Thunderstorms

lucernarian

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn6011.png
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn7811.png

Both are suggesting some possible thunderstorms, but nothing extreme to be found. The temperatures are better for convection on Saturday, but Sunday's CAPE chart is quite good for northern areas.

Precipitation is forecasted to be quite high for Saturday: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn604.png

Snowbie

Tomorrow saturday has been played down a bit with more general widespread rain.
For Sunday cape however increases slightly in a unstable NW airstream containing troughs.Not even moderate levels of cape but lift has decreased negative.Some widespread heavy showers about with the chance of thunder.Risk moves east in the afternoon.Dewpoints around 12c to 14c.

Snowbie

Two cells over munster atm getting stronger,pushing ENE

Edit:There getting surprisingly stronger.

ninebeanrows

Yes you can see the cells associated on the 5pm Vis sat pic

Wertz

WTF? It's like the monsoon in the north east again today....not looking like letting up anytime soon.
Any electricity in this lot?

[edit] holy sh*t....look at the srikes on snowbies detector

bucks73

Plenty of lightening and thunder over Limerick city. Been this way for nearly an hour now as its disrupting my sky and cant watch the footie.

Snowbie

Being picking up that lightning down there for over an hour now.It seems to be strong.Nothing up there Wertz.

www.irlweather.com

ninebeanrows

Were just in some general rain here,

Storms are tracking NE in a line from Limerick ---> Dublin

Should reach Dublin within 1or2 hours

bushy...

Lots of sparks in Limerick atm , couple per minute at one stage . Nearby ish too , did that count the delay thing didn't get to 1 a few times

Snowbie

Weathercheck wrote:

Were just in some general rain here,

Storms are tracking NE in a line from Limerick ---> Dublin

Should reach Dublin within 1or2 hours

Suspect i think.Might just move north of here WC,unless more break out.Watch this space as usual.:rolleyes:

ninebeanrows

Snowbie wrote:

Being picking up that lightning down there for over an hour now.It seems to be strong.Nothing up there Wertz.

www.irlweather.com

Yep being watching it, looks to be doing a good job.

Its coming this way too, if it survives

lastes vis sat shows it well

Trogdor

Too far South:(, i'll just have to wait for the reports further North, are these the most active storms in a while Snowbie? When i was away there were a good few i think, were they as good as these?

Wertz

I'm definitely seeing them headed north of Dublin....of course by the time they reach here, there'll be more juice in an AA battery...

Snowbie

trogdor wrote:

Too far South:(, i'll just have to wait for the reports further North, are these the most active storms in a while Snowbie? When i was away there were a good few i think, were they as good as these?

bank holiday Monday was a good show for Dublin but what im tracking here is textbook Thunderstorms.They are surviving pretty well in fact the last Intracloud strike there a second ago was enough to distort my screen here.

ninebeanrows

Seems to be dying according to the lightning detector in the last few minutes

Trogdor

New strikes ar further South:D:D, it just needs to keep edging that way...

Trogdor

It looks like it's developed into more of a band/squall on the latest Sat image now, clearing the cloud away in fornt of it.
18:15
http://www.brayweather.com/images/sat/sat%2018-15%2011-8-07.jpg

Snowbie

Weathercheck wrote:

Seems to be dying according to the lightning detector in the last few minutes

It will do that and pick back up again lightning that is.As the clouds are positively charged and looking at the sat,cloud tops are high,seems as if it will intensify again.I hope.
On my site check out the map/capture and will show the graph.Go from that.

Trogdor

The front seems to be dying while the back reforms to hit the same areas again though:(

force eleven

Heavy Rain, and thunder now here near Moate,been like this on and off today, very dark and gloomy-

Snowbie

trogdor wrote:

The front seems to be dying while the back reforms to hit the same areas again though:(

Yes trogdor,i noticed that.Ah well good while it lasted.Clouds must be super charged over there though.Cant see it moving that much futher east and maintaining tbh.:(

Takeshi_Kovacs

Looks like the area around Athlone an places is getting a battering at the mo, according to Snowbies lightning detector

force eleven

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote:

Looks like the area around Athlone an places is getting a battering at the mo, according to Snowbies lightning detector

I'll vouch for that its still rumbling around here and its very gloomy.

Darwin

Big rumble of thunder in Mountrath just now, gloomy to say the least

Trogdor

Rebuilding over Northern Kildare?

aidan_dunne

Dark and gloomy with incredibly heavy rain just started here in Portlaoise right now. Wonder will anything electric develop from this at all?

aidan_dunne

Yep, sure enough, just had a couple of long, lingering rumbles. Logging off now, folks!

Darwin

About 10 seconds between lightning and thunder right now. Very snowy reception on TV as well. Probably time to switch off the router...

nilhg

All that activity over Laois seems to be coming my way, plenty of roumbles to my southwest.

Snowbie

nilhg wrote:

All that activity over Laois seems to be coming my way, plenty of roumbles to my southwest.

Where are you?