Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

Wild Bill · 14-04-2012 11:02pm

lostinashford wrote: »

Stop, what do u do for a living, write headlines for the Star - I've nothing to fill in after that description :D:D:D

I don't wish to get banned for back-seat moderation; but we are straying from Thunderstorm/Convective watching!

And 'twill surely annoy the serious modeller/watchers.

(I'd go to the "after hours" forum if I wasn't already banned :rolleyes:)

pauldry · 14-04-2012 11:24pm

your right about annoying the model watchers although Jeans a top model

Tornando9 · 14-04-2012 11:25pm

Here is the chart for around the time the spout was formed. Slightly more shear than the 12Z chart.

lolie · 16-04-2012 1:53pm

Chance of a few sparks tomorrow maybe?

Speak Now · 17-04-2012 1:23pm

Cracking hail shower in Waterford at the moment

Iancar29 · 17-04-2012 1:36pm

Looks... interesting....

Iancar29 · 17-04-2012 2:03pm

Dublin air traffic ... a bit hectic at the moment

Birdnuts · 17-04-2012 2:16pm

Just got hit by the most ferocious hail shower I've seen for a few years in these parts:eek::cool:

Iancar29 · 17-04-2012 2:23pm

Birdnuts wrote: »

Just got hit by the most ferocious hail shower I've seen for a few years in these parts:eek::cool:

I can see some impressive towers going up in that direction

highdef · 17-04-2012 2:56pm

Iancar29 wrote: »

Looks... interesting....

I was just to the south of that intense shower. Got side swiped by it and did notice a distinctive hook on the radar. Video camera is recording all day in order to make a timelapse later so will see later if rotation was visible. I've about 3 hours of hard disc space left....at 30gigs per hour!!!

Super-Rush · 17-04-2012 3:01pm

Decent hail storm down here in carlow followed by a rumble or two. It sounded very weird though.

Iancar29 · 18-04-2012 12:30pm

Looking interesting for the next few days. WE have the Cape.. we have the negative LI ... just not the shear.

Sunday is the day to keep an eye on especially IMO with the whole country in negative LI values , with -3s in places along with some nice 700-800j of cape!

Wind shear is marginal though so hopefully that can improve somewhat on the next run or 2.

Ive been watching this that last few days and its definitely locked onto something.On watching the last few runs roll out it seems the best favoured position to be will be the SE .Storms coming in on the West Coast heading slowly east. So here's my guess for sunday's potential.

lolie · 18-04-2012 2:06pm

Lot of showers pepping up on the radar.
Anyone hear any rumbles? Me dog shaking like a leaf outside.

sunbabe08 · 18-04-2012 2:38pm

no rumbles of thunder, but those passing showers in cork are fairly heavy.

rhonin · 18-04-2012 2:45pm

lolie wrote: »

Lot of showers pepping up on the radar.
Anyone hear any rumbles? Me dog shaking like a leaf outside.

Ah, bring the poor dog in.

Very quite on the shower front here today. Its actually quite pleasant outside.

Deep Easterly · 18-04-2012 2:58pm

Plenty of bubbling cumuli here but still dry with any showers skirting east.

Iancar29 · 18-04-2012 3:17pm

Nice anvil to My NW towards Ashbourne heading my way

.. * Goes gets camera *

Iancar29 · 18-04-2012 3:31pm

MAMMATUS ALERT!

Not · 18-04-2012 3:33pm

Hail and thunder in south Meath atm

18-04-2012 3:42pm

just got a flash of lightnening here , then followed by big loud thunder

Elmer Blooker · 18-04-2012 3:46pm

lovely and sunny here but I heard that distant rumble.

DOCARCH · 18-04-2012 3:46pm

Showing up here http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/

Nice towers/baby Cbs to my north and west. Showers seem to be drifting SSE so hopefully might see some action here!

HungryJoey · 18-04-2012 3:48pm

A few heavey rumbles here in D15.

18-04-2012 3:51pm

oh Jaysus another big flash and a mother of rumbles .

DOCARCH · 18-04-2012 3:52pm

Distant thunder heard here.

MollyZ · 18-04-2012 3:52pm

very loud thunder here in celbridge at the moment - made me jump :eek:

OctavarIan · 18-04-2012 3:53pm

MollyZ wrote: »

very loud thunder here in celbridge at the moment - made me jump :eek:

You could really feel it as well as hear it!

