Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

Hal1

Menacing looking sky to my north, I'd say it's going to burst soonish, I have noticed to increase in wind too.

Larbre34

Light to moderate rain for last 10 mins, no more thunder or lightning I could observe

jimmynokia

where is ian the clouds heading his way camera at the ready:D

Simon Gruber Says

On the DART between Connelly and Clontarf Road, amazing view for a few secs looking west toward the airport. Nice lowering resembling a wall cloud in the dark sky just to the west of Runway 10, St. Margaret's direction

Bucketing down here.:D

notnumber

A moderate downpour..no thunder

ian_m

Crazy darkness in Tallaght. Its like night is descending out of nowhere. Enough to have to turn on the lights.

diceyd

have to put lights on in house here its gone that dark,wind picking up

Not

notnumber wrote: »

A moderate downpour..no thunder

It was downpouring here for a good while before it got thundery.

Now it's all over here bar the drizzling.

jimmynokia

bucketing rain lights on no thunder no nothing not happy :mad:

Nabber

Hopefully we get something in Dublin from these clouds heading over

FunkSoulSista

Bucketing down in D7 no thunder though

jimmynokia

Getting bright now...

Stevecw

Gone so dark here and bucketing down in Dublin 7

tomcosgrave

Very dark here in Dublin 13. Spots of rain at the moment, nothing else.

tomcosgrave

And now, mere seconds after I wrote the above, it is absolutely lashing!

alie

Torrential rain in Rathfarnham, few distant rumbles of thunder

cristoir

Absolutely torrential here in Ranelagh.

Nabber

Heaviest shower here in Dublin 4 this year.
Still going strong. Not a flash nor rumble. It's a sad feeling thinking nothing but rain will come from this.

dacogawa

Belting down in Dublin 4 for the last 10 minutes, look s like it's coming to an end soon on the radar

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

M.T. Cranium

highdef wrote: »

Perhaps the heaviest rain I have ever witnessed since I loved here. Was mental heavy!

Ah yes, the 80s.

Iancar29

Just back from the airport! Timed perfectly for the approaching band and it turned into a gust front! Some rotation visible too with some needle funnels! Hopefully got some decent rotation on the video I took! .. Also did a pano of the gust front , hopefully I did it justice!!
Photos and video up later this evening! Got a nice shot too of the Coast guard helicopter flying into the blackness too right in front of the sun .. Surprised we didn't get any thunder!

highdef

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Ah yes, the 80s.

ooops! Perhaps a Freudian slip as I do love it here

Bsal

I got two crap shots of it 2km north of Dublin airport at 6pm

Nabber

Bsal wrote: »

I got two crap shots of it 2km north of Dublin airport at 6pm

Dont call them crap, every picture helps people who didn't see it to get a visualisation of what it was like.

dsaint1

Taken from the car park at Bray head earlier this evening. Took a video of it too so will try to post that. Is this called a shelf cloud? Thats a boat in front just about to get swallowed:)

ian_m

Iancar29 wrote: »

Just back from the airport! Timed perfectly for the approaching band and it turned into a gust front! Some rotation visible too with some needle funnels! Hopefully got some decent rotation on the video I took! .. Also did a pano of the gust front , hopefully I did it justice!!
Photos and video up later this evening! Got a nice shot too of the Coast guard helicopter flying into the blackness too right in front of the sun .. Surprised we didn't get any thunder!

Did any aircraft have to go around because of the weather that you noticed?

Su Campu

Here's that video I shot during my flight over Meath and Westmeath as the convection was developing this afternoon. Watch in fullscreen HD for best results.

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

jimmynokia

Su Campu wrote: »

Here's that video I shot during my flight over Meath and Westmeath as the convection was developing this afternoon. Watch in fullscreen HD for best results.

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

Cool, you training to be a pilot?

highdef

Fantastic video Su Campu. It must not have been your plane I heard going over my house earlier as I don't think your flight path took you over me, unless you flew over on the way back.

Amazing video though. jimmynokia, I think you will find that Su Campu is already a pilot