Thunderstorms Thread Only

darkman2

Snowbie wrote:

big isn it

Yup.

Snowbie

camera is broke,nuts what a pic that would be.

jd

highdef wrote:

Can confirm that there was thunder in the past 5 minutes in the Santry area - D9, I think

Yip-heard it in Northwood..

pp_me129

any lightning detechdors pics??/

jd

Snowbie wrote:

big isn it

This one? Due south of Santry..

darkman2

jd wrote:

This one? Due south of Santry..

Thats the one.:) Dont know whether there is thunder in it or not. There is little or nothing showing on radar

SpitfireIV

Jeez ye get thunder up there and here for the first time in the past couple of days that ol' grey cloud cover has broke and tis really clearing up here, blue sky for a change

pp_me129

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

Jeez ye get thunder up there and here for the first time in the past couple of days that ol' grey cloud cover has broke and tis really clearing up here, blue sky for a change

Been a lovly blue sky all day down here and the sun was splitting the rocks

highdef

Hey JD, thats where my friend in Santry rang from - Northwood. I recognised the pic. Another cell moving into D13 now (home now) - looks like just gonna be heavy rain

bennyx_o

Absolutely lashing down here in Killester. Just heard some thunder, no lightning though.

Snowbie

Nice pic jd,nearly on top of me now,has produced rain now.

Snowbie

Thats still building,might produce

darkman2

Snowbie wrote:

Thats still building,might produce

Thats just coming over me now, no thunder from it yet. The showers are moving northeast out of Wicklow.

Heyes

loads of raining in s dub, but nothing else

dloob

Lots of grey in Galway and little else.
The east is hogging all the weather again first the snow now the thunder. :mad:
We'll start hogging all the rain if ye keep this up.

Hal1

Seems to be something going on in the east alright but cant see anything yet. Theres dark clouds overhead and few patches of drizzle, just your typical irish summers evening atm.

Hal1

Are people gone for an early night or what . Ahh the match lol...

darkman2

Looks like some very heavy thunderstorms in the East and North tomorrow afternoon. Dublin, I wonder will Wicklow give a rain shadow, it happens sometimes but I think tomorrow is the best chance for storms. Top temp 26C tomorrow:D

Snowbie

Depending on wind direction DM,sometimes TS spawn quickly from mountainous areas as the air is forced to rise quicker.

darkman2

Snowbie wrote:

Depending on wind direction DM,sometimes TS spawn quickly from mountainous areas as the air is forced to rise quicker.

Yes I agree. Potential for violent thunderstorms especially in the north. Flash flooding possible IMO. Should kick off early tomorrow afternoon as the inland convection kicks off:D

Wind and jet tomorrow will be west - southwest.

Danno

New crop building over S Tipp, NW Waterford, looks like heading along NE...

aidan_dunne

Anyone know of anything happening in the west at the moment? From the screenshot I attached below the Meterologica site is showing something but neither the Isle of Wight lightning detector or the Blitzortung sites are showing anything.

Looks like there's a couple of pretty nasty storms moving northwards through France at the moment. One looks like it's starting to make the journey across the English Channel at the moment as well. Looks like parts of southeast England could be in for bit of rough night.

dloob

aidan_dunne wrote:

Anyone know of anything happening in the west at the moment? From the screenshot I attached below the Meterologica site is showing something but neither the Isle of Wight lightning detector or the Blitzortung sites are showing anything.

Nothing happing in Galway anyway and I've a good view over the bay towards clare and all seems calm there too.

Snowbie

All is quiet from my detector.
Thats interference from that detector,it is showing strikes way to far like 250miles too far.Them strikes are nearly or where nearly on top of meterologicas detector.over Nwales.

ninebeanrows

Theres gona be some bang crash and walloping this afternoon
in the east from 1500hrs..

Should be some decent thunderstorms;)

Last chance saloon today.

I definitely think its going to get hot inland,probably a 26 or 27c somewhere with a widespread 24 or 25c.
Thats enough to get some convection going-pressure is low enough.

Cape and LI is ok ish but not great according to GFS so I dont know how thundery those will be,they are after all convection showers and not high based activity but I think there will be some thunderstorms,there should be.It's just not likely to be widespread.

Theres a fair chance that the activity moving into Britain may fringe the East coast later but its less than 40% I think.
The upper cloud shield from this is already fringing the East coast.
It's going to be this evening or tonight before that happens if at all so keep an eye on it.

darkman2

Earthman wrote:

Last chance saloon today.

I definitely think its going to get hot inland,probably a 26 or 27c somewhere with a widespread 24 or 25c.
Thats enough to get some convection going-pressure is low enough.

Cape and LI is ok ish but not great according to GFS so I dont know how thundery those will be,they are after all convection showers and not high based activity but I think there will be some thunderstorms,there should be.It's just not likely to be widespread.

Theres a fair chance that the activity moving into Britain may fringe the East coast later but its less than 40% I think.
The upper cloud shield from this is already fringing the East coast.
It's going to be this evening or tonight before that happens if at all so keep an eye on it.

6z GFS peps up the precip for the East and the CAPE just slightly better. Its 50/50 though I think and hit and miss as usual but we could well see thunder later this afternoon:)

ninebeanrows

By bejasus!!

I step outside and its like a bloody cooker!:eek:

My garden at 11am is reading 23c:eek:

Here we go! It feels even hotter than that becuase it is so muggy
and close:eek:

Snowbie

It the hottest so far,cumulus already building.Precip over wickla mtns according to ukmo.

some large cb's fast developing over the south of the wicklow mountains and are visible from here.
I'll post photo's in a few minutes.