Thunderstorms

HungryJoey

Since about half 2 its been raining and on and off Thunder. At about 2:45 till 3 here in Blanchardstown, had a massive storm. I've personally never seen such big hail stones. The roads we're flooded. Plenty of lightning and thunder. I recorded the lot too. Was quite intense.

EDIT: I have a few images of the water on the ground in the garden.





Hj

Snowbie

Video recorded?

HungryJoey

Yes 640x480 30FPS - Digital camera.

Hj

sirpsycho

linky?

ongoing loud thunder here-storm is about 2 miles west

HungryJoey

Yup it is.. there was worse I just couldnt get pictures I was drowned taking them 2 pics!! The front was flooded to bits too and its tarmac'd !!

Hj

SpitfireIV

Jaysus :eek: ...is that your lawn under that water HungryJoey??

sirpsycho

Tristrame wrote:

ongoing loud thunder here-storm is about 2 miles west

where are u?

Some towering CBs looking north from Drogheda right now.

v-deniso

We have thunder now in Greystones!

Its still quite bright but darker clouds are on their way in over the hills

HungryJoey

I'll upload that video for you's now if you's would like. Its recorded size is 300mb, I'm converting it now so it'll be way smaller.

You want ? Its nothign amazing like jsut a camera out an open window few rumbles of thunder etc..

Hj

Danno

Solid downpour in the sunshine in P'Laoise...

Clouds look like they could spawn whirlwinds too, kinda rotating round slowly.

Snowbie

Some drier air is coming into the back of the LP circulation killing the showers now to my north,convergence seems dead now.Strange though,thought the lapse rates for the east where to remain in the very unstable side most of the day and evening.

Yeah hungry joey attach your vid to here.

HungryJoey

Ok I will.. Its just converting to a smaller size - Easier to download/upload.

Have it for you's soon although its not much at all.

Hj

sirpsycho

sirpsycho wrote:

where are u?

Some towering CBs looking north from Drogheda right now.

arklow

THE rumbles are continous but low.

rc28

Meanwhile out in Meath the earlier overcast skies cleared about an hour ago and warm sunshine has followed. With the clearance I can now see distant cb's, the air is very clean and there was some nice panoramas when I was out in the fields about 15mins ago. Here are just a few pics:
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SpitfireIV

Just had a very heavy thunder shower here in Carlow town, still going here.....STILL no thunder or lightening!

Croppy-they're not thunder showers unless they contain thunder!

You keep calling ordinary showers thunder showers.
You should stop doing that, cause you are confusing people

SpitfireIV

Tristrame wrote:

Croppy-they're not thunder showers unless they contain thunder!

You keep calling ordinary showers thunder showers.
You should stop doing that, cause you are confusing people

My apologies.....I always thought an extremely heavy shower went by 'thundery shower', you live and learn eh

rc28

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

My apologies.....I always thought an extremely heavy shower went by 'thundery shower', you live and learn eh

Just call it a downpour/torrential downpour;) Am I right in thinking that there is not always heavy rain accompanying thunderstorms? I know its the exception but I do remember getting a good bit of lightning once and not a drop of rain fell.

Danno

darkman2 wrote:

ERM......I know it happened but you must have your dates mixed up:

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1985/Rrea00219850715.gif

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1985/Rrea00119850715.gif

Those charts definately would not produce large thunderstorms and Tristame, if it is the correct date, there is no way temperatures were even in the high teens never mind the high twenties:eek: I think the dates are mixed up. It must have been a different date.:rolleyes:

Found an old thread on this: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=296970

Snowbie

Bare with me,im still getting use to my new Fathers day camera phone:D

These are take earlier.Second one id say is over you Tristrame looking south around lunchtime when you had a rumble or two.

rc28

Also if anyones interested there does appear to have been a good bit of flooding in and around Dublin:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0622/traffic.html There's another thread about this.

SpitfireIV

Good shots Snowbie!! They're very clear, must be a good camera phone

LoL I see met.ie has updated its forecast for today to take account of the floods in dublin...That says 1526 but it only went upin the last hour that I saw.

This mornings forecast was a bit tame given what occured.

rc28

Snowbie wrote:

Bare with me,im still getting use to my new Fathers day camera phone:D

These are take earlier.Second one id say is over you Tristrame looking south around lunchtime when you had a rumble or two.

Good clear pics snowbie. How do you get the attached pics to be cordoned off in a box like that, when I attach them they aren't organised as well?

Snowbie

rc28 wrote:

Just call it a downpour/torrential downpour;) Am I right in thinking that there is not always heavy rain accompanying thunderstorms? I know its the exception but I do remember getting a good bit of lightning once and not a drop of rain fell.

Yep rc,that can happen,sometimes the bay of biscay storms are totally electricfied without rain.Very rarely here though,the continent be the place to see it mostly.

Another thing that can happen is when rain falls it can also evaporate before hitting the ground.This is called virga.

Snowbie

rc28 wrote:

Good clear pics snowbie. How do you get the attached pics to be cordoned off in a box like that, when I attach them they aren't organised as well?

Have a photo editor that i can use to crop the pic.It came with the phone(software)

Snowbie

Lightning at last over here.

ninebeanrows

Of course the downpours break through the barriers on the way back from getting my hair cut so i end up absolutely soaked!!\

Roads turned to rivers in like 2 minutes!

rc28

Snowbie wrote:

Have a photo editor that i can use to crop the pic.It came with the phone(software)

I'm talking about when actually adding your file to boards, how do you get them organised into the "attached files" box that was in your post?