Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

pad199207

Great Mamma views here, recent strikes north of Edenderry

Mycroft H

Near edenderry...

DOCARCH

BX 19 wrote: »

Near edenderry...

Nice one! Time reference and all...very good. Next time can we please have a copy of todays newspaper in the shot too!!!

pad199207

Decent Hail!

DOCARCH

That shower looks to be loosing intensity now.

Looking at http://www.sat24.com/en/gb there looks to be another shower developing with good height to it now on the north Tipp/south Offaly border.

Hooter23

About the same size hail we got in Galway awhile ago my pug was eating it he also eats snow when we get it haha:D

Edit- another heavy hail shower my pug will think its christmas eating all them hailstones nom nom

km79

My wife and toddler got caught in that shower around lunch time. They were just crossing the road from tesco to smyths. They got ABSOLUteLy soaked through. My wife is usually a very placid person but she said she roared at the sky after as it stopped as soon as she reached the car. It did not help her mood when I told her I had been outside for 3 hours in mayo around the same time and not a drop

Penname

Pic of hail

force eleven

Based on the Offaly/ Westmeath border. Was in Dublin today but the trusty vantage vue recorded a rain rate of 116mm per hr at around 2.20. Total rain recorded is 13.5mm , so no records there. Phone line knocked out, apparently a spectacular thunderstorm indeed. Missed it. Damn ;(

highdef

Was in Cork today and absolutely gutted I missed the storm at home, a few km SE of Enfield, Meath. The first I heard was when I got a call from my alarm company saying that several sensors on the house alarm had been activated. So I rang the next door neighbour who said the worst hail she had ever seen was falling together with overhead lightning. She said everywhere was white and there looked to be a good half inch of hail on all surfaces. I should have asked her to take a photo! The hail hitting the windows had set the alarm off.

Hal1

Jaysus, that's impressive sized hail. I love hearing about these localised events.

Simon Gruber Says

Some heavy looking showers to the north of Dublin at the moment

Jpmarn

Just got one flash of lightening with a bang of thunder near Limerick City.

Mycroft H

highdef wrote: »

Was in Cork today and absolutely gutted I missed the storm at home, a few km SE of Enfield, Meath. The first I heard was when I got a call from my alarm company saying that several sensors on the house alarm had been activated. So I rang the next door neighbour who said the worst hail she had ever seen was falling together with overhead lightning. She said everywhere was white and there looked to be a good half inch of hail on all surfaces. I should have asked her to take a photo! The hail hitting the windows had set the alarm off.

Probably the same shower I got caught im at home... Apparently Kilcock got it worse than we did.

Popoutman

Jpmarn wrote: »

Just got one flash of lightening with a bang of thunder near Limerick City.

Saw that strike as well. To the east/southeast of the city, maybe 4-5km away. Quite a heavy mixed hail/rain shower from that cloud a few min previous but nowhere near as large as the hail core event above.

solas111

There is a heavy covering of hail on roads in northwest Donegal, with slippery patches and a temperature of 2°C.

Didn’t see any reference to snow for the area on the RTE Weather Forecasts tis morning.

DOCARCH

solas111 wrote: »

Didn’t see any reference to snow for the area on the RTE Weather Forecasts tis morning.

:rolleyes:

As you said yourself, it was hail...hail is not snow...Met Eireann did forecast hail showers.

weisses

Massive hail shower here 5 mins ago some stones were about 1 cm in diameter and A few nice rumbles as well

Didn't see that one coming ...

That nice red dot on the radar at 12:15 explains it

Nice view of some mammatus .. looking at the back of that little cel

redsteveireland

Yeah, here too. Heavy hail shower, that's more like it!

Oneiric 3

:eek:

km79

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

:eek:

Is that incoming ?

redsteveireland

Nope, old news. Don't forget to Click "i dag".

km79

redsteveireland wrote: »

Nope, old news. Don't forget to Click "i dag".

I thought it would have caused a bit more excitement alright !

sunbeam

Eek, massive thunder and hail here on the Mayo coast now. Had another one in the early morning. Electricity is gone again.

Oneiric 3

km79 wrote: »

Is that incoming ?

Sorry, I should have stated, it is the accumulated strikes over the near Atlantic since midnight, which by all accounts in a pretty incredible amount.

Notwithstanding, a few strikes showing up on NW coast now.

Oscar Bravo

seriously loud thunder west of castlebar!

Hal1

That front moving across us will probably produce some sparks. I'm hope so anyway. Maybe some thundersnow next week?

RoisinD

Thunder and lightning moving overhead now. Quite a few flashes and rumbles. We also had thunder and lightning at 2.45am. Lasted for about half hour and quite a few flashes and rumbles.

NW Clare

pad199207

RoisinD wrote: »

Thunder and lightning moving overhead now. Quite a few flashes and rumbles. We also had thunder and lightning at 2.45am. Lasted for about half hour and quite a few flashes and rumbles.

NW Clare

Recent strikes near Lisdoonvarna and Black Head

Iancar29

Watch out for a potential squall line feature this afternoon folks as the second front makes away across the country. Like wednesday deep layer shear is maxed out and low level shear too quite strong in Munster and leinster . Funnels are possible also.

In work at 12 , wont be able to be on much