Few flashes of lightning there, one of my lights when a bit flickery.

Hal1 · 18-04-2012 3:54pm

Deep booms of thunder just heard in D22. Jet black sky to my NNW. Bring it on! :cool:

IvySlayer · 18-04-2012 3:55pm

**** me! Saw a huge blue flash here in Lucan and then BOOOM! Very loud thunder!

Deep Easterly · 18-04-2012 3:55pm

Strikes at 3.50pm:

Diageio_Man · 18-04-2012 3:56pm

Just hearing a few claps of thunder here in the d24 area.

OctavarIan · 18-04-2012 3:56pm

Rain falling in Celbridge, less than two seconds between lightning flash and thunder.

18-04-2012 3:56pm

heres another one :0

yeah, this day turning out a lot better weatherwise than I expected:)

whiteandlight · 18-04-2012 3:58pm

Massive hail failing in celbridge!!! Awesome!!

Penname · 18-04-2012 3:59pm

Jake1 wrote: »

heres another one :0

yeah, this day turning out a lot better weatherwise than I expected:)

Distant rumble in North Kildare.

MollyZ · 18-04-2012 3:59pm

This is the most interesting weather we've had here in a long time. Thunder still going and large hail stones falling

Elmer Blooker · 18-04-2012 4:00pm

Yes another one, I can see it to the north, it will take the same track as the first one so those in west Dublin are in luck, nothing for me

18-04-2012 4:02pm

Musicmental85 wrote: »

Massive hail failing in celbridge!!! Awesome!!

same here

Penname · 18-04-2012 4:06pm

My 6 yr old daughter will be disgusted. She's missing all this while she's in ballet. She's a real mini weather enthusiast!

thomasj · 18-04-2012 4:08pm

Thunder in blanchardstown as well.

Lady_North1 · 18-04-2012 4:15pm

Blue sky and sunshine in Swords. Funny how the weather can be so different only a short distance away. lol. Maybe the thunder might come my way.

Please.....

Deep Easterly · 18-04-2012 4:19pm

Lady_North1 wrote: »

Funny how the weather can be so different only a short distance away.

Tell me about it...

DominoDub · 18-04-2012 4:28pm

Great mix of Colours when you zoom in on Celbridge on http://www.raintoday.co.uk/#

Iancar29 · 18-04-2012 4:49pm

Got 2 rumbles on video, some mammatus and some nice structure shots. Shall post this evening after college.

mickger844posts · 18-04-2012 4:55pm

Loud clap of thunder and a flash of Lightning here in Waterford City about 20 mins ago. The main cell stayed to our North unfortunately.

Deep Easterly · 18-04-2012 5:07pm

Latest sferics:

Seems to be a high concentration over mid Munster region over the last 30 mins. Mick's strike in Waterford showing up to.

Joe Public · 18-04-2012 5:24pm

I counted 6 or 7 loud thunder claps before I did this video of the hail storm. The lightning each time seemed to be sheet type or maybe I was looking in the wrong direction. The gap between lightning and thunder each time was less than 3 seconds so it was definitely very close.

Heavy hail in Celbridge

http://youtu.be/MUlkJ0ygr0Q

blackius · 18-04-2012 6:20pm

Am sw of arklow at the moment-sky is amazing with mamatus. Can hear distant thunder away to the west.
Can see the anvil of another cell over lugnaquilla to the northheading directly for here.The breeze is directly off the anvil.
Could be here in 40 mins or less.It looks big and I've heard some very faint long rumbles from it already.

lolie · 18-04-2012 6:37pm

blackius wrote: »

Am sw of arklow at the moment-sky is amazing with mamatus. Can hear distant thunder away to the west.
Can see the anvil of another cell over lugnaquilla to the northheading directly for here.The breeze is directly off the anvil.
Could be here in 40 mins or less.It looks big and I've heard some very faint long rumbles from it already.

Get the camera out fairly lively so

blackius · 18-04-2012 6:45pm

Its a dying cell,looks very washed out as it nears.It's veered sw aswell. It's cloudspill is covering a very large area.
Just aswell the ground here is slop still after yesterday's showers.

Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

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