Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Winter 2011/12

Su Campu

About time we moved onto a winter one of these. Thunder was reported at Belmullet today between 2 and 3 pm.

A chance of thunderstorms in the north tomorrow, along with some severe wind gusts and tornadoes in the Level 1 area.

Su Campu

Some sferics showing up in north Kerry and the Shannon estuary this evening as a heavy shower moves in.

redsteveireland

Su Campu wrote: »

Some sferics showing up in north Kerry and the Shannon estuary this evening as a heavy shower moves in.

Some people have all the luck.:rolleyes:

nacho libre

redsteveireland wrote: »

Some people have all the luck.:rolleyes:

Galway does fairly well during the year for thunder and lightning. let someone else have some for a change:p

redsteveireland

nacho libre wrote: »

Galway does fairly well during the year for thunder and lightning. let someone else have some for a change:p

I think you have Galway mistaken with somewhere else.:(
I think Deep Easterly will back me up!

WolfeIRE

http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/index.html

Severe downpours in west Limerick at present. Lightning also picked up.

Further bands of heavy, squally showers pushing in as well.
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Just had a heavy hail shower here.

Harps

A more organised band is pushing in over me soon, no lightning picked up yet but looks like it might produce something

Oscar Bravo

A couple of strikes in the NW/W in the last 30mins.

WolfeIRE

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

A couple of strikes in the NW/W in the last 30mins.

A lot of action out to sea moving NE
http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/index.html

Iancar29

WolfeIRE wrote: »

A lot of action out to sea moving NE
http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/index.html

snowstreams

Saw a a bit of lightning just east of Athenry in Galway on the M6 today around 6pm. The rain was absolutely pouring down at the time, some extreme heavy rain rates.

Pangea

Belt of thunder here just now.

km79

snowstreams wrote: »

Saw a a bit of lightning just east of Athenry in Galway on the M6 today around 6pm. The rain was absolutely pouring down at the time, some extreme heavy rain rates.

Yep. I'm just east of athenry. Unreal rain. Satellite signal went

Harps

Lots of strikes in Donegal Bay at the moment, heading right for me so hopefully it'll produce a few more

Oscar Bravo

Nice blue flash of Lightening and a belt of Thunder in Castlebar now(Just to the West of Castlebar).

Hooter23

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Nice blue flash of Lightening and a belt of Thunder in Castlebar now(Just to the West of Castlebar).

Video it :)havnt had thunder here in ages:mad:

redsteveireland

Little bit of action alright. http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

shaca

Same in Ballina... fairly loud too:eek:

John mac

yup same here (foxford)


looks like were in for more.

Oscar Bravo

Power cut Castlebar-Bright Lightning and loud thunder-Again.

Pangea

Really big bang of thunder just now ,good and long! Heavy hailstones right now.
I probably missed the flash.

Pangea

Is there any radar or graph that can pick up thunder?
Also can thunder occur without lightning?

faktisperminute

Really really cold air with a heavy snow/hail goodness!


WOHHHHHHHHH SWEEEEET! WIND IS GETTING WILDER !

Hooter23

Pangea wrote: »

Is there any radar or graph that can pick up thunder?
Also can thunder occur without lightning?

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html

Do u mean thunder on its own 0_O

Pangea

Hooter23 wrote: »

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html

Do u mean thunder on its own 0_O

Yes on its own, just did some googling and found my answer, so lightning radar covers thunder too then.

Oscar Bravo

Just had yet,another big flash and some really loud thunder in Castlebar,ohhhh heres the Hail again!!

Harps

Same here, finally had my first flash of the night!

naughto

masive hail stones still have power mad windy as well

megatron989

Anyone know if this will make it to the east coast?

jwcurtin

Lightning flash from the North at 01:33 in Knocknacarra, Galway... Good few KMs away by the sounds of it.

Stinicker

Heavy thunder and lightning here in South East Kerry tonight, first strike a few mins ago.

Pangea

WOW unbelievable night. Just had amazing series of thunder n lighning strikes, One huge bang awoke me from my slomber I then looked out the window and a minute later one HUGE flash apeaerred and actually hurt my eyes it was so Bright, instantly followed by another huge thunder rumble. Incredible. Currently typing on phone as electricity is off and as you see with no spell check on phone my terrible spelling has been exposed!!!

ch750536

Lightning here

ch750536

saggansingh wrote: »

What happens if there is a thunderstorm while you are playing the wii?

Entertainment overload. Head explodes.

Tactical

saggansingh wrote: »

What happens if there is a thunderstorm while you are playing the wii?

You get to play a special hidden bonus level with a weather related theme

Storm 10

Thunder in Galway

redsteveireland

Storm 10 wrote: »

Thunder in Galway

Pass it on.:D

Harps

Hadd some loud thunder here around 4am, probably more that didn't wake me, quite a while since I've seen the radar looking like this! Plenty of strikes right along the west coast

Pangea

It was an amazing thunderstorm last night, In the space of 5 minutes I seen 6 or 7 lightning flashes alone. I also seen fork lightning once. Impressive to say the least.
Although the sound of thunder was very intimidating.

WolfeIRE

http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/index.html

Never seen so many red lightning dots for this time of year.

Harps

This image definitely deserves to be archived in the thread, don't think I've ever seen so many strikes over the country!

delw

Harps wrote: »

This image definitely deserves to be archived in the thread, don't think I've ever seen so many strikes over the country!

I think you meant to say "over one side of the country" because there's bugger all over this side :mad:

megatron989

True that, east coast getting left out big time! Epic strike map tho, very impressive.

sunbabe08

my face right now:eek::eek: sweet mother of god.


seriously is there a way of archiving that?

patters

we have a sprinkling of snow on our tarmacadam

WolfeIRE

http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/index.html

Lightning in sw, more on the way by the look of things

Robxxx7

Couple of thunder claps heard overhead .. to go with a couple of power cuts we've had today

redsteveireland

WolfeIRE wrote: »

http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/index.html

Lightning in sw, more on the way by the look of things

If you click "I dag" on the top left of the screen it breaks it down to 3 hourly.

http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

darol15

thunder and lightning and hail for lik 15 mins in cork ! all calm now do, by the looks of the met eireann radar should kick off again in about 30 mins

sunbabe08

lightening strikes all over the place. :eek:

chris2007

sunbabe08 wrote: »

lightening strikes all over the place. :eek:

Where are you?