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Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

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  • #252
    pauldry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,175 ✭✭✭pauldry


    well this is the best i can do i cant make the photo appear in the post like you guys


  • #253
    FunkSoulSista
    Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭FunkSoulSista


    FunkSoulSista wrote: »
    Might there have been a couple of flashes over my way just there? Half asleep so could well be wrong!

    My hubbe just told me his phone flashes when alarm goes off.....


    *quietly exits the weather forum*


  • #254
    Jim_Kiy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭Jim_Kiy


    darkman2 wrote: »
    A cookie if you can spot the lightning on that video at 1:01. Impressive cell development.

    well spotted folks ..,,but for all the cloud development why did'nt these clouds produce more than they did and why did many parts of the UK get much more severe storms..bigger hail.more strikes etc ....are we just plain unlucky or lucky depending on your view of severe weather.


  • #255
    Hal1
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    pauldry wrote: »
    Some nasty showers today in Leitrim ill try n get one picture up if i can

    Ah, you can hang on to your pics of Leitrim :pac:.


  • #256
    Harps
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    Jim_Kiy wrote: »
    well spotted folks ..,,but for all the cloud development why did'nt these clouds produce more than they did and why did many parts of the UK get much more severe storms..bigger hail.more strikes etc ....are we just plain unlucky or lucky depending on your view of severe weather.

    Down to the geography of the two I'd guess, there's a longer land track from north to south in Britain so storms have longer to build and there's more mountains in the north to act as a lifting mechanism. If you watched the radar earlier showers were developing just south of the Pennines then intensifying the further south they went.


  • #257
    blackius
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    Almighty downpour here now south of arklow.
    Very loud,a lot of hail,its been ongoing for the last half hour with no let up.
    So loud I was expecting thunder but none yet.


  • #258
    highdef
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    I see that - looks nasty. I wonder how that has developed. has me intrigued. Radar is also showing very intense echoes in the midlands although it appears completely stationary so I would guess the radar returns are a reflection of your precipitation or else the midlands are getting a right soaking!!!


  • #259
    Speak Now
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    South Wicklow/North Wexford looks like the got a right deluge in the early hours of this morning! Drifting off into the Irish sea now.

    WEB_radar2_201204130815.png


  • #260
    blackius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭blackius


    gosh that "shower" lasted 5hrs ,theres a flood here,peaked at 120mm/hr and dropped 18mm here:eek:.
    I wasn't amused when the eagle on the radio this morning said there weren't many showers about this morning and that the heavy ones would really get going in the afternoon.


  • #261
    blackius
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    highdef wrote: »
    I see that - looks nasty. I wonder how that has developed. has me intrigued. Radar is also showing very intense echoes in the midlands although it appears completely stationary so I would guess the radar returns are a reflection of your precipitation or else the midlands are getting a right soaking!!!
    I saw the earlier met.ie radar images,it seems to have exploded in the early hours over the high ground near lugnaquilla and kept growing and really grew when it hit water becoming slow moving and growing even stronger on the coast as if it needed a drink.
    It looks like a shallow low may have developed.
    I'd have to go back to the house to check pressure readings.


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  • #262
    DOCARCH
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    A few strikes this morning from that 'shower' over south Wicklow/Wexford. http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/


  • #263
    blackius
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    DOCARCH wrote: »
    A few strikes this morning from that 'shower' over south Wicklow/Wexford. http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/
    now that doesn't surprise me.
    I have blackout curtains but didn't hear anything other than the roar of the rain.
    It's still raining down here by the way very lightly - it never stopped. So its been raining now a solid 8hrs in ark low.
    If that happened up the road in Dublin, met eireann would be making more of
    "to do" about it!
    Just my smartphone lately so not as easy to look at things in more detail.


  • #264
    Iancar29
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    Just watched that shower back on the radar from 4 am . REALLY interesting how it started just over the wicklow mountains, probably due to upward forcing?

    Then it spread out south and east And now looks like to be heading into wales as a small squall line maybe?

    Anyways those showers in the Irish sea heading this way better hurry up as i'm in work at 5!! ... :(


  • #265
    DOCARCH
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    blackius wrote: »
    now that doesn't surprise me.
    I have blackout curtains.........

    WW2 ended in 1945, you can get rid of those now! :D


  • #266
    DOCARCH
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Anyways those showers in the Irish sea heading this way better hurry up as i'm in work at 5!! ... :(

    Nothing moving very fast out there! Have to keep an eye on home grown showers.

    From clear skies here about an hour ago, cumulus clouds really getting going/bubbling now. Starting to see a few specks dotted around the place now on radar.


  • #267
    Min
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    The western hills of Kilkenny got some heavy showers earlier this morning, luckily missed us but it look look pretty wet over towards Ballyragget to Freshford to Tullaroan.


  • #268
    Redsunset
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    Not a bad view of why Black experienced his prolonged downpour earlier this morning.

    LOC_20120413_0900.png


  • #269
    Deep Easterly
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    blackius wrote: »
    gosh that "shower" lasted 5hrs ,theres a flood here,peaked at 120mm/hr and dropped 18mm here:eek:.

    That is what I call a shower! met.ie radar animation from this morning:

    radar13thapril2012_1.gif

    Really developed over south Wicklow alright as shallow low moved in.


  • #270
    tylercollins
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    Hail stoning here for the last 15 minutes.. car/ground etc is white!


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  • #271
    Iancar29
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    tylercollins wrote: »
    Hail stoning here for the last 15 minutes.. car/ground etc is white!

