Thunderstorms Thread Only

Dr. Dre

Dr. Dre wrote:

It was OK here alright, just spent the last 2 hrs in a dark room with a crate of beer watching the show - it seems to have picked up considerably over the cooley penninsula area, it seems more or less non stop from my vantage point in Dundalk, looking out over Dundalk bay to the Cooley mountains.
I do love a good lighning show

Yeah it got really active when it headed into NI.

18,000 homes lost power and the NI electricity service had to deal with a 1000 strikes on their lines :eek:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/5197248.stm

Wertz

aidan_dunne wrote:

Jaysus man, are you nuts! :eek: You say it's banging away right over your head or pretty close to you and you're online? Get off your computer and unplug, unplug, unplug EVERYTHING (don't forget the phone line) and go take cover under the duvet for God's sake!

I plug out everything in the house if I so much as see lightning or hear thunder no matter how far away it is. I tend to take the cautious approach that if it's close enough to see (even on the horizon) or hear it's already too close for comfort. It's probably overkill, I know, but I don't take any chances when it comes to my electrical and computer stuff!

Meh, there was no C2G strikes and I was on the laptop....the only thing that was taking a hit was the surge protector and the wireless router. Unless lightning can somehow use wireless networks (some smartarse is gonna tell me it can now)

aidan_dunne

Hey Snowbie, mate, you around by any chance? If you are, are you showing up anything for the midlands and in particular the Laois area at the moment? Got a really menacing looking sky overhead here in Portlaoise right now and we've just had a pretty sharp, short shower. Neither the blitzortung, Isle of Wight or meteorologica websites are showing anything around here right now, all's clear according to them, but by God does it look thundery outside here right now! :eek:

Snowbie

aidan_dunne wrote:

Hey Snowbie, mate, you around by any chance? If you are, are you showing up anything for the midlands and in particular the Laois area at the moment? Got a really menacing looking sky overhead here in Portlaoise right now and we've just had a pretty sharp, short shower. Neither the blitzortung, Isle of Wight or meteorologica websites are showing anything around here right now, all's clear according to them, but by God does it look thundery outside here right now! :eek:

Hey Aidan,nothing anywhere atm.:(

Snowbie

That shower Aidan was talking about might intensfy further as it approaches the eastern counties.Nice and clear here atm over Dublin so if you look west in a half hour we might be able to catch a couple of CBs building.
22c here and 72% humidity so i say lifted index is negative in the Dublin area,which can trigger a TS.

Snowbie

Can see towering Cumulus and CBs with anvils in front of a lowering sun,quite a spectacular view moving NE towards Drogheda and Louth area.

Hal1

Dunno how accurate this site is but its reporting cloud height at 25,000 ft. I presume they are columbus clouds too, if so could it pose some TS activity?

Wertz

Oh that red dot has my name written all over it, if it manages to keep going after the sun drops

[edit] Just looked out the window and it's sitting to my SW...must be close to that height judging that I can see it and it's still a far few miles away yet.

Thunder_struck

darkman2 wrote:

Looks like good thunderstorm potential for the east tomorrow atm:)

Don't mean to be unkind to the rest of you but Snowbie seems to be the only one on this board who gives accurate TS forecasts :rolleyes: With everyone else it seems to be TS wishful thinking, whereas Snowbie appears to go by the facts. Unlike most (all?) of you I HATE TS's (:eek:) and have now learnt to ignore every forecast on this board....except Snowbie's, they've been spectacularly accurate so far.

ch750536

Thunder_struck wrote:

Don't mean to be unkind to the rest of you but Snowbie seems to be the only one on this board who gives accurate TS forecasts :rolleyes: With everyone else it seems to be TS wishful thinking, whereas Snowbie appears to go by the facts. Unlike most (all?) of you I HATE TS's (:eek:) and have now learnt to ignore every forecast on this board....except Snowbie's, they've been spectacularly accurate so far.

Bit like one of those 'I'm not racist, but...' statements eh.

