her in real life. In the RTÉ canteen as it happens and I can confirm that she is beautiful
Lie in. Are you nuts ?
According to Boards.ie it is ice pellets.
I went outside (south Dublin) to see and that appears a reasonable description.
Tbh I’ve never been interested in snow before as it usually just dumped down where I was and frozen but the Irish context is always interesting.
RTE really going dramatic sending ‘Fran’ out onto a main road. He’s standing on the fucking footpath beside the gate into Montrose on the N11 
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BBC Four show on the 1963 Big Freeze now.
Graupel
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This is a non event. I called it the other day and was abused.
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That’s a lovely term.
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I won’t even ask the difference between ice pellets and rain. We can just settle on saying its raining slush.
Need the LSE to close as well mate and the rest of Europe
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You did call it and you were abused, but your stock on TFK has dramatically risen as a consequence.
It’s graupel apparently cc @TheUlteriorMotive . It looks a bit like rain as it’s fine but it is definitely frozen and it is accumulating.
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‘We’ve done roughly 27% of the roads in Cork City, which is probably more than any other county’
If ever a statement defined a fucking Cork man
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I actually thought it was a nice striped jacked/open striped shirt combo.
Graupel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁaʊpəl]; English: /ˈɡraʊpəl/), also called soft hail or snow pellets,[1] is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of rime. The term graupel comes from the German language.
I’m sticking with slush
Cllr Harvey here from Tullamore is like a man who spent a bit of time in the pub today.
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This lad in Tullamore sounds under severe pressure to construct a sentence.
The Crown in Cricklewood look.
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‘The schools being out is a big help as it saves us a load of salt’
Now a Dairy Farmer dialing in over Skype 
Gents, here is my updated snow projections.
County by county estimates of further snowfalls (on top of what is on the ground now) …
_Wicklow, Kildare 40 to 70 cm _
Wexford … 30 to 60 cm
Dublin … 25 to 50 cm
Meath … 20 to 40 cm
Louth … 10 to 25 cm
eastern half NI … 5 to 10 cm
Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois … 30 to 60 cm
Cork … 20 to 50 cm
Kerry … 5 to 30 cm
Limerick, Tipps, Clare … 15 to 45 cm (generally heavier south)
Offaly, Westmeath, Longford, Roscommon, Galway … 20 to 40 cm (generally heavier south Roscommon and east Galway)
Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan, Monaghan … 2 to 15 cm (15 more likely east and south)
Donegal … 0 to 10 cm (higher amounts may be in sea effect bands northwest coast)
western Northern Ireland … 2 to 15 cm (higher amounts towards south central NI)
The ranges are large and maximum amounts will be on southeast facing slopes, in some cases a range north to south, this applies more to the northern counties, for Cork and Kerry a reduction in totals near sea level. Some of the other county variations more due to elevation than exposure to any particular direction, and of course a random factor always present with banding caused by upper level dynamics sometimes unrelated to the surface.
Could see 70 to 120 cm on top of higher summits. These estimates are for elevations where people are going to experience them.
Please make sure you credit me if posted elsewhere.
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