Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

Larbre34

Rain just beginning here on rural edge of D15. I like the way this cell popped up, bodes well for the evening.

PS Torrential now

H2UMrsRobinson

Few rumbles and the odd flash in d3. Does no one count Mississippi between flash and thunder anymore? I counted 9. Which I was always led to believe was nine miles.

jdee99

couple of rumbles over Ballyhaunis

pad199207

Watched this cell develop after it passed me! Ugh

Zzippy

H2UMrsRobinson wrote: »

Few rumbles and the odd flash in d3. Does no one count Mississippi between flash and thunder anymore? I counted 9. Which I was always led to believe was nine miles.

Its a lot closer, more like 3km - IIRC the speed of sound in air is ~330 metres per second, so 3 seconds = 1 kilometre

zenno

Heavy rain and thunder in swords Co. Dublin now, and for the last 10 minutes.

Trebor176

Could we have a repeat performance of last night tonight in the east?

HungryJoey

Watch it at Dublin airport at the moment. As said already, same some planes land and take off much to my surprise. Very heavy rain and a few flashes/rumbles. Was hoping for more looks like its passing

Trebor176

It's gone quiet here now

jimmynokia

Thunder in DN22 now

Gonzo

can hear the constant thunder to my south now and dark skies, still hot sun here, glorious sun over past 4 to 5 hours. 22C

kwik

Just had the craziest rain ive ever seen in ballyfermot. With thunder and lightning as an added bonus..

savj2

I can see the Ryanair flight FR9907 circling over North Co Dublin. It must be waiting for the cell to pass.

zenno

Further spells of very heavy and thundery rain this evening in many parts of Ulster (especially in central and eastern parts) and also in many parts of north Leinster, with a continuing risk of flooding.

robclay26

Scary sky over kildalkey west of trim in Meath

force eleven

H2UMrsRobinson wrote: »

Few rumbles and the odd flash in d3. Does no one count Mississippi between flash and thunder anymore? I counted 9. Which I was always led to believe was nine miles.

Count and multiply by 0.3 to get km from you. Therefore ten seconds = 3 km.

Storm 10

Any chance of something in Galway seems to be an active cell to my South moving North

djhaxman

Lightning a few kms outside Kilcock now.

Pang

We had very loud thunder here in Summerhill with plenty of sheet lightning, up until a few minutes ago. Seems to have eased off now.

Harps

Possible hook on that storm moving along the Monaghan border?

djhaxman

Pang wrote: »

We had very loud thunder here in Summerhill with plenty of sheet lightning, up until a few minutes ago. Seems to have eased off now.

Yeah, that's what I'm looking at right now.

eagerv

Not a cloud in the sky all day here in south wexford.

One of the nicest days of the summer. Lower humidity, not too high temperatures and a nice breeze. The rain and thunder last night really cleared the air.

hotwhiskey

Harps wrote: »

Possible hook on that storm moving along the Monaghan border?

Yes Harps I could see to my SE cloud rotation but loss sight of it soon after. We had a wicked storm for the last hour and half the best in years.

Calibos

force eleven wrote: »

Count and multiply by 0.3 to get km from you. Therefore ten seconds = 3 km.

Yeah, I'll keep dividing by 3 and rounding rather than multiplying by 0.3, thanks very much!

Gonzo

Sky Digital does not handle these storms at all, no signal with each and every storm, thankfully FreeView and SaorView still going strong

Penname

Great view to my north of the very active cell over Southern Meath. Lightning every three to four minutes.

robclay26

Over kildalkey co Meath, lookin south 20:00

Gonzo

crazy stuff going on here, rain like ive never seen it before (except in Spain) lots of lightning and loud bangs of thunder.

robclay26

Gonzo wrote: »

crazy stuff going on here, rain like ive never seen it before (except in Spain) lots of lightning and loud bangs of thunder.

Where are you seeing it? It's stopped here in trim

Gonzo

it's starting to ease here now but it was all over here past 30 minutes or so with thunder building from the south over past hour. starting to clear to my north now but still raining heavy.