Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Spring/Summer 15

DOCARCH

Looks like a decent enough storm around Arklow alright. http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=12

WheatenBriar

11

WheatenBriar

12

fred funk }{

One or two nice bangs about 10 minutes ago in Arklow. Seems to be calming down a bit now.

WheatenBriar

fred funk }{ wrote: »

One or two nice bangs about 10 minutes ago in Arklow. Seems to be calming down a bit now.

You must be deaf

pad199207

Lively Downpours here in Naas with Thunder and Lightning

RuthieRose

Few good rumbles and some blanket lightening off the coast near Dungarvan.

fred funk }{

WheatenBriar wrote: »

You must be deaf

WHAT? :pac:

pad199207

Shelf on the Storm over Naas

jimmynokia

Getting dark and heavy rain DN 22

DOCARCH

pad199207 wrote: »

Shelf on the Storm over Naas.

Nice capture Pad!

Getting dark here in south Dublin, but looks like bulk of that shower will pass to my south, over the mountains.

Supercell

That clipped here, just some light/moderate rain for about 15 minutes, nothing too exciting unfortunately! Got 0.6mm rain measured from it.

Simon Gruber Says

Great looking shelf over the northern side of Dublin

Hal1

Great view from the drivers seat I say .

pad199207

Can hear Thunder again Naas now

highdef

There were a couple of strikes around Enfield

Trebor176

I think I just heard thunder in Clondalkin. Kind of faint, though.

Patser

2 large booms of thunder over Maynooth, as well as some epic rain and hail for 20 minutes.

But easing off now just as quickly and brightening up.

diceyd

Finglas

Trebor176

And another rumble. . .

The sky is looking quite threatening at the moment.

Iancar29

Distant Thunder in D11 , very suspicious lowering / possible wall cloud over towards swords!

Simon Gruber Says

Heavy rain in Dublin city now. The Dublin radar appears to be offline at the moment.

WheatenBriar

What caused tuesdays storms? They were pretty vicious between 3 and 5 in the south-east
Even MT didnt forecast them,issuing an alert over an hour after they started
Nothing in this thread untill it started
In the south wicklow north wexford area,what we got was way ahead of the hype and estofex posts from supposed plume events that never happened a few weeks back

The main storm here,in terms of noise and lightning was actually similar to something I saw in Budapest a few years ago
Everyone was talking about it

Iancar29

Cape & LI was low but strong wind convergence coupled with high lapse rates helped kick them off . DLS was in the 30knts region too locally. The strong midday sun was was key.

WheatenBriar

Aye,I did not have a sea breeze here, temps in earlier sunshine only about 17c,so are you saying there was some upper level convergence
People were stopping cars with the downpour of hail at one stage
At that point there was more than one strike a minute which was very noisy and made it quite remarkable locally at its height near 4pm
(mt's warning came at 440 pm,None from m.e at all-both entering the fray as a nowcast, with morning forecasts only mentioning light showers mainly up north iirc)

Its another case of weather completely outfoxing the models and forecasters

Iancar29

Yeah mid level convergence , possibly some upslope action helped too. Met eireann did mention some possible thundery showers in their radio forecast. I would probably had more of a heads up about it on here if I wasn't working a lot lately.

Was nice to see numerous strikes in the one area on the map as you mentioned about. Impossible to predict how active a cell will be .

Hal1

Some sferics increasing on approach to the sw coastline, well there a fare few hundred km's out. Things could intensify later perhaps? http://www.sat24.com/?culture=en

Oscar Bravo

Couple of recent strikes just south east of galway city.

Oscar Bravo

more strikes between Gort and Loughrea just now

Hal1

That's some line of showers between galway and limerick. For some reason blitzortung isnt dectecting sferics but nw radar is .