Possible Heavy Thunderstorms & Local Flooding (Wednesday 18th July)

pelting down here in LOOOKAN

nerrad1983

Just started here in Newtownmountkennedy Co.Wicklow :mad:

ninebeanrows

Say this front would have looked impressive during daylight.

Nice definition to it.

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

torrential1

Mighty shower here at around 815 this evening in Lucan... very intense for about 10 minutes but surprisingly no thunder. Raining quite heavy right now and still very humid outside.

torrential1

Actually raining very heavy now in Lucan /West Dublin...very intense...

Any cool air behind the front?

Sponge Bob

nope temps the same either west or east of it.

ninebeanrows

No sparks in the rain it would appear

Heavy rain out there now.

diceyd

heavy rain now in finglas

To Alcohol

Out playing football tonight. The heat and humidity would kill yeah. Lashing down now in Sallins. Still very humid.

Min

Rain has gotten a bit lighter, so far 8.4mm fell (9.2mm for the day), highest rain rate was 31.6mm/hr.
Brings the total for the month here so far to 80.4mm.

keith16

Pouring out of the heavens here in south Dub and still very muggy. Pity about the lack of lightning, tomorrow hopefully.

darkman2

Looks like some heavy showery rain approaching the southwest (just come in to radar range) in the next hour or so. I think that trough is the better hope for lightning as it crosses the country in the early hours.


Heavy rain here running quite easily off the garden grass which is completely saturated.

ian_m

UK Met Office have issued a Yellow warning for rain in NI and Wales

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/?regionName=ni&from=rss&sn=6F21C1B4-F461-3503-02B9-95F27812E6A3_2_NI&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Larbre34

diceyd wrote: »

heavy rain now in finglas

+1 in D15. Heavy to very heavy since 10.30 20mm/hr rate peak. stopping now as i type just the gutters and shores flowing

Oscar Bravo

Its fast approaching five to midnight,so lets head over to Met Eireann for the latest on RTE Radio 1/Sky 0160.

Rougies

Not much mention of anything substantial for tomorrow by Evelyn on that radio forecast, and nothing more than "passing showers" mentioned on the 21:33 update on met.ie
http://www.met.ie/forecasts/
hmmm

Sierra Oscar

It is quite windy out tonight too.

Iancar29

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Redsunset

Wow that was some serious heavy rain earlier. Got soaked to the bone while out for a run but was very refreshing as temps are so warm and muggy. My back yard has standing water about an inch deep. Everywhere here is saturated. Rainwater is flowing out of fields so if my area gets hit with a few explosive cells Wednesday, there could be some problems.

Camera at the ready tomorrow just in case.

I've edited thread title to highlight the risk of some nasty cells exploding and potentially causing some local flooding.

My area is already soaked so won't take much more to cause problems.

Deep Easterly

Curious little return on the radar sequence in the last few hours. A little rouge patch moving NNW from SW Wales into the Wicklow Mts before disappearing.



Are malevolent aliens now disguising themselves as radar returns in their relentless quest to take over our planet? .

Iancar29

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Curious little return on the radar sequence in the last few hours. A little rouge patch moving NNW from SW Wales into the Wicklow Mts before disappearing.

Are malevolent aliens now disguising themselves as radar returns in their relentless quest to take over our planet? .

Very interesting indeed, probably some sort of radar effect like anaprop as its directed right towards the Dublin Airport? ha

Its either that or one big massive plane ! ha

weatherornot

Cloud seeding maybe? wouldn't suprise me as its coming up to the olympics

Sponge Bob

weatherornot wrote: »

Cloud seeding maybe? wouldn't suprise me as its coming up to the olympics

The anomaly was spotted in a known RAF exercise area. Maybe they dropped the parachute regiment out there tonight.

Redsunset

darkman2

Convection been well underway since mid morning. Heavy showers developing in Connaught and west Leinster atm slowly moving eastward. Some of these should develop into thunderstorms for later this afternoon. Might see some hail too.:) A trough hugging the south coast is still fairly weak atm but will probably spark into life very soon.

Sponge Bob

The northern band mentioned by MT yesterday has sort of got going but the southern band he mentioned appears to be out over the Celtic sea and heading for Wales now.

BEASTERLY

Sponge Bob wrote: »

The northern band mentioned by MT yesterday has sort of got going but the southern band he mentioned appears to be out over the Celtic sea and heading for Wales now.

Really intensified as it left the Wexford coast, a spark or too also. Have some photos, will post later.

eskimocat

I can confirm folks that we have 'Weather' in Collooney! There was some brief but torrential showers passing there for the past 30 mins or so. Couldn't tell if they was any thunder... other office staff won't let me open window to hear it.. lol
Haven't time to check the charts so would appreciate if someone could post the rain radar...
Thanks

Iancar29

Off out to Howth! ... Some 4 cells currently on radar with 16mm echo returns on Met E ( probably even higher on rain today or Net weather . hopefully I'll get some shots of some cells as intense on Howth head! :S

Over and out!!