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Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012
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An idea of what the rain sounds like in Cork, though far from it's heaviest.
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From the radar, would say Limerick (city) may be the next major target of this heavy to severe thunderstorm activity, expect we'll have folks staggering out of bed and logging in, so, as lightning has proven to be very intense would advise, watch from a safe spot and avoid upper storeys of homes until this passes further north. The cells that I see on radar offshore heading for Galway-Mayo don't look as intense but could phase in with what's already over land, as to total rainfalls, 40-60 mms now seems plausible for strongest cells (Cork has reported about 28 mms in two hours up to 0200h).
Will be back with further updates if necessary (although if I see other posters covering the points I won't repeat what they've told you).
By the way, not a big issue but I take exception with the poster who said there had been a "let down" on forecasting this, perhaps in Belfast but as to this activity in the south, there were more than hints about it from 24 hours ago and an update with an alert issued at 6 p.m. which is 6-8 hours before the strongest cells arrived. Su Campu and Iancar on this thread discussed the potential in detail during the period 0700 to 1500h much earlier today. This is plenty of warning, we aren't going to be mailing out alerts in April for a few more years yet.
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Heres the video from all the activity earlier, sorry that the quality aint the best, taken with an Xperia S and the thing kept losing focus
, Full HD available though the lighting around my place is ****e, 
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M.T. Cranium wrote: »From the radar, would say Limerick (city) may be the next major target of this heavy to severe thunderstorm activity, expect we'll have folks staggering out of bed and logging in, so, as lightning has proven to be very intense would advise, watch from a safe spot and avoid upper storeys of homes until this passes further north. The cells that I see on radar offshore heading for Galway-Mayo don't look as intense but could phase in with what's already over land, as to total rainfalls, 40-60 mms now seems plausible for strongest cells (Cork has reported about 28 mms in two hours up to 0200h).
Will be back with further updates if necessary (although if I see other posters covering the points I won't repeat what they've told you).
By the way, not a big issue but I take exception with the poster who said there had been a "let down" on forecasting this, perhaps in Belfast but as to this activity in the south, there were more than hints about it from 24 hours ago and an update with an alert issued at 6 p.m. which is 6-8 hours before the strongest cells arrived. Su Campu and Iancar on this thread discussed the potential in detail during the period 0700 to 1500h much earlier today. This is plenty of warning, we aren't going to be mailing out alerts in April for a few more years yet.
I said "All meteorology websites let us down on this" in reference to weather websites like met.ie etc. Since when did this forum become a weather website? I wasn't referring to this service
And yeah I wouldn't expect that for a few more years myself either but I would within 24hours range0 -
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West Cork. The collie is appallingly thunder phobic so I did housework talking to her..quieter now but still heavy rain. At least this house has an upstairs!
Never seen the garden like that path before. Inches of water.
Shattered.
Gosh that's devastating, hope there isn't too much too clean up tomorrow !It was like that here too; I hesitated at the door before going out but no choice. When critters are at risk...
Same! Then I stuck to the windows instead, when I found out thre was fork, I wasn't long in moving back :P
Met is showing more rain for the night soo I won't be sleeping, not when this is the first time we had lightning, never mind say thunder in years !! I didn't want it to end
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYbfpDax9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45T2kv16hiE
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