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Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

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    #2522
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,170 ✭✭✭highdef


    Here's my effort of the convection over a couple of hours today. Unfortunately, I didn't have as good a vantage point as Sum Campu! ;)

    As always, best viewed in HD



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    #2523
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    highdef wrote: »
    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 :p

    I headed out Maynooth-Kilcock-Summerhill around 15:45 so it could have been me!


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    #2524
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


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    highdef wrote: »
    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 :p
    Cool much respect ,always wanted to be a pilot.


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    #2525
    Deep Easterly
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    What time around did you take that video Su? Will be interesting to see a radar image of it on the NW radar.


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    #2526
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    What time around did you take that video Su? Will be interesting to see a radar image of it on the NW radar.

    It started at 15:46 and ended around 16:05. The Castlepollard shot was from around 16:00. That was a beast of a thing, the video didn't do it justice!


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    #2527
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Heres a few of mine from today...

    sorry about the quality , stupid fb compression rate is shocking.
    Shall upload them and more in Hi Res on my flickr 2moro...


    Anyways...

    Panoramic of BLACKNESS :)
    574699_10151201598691718_1646051163_n.jpg

    Needle funnel cloud HDR ( to try get it more visible as i didnt have my zoom lens on :( )
    538614_10151201603086718_1268390585_n.jpg

    Cropped version
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    Coast Guard helicopter off into the BEAST
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    The planes where taken off and doing an immediate turn to get away from the showers.

    Great photos and videos from others folks! :) .. NOt a bad day at all considering there was no lightning near me ..

    So ye , more 2moro when im home . :)


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    #2528
    Gonzo
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    amazing rain here today and about 30 bangs of thunder and the odd flash of lightning, felt very mild too so all in all an interesting day.


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    #2529
    Deep Easterly
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    Here is how the shower that Su flew around looked on the radar at the time of his flying. (took location from video cues - Summerhill/Trim area). That shower really developed over during the course of the video clip. (radar image from Netweather)


    meath_radar_animation_1.gif


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    #2530
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Thanks for that Deep. I flew through a gap southwest of Summerhill, which you can see in the video at around 2:10 - 2:15.

    I'd be interested in seeing the one further west at Castlepollard at 16:00 if you get the chance. Hop to it!!!!!!:D:D:D


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    #2531
    Deep Easterly
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    Hop to it!!!!!!

    Here Mr. Boss!

    meath2.gif

    Panned out a little to give a wider view. The shower you mentioned passed though Mullingar as well. Must have gave a fair total on the hourly reports at the synoptic station.

    Edit. Not actually same shower that hit Mullingar, blind as a bat!!


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    #2532
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Ah thanks a lot! Yes I could see that Mullingar shower to my south but didn't capture it on video.

    Mullingar reported 0.4 mm at 1600 and 2.1 mm at 1700, but some of that second total may have been from the second shower we see heading towards it at the end of your clip.


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    #2533
    tylercollins
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Heres a few of mine from today...

    sorry about the quality , stupid fb compression rate is shocking.

    Use imgur.com to host your images!

    Fantastic images though. What camera do you have?


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    #2534
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    tylercollins wrote: »
    Use imgur.com to host your images!

    Fantastic images though. What camera do you have?

    Thanks man,
    Shall be putting them up on flickr shortly with more...

    Its a Nikon D7000 ... and for these i was using a 10-20mm sigma f3.0 :)


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    #2535
    Oscar Bravo
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    Some rumbles of Thunder between Westport and Castlebar in the past 20 minutes along with very heavy rain.Clearing off from the South now.


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    #2536
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Heres the Link to the hi res versions of my photos , plus a view more i got through :)

    ENJOY!

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


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    #2537
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    :eek:


    Night time light show possible over the sea tonight?!

    218727.png


    EDIT

    Yesterday's storm in a short video . Use HD for best quality .



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    #2538
    MiNdGaM3
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    A bit of activity to the south west at the moment, with some very heavy rain moving in.

    218740.GIF


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    #2539
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,763 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Yeah, Esrofex in thier forecast for today/tonight mentioned risk of storms tonight.

    A few sparks off the west coast this evening and just off the West Cork coast.

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


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    #2540
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Lightningwizard charts are pretty impressive for tonight. Some people could see some real action


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    #2541
    average_runner
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    Lightningwizard charts are pretty impressive for tonight. Some people could see some real action

    Is Dublin in that zone


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    #2542
    Su Campu
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    Pretty much anywhere is in with a chance but central and western areas best.

    Sherkin Island reported 14.0 mm of rain in one hour up to 21:00!


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    #2543
    MiNdGaM3
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭MiNdGaM3


    Heavy rain over the last 45 minutes has turned torrential in the last 5 minutes!


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    #2544
    Hal1
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    Some pretty decent radar returns now over Limerick and into Tipp.


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    #2545
    Storm 10
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    Blue Lightning flashes over Galway Bay in the direction of the Aran Islands


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    #2546
    Hal1
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    That'll be all the aran jumpers rubbing off each other in the céile's going on there :pac:.


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    #2547
    notnumber
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    Rain over the west and south will move eastwards early tonight, with some thundery bursts likely.

    was'nt expecting much from this front but getting steady upgrades all day.
    Was a risk of thunder earlier'..now its likely:D


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    #2548
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Guys we had rain here in the last 20 minutes or so and I've never heard it so heavy! Unreal so it was and by the looks of the met.ie radar there's more to come :-O


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    #2549
    sunbabe08
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    haven't heard rain like that in a while. wow.


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    #2550
    Mountainsandh
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    Yeah Leahyl, we're getting it now in West-ish Waterford, torrential. We've had rain and wind more or less all evening, but this is something else.
    Just have my Sky back since yesterday, internet last week, and still no phone and solar panel box after that lightning mid August... Hoping the lightning doesn't come our way, let others enjoy it this time !
    We've learned since that the fellow fixing Sky in our area has had nine calls because of that lightning !

    Don't forget to unplug every thing you can people, if you hear rumble.


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    #2551
    Mountainsandh
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    ah well feck it. Think we have thunder here. :eek:

    edit : great it seems all gone now 23.00


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