    Any mammatus?... Photos? :)


  • #272
    Iancar29
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    Next Tuesday is looking like the next decent chance of good convection for most of us

    I know a decent time away for thing's to change, more especially so with it being a low pressure system, and the angle/position will most likely change no doubt but here it is.

    0bdCK.png


  • #273
    DOCARCH
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    Looking at the radar there must be a few spots in Waterford and Cork getting a duluge! Heavy showers down there not going anywhere.


  • #274
    John2009
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    Clip of a nice hail shower that passed over me at 3:30pm, hail the size of peas, kept the dog amuzed as they bounced in the back door :)

    Taken with a HTC Desire HD


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxvD-m2dd2I


  • #275
    gbee
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    DOCARCH wrote: »
    and Cork getting a duluge! Heavy showers down there not going anywhere.

    Though hail already reported for Cork City, just five miles away in Blackrock, just a little rain. :pac:


  • #276
    MiNdGaM3
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    Can confirm that, a small hail shower in Cork city about an hour ago.


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  • #277
    sunbabe08
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    a downpour of hail around half 3 in cork city, got caught in it :rolleyes: fun to look at, not so much when your in it. lashing now as i type


  • #278
    Deep Easterly
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    Am watching some showers clouds really building to my north over the last 30 mins or so. Anvil formed around 20 mins ago and is spreading our rapidly. Latest radar has it over Roscommon but no fallstreaks from this particular cell as of yet.

    Edit: Anvil decaying as rapidly as it formed but another small cell seems to be bubbling up ahead of it.

    Edit again: Strike in Pangea country in the last 15 mins:

    200336.png


    Sky looking north from Tuam. Little cells popping up and have since merged. Some small hail here now from from the black cloud above:

    200337.png


  • #279
    Pangea
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    Some seriously apocalyptic type clouds to my east.
    Didn't see a strike, but wasn't looking out for long.

    Look at these beast of showers around Bundoran :eek:

    http://i.imgur.com/wh1HM.jpg


  • #280
    Pangea
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    Looks like this might be a product of that mega shower in Bundoran
    http://www.donegaldaily.com/2012/04/13/wacky-weather-donegal-hit-by-massive-hailstorms/


  • #281
    DOCARCH
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    For anybody up early enough. Like me. :) Looks like little cell has developed over the Irish Sea and has just arrived on the coast of south Dublin. Producing a few sparks. http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/


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  • #282
    patneve2
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    Woken up by really heavy hail, crazy shower :eek: (Dalkey)
    Sleet mixed in too


  • #283
    DOCARCH
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    patneve2 wrote: »
    Woken up by really heavy hail, crazy shower :eek: (Dalkey)
    Sleet mixed in too

    When I saw you online I thought you were the perfect recipient for that shower! :) Any thunder?

    Just heard distant runble of thunder here.


  • #284
    patneve2
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    Yeah, nice rumbles

    Moderate rain now


  • #285
    DUBACC
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    Lots of hail here in South Dublin (Shankill). 3 or 4 flashes of lightning and big claps of thunder.


  • #286
    DOCARCH
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    Can hear more distant thunder now. Looks like shower is not going to reach here. Can see the dark cloud to my east and south east but can can see bright skies to the north east - looks like shower is getting pushed south as it makes landfall.


  • #287
    ktulu123
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    Lots of hail in Kilmacanogue & the thunder sounds like its overhead its so loud!


  • #288
    Mothman
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    All passed inland of me but about 20 rumbles heard, nearest about 2 miles away. Sun shining here, but black inland!

    Centre has moved SW of me.

    Another shower making landfall at Arklow


  • #289
    arctictree
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    Was thunder hail here about 30 minutes ago. Huge explosion, all power gone. +2.0c


  • #290
    sunbabe08
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    wow, that developed rather nicely over the last 3 hours. lucky ducks


  • #291
    blackius
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    Mothman wrote: »
    All passed inland of me but about 20 rumbles heard, nearest about 2 miles away. Sun shining here, but black inland!

    Centre has moved SW of me.

    Another shower making landfall at Arklow
    We have both now..
    Action overhead, to the west and east.
    Someone please hold me :D


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  • #292
    DOCARCH
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    Thought it wouldn't be long before it got to you BB! :)


  • #293
    Wild Bill
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    I heard the thunder; nothing here though. :(


  • #294
    DOCARCH
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    I heard the thunder; nothing here though. :(

    Ditto here. Heard a couple of rumbles but no cigar!

    Just had a light hail shower.


  • #295
    Ste.phen
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    Saw this in my Facebook feed, I make no claims as to its authenticity though:
    https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292292_10151476122690324_701440323_23223658_1869638783_n.jpg

    Captioned as 'Tornando in bray this morning' - posted about an hour ago


  • #296
    Richard Hillman
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    Ste.phen wrote: »
    Saw this in my Facebook feed, I make no claims as to its authenticity though:
    https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292292_10151476122690324_701440323_23223658_1869638783_n.jpg

    Captioned as 'Tornando in bray this morning' - posted about an hour ago

    There's a video of it near Bray seafront on youtube. I'm on my phone so can't post it.


  • #297
    jd
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    Here ya go..


  • #298
    sunbabe08
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    :eek: ohhh sweet.


  • #299
    BEASTERLY
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    Thunder in Wexford! Long and loud!


  • #300
    Wild Bill
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    Heck! - thunder, lightening, twisters, 2cm hail.....meanwhile three or four miles north.....

    IMG_1246-001.jpg

    ;)


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  • #301
    Wild Bill
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    I'd estimate contact with the water to be about 100 - 200m diameter. Anyone any idea of the likely wind speed involved at the surface?

    - hard to tell from the video but it looks like it might have passed across the DART line (which is literally on the shore at that point).


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