Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Spring/Summer 2016

Jpmarn

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7s2idUk5Qi8dVBhTjJjbHZVZTQWe had recent nearby thunder in my area near Limerick City. The shower affected Hospital, Heberstown, Kilteely, Pallasgreen and Dromkeen areas.


The image posted is a view of the shower dying down over the Silvermines mountain range.

MikeD22

Taken outside castlecomer north kilkenny earlier this evening. Couple of nice forks, my girlfriend managed to capture this one.

Rikand

Hal1 wrote: »

Had a glorious day in new forest golf club. Not even a drop of rain, let alone thunder. Almost beautiful sunshine from start to finish. 30 miles away in Kildare they got the kitt shicked out of them

Funny that

JCX BXC

Heavy hail here in West Clare, massive balls of it. 8.4c. No thunder.

Thought these showers were to die out!

Oscar Bravo

Lightning just north of ennis in the past 30 minutes

sumtings

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Lightning just north of ennis in the past 30 minutes

Already! Just the solitary one though.

JCX BXC

Some massive anvils developing here in West Clare heading southeasterly.

pedigree 6

Just to show the heights the clouds/showers are getting to here in nw wexford.

LEIN

Hail here in Greystones.

SeaBreezes

Just got a flash here in Kinsale!

sunbabe08

I can hear thunder in cork city. Definitely from the storm in the east

JeffK88

One clap of thunder here in Newbridge coming from south

redsteveireland

SeaBreezes wrote: »

Just got a flash here in Kinsale!

Thanks but what's the weather like?

Colser

sunbabe08 wrote: »

I can hear thunder in cork city. Definitely from the storm in the east

I brought in the washing when it started to get dark and its lovely now again.Cant hear any thunder yet but thinking of heading to Kinsale in the hopes of a Flash:pac:

redsteveireland

Just beautiful.

snowstorm445

Crack of thunder from the direction of Howth. :O

ninebeanrows

Heavy thunderstorm moving towards Wexford town with fairly frequent lightning.

WheatenBriar

Weathercheck wrote: »

Heavy thunderstorm moving towards Wexford town with fairly frequent lightning.

Amazing cloudscapes up my way

chris2007

... France, UK, Ireland and Scotland ...

Scattered to widespread diurnal driven DMC occurs beneath the base of the upper trough. 400-800 J/kg SBCAPE and 10-15 m/s DLS (especially along the periphery of the trough) support strong thunderstorms with marginal hail and gusty winds. An isolated large hail event is possible and also an isolated tornado/funnel event due to augmented LLCAPE. A general decrease in coverage and strength of thunderstorm activity is forecast during the night although isolated thunderstorms may occur over coastal or offshore areas.

taken from http://www.estofex.org

LEIN

Recent rumble over D17.

chris2007

LEIN wrote: »

Recent rumble over D17.

when?

vickers209

Massive hail shower in wicklow town with lightning and thunder

LEIN

chris2007 wrote: »

when?

Roughly an hour ago.

BoJack Horseman

Huge thunder & hail shower here in Wicklow Town.

Lasting about 10 mins.
More hail than what fell here during the winter for sure.

ninebeanrows

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Huge thunder & hail shower here in Wicklow Town.

Lasting about 10 mins.
More hail than what fell here during the winter for sure.

Get the camera out! Looks tasty

vickers209

Gonzo

had a sharp thunderstorm about an hour ago, alot of hail, flash and some fork lightning and downpours of rain. Electricity went just as the shower hit followed by the first bang of thunder. Electricity was gone for over an hour and just back on now.

Darwin

(West Laois) Was out walking and had to take shelter with an umbrella, that was some downpour not to mention a few rounds of lightning for good measure...driveway when I got home:



Checked the radar on met.ie and shows a red dot (12-20mm per hour) over our general area at 3pm, not surprised!

Rikand

Had 1 rumble of thunder over athlone at around 3-ish. It was nice to not miss out completely on all the fun

Pa ElGrande

https://videopress.com/v/Gk6jP4Ro


The lightning flash captured here happened during a May 20 storm not far from the Florida Tech campus in Melbourne. It was recorded at 7,000 frames per second using a high-speed camera.

Video courtesy of the Geospace Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology.