Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Autumn/Winter 2015/16

patneve2

Some serious convection in the med in the last few days. Video of massive hail in the Gulf of Naples

Rikand

Any thunder forecast for this evening ? Clouds out there around Athlone are looking really convective-y.


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Just started to lash....you could kinda tell it had been building for about an hour or so....

Hal1

Some sferics showing around the headford area on nw.

Xenji

Thunder in Castlebar at the moment.

Oscar Bravo

That was some serious thunder and heavy rain with some hail mixed in - Castlebar

Oneiric 3

Nice rumble of thunder here, quite distant but loud enough.

redsteveireland

Try again... A couple of heavy prolonged downpours here.

Aerohead

Germany is getting hammered with lightning storms

redsteveireland

Some mammatus off the back of the last shower - just about visible here.

Aerohead

Some great lightning display on the Hamburg port webcam


http://www.cruisin.me/cruise-port-webcams/europe/cuxhaven-germany.php

And this one at Dortmund Airport

http://www.dortmund-airport.com/e55c3446ae2148f9/webcam?cam=camera_east

chris2007

Any chance of some t-storms brewing up today

FWVT

Maybe in the east.

PukkaStukka

Thunder in Skerries!

pad199207

Very very dark skies west of Naas here now. Almost shelf cloud like structure

Iancar29

lightning flashes over the swords area, nice clear sky over me to view it

pad199207

Torrents of rain in Naas with Lightning

DOCARCH

Looks like that shower is intensifying as it heads towards Dublin.

PukkaStukka

Drove back from Skerries to Donabate in torrential rain with about 8 flashes from a truly apocalyptic looking sky. But the storm has now moved out over the sea and the lightning seems to have died with it.

kittyn

DOCARCH wrote: »

Looks like that shower is intensifying as it heads towards Dublin.

Praying I could use some interesting weather

pad199207

Power out here in Naas. Lots of lightning 210mm per hour

Yes my sister in Naas told me, not fair !!!

looks nasty on the radar or should I say good ?

SEPT 23 1989

Few flashes and deep rumbles in the distance.starting to lash rain now

Newcastle Dublin

Met ie didn't forecast that, it;s since updated (19:37) with a risk of Thunder,obvious when it's on top of you!

Darwin

We had that front over us (Laois) about an hour ago, just heavy showers, nothing torrential. It has intensified quite a bit since then!

pad199207

Close to30mm has fallen from that now my back garden is flooded and the street outside has water coming up from the manholes

Trebor176

My sister in Naas described the thunder and lightning as mental. It's lashing now in Clondalkin, but I reckon that's about all we'll get.

28 miles south of Naas, not fair !

notuslimited

Here in Naas. That was the heaviest rain I can recall in my lifetime. Absolutely chucking it down and fork lighting to boot. Was collecting my son and 2 friends from K Leisure. All three were in awe. The words apocalypse, end of the world, Noah"s Ark, Cats and Dogs all got a mention.

DOCARCH

Lightning here in Dublin 16. 8 seconds to thunder.

SEPT 23 1989

Started again

People do have short memories when it comes to the weather though. I can remember some super thunderstorms in the 1980's we've never experienced anything like it since.

Trebor176

I think I heard a distant rumble in Clondalkin.

Micky 32

Deleted User wrote: »

People do have short memories when it comes to the weather though. I can remember some super thunderstorms in the 1980's we've never experienced anything like it since.

I remember the one we had one night in the 80's. Some light show at night but with explosions not rumbles lol, wonder why we only get them the odd time

Coles

Trebor176 wrote: »

I think I heard a distant rumble in Clondalkin.

No sign of it on the Lightning maps.

http://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzortung/europe/index.php?bo_page=map&lang=en

redsteveireland

FWVT wrote: »

Maybe in the east.

Good call

SEPT 23 1989

Trebor176 wrote: »

I think I heard a distant rumble in Clondalkin.

You heard it

Bongalongherb

Very heavy rain in Swords Co. Dublin now, no thunder though.

patneve2

Torrential downpour

DOCARCH

Heavy rain here in Dublin 16, but, only recording rain rate of 3.0mm/hr...need to check rain gauge for spiders!!!

Mech1

DOCARCH wrote: »

Lightning here in Dublin 16. 8 seconds to thunder.

I seen that , big long flash, I was on M50 heading north just passing Dundrum.

So confirmed.

(not that we dont believe all your reports, DOCARCH!)

Redsunset

Was in Naas from 7:45pm yesterday.Was busy unfortunately otherwise would have taken a video because the rain and lightning was fierce. I'm just back from Thailand And what I seen in Naas was on a par at times with some monsoon weather I experienced whilst there.
Anyone got a radar screen shot from the time at happened?

pad199207

Certainly was. 31mm in 30 mins is nothing to be sniffed at! Hence the flooding.
Lightning was very impressive. Damaging the Harbour Plaza Downtown.

RoLad001

Just saw the damage the lightening did to the harbour in naas. Can't post photo but it's very impressive but scary also. Luckily it did not happen earlier in the day as it's quite a busy area for pedestrians

Duiske

Deleted User wrote: »

looks nasty on the radar or should I say good ?

Got caught on the M7 during that last night. Wipers on full speed didn't help so pulled off at Newbridge exit to wait it out. Waited about 5 minutes after it stopped to get back on motorway, but ended up catching up with the rain again at Naas. Must have been a fairly slow moving system. Do a lot of driving and have drove in some awful conditions, but last night was definately the worst in terms of rainfall. Have to say though, bad as it was the fork lightning was amazing. Almost worth the hassle just for that.

I can remember the torrential rain the two really bad summers we had was it 2009/10 ? that was nasty !

pad199207

Some photos of yesterday's drama in Naas. The last picture is where the lightning hit the harbour plaza.

Excellent stuff and all just 28 miles away, bloody typical !!!

It's really amazing how these tiny storms can be so localised !

DOCARCH

pad199207 wrote: »

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Love that one....'we will re-build'. :P

Trogdor

The series of low pressure systems stalling just West of us next week could bring some fireworks to coastal areas, still quite far away for any specifics and might not happen but the GFS has been fairly consistent with the risk over the last few runs. Obviously the charts for later on in the week are much less likely to come off, but would be somewhat confident about Wednesday's potential for some heavy showers and thunderstorms. With the way the winds are off the low, Southern and Eastern coasts could be in the firing line.

Wednesday




Friday (Perhaps a chance for Western coasts)

Hal1

A nice squall line from mayo to waterford now appearing on nw radar. It's going in a NE direction. I wonder if anything convective will materialize from it.