Current Weather Conditions-March 2008

Horrendous hailstorm here.
It's like something out of armageddon!
Wind gust of 51mph at 6ft off the ground during it.

Given that most of the precip was/is hail and the speed of the wind,the aws still picked up a rain rate of over 40mm/hr

Snowbie

Some proper convection around today.One CB has just crossed the area here but no real downpour from it but observing one massive anvil.

9.6c

mike65

That downpour passed as fast as it arrived, now sunny and not so windy.

Mike.

Wertz

Loads of CB's around the NE, leaden skies....but where the hell is the MO doppler???

Snowbie

Wertz wrote: »

Loads of CB's around the NE, leaden skies....but where the hell is the MO doppler???

Radar Data Issues - 12:00 (Saturday)
The problem with the Met Office 'Radarnet' system is unfortunately still ongoing and is making the radar updates very erratic. The latest on this is that they had a major hard-disk failure and the engineers are still working to get it fixed. Again, we apologise for any inconvenience that this is causing.

Its been like this a couple of days now.

Another shower has passed through here and look more threatening than it actually was.

Paddy.1

Certainly a highly convective day. Grabbed a couple of stunners here though heaviest part of the showers seem to be sliding to my near east in a defined path.

Looks like convective activitly may increase during the late afternoon and early evening according to latest Met Eireann rainfall graph:



Looks like there could be a sharp wind veer later too which could indicate some local severe squalls. One to watch.

Wertz

Snowbie wrote: »

Its been like this a couple of days now.

Another shower has passed through here and look more threatening than it actually was.

Ah, thought a tornado had taken out a few dishes :pac:

Radar is back up and the 2.30 shot shows a hell of a cluster of red around my location, but it barely even rained...showers' going W and S of me, bright sunshine in Dundalk.

Mothman

Day dawned sunny and has continued like this though there is more cloud than earlier.
Overnight min 2.0C
Now nearly 10C

mike65

Quiet.

Mike.

Mothman

I thought I was going to miss it, but just getting the northern tip of the shower thats been moving up across SE.
Faily high cumulus, could be some hail in it.
9.4C after 11c half an hour ago.

Paddy.1

I can see sporadic showers breaking out around my horizon on both the west and east sides. Temps are dropping again to 10.6c. 995.6 mb and steady.

Supercell

Had a decent little hail shower earlier, that stuff to the southwest looks threatening, going to be wet this evening.
Currently 7.9°C and cloudy.

Snowbie

CORK AIRPORT S 11 Gust 29 RECENT SNOW 7 95 2.0 993 .......ok

Temp is fluctuating for the last hour, no showers yet here
11.8c atm

Mothman

Snowbie wrote: »

CORK AIRPORT S 11 Gust 29 RECENT SNOW 7 95 2.0 993 .......ok

Just seen that, someone is pissed or taking the piss

DOCARCH

Meteoalarm has just gone 'yellow' for Ireland:

lightning-risk "Moderate to high risk of scattered thunderstorms today"

Paddy.1

Showers to my west northwest showing signs of intensifying. Anvil now forming roughly about 7 miles west which is in the Claremorris area. Just had a brief one here, big drops but not enough to wet the ground completely.

Weather BOFH

Sharp temp drop here in the last hour, down 5° to 7.9C.

rc28

A disturbed, menacing-looking sky out there now with the odd big drop falling randomly. 9.7c

ninebeanrows

Quick heavy shower there, atmosphere is very unstable.

That thing to southwest looks like its going to be fun!

arctictree

Pouring down rain here now. Wind nearly calm, NE. Temp +5.4c

A

afatbollix

thunder and lighting in dublin city centre

ninebeanrows

One tremendous bang of thunder there

caz33

Massive flash of lightning and very loud thunder in Dublin 13.

Mothman

First downpour of the say now.

rc28

Steady rain for last couple of hours here but now very heavy.

Snowbie

Steady moderate rain now for 50mins, 11.7mm, 22.6mm/hr max rate
6.0c
Wind-light NW

Mothman

Downpour was very short lived.
1.5mm
7.9C

Hal1

Raining moderately for the past 3 hours, just spitting outside.

Snowbie

Snowbie wrote: »

Steady moderate rain now for 50mins, 11.7mm, 22.6mm/hr max rate
6.0c
Wind-light NW

Bone dry in this neck of the woods.
0.3mm today.
Thankfully! Gives the land a chance to dry out.You can see the clear/dry slot on the radar covering the whole of co wexford and into south wicklow on the UKMO radar.
I don't like the look of the curl thats heading this way though

Interestingly the breeze is Easterly... ie against the direction that the band is moving in.
What directions are ye experiencing up there?

I haven't looked but I presume this is a circulatory curl then?

Mothman

Dublin AP and Casement 6/7mm past hour and both reporting thunder.