Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

Hammer Archer

A storm in the midlands in the UK is producing nearly 6000 strikes an hour according to Netweather.

redsteveireland

Some pictures of Cork here.

http://touch.facebook.com/#!/Corks96fm?slog=649772872&seq=2022150833&rk=0&fbtype=65&refid=46

Storm 10

With all the thunder and lightning in the South surely someone took a video of the action, anyone posting please

redsteveireland

A couple of sferics showing up in the midlands, I wonder is there any life in that system moving along the west coast.

robclay26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IrQ3wEAha4

youtube showing ballincollig,


the shorter version has one mad eplosion at about 55 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0ewsrtdMI&feature=youtu.be

Larbre34

That cell over the English north midlands is showing up spectacularly on Infra Red and the raintoday radar. Localised areas of >50mm/h rate. Expect to see flooding in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire on the news later

What's the updated thinking on activity in Ireland this afternoon??

Iancar29

youtube showing ballincollig,


the shorter version has one mad eplosion at about 55 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0ewsrtdMI&feature=youtu.be

Headphone users BEWARE!
hahaha! :D

robclay26

thunder and a local downpour near trim co meath now

stooge

Iancar29 wrote: »

Headphone users BEWARE!
hahaha! :D

Just watched that. The one at 55secs wasnt too bad so I stopped watching with my earphones on. Nearly jumped out of my seat at 1m25s! :eek::eek:

MrFrisp

Larbre34 wrote: »

That cell over the English north midlands is showing up spectacularly on Infra Red and the raintoday radar. Localised areas of >50mm/h rate. Expect to see flooding in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire on the news later

What's the updated thinking on activity in Ireland this afternoon??

All bright and sunny in Cork now...

Some dark cloud around,,but it doesn't look like anything major is going to happen.




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redsteveireland

Thundery downpour here for at least 20 mins, minus the thunder though.
This will have to produce something as it moves across the midlands.

RobitTV

Sully wrote: »

No view from where I am, house in front of me and ill be damned if im walking into get a good view!! Didn't know we were getting this!

Headaches last few days and all thanks to this random weather. Ugh

Ugh I got a pain in the left side of my head last night while I looked out from upstairs, I saw a few flashes and it actually hurt my head. :pac:

But I never saw anything like it in a long time, I never saw actual flashes in Ireland and the rain was torrential to say the least.

Iancar29

Reports of a tornado near Loughborough , England.
Looked like a HP supercell on Radar!

Harps

Some spectacular looking storms over the UK all right, almost 5000 strikes in the past hour. Two more hook echos on the radar now over Leicester and Stoke with reports of a tornado in Leicester

A few intense storms forming over the midlands over here as well

redsteveireland

Looking good as it travels across the midlands, something else heading for Cork/Kerry by the looks of sat24 loop.

http://www.sat24.com/gb

hotwhiskey

Really kicking off here 4 flashes in the last 10 min.

mike65

robclay26 wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IrQ3wEAha4

youtube showing ballincollig,


the shorter version has one mad eplosion at about 55 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0ewsrtdMI&feature=youtu.be

epic stuff!, here is the vid for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0ewsrtdMI

Deep Easterly

A couple of rumbles to my east earlier.

davehey79

couple of rumbles and some extremely dark and menacing clouds starting to appear in Longford now

redsteveireland

Deep Easterly wrote: »

A couple of rumbles to my east earlier.

I was sure you had seen something from this one.

Min

redsteveireland wrote: »

Looking good as it travels across the midlands, something else heading for Cork/Kerry by the looks of sat24 loop.

http://www.sat24.com/gb

Gerry Murphy on the RTE news on RTE1 said there could be another 25mm later today/tonight in the south.

NegativeCreep

Lovely and sunny and warm here in Blanch. Any chance of Dublin getting anything exciting today or, preferably tonight?

Deep Easterly

Hourly totals at Cork Apt between 7pm last night and 6am this morning.


Data from met.ie c/o IWN

An impressive 3 hr total of 36.1mm between midnight and 3.00am. Respect!

redsteveireland wrote: »

I was sure you had seen something from this one.

You didn't miss much Redsteve, the main shower slid to my east giving only a few dribbles here but looks like you got a fair whacking alright looking at the radar sequence.

Harps

Hail from England



A massive storm just showed up from nowhere in northern France as well, rainfall rates off the charts at over 250mm/hr!

tylercollins

Harps wrote: »

Hail from England
A massive storm just showed up from nowhere in northern France as well, rainfall rates off the charts at over 250mm/hr!

Was watching that develop on sat24.com! Looks impressive, perfect circle. 250mm/hr would be bloody crazy!!

Hammer Archer

Harps wrote: »

A massive storm just showed up from nowhere in northern France as well, rainfall rates off the charts at over 250mm/hr!

Really just exploded into life by the looks of the satellite:
http://www.sat24.com/en/fr

jjj6894x

Hammer Archer wrote: »

And once again, South Dublin gets absolutely zero action.

i'm in d8 and it lashed rain during the night for several hours. i was awoken by it, and it went on until at least 8am.

those pictures of douglas are appalling. my heart goes out to those who have been flooded, it's an absolutely horrific thing to happen to one's house or business.

obliviousgrudge

Does anyone know if there has been lightning in Letterkenny, Donegal in the last day?

whats_my_name

Thunder storm in monaghan town, extremely heavy rain, lasted for about 3 mins. Sun shining again with the odd rumble of thunder, no lightning. Heading north.

Deep Easterly

Sferics at 3.30pm. North and Northwest the place to be.