Thunderstorm activity

maquiladora

Looks like theres some thunderstorms popping up at the moment...

http://www.laoisweather.com/lightning/

Abi

Just outside Drogheda here. Had quite a few dry rumbles here, but the rain has started now. Stormvue is riddled

sirpsycho

Cape values looking fairly decent for ireland for +6hrs time. A nice thunderstorm to clear the himidity would go down well :pac:

Theres a strong likelyhood of thunderstorms spreading up from the south east overnight tonight and during tomorrow.

And from Estofex...

Broadly speaken, thunderstorms are forecast from Ireland to the Black Sea and from Poland to Sicily.

http://www.estofex.org/

It's coming

http://meteocentre.com/lightning/eur_zeus.gif

See the line over wales of lightning strikes-every 25 seconds-thats 4 a minute-WoW!

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

If you look at that moving radar,you see a clump of the thunderstorms over south wales[and thats what they all are at the moment] heading in a trajectory that will exit out into the irish sea around pembrokeshire and then on towards Ireland with landfall on the wexford and south wicklow coast.

They may well hit Arklow by midnight or sometime after that and surely by 1am.

Quite a fire cracker of a night is possible down here

Takeshi_Kovacs

This is more or less confined to the east coast then?

That very active thunderstorm system is headed towards south and central wexford.
It may make landfall south of courtown harbour-somewhere between there and wexford town I think.
Maybe a touch north of that,maybe a touch south.It's hard to say but it's likely all of south wexford is in for pyrotechnics and maybe north as far as Arklow but certainly south of Courtown harbour.

The number of lightning strikes being recorded at the moment make this look like a monster storm.
I'm see'ing nothing at the moment on the wicklow wexford border apart from a wall of cloud to the south east.

Takeshi_Kovacs

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote: »

This is more or less confined to the east coast then?

Pretty much tonight but anywhere tomorrow south of Ulster..
I thought I heard some booming there now so I'm going to have another look.

yup lightning visible now to the southeast!! and very distant rumbles!
Going to observe more

paddyland

Here's a link to a live Wexford webcam, lightning flashing away good-oh!

http://www.viewwexford.com/live/index.html

IvySlayer

Love a good thunderstorm, hopeful we get some tonight, chances of Lucan/Dublin getting some activity?

Can see loads of lightning now from here just south of arklow.
It's to the south and a good bit away but very frequent and getting closer.
I suspect I will be just to the north of the storm though rather than in it...

TheGreenGiant

indeed. alot of strikes been recorded by the isle of wight weather station. looking great for tomorrow, maybe even into the early parts of the morning as the low gets closer to us

Shulgin

paddyland wrote: »

Here's a link to a live Wexford webcam, lightning flashing away good-oh!

http://www.viewwexford.com/live/index.html

Some nice flashes going on there alright. That storm looks mean on the radar.

mean wouldnt be the word for it!
I'm circa 20 miles north of it and I can see constant lightning and even here the low thunder here in the house.
I'm not sure what it's doing but I reckon the heart to it is heading into co wexford north of wexford town with a centre somewhere near enniscorthy.

From my garden overhead is the edge wall of cloud from it and even from that theres occasional sheet lightning.
The forks I can see are about 20 miles south of here at the moment.

paddyland

What are the significance of these strike symbols on the lightning radar, please?

+CG +1C -CG -1C

nacho libre

It would be great to see some pictures of this event

Saw a fork there a few minutes ago that would frighten the living daylights out of you.
It took up the whole southern sky in an orange flame of fork.
Dangerous looking stuff.
I'm turning everything off here shortly.

nacho libre

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Saw a fork there a few minutes ago that would frighten the living daylights out of you.
It took up the whole southern sky in an orange flame of fork.
Dangerous looking stuff.
I'm turning everything off here shortly.

sounds heavenly. you jammy fecker:P

dublincelt

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Saw a fork there a few minutes ago that would frighten the living daylights out of you.
It took up the whole southern sky in an orange flame of fork.
Dangerous looking stuff.
I'm turning everything off here shortly.

Whats the chances of Carlow Town getting anything from this current system?

nacho libre

dublincelt wrote: »

Whats the chances of Carlow Town getting anything from this current system?

a good chance it will remain active that far inland but for those further west and north we'll have to wait tomorrow

dublincelt

nacho libre wrote: »

a good chance it will remain active that far inland but for those further west and north we'll have to wait tomorrow

Just started here! Heavy rain at the minute

SpitfireIV

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Saw a fork there a few minutes ago that would frighten the living daylights out of you.
It took up the whole southern sky in an orange flame of fork.
Dangerous looking stuff.
I'm turning everything off here shortly.

I can just hear it now, 20 years time or so, people will be saying 'Jaysus, I remember the night Michael Jackson died, there was a fierce thunderstorm!'.....:p. Well it seems to me whenever any significant events of the past are recalled to me they always seem to involve weather, ie 'that day it was fierce hot', or 'there was a terrible snowfall'......:o. There was bad thunder and lightening the day Princess Diana died, remember??

nacho libre

look at the rain rate out of it!!, that's one heck of a storm! i envy anyone experiencing it:o

SpitfireIV

nacho libre wrote: »

look at the rain rate out of it!!, that's one heck of a storm! i envy anyone experiencing it:o

Jeez!! :eek: Want to swap places for the night?

TheGreenGiant

indeed. the lightning though seems to be dying down, but there is a heck of a lot of rain! Lots of storms moving in from France and over the Isle Of Wight moving this way. All I can say is roll on tomora :D

Supercell

Thunderstorm here right now, on;y my third here in as many years, the rumbles are fantastic!

seanybiker

few rumbles down here to. Nothing good though.

Supercell

Round two here, thunder again, most thunder I have heard in my three years here.

Thunder went on all night with sharp bursts of rain.
It never went away,just lulling to low thuds and then back loud as ever.

There was a long bang at around 4am that shook the house with all the doors and windows rattling.
It's been eery quiet now for the last hour.
The last really loud bang was at about 730am.

I plugged everything out during the night and with no batteries in the Davis console,no rain was recorded
There was rain falling at times that can only be described as crashing down,it roared water.

Sierra Oscar

Some intense thunder activity around 4:30AM last night.

Sully

I travelled from Waterford to Mullinavat last night, saw a few strikes but not much. Took a back road to New Ross and the frequency was becoming more alongside heavy rain the closer I got. Drove towards Wexford and took another back road towards some sort of mountains - clearly getting closer as it was a lot stronger with heavy rain. Was great seeing the whole mountain light up. I didn't continue going as I wasn't familiar with the road and I was surrounded by trees (not knowing the safety rules). Headed back to Waterford via the main road and the storm was no more the further away I was.

At home in Tramore, I heard thunder in the early hours of the morning but was to tired to look to see how close the lightening was!

Likely to get much more?

The biggest threat of imported stuff moves to The northern half of leinster tonight.

Homegrown stuff could turn up anywhere this afternoon.
Theres potential on monday to import some stuff from the East whilst at the same time some more benign atlantic rain flirts with the west.

The main interesting thing over the next week is the build up in heat-more on that in mt craniums thread.
Of course if you see that happening and we import more humid and unstable air from the continent,then the fun and games start all over again.

nacho libre

in the last 30 minutes i had a couple of flashes of lightning and a rumble of thunder that was embedded in the trough, which is moving across from the east in a north westerly direction

road_high

I was heading to Dublin last Fri morning and there was some lightning activity here around Kilkenny at 4 am approx. Very heavy rain at the same time.