Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

Iancar29

Very could setup for organised storms this afternoon in the west and NW. Estofex hav it highlighted nicely though I think its more of a 50% lightning risk instead of 20% . Can't post charts as I'm off to work but hi res has some nice cells popping up from midday *shakes fist at the west! *


http://www.estofex.org/

Rikand

Iancar29 wrote: »

Very could setup for organised storms this afternoon in the west and NW. Estofex hav it highlighted nicely though I think its more of a 50% lightning risk instead of 20% . Can't post charts as I'm off to work but hi res has some nice cells popping up from midday *shakes fist at the west! *


http://www.estofex.org/

Out in the middle of nowhere/roscommon and we just had a distant rumble of thunder out towards castlerea direction. Hopefully get some more closer

redsteveireland

Iancar29 wrote: »

Very could setup for organised storms this afternoon in the west and NW. Estofex hav it highlighted nicely though I think its more of a 50% lightning risk instead of 20% . Can't post charts as I'm off to work but hi res has some nice cells popping up from midday *shakes fist at the west! *


http://www.estofex.org/

There doesn't seem to be much heat around here today for good convection Ian, overcast all morning.

Iancar29

Rickylovesuall wrote: »

Out in the middle of nowhere/roscommon and we just had a distant rumble of thunder out towards castlerea direction. Hopefully get some more closer

Nothing registered on the radar ATM .... But England .... A train of a storm rolling into london! LOADS of sparks from it!!

Rikand

Iancar29 wrote: »

Rickylovesuall wrote: »

Out in the middle of nowhere/roscommon and we just had a distant rumble of thunder out towards castlerea direction. Hopefully get some more closer

Nothing registered on the radar ATM .... But England .... A train of a storm rolling into london! LOADS of sparks from it!!

yeah we only had the one and we had a real heavy shower after it. But blue skies agsin now. And very dark stuff in the distance

Trogdor

I'm out in West Galway at the moment and it's absolutely belting down, can hardly see in front of you it's so heavy!

Chicken1

Just had the mother of all rain storm here in Galway City, floods all over the place you could hardly see on front of you, sadly no sparks I was sure there would have been as it got very dark.

redsteveireland

Some heavy returns in the west on the raintoday.co.uk radar. No sign of any sparks apart from up around Mayo/Sligo area.

eskimocat

There have been some amazing cloud bursts here today, didn't hear/see any thunder or lightning

tylercollins

few rumbles here in the last 30 minutes with heavy rain.

Deep Easterly

Like EskimoKat some pretty big showers here today but no thunder. An earlier shower brought a 126mm/hr rain rate and one just gone gave a 228mm/hr rain rate, the 2nd time this month that I have recorded a 200mm/hr + rain rate.

Hourly rain reports from my Davis station for this afternoon:



A total of 19.6mm so far today, 13.0mm of which fell in the hour up 6.30pm.

PS, please ignore date stamp, my Davis is lagging a day behind regarding this for some reason and haven't got around to setting it to the right date yet.




Edit: and the heavens have just opened up again..bring it on!

tylercollins

Some torrential rain that fell there now outside my house!

My WH1080 was showing the rain rate to be 32.44 mm/hr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMfpMXbVI18

Welsh Wizard

Nice looking car in the back ground

rc28

Ye nice car, what make is that? That video could sum up our entire summer so far!

Btw I dunno if my geography is off but I thought the county was called simply "Derry" rather than Londonderry (as the title of your video says)? The latter I thought is only officially used for the name of the city which was built by the "London" companies during the plantations - obviously the county itself wasn't built by them?

ninebeanrows

rc28 wrote: »

Ye nice car, what make is that? That video could sum up our entire summer so far!

Btw I dunno if my geography is off but I thought the county was called simply "Derry" rather than Londonderry (as the title of your video says)? The latter I thought is only officially used for the name of the city which was built by the "London" companies during the plantations - obviously the county itself wasn't built by them?

Different people call things different things. Lets not make this into a political argument. Case closed. No further posts on the matter in here please. Cheers

rc28

Weathercheck wrote: »

Different people call things different things. Lets not make this into a political argument. Case closed. No further posts on the matter in here please. Cheers

Apologies, I *genuinely* wasn't trying to be political (I'm really not that kind of person).

Google doesn't have any straight answers either

tylercollins

rc28 wrote: »

Ye nice car, what make is that? That video could sum up our entire summer so far!

Btw I dunno if my geography is off but I thought the county was called simply "Derry" rather than Londonderry (as the title of your video says)? The latter I thought is only officially used for the name of the city which was built by the "London" companies during the plantations - obviously the county itself wasn't built by them?

I've no idea what kind of car it is, all I know is that it's really old as it has pop out things for indicators LOL! It barely moved as well in a few years, thing should really be garaged as well, just going to rot away sitting there in this weather!

Deep Easterly

tylercollins wrote: »

Some torrential rain that fell there now outside my house!

My WH1080 was showing the rain rate to be 32.44 mm/hr

Nice video TC. What is that strange sound from about 2.45 mins onwards? It's kinda weird and scary sounding!

tylercollins

I'm would be pretty certain that it's cars/40 footers driving on the road behind that row of houses where that ole car is.

Grimreaper666

rc28 wrote: »

Ye nice car, what make is that?

It's an Austin Sheerline from the late 40's.

Iancar29

A nice broad area of instability for tomorrow . It sure looks like pulse type storms could pop up anywhere . I'd guess the best place though would be anywhere right up the east coast and in the NW too . Hoping i get something out of this, something photogenic , Too much to ask for???????

tomcosgrave

Given the disappointment so far this summer in terms of thunderstorms around the east coast, I'll believe it when I hear it / see it!

Iancar29

tomcosgrave wrote: »

Given the disappointment so far this summer in terms of thunderstorms around the east coast, I'll believe it when I hear it / see it!

Indeed!.... More of this would be NICE!!!!

Iancar29

GFS Forecasted Skew - T for Dublin tommorrow at 1500

jimmynokia

Whopper shower just seemed to come out of the blue in DN 20

DOCARCH

jimmynokia wrote: »

Whopper shower just seemed to come out of the blue in DN 20

Can see the clouds tops from that shower here. Heavy looking shower alright.

Nabber

Can see some nice clouds over towards the west of dublin. Sunny and warm here in Dublin 4

pad199207

Mother of all downpours here in Naas atm

jimmynokia

pad199207 wrote: »

Mother of all downpours here in Naas atm

thats heading my way right now

pad199207

Theres a good deal with it too

Naas a few mins ago

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