Funsterdelux

I focking Love T-Storms, and of course like all things that one loves they only happen very rarely,

Where Im from we used to see the T-showers coming straight for us then, theyd magically avoid us everytime, used to pizz me of big time,

they dont make them like they used to.

darkman2

Thunder_struck wrote:

Don't mean to be unkind to the rest of you but Snowbie seems to be the only one on this board who gives accurate TS forecasts :rolleyes: With everyone else it seems to be TS wishful thinking, whereas Snowbie appears to go by the facts. Unlike most (all?) of you I HATE TS's (:eek:) and have now learnt to ignore every forecast on this board....except Snowbie's, they've been spectacularly accurate so far.

I can take upfront criticism. I forcast that hot spell 2 weeks ago and the one before that 1.5 weeks prior. You will find that we can only on whats put in front of us. Thats what the charts say. Its not as easy as it looks to forcast anything weather wise beyond a matter of hours.

Absolutely mad sky out there today.
Lots of cb's and weaved cloud patterns at the moment.

I'm convinced I saw a funnel cloud too very high to the west near croghan mountain.No camera with me at the time unfortunately but it curved and tailed upwards and disolved minutes after I saw it.

A thunderstorm/heavy shower wouldnt surprise me this evening given all that turbulence up there.

Supercell

Nothing like that here in Rathgar unfortunatly.
Clouds have a distinctly linear look to them (cumulus and stratus crapus), explosive cyclogenisis it ain't, any precip here looks likely to be light if at all.

Wertz

Have to agree with the mad sky....was coming home from Dublin and the moist air coming in off the sea was bubbling up like crazy over the land. Saw a good few mid level cumulus bubble up and then "loose" their tops, which would float off in a different direction. A sky full of cotton wool balls.

Snowbie

Saw the cumulus tower up into anvil only to dissipate straight away and then do it again,doing it over and over again till dusk untill convection was lost.Great shot with camera if it was`nt broke.:(

Snowbie

Things will get interesting in England tonight and tomorrow:(

SpitfireIV

Snowbie wrote:

Things will get interesting in England tonight and tomorrow:(

Things look interesting over there now, the south coast started showing activity around 3am this morning, and now it has a hell of a lot more TS's, they must have had them all night :mad:

http://www.blitzortung.org/index.php?mode=0&map=5&lang=e

Any risk at all today of us getting a rumble or two??

Hal1

http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/sfanim.gif Just noticed this out the the west a few hundred miles out. does it look like its headed inland?

Snowbie

it died off hal.

Trogdor

The storms have started out west again.
http://meteocentre.com/lightning/map_sfuk.php?time=0&lang=en&map=EuropeNW

Snowbie

Good cape for wedensday for Ireland.One to watch.

darkman2

Thunderstorms will be breaking out tomorrow. Mostly midlands though. Very warm tomorrow too. Up to 26C again.

highdef

Just got confirmation of a thunderstorm in the Lackagh area of Galway in the past hour - looking at the radar, I'd well believe and more on the way, I reckon

darkman2

highdef wrote:

Just got confirmation of a thunderstorm in the Lackagh area of Galway in the past hour - looking at the radar, I'd well believe and more on the way, I reckon

Yeah, not particularly organised though. Patchy in nature. Probrably something similar tomorrow though more widespread.:)

Mothman

2 messages from EM in Galway area.

15:10
Even tough it's cloudy you can see a lot of crazy shaped CB towers and anvils, 24C

16:52
Monsoon now at Lough Corrib!

ch750536

:eek:
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The tax man

Linky
Wales is under attack.:D
Would love to be the other side of the Irish Sea right now.

swalsh

Looks like there are some mental TS across the waters!!

Trogdor

http://www.estofex.org/
Says there is a risk of one or two tornadoes with gusts of 25m/s 90km/h, looks like it could be a lively day today, or maybe the forecast is wrong but theres still a chance of a few isolated thunderstorms everywhere:D