Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Summer 2011

Deep Easterly

Sferics over the last couple of hours or so:



Moving northeastwards. Will update animation again later.

EDIT 5.20pm: thunderstorms continue over north midlands; also midwest region.

5.54pm Sferics gradually dissipating

aidan_dunne

Just had a few very loud, rolling claps of thunder here in Portlaoise in the past 20 minutes or so. Can't make out which direction it's coming from, though. No rain, either.

We also had a few very close, loud bangs yesterday evening around 6-ish accompanied by heavy showers.

djhaxman

markievicz wrote: »

Just had a little hail shower here in Maynooth, a few rumbles of thunder about half an hour ago too!

Really? I heard nothing, damn tinnitus :mad:

eigrod

Thunder & power outage in Greystones, Co Wicklow in the last 15 minutes.

ellieh1

Thunder and Lightening in Limerick at the moment.

Iancar29

WALL CLOUD!?! .....

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NIALL D

few showers on an off all day with some thunder in the mix

lolie

Nice big thunderstorm that passed to the east earlier, lasted for least an hour. Some nice sparks in it, pity it wasnt dark out.

Iancar29

Just a short time-lapse that i took .. wish i had it on the one that produced the wall cloud though ( photo on previous page )

The noise of the birds sound kinda cool speeded up so much ha

NIALL D

cool video

amacachi

hellboy99 wrote: »

Thunder and lightning here at the minute and it's pouring down, 12mm of rain in the last 5 minutes.

Any idea what the rainfall for the day is so far? Either side of the proper storm there was some decent rain as well.

Wertz

Couple of rumbles in Castlebelligham today (workin there) around lunch.
Very intersting looking blow up W of mullingar in the past hour, a cell forming a semi circle on the doppler...latest run on raintoday (6.30pm)

sunbabe08

the entire midland of ireland got thunderstorms today. south gets nada

thetonynator

A few very heavy showers this morning, no thunder though.

sunbabe08

some where around the waterford coast just got a decent thunderstorm :mad:

delw

sunbabe08 wrote: »

the entire midland of ireland got thunderstorms today. south gets nada

got nada here aswell,few nice menacing looking cells but dats it ,for those who got thunder etc.. happy days

eskimocat

Spent some time at sea yesterday and was able to watch the storm pass over the mainland. Couldn't hear thunder but did see one set of sheet lightning and one set of forked lightning! It was a beautiful day generally, but occasional torrential showers but they passed quickly. To finish off the spectaular display there was a double rainbow just before the final shower and then it moved off. Magic Day!

Hal1

A double rainbow, what does this mean?

nacho libre

Hal1 wrote: »

A double rainbow, what does this mean?

Two pots of gold.

eskimocat

Hal1 wrote: »

A double rainbow, what does this mean?

When you see a rainbow sometimes if you look carefully you might see a second rainbow forming over the primary one. Hence a double rainbow. The secondary rainbow is often much fainter therefore harder to spot. Works best when the primary rainbow has strong colour to it.

And remember as Nacho said two pots of gold!! lol

Mmcd

I think some people didnt quite get that lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

Hal1

Thanks Mmcd . Google is great.

sunbabe08

all youghal is getting is thunder showers. just got back in time after my cycle

delw

seriously heavy downpours here atm,no thunder though :mad:

DOCARCH

Two rumbles of thunder here in relatively quick succession.

And another.

bb1234567

really heavy rain and hail here in dublin, heard a few rumbles of thunder 2:)

DOCARCH

Have counted 6 rumbles of thunder so far. Main shower/thunder is to my east - sunny here.

bb1234567

heard another 2 rumbles of thunder, and the sattelite dish isnt working ....could the weather be doing that ?

Iancar29

bb1234567 wrote: »

heard another 2 rumbles of thunder, and the sattelite dish isnt working ....could the weather be doing that ?

I knew i hear a slight distant rumble!...

Ye thunderstorms seem to have an effect on the signal reaching the dish at times.

DOCARCH

My thunder count now up to 10. Nice little storm but unfortunately not overhead, just to my east.