Thunderstorm/Convective Watch: Summer 2010

M.T. Cranium

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Best dynamics will be from 2100h to 0200h across the southeast, heavy radar echoes now visible on edge of UK metoffice reach from southeast, bad time for Shannon to be down but the satellite imagery and hourly-scale model runs indicate deepening potential.

Would expect this to get at least modestly electrical in an hour or two, and there is potential for a significant event -- as we know, Dublin specializes in the after-midnight thunderstorm.

MT, you are a diamond!!! Thank you.

Su Campu

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Best dynamics will be from 2100h to 0200h across the southeast, heavy radar echoes now visible on edge of UK metoffice reach from southeast, bad time for Shannon to be down but the satellite imagery and hourly-scale model runs indicate deepening potential.

Would expect this to get at least modestly electrical in an hour or two, and there is potential for a significant event -- as we know, Dublin specializes in the after-midnight thunderstorm.

Well so much for me and my ELTs!!! :rolleyes::D

DOCARCH

Not all's lost! New strike just off Waterford coast! http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/

maquiladora

MT is right, there certainly is some heavy precip heading for the southeast on the radar now.

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

maquiladora

DOCARCH wrote: »

Not all's lost! New strike just off Waterford coast! http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/

Come on!

mickger844posts

Been raining here the last few hours but not that heavy, 2.2mm in the last hour for example. From the radar i see a few heavier pulses to the south of us out at sea. If they land over us it could be interesting but so far its just a miserable July night

owenc

Some very heavy rain getting larger and larger by the minute heading up here, can see a very grey bit of rain moving up here VERY Slowly and can here very faint rumbles.

naughto

unreal rain in castlebar and i mean unreal the main ballinrobe rd to castlebar
is like a lake

maquiladora

I might have heard a very distant rumble there.

mickger844posts

maquiladora wrote: »

I might have heard a very distant rumble there.

You sure Maq ??? Rain lashing down now.;)

torrentum

Very heavy rain here. Nothing else though. Sky looks really terrible though. Very dark and threatening

maquiladora

mickger844posts wrote: »

You sure Maq ??? Rain lashing down now.;)

Nope, not sure, but it did sound like a distant rumble, might just have been a truck or something though. Rain is picking up now alright.

lord lucan

Just grey and dull in West Dublin,nothing happening at all.:(

owenc

Raining here now with jigantic drops but very few so jigantic drops in a small quantity pity it wasn't heavy.

Min

This is the summer equivalent of a winter's snow thread.

squonk

Rain just starting to kick off here now. That sky is looking very black. Kids still out playing though... fair play to them!

maquiladora

Rain has eased off a bit again now. No rumbles....

Su Campu

Why has the Met Éireann radar stopped at 20:00?? :mad: Anyone else seeing this?

Deep Easterly

As usual I am stuck between the two systems over the the country right now :rolleyes: and both which are having an effect on the skies over Galway. Mid level cloud from trough to the east moving northwards, whilst lower cloud, mostly in the form of cumuli, moving in an ENE direction from the showery trough over west Mayo. Hi res models seem to suggest that a smaller low may develop within the off-shoot trough that is extending its way over the country from the secondary low off the SE coast later on, most proabably over the west or north midlands and which may sustain the strength of the showers currently in the west as they begin to make their way east later on.

CarMuppet

Moderate rain near Kinsale now. In fact it's just kind of gotten brighter?? Where are the forks?

Deep Easterly

Su Campu wrote: »

Why has the Met Éireann radar stopped at 20:00?? :mad: Anyone else seeing this?

Welcome to Irish weather watching! If it can let you down, then it will. :rolleyes:

WolfeIRE

someone should just set fire to those bloody radar stations so a new one can be built :mad::mad::mad:
sorry wrong boards.ie section. i just realised i meant to post this in pyromaniacs anonymous thread

Su Campu

Thank God for the northern ireland radar!

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

mickger844posts

Rain easing off now, had 4.9mm in the last hour. Clouds looking very dark over Tramore which is to my south.

Deep Easterly

WolfeIRE wrote: »

someone should just set fire to those bloody radar stations so a new one can be built :mad::mad::mad:
sorry wrong boards.ie section. i just realised i meant to post this in pyromaniacs anonymous thread

Anyone know how much it would cost to set up a proper radar system across the country? We could all chip in. Met radar is just becoming a joke at this stage.

maquiladora

mickger844posts wrote: »

Rain easing off now, had 4.9mm in the last hour. Clouds looking very dark over Tramore which is to my south.

Yeah the heaviest stuff is still out at sea and yet to arrive but there doesn't seem to have been any more sferics.

WolfeIRE

would be cheaper and easier to emigrate to a country with some guaranteed seasonal weather i would say deep.

maquiladora

So when is the boards.ie US tornado chase trip happening again....? :pac:

Deep Easterly

WolfeIRE wrote: »

would be cheaper and easier to emigrate to a country with some guaranteed seasonal weather i would say deep.

True.

maquiladora

Just off Wexford, a new one

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/

Seeing more sferics on some Irish dectors now too.