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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Autumn/Winter 2018/2019

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  • #62
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭highdef


    Plenty of lightning ongoing in North Wexford and south Wicklow. In the past 15/20 minutes, there's a marked development of a fairly narrow but increasingly intense band orientated NW to SE stretching from just SE of Tullow down to east of Wexford town.


  • #63
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Huge flash of lighting over Naas


  • #64
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Couple of strikes around Waterford region, most were towards JFK Arboretum, Carrickbyrne Co Wexford. Caught this before the heaven opened, Campile is the town in the distance Dunbrody abbey is in the foreground

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  • #65
    shar01
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭shar01


    Even in the dark that's a stunning view spookwoman.

    I'm awake since first peel at 1.30 (just south east of Gorey).


  • #66
    TitianGerm
    Registered Users Posts: 27,776 ✭✭✭✭TitianGerm


    mymo wrote: »
    Lightning here now with very distant thunder, on the carlow kilkenny border. Not to far from enniscorthy so probably from there

    I'm in Enniscorthy and the Thunder was biblical here last night. I'm also fairly sure there was a lighting strike close to my house because there was a crash but not like that from thunder.

    Unfortunately I've no internet today so maybe that's the cause :confused:


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  • #67
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    shar01 wrote: »
    Even in the dark that's a stunning view spookwoman.

    I'm awake since first peel at 1.30 (just south east of Gorey).

    Could see these huge towering glowing white clouds building out to sea and moving inland last night. Most of the flashes I saw were on the Wexford side.


  • #68
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Some sparks showing up on Blitzortung out to sea off cork. Might get some sparks later


  • #69
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Sparks out to sea off wexford waterford again


  • #70
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,750 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Some activity moving towards Cork just now.

    http://en.blitzortung.org/historical_maps.php?map=12


  • #71
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Wow, some very heavy rain in Cork. Very convective looking .

    Reports please!

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  • #72
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Yup, NE Cork getting drenched!


  • #73
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Active cells firing away.

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  • #74
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Is it going to come ashore?


  • #75
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Meh, looks like it's fizzling out.


  • #76
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    :eek:

    https://twitter.com/StormchaserUKEU/status/1066732107836342272

    https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/1066731652783763456


  • #77
    forrest gump
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭forrest gump


    Hi long time viewer of this section on Boards. So thought i would share a lighting storm from Marbella in October of this year. The links are below.



    https://youtu.be/Y8Y4FXQCKjQ
    https://youtu.be/kejpx5LevXw
    https://youtu.be/PTuDgBHRScQ
    https://youtu.be/1LGvEKXZSLo
    https://youtu.be/S6SzsZXSVIg
    https://youtu.be/P--kHdueK2Y
    https://youtu.be/1qpjoMqO614

    I hope you enjoy.


  • #78
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭highdef


    Pretty good video there but there appears to be no audio.....and the video is in portrait mode :-( Thanks for sharing though, all the same :)


  • #79
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    I normally sleep through thunderstorms but was woken just after 4am by a clap of thunder and looked out to see the most biblical rain I'd seen in years here in Enniscorthy or anywhere for that matter.
    The moss on the roofs around here is nearly all gone due to the ferocity of the rain.


  • #80
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Rough day here in Kerry. Quite blustery with convective gusts getting up over 60km/h regularly and getting frequent heavy squally hail and rain showers . Temp up and down in the showers, just reached 8.1c but dropping to 6C or so in the showers. Thunder and lightning about 10.30 gave a mighty rattle to the place.

    Plenty of convection streaming in off the atlantic.

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  • #81
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,871 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Nice Anvil Head West of Galway City


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  • #82
    RoisinD
    Registered Users Posts: 408 ✭✭RoisinD


    Thunder lightning NW Clare


  • #83
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Been a while since there was a chance of some convective type weather.

    Cold Post frontal air mass over relatively warm seas with the passage of an upper trough producing enough instability for the formation of Convectus and Cb's giving widespread heavy showers , some of hail and thunder possible. Should be some impressive cloudscapes. Clouds moving quickly along in a fresh wind , should be sunny spells also.

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  • #84
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?date=2019-01-16

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    Day 2 Convective Outlook
    VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 16 Jan 2019 - 05:59 UTC Thu 17 Jan 2019

    ISSUED 20:24 UTC Tue 15 Jan 2019

    ISSUED BY: Dan

    Upper trough will slide southeastwards across the British Isles on Wednesday. On the forward side, a cold front will move across England and Wales under the influence of a strongly sheared environment. As such, some elements of line convection seem likely, which may produce some bursts of squally rain and gusty winds.


    Behind the cold front, numerous wintry showers will develop as cold air aloft overspreads relatively warm SSTs, generating a couple hundred J/kg CAPE. Several troughs / occlusions embedded in the northwesterly flow will enhance the shower risk, providing some more organised bands of showers at times. A few sporadic lightning strikes will be possible, primarily over open seas and near adjacent coasts.


  • #85
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Looks like a decent little thunderstorm in Clew Bay area at the moment. Fair number of strikes showing up on detectors.


  • #86
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Looks like a decent little thunderstorm in Clew Bay area at the moment. Fair number of strikes showing up on detectors.

    And a high proportion of them look to be positive strikes, as is common in wintertime storms.


  • #87
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,819 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    First time I noticed that the new rainfall radar shows lightning.


  • #88
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Discodog wrote: »
    First time I noticed that the new rainfall radar shows lightning.

    Yip....but quite crude as when you zoom in the '+'s, indicating strikes, do not scale down accordingly, so it's hard to pinpoint the location of individual strikes.

    UKMO lightning detector far better to use/look at to pinpoint locations of individual strikes.


  • #89
    RoisinD
    Registered Users Posts: 408 ✭✭RoisinD


    Kerry and SW Clare going to get some strikes out of this? Maybe some in NW CLare too


  • #90
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    RoisinD wrote:
    Kerry and SW Clare going to get some strikes out of this?


    Yea I'd say there's a good chance of that, active cells just off the west coast now


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  • #91
    squarecircles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    intense and prolonged hailstones this morning in west mayo,with frequent flashes of lightning,passed right over head,was a wild morning.


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