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No wind here at all today.

No sea breeze even,if this keeps up my record high (only 23c) will be passed.

Remember my station is in an exposed open field on a hill 2 miles from the sea so we dont usually get too high there due to the sea breezes kicking off.

Anyway heres the view from here looking north showing the convection over the wicklow mountains and its quite impressive.

Snowbie

Looks brilliant,clouds rapidly developing here too.Bit misty though.Wasnt really optimistic for today as the front out west will kill off shower activity as it approaches.

Theres something on the latest rainfall radar appearing over wicklow now.
I watched the thing develop literally from nothing over the course of 2 hrs while working outside.
Talk about home grown

Mothman

Earthman wrote:

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.

Just been in Arklow, and they looked great. Back home now and it appears to be moving north at a reasonable pace, and appears to be heading over Dublin shortly if not already

Snowbie

No nothing here yet from wicklow,well its too hazy at the mo.

Mothman

Give it another 30 minutes or so.
Now NW of me, perhaps level with Bray.

Snowbie

see them now and there towering up.

Mothman

Got quite hazy now, but appears to be towers forming down the length of the Wicklow mtns, so potential is there if the track continues northwards

Snowbie

Not producing any precip as yet,nothing on radar.Spose give it time.are they moving north?Gone hazy here again.

Mothman

Snowbie wrote:

.are they moving north?.

Appear to be...

pp_me129

nothing going on here i n waterford lovly day clear blues skys and sun not a cloud to be seen no messsin

darkman2

I can see flat tops to the south. Some rain on radar now.

snowbie,I've heard some low rumbles from the direction of the towers visible from here so somethings happening!

Heres a pic from 15 mins ago looking north towards the wicklow mts.

sirpsycho

Large red square showing on the 2pm radar: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html

pp_me129

jasus That could be a serious strom

Strong storm north of here now.I can hear the thunder rumbling from it fairly constant.

pp_me129

If you watch the anime its bein building since around 11 am so.....

Mothman has justed texted me from near Ashford co wicklow.

He is about 3 miles from the storm and says theres CG lightning about every 2 mins.

sirpsycho

class! hope we get some up in north co dublin

Mothman

Storm headed towards Bray and died. Last rumble about 30 mins ago.
Lost power at one stage.

Snowbie

Still pleasently hazy and warm here Earthman,still no sign of rain etc,can see the radar showing a nice echo.looks over Greystones headin North i hope.

Mothman

Mothman wrote:

Storm headed towards Bray and died. Last rumble about 30 mins ago.
Lost power at one stage.

Yeah,Just had a guy from delaval here, he was up in Ashford and said the thunder was very loud, but just a few spits of rain.

Theres lots more cb's developing now but this time more west of me around croghan mt.
They are fairly extensive so we havent seen the last of this.

It's warm here too but theres a sea breeze.
The wind in Dublin is west or north west hence the higher temps.

Royale with Cheese

Big ass thunder and lightning storm here Cologne. Fantastic stuff.

http://saturn.unibe.ch/rsbern/noaa/dw/realtime/current/n1bcurr.jpg

Click for the larger image on that and scroll down to Ireland.

You can see the storm over the wicklow mountains as a tiny white blob and the only one on the island at the time.
Isnt nature great-that developed initially from cb's over wicklow that formed since 9am this morning.
We grew our own

red_bairn

Lovely activity over here for the weekend! Wonder wat'll be like for Oxegen! Sadly I'll be heaeding up to Cavan for the weekend. Hurray.(Probably be worse...err

darkman2

What happened to the 'spectacular' breakdown across the water?. Dull and drizzilly seems to be reported there by most.

Today I dont think we will see much more action, hope im wrong though.


BTW, this is the chart for next Wednesday. look familiar?;)

darkman2

darkman2 wrote:

Today I dont think we will see much more action, hope im wrong though.

I dont think we've seen the last of it yet.
Theres some shower activity building over the mt leinster area of the carlow wexford border and I can see some huge cbs west of here and over head.

This evening could yet get interesting!

darkman2

Earthman wrote:

I dont think we've seen the last of it yet.
Theres some shower activity building over the mt leinster area of the carlow wexford border and I can see some huge cbs west of here and over head.

This evening could yet get interesting!

There seems to be a sharp echo possibly heading for you EM....

Mothman

Yes saw that Wexford one on the radar a while back, and towers are really climbing again here and to my north.

Should certainly be more action