Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring /Summer 2025

Meteorite58

Still a few sparks off the Clare Coast aided by those converging sea breezes I'd reckon.

Record of todays sferics detected.

WolfeEire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123444962#Comment_123444962

The final rumble of the day here about 45 mins ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqkEScd4RO4

eagerv

Unfortunately weakening as coming over land.
As I type a little rain starting, but nothing much of interest otherwise. Photo taken from west Co Wexford looking east.

Meteorite58

Area of surface LP S of Ireland and rotating upper Low still having an effect over mainly Munster tomorrow, moisture rich tongue of warm airflow over the country coinciding with peak diurnal heating in the afternoon , Dp's into the mid teens, subtle Deep Layer shear improving in the afternoon with surface convergence and topographical lift all lending a hand to produce instability and CAPE into the high 100's of j/kg resulting in convection with thunderstorms a probability.

eagerv

Follow up to my post and photo #154, got a nice bit of rain from that shower in west Co Wexford. Help the lawn anyway 🙂.

The dog is terrified, hiding under bed atm, no sign of any thunder but dogs can be very sensitive to sudden drop in atmospheric pressure.

WolfeEire

There is a moderate risk of isolated thunderstorms in parts of Clare, Limerick, Kerry and north Cork later this afternoon and early evening. Spot flooding and difficult driving conditions are likely in any localised downpours. Keep an eye on the rainfall radars and met.ie.

DayInTheBog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123446507#Comment_123446507

Let's hope we see some of it near Tralee. Downpour yesterday in causeway and I didn't see a drop

Takeshi_Kovacs

Looking towards the west over Slieve Mish from Currow area

squonk

Much quieter in north Clare today. Can see some clouds forming but this time yesterday there were many more clouds and it was fairly windy. Much calmer today.

squonk

Showers kicking off in west Kerry now. I’d say today’s event will be more of a south western thing

Dazler97

Warning Has been issued and there is already some kicking off

Meteorite58

Lots of thunder now in Tralee.

Meteorite58

Nice Storm developed just S of Tralee but ran out of power for now.

Dan Steely

I wonder will we see more countrywide storms next week with the breakdown? Or will it be a soft breakdown?

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123447679#Comment_123447679

the potential breakdown has disappeared from long range, so we might have this for some time yet

Meteorite58

New loud Storm rumbling away just North of me here in Tralee, hope my ponds get some rian from it!

Meteorite58

Thunder and lightning visible ongoing here in Tralee, can see in the weatherlink App showing my site got 2.8mm so far, very welcome.

Storm 10

Comon guys where are the videos

WolfeEire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123448010#Comment_123448010

No video, didn't happen 😋

A lot of the cloud to ground strikes seem to be happening out at sea rather than over land for the past two days. I guess that is due to a change in convective activity / change of airmass

Meteorite58

Drove home through a huge downpour around 16.30 here in Kerry, standing water pooling on roads and the surface steaming, ended up with 6.8mm here and a light shower atm, activity seems to have died off now apart from a few sferics off the North Kerry coast. Glad of the rain, could remain dry for many for the next 10 days !

Temperatures dropped a whopping 7.5C here during the rain.

Record of detected sferics today, Blitzortung didn't do too well today.

Temp graph at my site near Tralee.

pureza

If the thunder doesn’t go to Mohammad,he must go to the thunder
After a hot sunny day so far in Bali,she’s booming now behind and to the left of me

I’d say I’ m the only one here wishing her in 😂

pureza

very noisy now,time to evacuate ⚡️

Loving the constant booms

DOCARCH

Hard life! 😂

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123454840#Comment_123454840

I was surprised with the report from the BBC, hadn't looked too far ahead but yes, in my amateur understanding, an upper low with associated cold pool and subtle/ sufficient vorticity aiding instability supporting convection and thunderstorm development depending on how much moisture in the atmosphere. Early charts show very good lapse rates and the early indices supporting potential for thunderstorm development, could be fairly widespread under and close to the cold uppers . Interesting model watching over the next few days.

Ros4Sam24

Gfs overdoing it as always ?

Meteorite58

Interest still there for Mon and Tues producing convective showers and thunderstorms, Tues looks the most active day and currently both the ECM and GFS showing widespread showers some locally quite heavy with a risk of hail especially Tues I would think and some fairly high totals currently showing up but a bit early to know for sure but will include the current charts for now as more an indication of potential but areas getting the most rainfall wont be fully known until later Sun/ Mon. Warning potential especially Tuesday from slow moving storms which could drop a lot of water locally.

Dan Steely

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123458774#Comment_123458774

All during daylight hours? Nothing at night?

DayInTheBog

It's badly needed. The farmers won't be too happy who have silage to cut and bale.

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123459306#Comment_123459306

There could be some thunderstorms in the early hours of Tuesday morning, will have a better idea later Sun into Mon.

Dazler97

Where looking very good for thunderstorms tomorrow Monday and Tuesday