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Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

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    #572
    jimmynokia
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    have you a link for that please


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    #573
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    better get the camera out try get a shot or two


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    #574
    sunbabe08
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    grrrr @ dublin. seriously getting the best weather again


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    #575
    cyclops999
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    Very heavy showers over Athlone:eek:


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    #576
    DOCARCH
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    Nabber wrote: »
    Two flashes and a rumble.
    Plenty of hail. Watching it from Sandymount strand.

    Today could be a nice day.

    Was in the city centre at the time. Heavy rain and hail shower with 2 flashes + thunder.


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    #577
    darkman2
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    Thunder and lightning to report near Malahide just now.


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    #578
    dsmythy
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    Strong gusts of wind in Swords.


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    #579
    Lady_North1
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    darkman2 wrote: »
    Thunder and lightning to report near Malahide just now.

    One flash of lighting and a quick roar of thunder over Swords. Very heavy rain.


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    #580
    darkman2
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    Quite beefy hailstones too...


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    #581
    Jim_Kiy
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    All clear a few Kms away :mad:
    Hazy sunshine even but sky is black to the east.


    Clondalkin


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    #582
    Su Campu
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    All hell's about to break loose here in Celbridge in a few minutes.... :D


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    #583
    Calina
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    No evidence of anything extraordinary in Dublin 9 either.


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    #584
    jimmynokia
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    All hell's about to break loose here in Celbridge in a few minutes.... :D

    Elaborate that please


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    #585
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    jimmynokia wrote: »
    Elaborate that please

    Just looking at the radar and then out to what's coming from my northwest. Looks like the heaviest part is just missing to the north and is getting Lucan.


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    #586
    jimmynokia
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    Just looking at the radar and then out to what's coming from my northwest. Looks like the heaviest part is just missing to the north and is getting Lucan.

    good im in clondalkin atm...


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    #587
    ninebeanrows
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    just as the winds shift a nice whitey shower is heading to my north.

    but winds have shifted west from northwest so this just going to hit Swords area/Donabate

    Although there is a big cluster of pretty sharp showers heading for all of Dublin.


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    #588
    darkman2
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    Yeah a potential line of developing cells just to the west of Dublin. Could be interesting.


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    #589
    Nabber
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    Nothing has happend in D4 since 2pm. Have been seeing some nice rain/hail showers to the north and south all day.

    A nice night time electric display would be nice. But I think we are due a meteor shower tonight, so clear skies would be welcome too.


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    #590
    Su Campu
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    Met Éireann's TAF for Casement, issued at 3 pm, gives only moderate rain showers up to 8pm. Nothing more exciting than that :(


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    #591
    darkman2
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    Met Éireann's TAF for Casement, issued at 3 pm, gives only moderate rain showers up to 8pm. Nothing more exciting than that :(

    There is a frontal system approaching from the southwest so increasingly the showers would die out ahead of that anyway. Next hour or two last throw of the dice.


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    #592
    mickger844posts
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    darkman2 wrote: »
    There is a frontal system approaching from the southwest so increasingly the showers would die out ahead of that anyway. Next hour or two last throw of the dice.

    That mini band of heavy showers is getting closer to Dublin. Looking at the radar intensity you would imagine there would be a few flashes.

    Down here in Waterford nothing of note today. Just a few heavy showers with a total of 0.6mm falling.


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    #593
    Su Campu
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    Tuesday afternoon's looking juicy for more heavy thundery showers as upper levels cool again in the wake of tomorrow's low. Conditions look better the further north and east you go.


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    #594
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    This is a nice graph showing the lightning rate per hour over the past few days from 50-80N and 10E-50W. Interesting to see how reliant storms are on solar heating at this time of the year, with the most activity occuring in the early afternoon when diabatic heating is at a maximum.

    fjoldi.gif?

    http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/fjoldi.html?


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    #595
    Calina
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    Raining heavily in Dublin 9 now. Doesn't look like it's going to clear any time soon but I don't get a sense of there being any thunder yet.


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    #596
    lolie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭lolie


    Noticed this sun halo today while out looking at big shower approaching, shower died out as usual.
    Took with the phone so the suns blurred out

    201689.jpg


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    #597
    Deep Easterly
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    im actually a storm Magnet...

    Fancy moving to Galway Iancar29?


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    #598
    DOCARCH
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    Once the cloud associated with the rain band to the south clears, looking good again today for good convection, heavy showers and thunderstorms once we get a bit of sun to heat the ground.

    Turning into a pretty good April shower season.

    Note: Might not be so good for us on the east coast with wind onshore at the moment from the east and only forecast to go north during the day. :rolleyes: Might be another day of watching (from a distance) the heavy showers pass by.


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    #599
    dsmythy
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    Looking good for the inland south today.


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    #600
    IvySlayer
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    Mental hail shower in Lucan atm.


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    #601
    MiNdGaM3
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    A near torrential rain/hail shower in Cork the last 10 minutes.


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