Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

Reckless Abandonment

Shower developing between Maynooth and Leixlip... first bit of rain I've seen in weeks...I've a feeling sparks will happen ..

dloob

Looks like something heavy on the east Roscommon border

shamwari

gone overcast in Dublin city center and humidity has rocketed with it. could something be brewing??

redsteveireland

Something has to happen here?

maquiladora

dloob wrote: »

Looks like something heavy on the east Roscommon border

Yeah a heavy shower building near Carrick-On-Shannon.

peasant

redsteveireland wrote: »

Something has to happen here?

Was just going to say the same thing ..this has sprung up in the last half hour



fairly hefty showers in that ...must be a thunderstorm

driveshaft

Sitting in middle of it right now. A heavy shower with a rattle of thunder every minute or so. Was halfway through mowing the lawn....

Would I be right thinking that it formed over Lough Boderg?

mountainy man

It looks to be coming my way, I'd swear I heard a small rumble about 10 mins ago, temperature dropping slowly. Hope it doesn't miss me I need the water!

shamwari

peasant wrote: »

Was just going to say the same thing ..this has sprung up in the last half hour



fairly hefty showers in that ...must be a thunderstorm

Eldingar says yes!

maquiladora

Yes, it's producing lightning now, sferics reported.

See what did I tell ya, thunderstorm in the northwest. Just started a little late.

Iancar29

mountainy man wrote: »

It looks to be coming my way, I'd swear I heard a small rumble about 10 mins ago, temperature dropping slowly. Hope it doesn't miss me I need the water!

I hope you have a camera ready!

mountainy man

Iancar29 wrote: »

I hope you have a camera ready!

yep I have, torrential rain at the mo, lovely:D

edit: rain stopped now, can hear thunder to the east of me

oi softlad

any chance of lightning in galway city do ye reckon lads!!!!

Storm 10

Well the sky over Galway Bay is gone very black so there could be a chance

peasant

Theoretically I am / was right under this and should have seen some real action ...





in practice all we got (so far) was just enough heavy raindrops to turn the thick layer of dust on the car into muck ...nothing else, no thunder, no lightning.

mountainy man

Well it did look better on radar than on the ground, got a good heavy shower out of it and collected 150 litres in an IBC off the back of the house so I'm happy.

redsteveireland

Aannnnddd Shannon is down... FFS!
My mistake.

km79

redsteveireland wrote: »

Aannnnddd Shannon is down... FFS!

Hit by lightning sure
Sky is clouding over here

redsteveireland

km79 wrote: »

Hit by lightning sure
Sky is clouding over here

If only. They might actually replace it then!

maquiladora

Shannon isn't down, their feed is going into the displays on Raintoday and Netweather etc.

redsteveireland

maquiladora wrote: »

Shannon isn't down, their feed is going into the displays on Raintoday and Netweather etc.

Problem must be on the Met Eireann website so. Not much happening anyway by the looks of it.
It's the easiest one for me to access at the moment so I didn't try the others, cheers.

Harps

That shower looks to be headed in my general direction, the HiRLAM chart I posted earlier had the heaviest precip right where I am so keeping a close eye on things and hoping it doesn't fall apart. 23C and very humid at the moment with that hazy 'thundery' type of sky, still plenty of heat around to keep it fed

maquiladora

Harps wrote: »

That shower looks to be headed in my general direction, the HiRLAM chart I posted earlier had the heaviest precip right where I am so keeping a close eye on things and hoping it doesn't fall apart. 23C and very humid at the moment with that hazy 'thundery' type of sky, still plenty of heat around to keep it fed

Looks like it should be passing right over Killybegs now.

Harps

maquiladora wrote: »

Looks like it should be passing right over Killybegs now.

Looks like the part that was headed for me has weakened, the active cell is on course to move out to sea but its changing on every radar update so staying hopeful

Hard to believe anything is on the way at the moment, its totally calm with little to no cloud movement. Still plenty of people on the beach who could be in for a bit of a surprise

maquiladora

Harps wrote: »

Looks like the part that was headed for me has weakened, the active cell is on course to move out to sea but its changing on every radar update so staying hopeful

Hard to believe anything is on the way at the moment, its totally calm with little to no cloud movement. Still plenty of people on the beach who could be in for a bit of a surprise

That cell really fired on the 19:30 update when it reached the sea.

Mech1

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

Says its raining here, its not.

highdef

Mech1 wrote: »

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

Says its raining here, its not.

Ditto - actually, it shows that it has just cleared. I think it may have evaporated before it got to the ground

maquiladora

highdef wrote: »

Ditto - actually, it shows that it has just cleared. I think it may have evaporated before it got to the ground

Yep, thats probably the case.

Harps

Looks to be headed out to sea, bit of a waste. I can actually see that area if I drive just 5 minutes away but I'm tied up for the next hour so no luck

shmaupel

Harps wrote: »

Looks to be headed out to sea, bit of a waste. I can actually see that area if I drive just 5 minutes away but I'm tied up for the next hour so no luck

Rain here in Rossnowlagh. Incredibly hot.