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Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

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    #392
    Lady_North1
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Lady_North1


    Blue sky and sunshine in Swords. Funny how the weather can be so different only a short distance away. lol. Maybe the thunder might come my way.

    Please.....


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    #393
    Deep Easterly
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    Lady_North1 wrote: »
    Funny how the weather can be so different only a short distance away.

    Tell me about it... :o


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    #394
    DominoDub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    Great mix of Colours when you zoom in on Celbridge on http://www.raintoday.co.uk/#


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    #395
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Got 2 rumbles on video, some mammatus and some nice structure shots. Shall post this evening after college. :)


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    #396
    mickger844posts
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    Loud clap of thunder and a flash of Lightning here in Waterford City about 20 mins ago. The main cell stayed to our North unfortunately.


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    #397
    Deep Easterly
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    Latest sferics:

    201035.PNG

    Seems to be a high concentration over mid Munster region over the last 30 mins. Mick's strike in Waterford showing up to.


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    #398
    Joe Public
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    I counted 6 or 7 loud thunder claps before I did this video of the hail storm. The lightning each time seemed to be sheet type or maybe I was looking in the wrong direction. The gap between lightning and thunder each time was less than 3 seconds so it was definitely very close.


    Heavy hail in Celbridge

    http://youtu.be/MUlkJ0ygr0Q


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    #399
    blackius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭blackius


    Am sw of arklow at the moment-sky is amazing with mamatus. Can hear distant thunder away to the west.
    Can see the anvil of another cell over lugnaquilla to the northheading directly for here.The breeze is directly off the anvil.
    Could be here in 40 mins or less.It looks big and I've heard some very faint long rumbles from it already.


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    #400
    lolie
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    blackius wrote: »
    Am sw of arklow at the moment-sky is amazing with mamatus. Can hear distant thunder away to the west.
    Can see the anvil of another cell over lugnaquilla to the northheading directly for here.The breeze is directly off the anvil.
    Could be here in 40 mins or less.It looks big and I've heard some very faint long rumbles from it already.

    Get the camera out fairly lively so


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    #401
    blackius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭blackius


    Its a dying cell,looks very washed out as it nears.It's veered sw aswell. It's cloudspill is covering a very large area.
    Just aswell the ground here is slop still after yesterday's showers.


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    #402
    Su Campu
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    I'm just back in Celbridge, some 3 hours after that thunderstorm. There are still piles of hail along the bases of the walls, etc, and I've just measured some surviving hail stones at up to 12 mm in diameter.

    Here's the GFS forecast sounding for here at that time, showing decent SBCAPE and MLCAPE, and equilibrium temperature of below -35 °C - a good combination for hail and thunder. :)

    sondagegfs_98_3_3_1.png


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    #403
    Wild Bill
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    Hail to the north, anvils to east, twisters to the south and downpours to the west.

    7mm of rain in a 7 hour snizzle of total meh here last night (under cover of darkness) :(

    Someone here must be spraying the place with weather-repellant. :mad:


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    #404
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    VIDEO is 1gb ... gonna take awhile to upload! ha :rolleyes:

    So heres my photos form the day . Once again ive been going mad about not having a car to get a great full view shot. But ye... cant wish for everything.

    Best Mammatus display ive seen in in ages here.. :)

    6945617110_67e5c6a15b.jpg

    Towering Cumulonimbus with a nice anvil :)

    http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7223/7091684293_8d2ddd96f9.jpg

    The 2nd anvil behind the main thundery cell. :cool:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41948286@N02/7091692515/sizes/m/in/photostream/


    More Pics and the hi - res versions here . Enjoy.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41948286@N02/


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    #405
    Wild Bill
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    I'm just back in Celbridge, some 3 hours after that thunderstorm. There are still piles of hail along the bases of the walls, etc, and I've just measured some surviving hail stones at up to 12 mm in diameter.

    Do you have a photo of a hailstone?
    So I'd know what to look out for?

    Some of the old folk here swear they saw one in June 1978......


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    #406
    mickger844posts
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    Short Time lapse i shot Wednesday evening in Waterford City looking East. Plenty of shower activity plus a rainbow on view.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxIS4Kfdoq0


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    #407
    Hammer Archer
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Hail to the north, anvils to east, twisters to the south and downpours to the west.

    7mm of rain in a 7 hour snizzle of total meh here last night (under cover of darkness) :(

    Someone here must be spraying the place with weather-repellant. :mad:
    Likewise. It's like the weather's teasing me recently. The Cb today basically gave me the finger as it passed agonisingly around my place in Belfield.


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    #408
    Iancar29
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    My video from earlier. Plane reports being hit by the lightning strike which my camera just about picks up the thunder from 4 mins onwards.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laACZGg06VI


    Enjoy


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    #409
    DOCARCH
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    Radar showing a band/trough of showers over the Irish Sea atm moving towards the east coast - should/might reach the coast maybe by 8.00 or 8.30.


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    #410
    Iancar29
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    Some nice bubbling up action around the Atlone area. :)


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    #411
    lolie
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    Pic or 2 from yesterday.
    Some big showers built up but broke up as they went overhead:mad:

    201128.jpg

    Some nice convection in the evening in the distance over north meath.
    201130.JPG


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    #412
    Iancar29
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    Sferics just south of Mullingar ... Anyone there?! :)


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    #413
    DOCARCH
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    Hopefully we don't get a repeat of yesterday with everything slipping south to the west of Dublin! :rolleyes: I am hoping showers building over Fermanagh have 'our' name on them! :)


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    #414
    Hal1
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    Netweather picking up those seferics now. Hope there's more to come. http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=lightning;sess=


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    #415
    dexter647
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    Some fantastic cloud structures here atm...Looks very promising:)


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    #416
    redsteveireland
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    I can't believe I have to go to work when things are getting interesting :mad:


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    #417
    mickger844posts
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    Great convection around today with Cumulonimbus clouds filling the skies in all directions. Just had a brief Hail shower but no thunder. That little bit of extra heat is helping with convection.


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    #418
    Iancar29
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    Sferic over Waterford City... radar not picking up any strong echoes in that direction though :/


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    #419
    vicwatson
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    Mate just texted me one big belt of Thunder over Wexford Town about 10 mins ago, Sun out now !! :D


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    #420
    ninebeanrows
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    I think tomorrow is the day for storms in the south and east.

    Some good CAPE tomorrow, be interested to see what the 12z shows :D

    My initial thoughts would be some storms particularly in the southeast


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    #421
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    PLease say someone has a nice shot of that cell that produced numerous sferics over mullingar?!


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