Thunderstorms

DOCARCH

Towering cumulus clouds now over Wicklow Mountains - clear here, 19.8c

Snowbie

Seems like a good day for the chase.
Anyone know of updated WI-FI hotspots around the Wicklow/Kildare/Carlow or midland regions or links to a site. Can't seem to find a detailed coverage map.

Time is of the essence

Hal1

Snowbie wrote: »

Seems like a good day for the chase.
Anyone know of updated WI-FI hotspots around the Wicklow/Kildare/Carlow or midland regions or links to a site. Can't seem to find a detailed coverage map.

Time is of the essence

One here, it shows some wifi's around wicklow when i done a quick search. just select country/county. good luck with the chase

Deep Easterly

Exploding convection to my east at the moment, roughly about 4 miles east.

Hal1

I can see some building towards my north, mash potato type stuff :pac:

DOCARCH

CB to my south-west - probably over Wicklow/Kildare border somewhere.

nacho libre

Today could be interesting. There are cumulus clouds all around.

nilhg

I'm off to spray the field I sprayed yesterday, seems clear enough around here, wish me luck.

Deep Easterly

The odd rumble here, but nothing impressive. Convection seems to be dying as quickly as it is building. Still dry.

nacho libre

you see nothing interesting happens in tuam... meanwhile there are louds bang here:p

Deep Easterly

That is because Mayo people steal from us humble folk! I can see big towers over towards your direction alright. Turning out to be a non event here again...:mad:

StratoQ

Thunder now in Kilkenny. One hour earlier than yesterday's TS. Temps seem to have peaked at 23 C.

Hal1

Some Serifics popping up on radar and will these be home grown mostly or any imports?

nacho libre

impressive fork lightning going on now!

Deep Easterly

nacho libre wrote: »

impressive fork lightning going on now!

I can see them showers from here, the clouds look massive. An unhealthy looking clearence moving in from the south here, but a continuing trail of convection to my ENE, I.e, not here. :rolleyes:

Darwin

Plenty of rumbles now (Mountrath), getting louder by the minute - wind picking up as well from a completely calm afternoon

SpitfireIV

Lots of rumbling to my North and South here in Carlow Town for the past hour or more, the activity was more so to the North at first, but now seems to be more active in the South, not so much lightening, but plenty of rumbling.

I'm afraid I cant report temps or such as: overgrown bush + weather station cable + dad armed with hedgeclippers = cut cable

Deep Easterly

Another surge of building to my east and southeast at the moment. No doubt they will miss here again, but Nacho could strike lucky again later.

Edit: Knock reporting 16.8mm of rain at 4.00pm. Must have been a biggie...

Snowbie

Got down as far as Baltinglas on my chase and got a storm that built up quite quick an moved towards Carlow, unfortunately i had to return home and Danno texted me that the cell exploded over Laois.

Have photos will upload sometime later.

nacho libre

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Another surge of building to my east and southeast at the moment. No doubt they will miss here again, but Nacho could strike lucky again later.

Edit: Knock reporting 16.8mm of rain at 4.00pm. Must have been a biggie...

yep, as my neighbours used to say what is considered a bad day for most people is a great day for me:D

lightning here, there and everywhere this afternoon:D

Snowbie

Hal1 wrote: »

One here, it shows some wifi's around wicklow when i done a quick search. just select country/county. good luck with the chase

Thanks Hal for the link, i got that before i just left the house in the end. Also thanks Danno for the radar updates.

nacho libre

There seems to be alot of activity in Offaly and South Roscommon at the moment. If that were to spreads north westwards, before dying out, you could be in business Paddy1

Deep Easterly

Big shower breaking out to my near south east, but now the wind has turned to the north west, sucking in any convection that is occuring here.. Balls to this..

nacho libre

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Big shower breaking out to my near south east, but now the wind has turned to the north west, sucking in any convection that is occuring here.. Balls to this..

i guess this is God's way of telling you, you live in the wrong place:p

Deep Easterly

nacho libre wrote: »

i guess this is God's way of telling you, you live in the wrong place:p

You might have a point!!!

Loud rumbles here at the moment and quite dark. Main cell still remaining to the south over east Tuam.

Edit, continuous thunder now, concentrated to the east. Sounds like they are having fun about 3 miles east..

