Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

maquiladora

There's a small but intense shower west of Ennis that looks like it might do something. I don't see much else happening on the radar at the moment though.

That storm in the northwest is still producing lightning but is out at sea now.

hotwhiskey

Meanwhile in England. Lightening hits a house in Durrington.



I hope later on tonight or early morning we see some action.

rhonin

Huge downpour now in Collooney.

maquiladora

rhonin wrote: »

Huge downpour now in Collooney.

Yeah I see it just popped up in the space of 15 minutes.

rhonin

maquiladora wrote: »

Yeah I see it just popped up in the space of 15 minutes.

Got dark very quickly too. No thunder from it.

Storm 10

Is that rain approaching the West Coast likely to have sparks tonight

maquiladora

Storm 10 wrote: »

Is that rain approaching the West Coast likely to have sparks tonight

It's possible but more likely from early morning onwards.

LordSutch

Have been watching the BBC/ITV/Sky weather bulletins this evening and they all point to the possibility of fierce isolated thunderstorms poping up in southern/western parts of Britain over the next few days > then I watched the RTE weather forecast with Siobhan Ryan, and there is no mention of Thunderstorms over Ireland, just the odd thundery downpour.

Is a thundery downpour the same thing as a Thunderstorm?

maquiladora

Click play on the animation and look at the precip forecast for us at 10am tomorrow and then later in the afternoon too. Could be....interesting....if its right.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/#?tab=map&map=Rainfall

I assume a thundery downpour means a front/system moving across that might brew up some electricity, a thundery storm is an actual thunderstorm in itself.

redsteveireland

Things really exploded over England and Wales in the last couple of hours!
http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

dopolahpec

Yes UK are getting some battering, a huge band of thunderstorms fanning out northwards across England and Wales. Much quieter on this side of the Irish Sea.

snowjon

Just had a burst of tropical monsoonal rain here in Bangor with a rumble of thunder!

snowjon

Thunder rumbling away in the distance now the rain has stopped!

maquiladora

snowjon wrote: »

Just had a burst of tropical monsoonal rain here in Bangor with a rumble of thunder!

Yeah was watchin that crossing over, passed over the Isle of Man.

http://www.sat24.com/en/gb

snowjon

maquiladora wrote: »

Yeah was watchin that crossing over, passed over the Isle of Man.

http://www.sat24.com/en/gb

Certainly woke me up anyway!!

dopolahpec

MT seems to think severe thunderstorms will be widespread today and tomorrow in Ireland. I'm not so sure myself that the energy is here to spark them...that's just my lousy hunch not based on much more than the feel of things. We will wait and see.

delw

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Look at all that action over the UK.

http://www.sat24.com/en/gb



This. feckin. island. :P

Sparks everywhere,lucky feckers

maquiladora

dopolahpec wrote: »

MT seems to think severe thunderstorms will be widespread today and tomorrow in Ireland. I'm not so sure myself that the energy is here to spark them...that's just my lousy hunch not based on much more than the feel of things. We will wait and see.

Always hard to forecast. Estofex had us under a level 1 area yesterday yet only 2 storms popped up and quickly went out to sea.

There will be a lot more showers around today, how many of them become electric is the question. Conditions favorable to thunderstorms should firm up as the morning and afternoon goes on. I wouldnt expect we'll see anything like whats going on in the UK but we should see some storms. Radar and satellite watching. Southwest might be first.

Iancar29

GO home lightning detector... your drunk!

maquiladora

Iancar29 wrote: »

GO home lightning detector... your drunk!

Ran out of space to put it on the UK map!

sunbabe08

Ugh not fair. What r the chances for the southeast today???

eigrod

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Look at all that action over the UK.

http://www.sat24.com/en/gb



This. feckin. island. :P

A terribly British thing to welcome the new royal.

Iancar29

sunbabe08 wrote: »

Ugh not fair. What r the chances for the southeast today???

Not great to be honest , more so the West again.

Super-Rush

https://twitter.com/mozza_Leeds/status/359572492202950657/photo/1

whitebriar

Iancar29 wrote: »

Not great to be honest , more so the West again.

Hmmm,the usually pin accurate bbc news 24 graphics has showers travelling up east Leinster too during the day.
There's certainly enough humidity,lets see?

maquiladora

Well the Met Office rainfall prediction model from last night showing a huge area of heavy precip over the midlands at 10am....was very wrong. Even hi-res models like UK4 can really struggle with convective showers.

Harps

HIRLAM picked up the TS in the north west yesterday, its showing some showers in the west and midlands later but doesn't look like anything too severe

http://www.weatherweb.net/wxwebchartshirlamopukrain.php

maquiladora

Lightning detected from a shower approaching the southwest coast now. We'll see if its isolated or builds into something.

Edit : Didn't develop any further.

Im in D15, the sky has gone really dark, like the heavens are about to open.



edit:) and now they have opened, lovely beautiful rain ::)))))) The garden is singing