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7th April shower bearing down on Wicklow Head

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  • 08-04-2008 11:48am
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    Mothman
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    Late afternoon on 7th April, showers developed over Irish Sea off Louth coast. Read about this from #194 in this thread

    I live low down with limited long range view, so I decided to get up local hill to get a view of the leading shower moving south along Wicklow coast.

    From the thread linked to above, there are reports of thunder from Dublin and Bray and I heard distant thunder at 18:20 and a much louder rumble en route at 18:45.
    The first picture taken at 19:14 shows the leading edge of precipitation very well.
    8apr08.5.jpg

    Next one at same time 19:14 is to right. the leading edge of shower on left and Wicklow head on right. The coast is 2 1/2km away
    8apr08.6.jpg

    19:30
    8apr08.8.jpg

    19:34
    8apr08.10.jpg

    19:36
    8apr08.11.jpg

    19:43 Just arriving at Wicklow Head. I had to push up the ISO here as it was getting dark and it was starting to rain on me. The rain was preceded by a little hail. Air temperature fell to 2-3C. Sleet reported higher up inland.
    8apr08.12.jpg

    19:46. Wicklow Head all but disappeared. Some lights from Wicklow are visible. At this stage, the brightness on north side of shower was visible. There was no thunder during the time I was on hill
    8apr08.13.jpg

    I was a km from home (1.5km from coast). 2mm was recorded with max rate of 14mm/hr. The main shower stayed off shore. Well under a mm fell where I was. Got damp rather than wet.

    I'd appreciate if the different structures in photos 3-5 were named or described. I don't usually have these views of showers.


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    Snowbie
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    You have linked to much earlier in the thread from the linky though #194 is correct.
    That is a shelf cloud you have taken a pic of. I have little time on my hands atm to explain but i did post about a shelf cloud before on this forum, do a quick search.:)

    Fantastic snaps MM.


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    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    Snowbie wrote: »
    You have linked to much earlier in the thread from the linky though #194 is correct.
    That is a shelf cloud you have taken a pic of. I have little time on my hands atm to explain but i did post about a shelf cloud before on this forum, do a quick search.:)

    Fantastic snaps MM.

    I linked to whole page as a number of posts relate to this moving southwards.


    Thanks for shelf cloud, no point in repeating yourself :), I'll go searching.


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    Mothman
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    Snowbie wrote: »
    i did post about a shelf cloud before on this forum, do a quick search.:)

    Here it is


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    DOS
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    Class photos there Mothman. Pretty impressive shower.


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