Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

blackbird99 · 12-04-2012 4:09pm

hail shower 3.00 on galtee mountains http://www.flickr.com/photos/77139286@N02/7070891909/

Iancar29 · 12-04-2012 4:39pm

Wild Bill wrote: »

Taken from Blackrock about 3.30pm......

Untweaked version.....

Not really sure which I prefer - the bottom one is what it actually looked like!

My Tweaked version of your shot...

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sunbabe08 · 12-04-2012 5:21pm

alll the lighting strikes over in england

Iancar29 · 12-04-2012 5:48pm

sunbabe08 wrote: »

alll the lighting strikes over in england

Ye , small MCS has formed just south of london, one of my friends over there is chasing it! ha

Apparently theres a nice shelf cloud along the front edge! :mad:

Wild Bill · 12-04-2012 6:39pm

Bugger all here today; some nice sunshine and lots of (dry) cloud. Cool out of the sun.

No wind.

Were it not for the sun this would be an April Mehday.

Iancar29 · 12-04-2012 8:57pm

Great Mammatus Display From England!! , photos from a Member over on Net Weather.

http://forum.netweather.tv/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=133093

Jim_Kiy · 12-04-2012 9:24pm

Damm I wish I was not working this week ..was'nt much action here..great pics from everyone..no pics of my own but enjoyed this video ..a bomb:eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOzhcJzgfY

darkman2 · 12-04-2012 10:11pm

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

sunbabe08 · 12-04-2012 10:44pm

darkman2 wrote: »

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

saw it:D spent the rest of the video looking for more.:o

pauldry · 12-04-2012 11:07pm

Some nasty showers today in Leitrim ill try n get one picture up if i can

pauldry · 12-04-2012 11:11pm

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

FunkSoulSista · 12-04-2012 11:18pm

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*

Jim_Kiy · 12-04-2012 11:38pm

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.

Hal1 · 13-04-2012 12:29am

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:.

Harps · 13-04-2012 12:49am

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.

blackius · 13-04-2012 4:42am

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.

highdef · 13-04-2012 6:06am

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!!!

Speak Now · 13-04-2012 8:38am

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.

blackius · 13-04-2012 8:48am

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.

blackius · 13-04-2012 8:55am

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.

DOCARCH · 13-04-2012 9:50am

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

blackius · 13-04-2012 10:46am

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.

Iancar29 · 13-04-2012 10:53am

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!! ...

DOCARCH · 13-04-2012 11:08am

blackius wrote: »

now that doesn't surprise me.
I have blackout curtains.........

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

DOCARCH · 13-04-2012 11:14am

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.

Min · 13-04-2012 11:41am

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.