{"id":684528,"date":"2026-01-09T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684528\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:15:15","slug":"met-office-issues-snow-and-ice-warning-for-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684528\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Office issues snow and ice warning for Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g5pg473z0o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snowiest areas are its mountains,<\/a> \u2013 Sperrins, Antrim Plateau, and Mournes \u2013 while coastal areas get very little snow in most years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Snowfall increases with altitude so higher and more northerly areas tend to get more snow during the winter months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mountains can have over 35 days a year with sleet or snow falling, and over 30 days with snow lying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coastal and low-lying areas \u2013 especially near sea level \u2013 get little snow, usually fewer than 5 days a year with lying snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While snowfall varies hugely year to year, exceptional winters like 1962\/63 and 1981\/82 brought deep, long lasting snow event to coastal areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland&#8217;s snowiest areas are its mountains, \u2013 Sperrins, Antrim Plateau, and Mournes \u2013 while coastal areas get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865329617112570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}