Deep Easterly

Main cell remaining to the east, but thunder and lightning increasing. about 6 strikes a minuite now. Load continuous claps.

Snowbie

A clump moving NNW in the midlands and intensifying rain wise. Detector gone quiet for the mo but i shall think it will come back to life soon.

Deep Easterly

Storm moving closer but thunder a lot less frequent. Rain not particularly heavy but I would imagine flash flooding in parts of the locality..

Danno

WOW What a storm! Some fork lightning over west Laois this evening 5pm-ish. My detector peaked at 47 per minute :eek: I cannot believe there was no rain here either. The base of the cloud looked very menacing, I thought a tornado could have spawned out over Ballacolla.

@ Snowbie - No probs for sending you updates! Hope I was of help!

Hal1

I could see towering columbus on the horizon all day but clear blue skies where the dominant feature.

Deep Easterly

Danno wrote: »

WOW What a storm! Some fork lightning over west Laois this evening 5pm-ish. My detector peaked at 47 per minute :eek: I cannot believe there was no rain here either. The base of the cloud looked very menacing, I thought a tornado could have spawned out over Ballacolla.

Same here, barely any rain (4.6mm). But the frequency of thunder and lightning was quite frightning for about 15 mins. Not very often we get continuous peels of thunder.

Supercell

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Same here, barely any rain (4.6mm)

4.6mm is lots of rain!!, I rarely get more than that!

Danno

I had 9mm from a shower yesterday with no Thunder!

Danno

Reports of a church struck by lightning north of Rathdowney, Co. Laois.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055304674

spurious

There has been quite a bit of damage there - to the stained glass window and to the house beside the church. A couple of small fires started, but the brigade dealt with them. Up to an hour or so ago the brigade were still there. Landlines must be affected as I am having trouble ringing the area.

Danno

Hmm, I might take a drive over there tomorrow, it's roughly 10 miles away.

Deep Easterly

Anyone in the north midlands at the moment? Radar continuing to show some nasty showers up there:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

they don't seem to be dying out just yet..

mike2084

We have a 2 day race meeting here in Listowel tomorrow and Monday. I usually go but I don't fancy getting soaked or hit by lightning! We had big shower at 2pm today with thunder but nothing since. Any chance of an improvment for the next two days? Thanks.

force eleven

We had no electricity from about 7.30 until 10 this evening due to the lightning. It peaked around 7-7 30 this evening and we had about an hour and a half of heavy rain, the real summer type thundery rain. Very good show indeed, about 15 close strikes for me, near Clara BTW. Talking to Bren, over on the TWO forums, looks like a possible repeat tomorrow, but more threat to the west and south, and not so much the midlands. They said that today though....;)

force eleven

http://estofex.org/cgi-bin/polygon/showforecast.cgi?text=yes&fcstfile=2008060306_200805311842_1_extendedforecast.xml

Could be an interesting 48 hrs to come for thunder lovers...:D

Danno

I think tomorrow will be better in the SE as pressure will be lowest there.

Deep Easterly

I agree that the SE and the south in general has a higher chance today as well. Not too hopeful for here as the air is a lot fresher and cleaner than yesterday and dosen't feel as threatning. Probably the odd random isolated heavy shower at best.

Darwin

No sign of the towering Cumulonimbus clouds that were present early yesterday morning, seems to be fresher day out there at the moment.

Danno

A few small bits going up now... http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=view&country=gb&sat=vis
The few that do occur today oughta be quite severe due to more surface warming.

Damomanye

oh god, theres some very heavy echos retuning in a small cell just east of Limerick, i can see some incredibly dark clouds there guys.:eek:

Danno

Exploding over Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipp and Limerick... http://sat24.com/frame.php?html=zoom&xas=172&yas=165

Danno

West Kerry, Dingle area is ALIVE!

Takeshi_Kovacs

Some very big anvil clouds building up now, to the east and southeast of me.. got a few pics to upload later

Damomanye

One of the showers passed over here but was only minor. Parents think im mad sayin theres thunderstorm potential around...:D

Hopefully a crazy shower here will prove me right.

Snowbie

3 cells around the country atm. Mayo, Kerry and Limerick.
There is one over Cavan atm forming.