Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

munsterlegend

maquiladora wrote: »

Lightning detected near Cork City.

Thunder near Mallow but saw no lightning.

jkforde

just had half an hour of T&L over very muggy Galway city, my young baba loved it, clapping and screaming with delight after every flash ) (that's my boy!)
and there's some amount of activity over Europe at the moment... http://www.sat24.com/en/eu (check the lightning box in the settings in the bottom right)

Super-Rush

We never get anything down in the South East.

sunbabe08

Super-Rush wrote: »

We never get anything down in the South East.

Down in youghal, just heavy rain :-(:-(

Super-Rush

sunbabe08 wrote: »

Down in youghal, just heavy rain :-(:-(

Bit of light drizzle in Carlow.

Bleh.

Reiketsu

Starting to rain here now, wind has picked up a bit too. Still a bit of sun to my left when I look out the living room window but that's disappearing quickly - really dark clouds.

Just started lashing and had first bit of thunder and lightning

snaps

lovely blue skies after that band. Hardly any rain again from it, which is strange as the radar has it over us.

Super-Rush

From Twatter.

RTÉ News ‏@rtenews 8m
Heavy rain in Galway city has led to flooding in parts of the city

sunbeam

Thunder here on the Mayo coast now, but no rain since lunchtime. Even then it wasn't that heavy. Brightened up for a while but cloudy again now.

Oscar Bravo

Turning very black here in Castlebar from the S/SW.

Harps

I was in the car when the storm hit here, pulled over to watch but very hard to hear the rumbles with the torrential rain and the heater on full blast. Plenty of flashes, an intense squally downpour and one really loud rumble that lasted about 10 seconds.

A fairly standard thunderstorm but we get them so rarely that its a real treat, wish we could get that every week instead of a full day of light rain

Storm 10

15.2 mm of rain fell in Galway City according to NUIG Galway

snowstorm445

maquiladora wrote: »

Lightning detected near Cork City.

Some big black clouds rolling in at the moment but no lightning yet. There's a big beefy shower turning up on the radar just south of the city, here's hoping we'll have some flashes before the day is out.

Lenny5

Quick shower in Castlebar that cleared quickly with no rumbles:(

Far Q Boss

Here's a few photo's from Salthill taken roughly 3:20pm today. I'm pissed off coz I was recording the rain on my phone and I hit STOP about 10 seconds before an unreal savage bang! It was so loud it felt like a bomb went off beside my car, it shook the crap out of the car, it actually felt like I was hit from behind by another car!

I hope I attach these photos properly, sorry if they come out huge!

tylercollins

That cell that passed over the Northwest pretty much died before it got to Derry. Torrential rain only, no lighting or thunder seen/header.

Hoping the one over Galway at the minute comes this week, probably just go west of Derry!

vickers209

Photo of Galway city on buy los page on face book on phone now so can't upload

sunbabe08

More heavy rain coming for youghal, can barely make our Capel island

Far Q Boss

Doing the rounds on Twitter

eastmayo

Well that that shower that was in galway is here now.heavy rain but no thunder.sad.

Zzippy

Storm 10 wrote: »

15.2 mm of rain fell in Galway City according to NUIG Galway

Plus 4.8mm after 4pm, giving 20mm in total for that cell.... won't need to water the garden this evening!

snaps

Strange, the storm passed ages ago but we've no power in Ballinrobe mayo

maquiladora

A look ahead to Wednesday.

This is from the 12Z GFS.

Showing very intense precipitation reaching the southwest early in the morning :



Which would slowly expand northeastwards while still remaining heaviest in the southwest (3 hours later )



And could well be thundery too:



In the afternoon/early evening then heavy thundery showers shown all along the western coastal counties, some cells would get further inland :




Then later that evening/night more organised, heavier precipitation in the west/northwest and pushing up from the south more heavy rain which could end up over or just off the east coast overnight.



(12Z NAE for 3am Thursday)



Thats just how things look now, things can change and will vary from model to model.

redsteveireland

Nice Mammatus over Galway city now, took some pictures with the phone, will put them up later when I get home if they are any way decent.

Iancar29

Still not entirely convinced with the charts for me here in Dublin anyways .

What will it take to get my first proper lightning shot from Home?! Grrrrrr

Assassin saphir

Torrential rain here at Cork airport

Mars Bar

How do some of you enjoy that? I did a driving lesson in that thunder and lightning in Tuam. Scared the bejaysus out of me.

Slashermcguirk

Still no sign of rain in Dublin, that must be 3 weeks of no rain now. Looking at met eireann website, due to be sunny and warm for next couple if days too. Thought the warm weather was meant to be gone by now and rain was meant to fall already

RuthieRose

Uncle Martin predicting more thundery showers tomorrow along west!!!!

sunbeam

Sunny here now, we didn't even get any rain after the last few bangs of thunder.