Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Spring/Summer 15

sunbabe08 · 03-07-2015 07:58PM

Getting dark here in cork. Is there definite lightening for tonight?

Wanderer78 · 03-07-2015 07:59PM

Super-Rush wrote: »

Somethings brewing.

wheres this?

Oscar Bravo · 03-07-2015 07:59PM

Cork airport TAF warning of Thunderstorm,rain,small hail/snow pellets on approach .EICK 031842Z 0318/0418 10016KT 9999 SCT012 BKN017 BECMG 0319/0321 BKN005 TEMPO 0319/0405 4000 SHRA BKN005 BKN020CB PROB40 TEMPO 0319/0405 3000 TSRAGS BKN005 BKN020CB BECMG 0322/0324 15013KT BECMG 0404/0406 24016G27KT 9999 SCT010 BKN016 BECMG 0410/0412 22013KT

Super-Rush · 03-07-2015 08:02PM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

wheres this?

Carlow looking south.

maquiladora · 03-07-2015 08:03PM

For what it's worth, the intense blobs of precip have vanished on the latest short range model update. Still looks showery tonight but a downgrade in terms of intensity.

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/short-range.asp

RobertKK · 03-07-2015 08:05PM

Very dark skies in Kilkenny.

Had some light rain already.

RobertKK · 03-07-2015 08:08PM

We will have nothing like North west Italy at the moment and it has been that way for hours there...

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

frogloch · 03-07-2015 08:13PM

Anyone in cork, must be a cloudburst going by latest radar.

Trebor176 · 03-07-2015 08:23PM

The strikes off the south coast of Ireland seem to be moving further east. There have been some strikes in Wales too.

maquiladora · 03-07-2015 08:35PM

Strike showing up over Ennis. Not sure if it's an error though.

Danno · 03-07-2015 08:37PM

maquiladora wrote: »

Strike showing up over Ennis. Not sure if it's an error though.

Got that on my own detector here. Thing to remember is that Ireland is pretty poorly covered by the detector networks and only some strikes will be picked up on the mostly British network.

frogloch · 03-07-2015 08:38PM

There,s a definite easterly airmass coming in here over wexford, its not cold but the cloud is moving nnw. It kindof calm, sound would carry a long distance.

pad199207 · 03-07-2015 08:43PM

Starting to get a bit more busy South of Wexford now

WheatenBriar · 03-07-2015 08:43PM

Danno wrote: »

Got that on my own detector here. Thing to remember is that Ireland is pretty poorly covered by the detector networks and only some strikes will be picked up on the mostly British network.

Radar wouldn't be the May west south of Waterford either where there's just been a strike in light precip

M.T. Cranium · 03-07-2015 08:44PM

Personally not quite ready to upgrade from WATCH to ALERT status yet, but with some development underway, more optimistic than pessimistic. Might upgrade at any point now to midnight.

V_Moth · 03-07-2015 08:48PM

RobertKK wrote: »

We will have nothing like North west Italy at the moment and it has been that way for hours there...

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/piemonte/torino/piazza-vittorio-veneto.html

Livcam from Turin for anyone waitingon Irish t-storms later on

pad199207 · 03-07-2015 08:53PM

Strike off Hook Head now

sparrowcar · 03-07-2015 09:03PM

I'm still camping in a field on the Cavan/Fermanagh border, hopefully something later tonight.

To answer an earlier question about why in a field camping it's not to sit and wait for a storm like some smart arse suggested earlier.. I'm a scouting volunteer.

frogloch · 03-07-2015 09:03PM

Cloud is moving northwards, breeze is coming from east here in wexford.

lolie · 03-07-2015 09:06PM

maquiladora wrote: »

Strike showing up over Ennis. Not sure if it's an error though.

Brother is in limerick and said he seen a flash and rumble so no error.

WheatenBriar · 03-07-2015 09:06PM

frogloch wrote: »

Cloud is moving northwards, breeze is coming from east here in wexford.

Yeah same in Arklow and I'd agree it's a warm breeze,not at all feeling like it's what a breeze off the Irish Sea would feel like

Takeshi_Kovacs · 03-07-2015 09:09PM

sparrowcar wrote: »

I'm still camping in a field on the Cavan/Fermanagh border, hopefully something later tonight.

To answer an earlier question about why in a field camping it's not to sit and wait for a storm like some smart arse suggested earlier.. I'm a scouting volunteer.

One of my favourite things about summer camp in scouts, was being out in a thunderstorm and the rain hopping off the tent, flashlights at the ready for the obligatory night hike...

maquiladora · 03-07-2015 09:10PM

At the moment, doesn't look like there is much following on after that little cell near the Wexford coast that has produced a few strikes.

Oscar Bravo · 03-07-2015 09:13PM

looks very very quite following on , Maq.

pad199207 · 03-07-2015 09:14PM

Sky looks like its about to go bang here over Naas. Very Turbulant looking.

maquiladora · 03-07-2015 09:18PM

I can hear the distant thunder here in Waterford from those strikes around Hook Head.

pad199207 · 03-07-2015 09:23PM

Wind is nearly opposite to the direction of the clouds

Simon Gruber Says · 03-07-2015 09:25PM

I remember being on a camping trip with the scouts up in the Wicklow mountains. Huge thunderstorms rolled in off the Irish Sea that night. Ended up soaked to the skin and our tents collapsed in the wind.

Oscar Bravo · 03-07-2015 09:27PM

Belmullet doing quite nicely out of the south easterly flow, 18 degrees at 10pm, theres many days of the year that wouldnt get higher than that!

frogloch · 03-07-2015 09:27PM

Thunder and the heavens have opened,i was wondering how long that water could stay up there. Oh wait it's stopped now.

Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Spring/Summer 15

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