Thunderstorms

Rain rate 88.6mm/hr now

massive flood outside.
Dark as night.

edit make that 110.7mm/hr!!!!

ninebeanrows

Tristrame wrote:

Rain rate 88.6mm/hr now

massive flood outside.
Dark as night.

edit make that 110.7mm/hr!!!!

Wahoooo must of intensified when it struck land.

Supercell

Spot on Tristrame, just heard the first distant rumble of thunder, rain rate increasing slowly now at 4.6mm/hr and rising.

rc28

Is snowbie's detector broken, it's not picking any of that up??

Trogdor

Tristrame wrote:

Rain rate 88.6mm/hr now

massive flood outside.
Dark as night.

edit make that 110.7mm/hr!!!!

Looks like it's missing me:mad: :mad: , just moderate rain here with nothing else of note

Supercell

Tristrame wrote:

Rain rate 88.6mm/hr now

massive flood outside.
Dark as night.

edit make that 110.7mm/hr!!!!

Wow thats a proper deluge..!, sounds great..hope its coming here too

Supercell

Have set my site to update at 5 mins intervals at least until (hopefully) I have to turn off the pc and jump up and down in excitement

ninebeanrows

Bit of a squall line kind of forming on the latest radar with a very abrupt end to the torrential rain..

Could infact intensify as it moves northwards..

Interesting is the word, take care all.

Supercell

Rain rate now 12.4 and increasing...come to papa!!

rc28

Just went outside and wow does it feel like the cliche of a storm coming!- really very windy and some lovely dark skies to my east. What direction are the showers moving? The wind apears to be blowing directly from the east here?

rc28

On snowbies detector, what do all the small red dots mean?

Supercell

Its raining cats and dogs!! 17mm/hr and lightening spotted...whoohhoo!!

homosapien

There is a strange calm here after very intense rainfall earlier..first time I have heard the birds chirping in quite a few hours!! it looks like that "clump" is hitting Dublin area now, coming in off the Irish Sea..Wicklow and Dublin may see a lot more rain...and fireworks.. before night descends..

rc28

Some proper heavy rain falling here now with big drops. But there's nothing on the radar over me?

ninebeanrows

Yes up here we seem to have gotten a pre-splash with the intense and electrified activity along a line moving into Wicklow, South Dublin now.

homosapien

rc28 wrote:

Some proper heavy rain falling here now with big drops. But there's nothing on the radar over me?

phantom rain RC??

Trogdor

Heavier bouts of rain now and i think i may have just heard a low rumble to the West but that could have just as easily been the dart:rolleyes:

Snowbie

rc28 wrote:

On snowbies detector, what do all the small red dots mean?

There past strikes the brighter the dot(yellow to red) means a strike fading in time.

The mountains sponge the signal coming from the south,out of my hands.It will take a severe enough storm say over wicklow/wexford for it to appear on my display,it will not detect the weaker signals,any other direction is no problem.

rc28

Lol, well the phantom rain just got heavier and is at times verging on a downpour but I would still call it very very heavy but those drops are huge-almost sounds like soft hail hitting the velux.

rc28

Lol, well the phantom rain just got heavier and is at times verging on a downpour but I would still call it very very heavy but those drops are huge-almost sounds like soft hail hitting the velux.

Trogdor

Massive flash and long drawn out rumbling to my west.....yay:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Supercell

Up to 50mm/hr at times here now and plenty of thunder rumbles , not overhead here though. Maybe Mothman or Artictree getting the really heavy stuff?

Is very dark outside now, more like 11pm at this time of year then 7:30.

Fun stuff.

rain rate still 20.6mm/h

massive flood outside.

18mm rain since about 6pm and rising

Powercuts all over the shop down here.
Ours went out and came back, my brother 2 miles over the road has none.

No thunder here for the last 20 mins or so.

Snowbie

Moderate rain not heavy yet.6.6mm/hr.No rumbles no flashes nada.

Trogdor

seems to have been just the one flash here. Rain rate up to 9.9mm/hr.

Hal1

Listening to the forecast on the drive home, could swear they mentioned thundery downpours , my firefox wiget is showing a lightining bolt for tomorrow.

mothman must have got the works aswell,I see a red off and over east wicklow

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

Supercell

Absolutely pissing steadily now, averaging around 30-40mm/hr with bursts much heavier.
Rivers of water outside, glad I live in a hilly area, going to be floods tonight for sure in some places.

Supercell

Tristrame wrote:

mothman must have got the works aswell,I see a red off and over east wicklow

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

Yep, looks like it may be even heavier closer to the coast, are you still getting battered?

SpitfireIV

Thundery downpour here in Carlow town :eek: I was in the shed under a galvanised roof, so couldnt tell if there were rumbles of thunder.