Thunderstorms

Wertz

Well whatever was coming failed to materialise. I went out for a drive and while it rained there was little or no thunder. Could see it clearing out into dundalk bay.

The radar is showing a hook type affair going on on the donegal/tyrone border right now. Lots of red.

Cornilius

Judgying from the metoffice radar there seems to be a downpour occuring in central parts of the north!

drdre

Cornilius wrote:

Judgying from the metoffice radar there seems to be a downpour occuring in central parts of the north!

, I hate rain

Hal1

Looking at the isle of wight radar its showing alot of activity atm mostly northern france and parts of bruxeles. Almost 2,500 strikes per hour. :eek:

SpitfireIV

We had a good rap of thunder here in Carlow town, followed by a good heavy shower of hail which lasted 7/8mins about 30mins back.

Mothman

First thunder of year. at 17.35

In fact I saw the flash out corner of my eye. The thunder followed about 6 secs later, so not far away.

Hail as well. Main part of shower to my north.

Nordie

Its thundery and pelting down hailstones in Dublin 15 right now:eek:

Snowbie

Some angry looking clouds around,watching that shower over Blanch area about to hit here or side swipe.No sferics as yet.

Nordie

Sun is shining now

Snowbie

Low to moderate CAPE and negative LI forecast for Saturday,however i think this will increase to more moderate(cape) levels by saturday.I dont think widespread TS but will be hefty showers about with the odd isolated weak storm.

If certain conditions on Thursday where ideal for storms with the high temps and humidity,the midlands,south and east would have been blitzed with storms drifting across the country.Ah well one can only dream.

Mothman

14z
Thunder at Belmullet

Snowbie

2 supercells over Spain and a third maturing just to the north of them.
Madrid be in the clear slot between the three.

The two supercells would be half the size of Ireland.:eek:
Disturbed over N.Africa too.

rc28

Snowbie wrote:

2 supercells over Spain and a third maturing just to the north of them.
Madrid be in the clear slot between the three.

The two supercells would be half the size of Ireland.:eek:
Disturbed over N.Africa too.

Estofex have a level2 warning out corresponding to those storms. I like the well defined look of the ones over southern France too.
http://estofex.org/cgi-bin/polygon/showforecast.cgi?text=yes&fcstfile=2007052306_200705220351_2_stormforecast.xml

Snowbie

Yup,tiny in comparison(french) but could be a severe cell in itself.You cant beat the homegrown cells especially when the sky is clear all around the TS,makes for a good sight on the ground from a distance.

Snowbie

A massive MCS(multi cellular storms) over northern France still maturing.
This is the size of Ireland.:eek: :eek:
Spain a couple of days ago,now France,there getting closer to us:D :rolleyes: if only.

rc28

Wow, that is a stunning looking storm.
It shows up well on the radar too:
http://meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur

Danno

Very impressive, like something you'd expect to see in sat images over Brazil - NOT France! :eek:

rc28

There's a news report about the severe multi cell storms over France and Spain over the last few days which has caused floding and crop damage:
http://euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=424331&lng=1

rc28

Sort of off-topic but there's some stunning radar and sat pics of that "perfect" low over nw france:
http://saturn.unibe.ch/rsbern/noaa/dw/realtime/current/n1bcurr.jpg

Mothman

Heard thunder a few minutes ago.
There's a thunderstorm off the Wicklow coast.

Trogdor

Was studying in bed completely unaware of the explosive convection just East of here until my dad told me, off the coast it seems to stretch all along the coast and is the some the best convection i've ever seen. I wouldn't be suprised if i started to here thunder pretty soon:D

Trogdor

I'm heading down to the seafront now to get a better look, there's one just south of me that's a real monster. Will report back soon:)

Snowbie

Explosive convection off shore alright and its tryin over land too.

Trogdor

Yeh, i see some towers starting to go up over the mountains now, have some great pics, will upload soon.

ninebeanrows

Thunder ahoy! Off to watch these vicious clouds! a few load rumbles:D

Snowbie

Just came throught the city centre in the mother of all downpours and hail storm.Only one crack of thunder to be heard but i was actually on my way home away from the shower.Bone dry here when i got back but at least land convection is happening.Detector is on and will be left on throughtout.
Lots more to come i hope.

That shower is heading straight for you Trogdor and maybe Mothman.

Trogdor

Snowbie wrote:

Just came throught the city centre in the mother of all downpours and hail storm.Only one crack of thunder to be heard but i was actually on my way home away from the shower.Bone dry here when i got back but at least land convection is happening.Detector is on and will be left on throughtout.
Lots more to come i hope.

That shower is heading straight for you Trogdor and maybe Mothman.

Nothing here at all, skies are actually the leaest that they've been all day, yet the radar shows it right on top of me:p:rolleyes: . Looks like there could be anvil just coming into view to my North-West though, hopefully:D

arctictree

Just had a heavy shower here - temp dropped to 5.2c

darkman2

Big Anvil developing to my Northwest but will probrably miss me. There was a TS at Dublin Airport at 11am this morning. The real convergance zone looks to be County Wicklow.

Snowbie

Alot of strikes now dead over wexford area and another batch breaking out over N leinster moving sothwards.Land convection is more potent up in N midlands which is good news for Dublin.Anvils everywhere in north direction