Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

Simon Gruber Says

Pictures from the storm that was rotating over me earlier. Video upload currently in progress.

As it was above me



Went up to Howth after it and snapped these. Nice structure to the clouds.

delw

Simon Gruber Says wrote: »

Pictures from the storm that was rotating over me earlier. Video upload currently in progress.

As it was above me

http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad272/Shamrock125H/IMG_0276.jpg

Went up to Howth after it and snapped these. Nice structure to the clouds.

http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad272/Shamrock125H/DSCF1105.jpg

http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad272/Shamrock125H/IMG_0294.jpg

Great pics Simon,i went to the shop at about half 8 & noticed this cell to my E/SE,out towards Howth,thought to myself how very impressive it looked

Trogdor

Ended up very close to a particularly active cell in North-Western Italy on a flight home tonight, was flashing away at quite a rate! It had a very nice structure from above and i tried to get a few pictures but i'm not sure if they were any good, might post one or two up tomorrow if anything came out in them.

Iancar29

STRUCTURE HEAVEN YESTERDAY!!!!

http://irishtwisterchaser.blogspot.com/

Mr Benevolent

Some impressive rotation yesterday over Dublin Airport, even I could spot it. Lucky we generally only get F0's.

Simon Gruber Says

Videos from the storm yesterday showing some rotation.

I also noticed in the first vid about halfway through, sparks can been seen coming from either the cloud or the tree in front of me, almost lightning leaders, but they didn't connect for the return stroke.

Storm 10

Just driving into Galway and there was a funnel cloud over Galway Bay, no bloody camera but Galway Bay FM has loads phoning in about it, was quite a big one I would say it touched down on the sea but I could not say for sure

redsteveireland

Storm 10 wrote: »

Just driving into Galway and there was a funnel cloud over Galway Bay, no bloody camera but Galway Bay FM has loads phoning in about it, was quite a big one I would say it touched down on the sea but I could not say for sure

Where did you see it and which direction was it moving.
I took a few pictures of this as it moved over Athenry and changed shape alot.






Here's one from just now.

Storm 10

I was heading down towards the Closed Corrib Hotel on the Dublin road it was over the sea to my right as I drove down from Ballybane

Your bottom picture is class, any thunder from it.

lolie

Took these just before a big downpour passed overhead yesterday eve.
Look very nice with the sun shining underneath it.
Although a lot of movement in the clouds no rotation though.

MikeD22

Some Photo's from yesterday evening of some angry looking clouds.

Are these mammatus?

Two Examples, the rest are here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056675881



[IMG][/img] DSC_0001 by MichaelD212, on Flickr


DSC_0007 by MichaelD212, on Flickr

jimmynokia

This was on twitter today
http://t.co/jk72jwj1

Irish Weather Online ‏@iweatheronline
RT @theclareherald: Funnel Cloud Spotted In North Clare #clare #tornado #weather #iwo

redsteveireland

Storm 10 wrote: »

I was heading down towards the Closed Corrib Hotel on the Dublin road it was over the sea to my right as I drove down from Ballybane

Your bottom picture is class, any thunder from it.

No thunder from this unfortunately, it is Galway after all.
Did you not see the sign at the county border, ‘Galway, thunder free for years, like...’
I did reduce the brightness a little while taking the shot which gave it an evil look.

tylercollins

Absolutely buzzing right now!! Just driving home from work today watching the sky as I normally do when I looked over to my left and seen a wall cloud pushing towards me. Decided to pull off the next side road and get a good vantage point and also for safety reason!

Pulled into the entrance of a field and was just standing watch it rotating and hoping it would produce something, next minute out comes a funnel and heads straight for the ground! Lasted a good 5 minutes, was brilliant to see!!

I have pictures and a few videos on my phone so will get them uploaded later when I get the lead for them.

The wall cloud was still pushing towards me and when nearly above me the wind just picked up from being completely still.

Decided to then chase it for another 20 miles with it rotating the whole way, best thing I'll probably experience without hitting America, and best thing about it was the fact it more or less went from my place of work to where I live!!

Anyone know where I can see radar images from between 5pm and 6pm for the North West?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6cj4g2i_wc

Redsunset

Play radar now

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

squonk

Lol! TONIGHT ON STORM CHASERS NI!!!

tylercollins

The red bit on the border of Donegal is when it was.

Deep Easterly

No thunder to report but some really short lived whoppers passing through on occasion here in the last hour or so. High rain rate of 49.0mm/ph so far. Air has a sickly feel to it with no wind at all. (3.0 kt mean)

Edit: another wave of intense rain passing though!

Trogdor

Trogdor wrote: »

Ended up very close to a particularly active cell in North-Western Italy on a flight home tonight, was flashing away at quite a rate! It had a very nice structure from above and i tried to get a few pictures but i'm not sure if they were any good, might post one or two up tomorrow if anything came out in them.

Uploaded 2 pictures in the weather pictures forum, didn't get anything too spectacular but one or two of the strikes came out alright!

Oscar Bravo

Thunder in Castlebar in the last 30 minutes along with some torrential downpours.Feeling very warm and humid.

eastmayo

thunder here in kilmovee near knock airport just before 7 o clock this eve,i have 20mm of rain recored on my vantage vue since 3 today,realy heavy showers on and off since then.they seem to be dyeing out now.

demakinz

Thunder in Portlaoise. and darkening skies in Edenderry

Hal1

A guy in the motors forum posted this from france.

http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t398/Edwharding/41d458d3.jpg

Ahh if only for a day out of the whole year...

I_smell_fear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6cj4g2i_wc

I honestly cannot understand how you managed to use so many words to describe that video..

traecy1

I_smell_fear wrote: »

I honestly cannot understand how you managed to use so many words to describe that video..

Well this is a weather forum. What kind of stuff were you expecting to see.

jjj6894x

bucketing down in dublin 8.

Bsal

Nice bit of lightning in eastern parts of England. Hopefully it will edge a bit more west.

I_smell_fear

traecy1 wrote: »

Well this is a weather forum. What kind of stuff were you expecting to see.

A vague appearance of the Michelin man at least

Redsunset

I_smell_fear wrote: »

A vague appearance of the Michelin man at least

If you have nothing of value to add to the Weather forum then I suggest you do not post here.

Su Campu

Just a heads up that this week we could see some pretty impressive thundery activity, especially from Wednesday onwards, with warm low levels already in place and a large upper trough approaching from the west. Wednesday itself should be interesting.

I'm heading to Sardinia on Thursday so will miss most of it, but with temperatures probably in the low 40s over the weekend, that same upper trough may bring some fireworks there too on Sunday/Monday. Here's hoping!