Thunderstorms and Convective Potential

The Black Oil

Just heard a few rumbles of thunder there now.

darkman2

Yep that was some rumble - thunder and lightning here in North County.

ditto down here
2 flashes-one rumble
lashing rain

darkman2

I wonder will they maintain - possibly even enhance into the early hours. Looks very unstable on the East coast on radar in the last 2 hours. Flooding risk I think.

Redsunset

valid from 25.04.2009 03:39 CET Until 25.04.2009 20:59 CETThunderstorms

Awareness Level: Yellow

none "Isolated thunderstorms will occur during Saturday, especially in the afternoon and evening."

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valid from 25.04.2009 04:15 CET Until 25.04.2009 23:00 CETRain

Awareness Level: Yellow

none "25 to 30mm of rain will accumulate locally during Saturday."

cian1500ww

Some thunder here in Leitrim at the moment.

Wertz

Looks like it's really kicking off in the last hour to my north (and headed this way )...sky is looking very purplish grey over the mountains and the air is very still. Hope we get something out of this before the energy disipates. Snowbies detector is showing a lot of strikes around the lough nea shore

Mr Benevolent

Today looks good for the odd rumble or two.

maquiladora

Today does look good.

Estofex has placed all of Ireland inside a thunderstorm risk zone.

Meteoalarm has "Moderate risk of scattered thunderstorms" for every part of Ireland.

Met.ie mentions the risk of TS activity from this afternoon till tonight.

squonk

It was pretty interesting being on the western side of that belt that slid down along the west coast on Sautrday evening. It went all tthe way from NI down to Cork/Kerry. I was in Clare for the weekend and was just on the edge of it. To my east was extremely purple and the rainfail radar was showing some great precip happening. It was the thinnest front I've seen ever I think. Didn't hear/see any thunder or lightening out of it. I can't find a decent lightening detector site for the iPhone either as they all use Flash which isn't supported but I'd have been interested to see if there was any fireworks going on.

Just had a thunderstorm here north of arklow with forked lightning and very heavy hail.

TheGreenGiant

Aye, could see the anvil from DCU. Looked to be quite large. Did it last long?

The thunder end of it about 10 minutes before it rumbled off to sea.

Looks like a massive one to the North now with a huge shelf cloud.
Heavy hail coming down as I type.

TheGreenGiant

Yeah its gone very dark around here. Would love to get a few flashes :cool:

Thunder rumbling here at the moment on the Wicklow wexford border!

Very heavy hailstorm-hard pellets maybe a cm wide.
Alarms going off in the neighbours.

Thunder was coming from a connected shower to the south of this one.The sky is alive with cb's.

youngblood

Rumbles of thunder and flash of lightning here in the Midlands!
Nice!

Wertz

Been thundering on and off the last couple of hours here in Dundalk...showers coming from the SW are always our best chance of seeing some sparks here.

ian_m

What way are those heavy showers in Munster tracking?

Takeshi_Kovacs

We had incredibly heavy downpours at times in the afternoon, but i did not hear any thunder.

djhaxman

Hail and thunder here in Maynooth at the minute

cian1500ww

Some very heavy looking rainfall in Waterford at the moment according to the latest radar.

darkman2

Just a few rumbles here atm.

Trogdor

No thunder here yet but looks very threatening indeed. Just started to piss rain, have it approaching on timelapse and managed to cycle down to the harbour real quick just before the rain to get a few snaps of the structure

DOCARCH

Heard two rumbles myself a while ago.

Trogdor

Reports of thunder and lightning from dalkey and very bad rain as well so i'm told with some local flooding