Thunderstorms and Convective Potential

Snowbie

Look on the bright side, it might just suck up all the water off the fields for you now.:p

Lol
A water spout on land

Entirely possible anywhere in the East at the moment I think :D:o

DOCARCH

Looks like thunderstorm threat has been downgraded somewhat. Current forecast LI (-2) and CAPE (350 j/kg) well down on what was forecast yesterday.

Estofex revised foreact showing threat just clipping east coast. http://www.estofex.org/

What we need now is some nice sun/surface heating!

Some sferics showing up just off the Cork coast atm.

CrowdedHouse

Snowbie wrote: »

Torro have released a Tornado Watch for mainly the SE.

http://www.torro.org.uk/torro/forecast/index.php

Someone should tell them that the name of our country in the English language is Ireland

cian1500ww

Wasn't there a tornado not so long ago down the south of the country ? Are conditions today similiar to then ?

Oh and anoyone know why the radar at Shannon airport doens't appear to be functioning:

Major convection going on here.You can literally see the towers building as you look up at them bubbling like mad.
CB's everywhere in a very thundery looking sky with that tell tale sharp edge to them and the dark grey bordering the brilliant white.

Today is starting off interesting.

I'm expecting a fire cracker of an afternoon!

maquiladora

Deleted User wrote: »

Major convection going on here.You can literally see the towers building as you look up at them bubbling like mad.
CB's everywhere in a very thundery looking sky with that tell tale sharp edge to them and the dark grey bordering the brilliant white.

Today is starting off interesting.

I'm expecting a fire cracker of an afternoon!

There's a similar skyscape around Waterford now too.

cian1500ww

maquiladora wrote: »

There's a similar skyscape around Waterford now too.

Deleted User wrote: »

Major convection going on here.You can literally see the towers building as you look up at them bubbling like mad.
CB's everywhere in a very thundery looking sky with that tell tale sharp edge to them and the dark grey bordering the brilliant white.

Today is starting off interesting.

I'm expecting a fire cracker of an afternoon!

Any chance of some pics for those of us who don't get to admire these ???

M.T. Cranium

Would be expecting some very large falls of hail in some places, the upper atmosphere looks like November rather than August, so anything that reaches 25,000 ft will easily start to drop hail. I suspect the risk of a tornado is going to be greater over in southern England, although I would not totally rule it out in southeast Ireland later on. But hail, you might see more snow than in the whole of last winter, if it turns to slush.

DOCARCH

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

.....the upper atmosphere looks like November rather than August

The lower atmosphere isn't much better I can tell you - a very chilly 15.4c

Can see some convection starting http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=view&country=gb

Everything appears to be rotating around Kilkenny.

DOCARCH

DOCARCH wrote: »

The lower atmosphere isn't much better I can tell you - a very chilly 15.4c

Can see some convection starting http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=view&country=gb

Everything appears to be rotating around Kilkenny.

Interesting that.
You can see the convection I posted about build up and then spread out in a small area.
The best way I can describe the sky now is that it looks almost like what I saw at the Kennedy space centre last june (07)...

Except it's not 33c

That day there was tremendous thunder and lightning and intense rain all day

Snowbie

Some clear rotation around the upper low system from higher and lower clouds moving in opposite directions from the sat.
Looks to be an interesting afternoon in the SE.

darkman2

Some colourful echos starting to appear on radar just west of Dublin. Might yet get a thunderstorm. Very slow moving aswell.

mike65

Thunder and Lightening! :eek: First time I've seen a flash in two years.

edit -make that two flashes and its heading my way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike.

kensutz

More thunder

CIDK

Almost a perfect circle forming in the cloud around Wexford. Mental!:D

cian1500ww

Pictures please !!!!!

CIDK

cian1500ww wrote: »

Pictures please !!!!!

Just looking at the Sat. Clearly visible
http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=view&country=gb

rc28

Very heavy rain, occasionally torrential here. No thunder yet but the ground really doesn't need any more downpours.

DOCARCH

rc28 wrote: »

Very heavy rain, occasionally torrential here. No thunder yet but the ground really doesn't need any more downpours.

From the way things are moving it looks like if you get stuck under that you are going to get really wet!

darkman2

rc28 wrote: »

Very heavy rain, occasionally torrential here. No thunder yet but the ground really doesn't need any more downpours.

A line of thunderstorms may be developing in your area judging by Sat and radar - keep an eye out for us Dubs;)

cian1500ww

All we have in leitrim is very light rain and a cloudy sky. We never get any extreme weather up here

taraw87

cian1500ww wrote: »

All we have in leitrim is very light rain and a cloudy sky. We never get any extreme weather up here

It's sunny in cork, beat that! *sigh*

mike65

All over. Apart from the dogs still barking.

Mike

Two flashes of lightning around noon and two claps of thunder reported about 5 miles up the road from here.They also had a 90 minute powercut as a result.
Both of which I missed as I was working heavy machinery indoors at the time.

Dry outside here now but still with an exceptionally thundery looking sky.

rc28

It's still raining and has gotten even heavier in last 20 mins. Torrential now and pools of water are everywhere- more flooding is likely me thinks.

thomasj

rc28, where about in south east meath are you? are you near blanchardstown?

rc28

thomasj wrote: »

rc28, where about in south east meath are you? are you near blanchardstown?

No, I'm a few km's from Dunshaughlin.

TheGreenGiant

Any thunderstorm potential for meath dublin area today? just checked sat 24 there and clouds are really building up this part of the country due to the swirling of the low right over us

darkman2

Risk of thunderstorms tomorrow has increased for a line roughly from Dublin to Galway northward. I think conditions tomorrow look more favourable then today. Storms seem likely to be more in the form of showers that could merge later.