Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Summer/Autumn/Winter 2014-15

Iancar29

Saw that cell too as I came home from work . All the way up in Dudalk though so couldn't get a good pic of it. Had a perfectly geared anvil on it!!

vickers209

Pictures from Weather alert irelands facebook page

TORNADO DAMAGE IN TYRONE & MONAGHAN

Grandeeod

Living in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Thunderstorms predicted over the next 18 hours. Any of you guys got any data on it. Aemet say rain alright, but I need some sparky action as it gets boring out here.

M.T. Cranium

Further west you are in that island nation, the better your chances, little chance for eastern half, 30% central and 70% western during the day Sunday.

Grandeeod

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Further west you are in that island nation, the better your chances, little chance for eastern half, 30% central and 70% western during the day Sunday.

In the south west, so will cross the fingers and toes.

Grandeeod

Lots of action out here today in Tenerife. Not as crazy as December 11th last year, but impressive all the same. I kicked off my viewing at 4.30am with some stunning lightning to the west of me. Counted 12 flashes inside a minute at one stage. Then the rain followed and when it rains out here it rains. Add to that the inability to cope with it. Unfortunately there has been one fatality, a 56 year old women got caught up in a torrent of water. In the capital city of Santa Cruz, a small boat burst into flames after being hit by lightning. I've attached some photos from local sources out here.

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MidMan25

Just back from there 2 weeks ago. Difficult to imagine in raining. I've been there a total of 4 weeks and never seen a drop.

Grandeeod

MidMan25 wrote: »

Just back from there 2 weeks ago. Difficult to imagine in raining. I've been there a total of 4 weeks and never seen a drop.

I'm living here over two years. Visited for 12 years before that and like yourself, never seen a drop. But it happens and when it does it's biblical! Last December, we had a week of it and some amazing electrical storms.

Jpmarn

I was in Tenerife last December for that thunderstorm. The hotel I stayed in the Playa Del Americas area lost power for 10 to 15 minutes. Tenerife South Airport recorded 25 mm rain in one hour.

Video

Apparently tenerife is getting that right now, post of facebook from afterdark.ie

edit... its a pic of the storms from there rolled into one

pad199207

Gone very dark here in Naas so much so that the street light have come on. Clouds seem to be rotating too and moving very fast.

Torrential Rain now

leahyl

Some seriously heavy rain in Cork City this morning - really intense rainfall, I was on my way into work and could barely see the road in front of me at one point!

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leahyl wrote: »

Some seriously heavy rain in Cork City this morning - really intense rainfall, I was on my way into work and could barely see the road in front of me at one point!

same here in Citywest

it was nearly dark at one stage

still lashing down

northgirl

massive bank of cloud just heading off towards the sw of cork city in the last few minutes - thought it would never stop.

fleet_admiral

Its stopped now in Terenure, just as I walk to work:)

Tazio

Found this page today on the Eirgrid site:

http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/transmissionsystemdisturbancemap/

It highlights faults on the main grid / transmission network. If you click on the right hand side it'll show the location of the fault / timestamp / and fault isolation time interval in ms. All the faults seem to be caused lightning!

Just thought it was a cool lightning "detector"!

weisses

Some lightning and rumbles west of Dingle

uck51js9zml2yt

I'm driving from Dublin to Cork tonight. Will it rain?

I hate driving in the rain at night.

Storm 10

weisses wrote: »

Some lightning and rumbles west of Dingle

Quite a few strikes showing up now

smellslikeshoes

Few rumbles here in the South east.

Iancar29

A great morning for walking the dog up at Malahide estuary . Got to see this Cb go up from from just a regular cumulus cloud.



On the way home we went through another decent cell that had some nice ominous scud clouds too.


Not bad for November!

maquiladora

A nice boom of thunder here in Waterford.

TheMilkyPirate

Few rumbles here in Wexford

Poochie05

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Few rumbles here in Wexford

Just came on to check if that's what I heard!

Got very dark but brightening up a bit now

foxy farmer

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Few rumbles here in Wexford

Just looking at the Netweather Storm Radar app on the phone here and its showing some fairly intense lightning activity off the coast in your neck of the woods.
Dry here southof Bandon but showers on the way soon by the look of things.

Colser

Very dark and torrential rain in Cork City at the moment...

Rikand

Incredible thunder and lightning over lanzarote right now. Flashes so bright and the thunder seems to roll on forever!

Darwin

Torrential downpour around Carlow/Laois border at the moment, haven't seen the roads this flooded in ages!

Supercell

Darwin wrote: »

Torrential downpour around Carlow/Laois border at the moment, haven't seen the roads this flooded in ages!

Been watching the radar for the rain that never came (here ) today and was just thinking that around there must be getting a deluge!

Super-Rush

Just drove through an unbelievable downpour on the Carlow Wexford border. Scary stuff.