Thunderstorms Thread

Mothman

Just talking to EM, the Shannon has been diverted via Arklow:p
Torrential rain, wipers on full, driving was scary...

15 miles north, it's sunny, mostly hazy, though can see tower tops at times.

Hal1

The UK got another freak tornado yesterday just reading it from the bbc website. How come they are getting all the good weather?

Mothman

Things have fired up to my SW. About a rumble a minute for past 10 minutes and starting to look quite dark in that direction, though sun is still out here.

And a text in from Em, Thunder going non stop

Snowbie

Sounds like a good storm alright.Not over head Mothman?In Ashford.
Can see clearly a massive anvil from here looking south.

When I restarted weather display it lost the info from the datalogger:mad: so I dont know what the peak rain rate was a half hour ago.

I was driving into arklow and it was like brown water rafting,the floods were crazy and the rain was so loud,I found it hard to hear mothman.

Current total is 9.7 mm in one hour and rising rapidly

Current rain rate is 20.3mm/hr though it could have been up to a 100mm/hr earlier :mad:

Thunder is still rumbling

Snowbie

Earthman wrote:

When I restarted weather display it lost the info from the datalogger:mad: so I dont know what the peak rain rate was a half hour ago.

I was driving into arklow and it was like brown water rafting,the floods were crazy and the rain was so loud,I found it hard to hear mothman.

Current total is 9.7 mm in one hour and rising rapidly

Current rain rate is 20.3mm/hr though it could have been up to a 100mm/hr earlier :mad:

Thunder is still rumbling

Any rotation in clouds.Funnels,as it does sound severe.

Flat calm outside snowbie and raining moderately still at 2mm/hr

The whole sky is leaden and I can just about make out cb's in the mix on the horizon but no brightness.

Havent heard thunder now for a while

Rain fall total now 10.2mm and rising

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

Excelent early view of the build up of the wexford/wicklow storm at about lunchtime.

You can see the straight line where the sea breeze tried in vain to keep it away from the coast and you can see the bubbles of the cloud tops

nacho libre

aha as i suspected from the cloud patterns there is thunder in the east. alas there is none here.

mike65

Thunderclaping here right now! :eek:

Mike.

kensutz

Same here, maybe because I live in the same estate Mike

still raining at 1.8mm/hr now

Total is now 11.2mm

last thunder was nearly an hour ago now

Snowbie

Right, detector back on now.Not that you needed it EM.Good storm?

Snowbie

The main band of is leading to some heafty showers ahead of it,NI is starting to get some of them now with a strike recorded.Potentially Interesting evening ahead

yeah lots of bangs and cg's but its disappointing now as it morphed into a general period of rain-though I'm very happy with the rain and it looks like more tonight...
I have to say the monster cb's that preceded the storm were some of the best I've seen,truly tropical looking and very very scarily big and high.
The extent of them in a long line as they got closer was awesome,they stretched from south wexford right up to west wicklow and enveloped the area when the rain & thunder got going right to the coast.

Rain is very light now but still falling.

Total is up to 11.4mm

looks like you have been recording some recent strikes down over mount leinster agin snowbie?

Normally we can see that from here and it was in that general area that todays stormas started to develop.

Snowbie

Yeah EM,seems like waterford is getting dumped on too atm.

Snowbie

Darkened up here in last few mins,TS breaking out now in the midlands and west

Kashkai

Whats the chance of rain tomorrow SNOWBIE in the am as I want to wash the car????

Snowbie

Prosperous Dave wrote:

Whats the chance of rain tomorrow SNOWBIE in the am as I want to wash the car????

Better day tomorrow Dave.Hit and miss the showers.

pp_me129

finally i got my thunderstrom
and the rain was the rain u get after a thunderstrom 4 bout a hour
every flooded because of the volume of water

Takeshi_Kovacs

Any pics earthman, would be nice to see those anvils... they sound class..

All is quite and calm down here, just the odd heavy shower during the day, but it has brightened up a lot now. Although looking at Snowbies detector, there are a few strikes starting to creep into the Rathmore/Killarney region, so hopefully they might head in my direction.

Danno

Thunder rumbelling away here for the last 20 minutes or so, big CBs all around, dry here. Castlecomer pleatau is black skied - where thunder is.
It is drifting wsw towards me.

Mothman

Meanwhile the hazy sunshine continued. The storm to my SW just seem to collapse at about the time of my last report and there is no sign of anything now.

Danno

Big flash over Castlecomer! Fork!

Danno

Fork over Nore Valley on the Laois KK border - very close!

CrowdedHouse

What do the blue 'X' es on the detector signify ?

Snowbie

CrowdedHouse wrote:

What do the blue 'X' es on the detector signify ?

The detector im using is for storm chasing and will not distinguish between intra cloud + and - and cloud to ground + and -,it signifies a strike at the location on the map.
It is the PCI boltek that is installed on a pc that can determine the above with its built in wavelenght transceiver.
Both use the same software.
With mine i can hook up to a laptop and travel in car to obviously chase storms.

Nalz

thunder a rumblin' in Carlow town atm

Supercell

Interesting EIDW 1800z Taf ..PROB40 TEMPO 1921 5000 SHRA TSRA SCT010 BKN015CB

I'll have some of that