Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

maquiladora

pad199207 wrote: »

Just curious but there seems to be height gain in the clouds over east ireland atm and down on the south coast

Hmm, I'm not really seeing it.

http://www.sat24.com/?ir=true&co=true&li=false

Can see that over Wales/England though.

ninebeanrows

Look at that storm over Bordeaux!

lolie

Wow is all, jaysus if it gets any bigger it'll be the size of ireland

lolie

maquiladora wrote: »

UKASF forecast for tomorrow. A slight risk covering most areas.





Estofex forecast, same as it was for today except the 50% lightning area is now over all of the island.

Mag you must be running on fumes at this stage after all your input this week, greatly appreciated by the way.
What do you make of Sundays weather, very nice cape chart.

hotwhiskey

Weathercheck wrote: »

Look at that storm over Bordeaux!

Only webcam i can get at the moment. They main webcam is offline.

http://www.viewsurf.com/univers/trafic/vue/2994-france-aquitaine-la-brede-a62-pres-de-bordeaux-vue-sur-la-gauche-orientee-vers-toulouse-et-sur-la-droite-vers-bordeaux

Better one!

http://www.viewsurf.com/univers/ville/vue/4567-france-aquitaine-bordeaux-pont-bacalan-bastide

redsteveireland

Weathercheck wrote: »

Look at that storm over Bordeaux!

Yeah, was watching with amazement on sat24. As Ian said the other day, the loaded gun situation.:eek:

maquiladora

lolie wrote: »

Mag you must be running on fumes at this stage after all your input this week, greatly appreciated by the way.
What do you make of Sundays weather, very nice cape chart.

Yeah Sunday could be an active day, but things can change on the day and make a big differeance so I wouldn't be looking that far ahead yet.

Rikand

hotwhiskey wrote: »

Only webcam i can get at the moment. They main webcam is offline.

Better one!

http://www.viewsurf.com/univers/ville/vue/4567-france-aquitaine-bordeaux-pont-bacalan-bastide

plenty of flashes on that cam

Rikand

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Thats an unreal amount of lightning. Its like a flash every second!

for sure - I'll be curious to see how many flashes per hour it gets on the auld counter thingy

hotwhiskey

Maq have you got the link for Estofex forecast.

SweetCaliber

Rickylovesuall wrote: »

plenty of flashes on that cam

Hell yeah! Sitting back here watching it, wishing I was on that bridge right now

Al_Coholic

the sky to the east


the sky to the north





edit..sorry if the images are too big...i dont know how to make it smaller.

maquiladora

hotwhiskey wrote: »

Maq have you got the link for Estofex forecast.

http://www.estofex.org/cgi-bin/polygon/showforecast.cgi?text=yes&fcstfile=2013072706_201307252205_2_stormforecast.xml

It's just showing up as a little squall-line on the Met radar but that was an amazing shower that just passed over Dundalk.

maquiladora

Those in the northwest, keep an eyes out again today for funnel clouds/weak tornados.

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/98876-convective-outlook-fri-26th-july-2013/

dopolahpec

I'm seeing very rapid cloud development in north Dublin in past half hour out my window. Would be great to do a stop-motion of the way they are pluming upward. This is something we also missed from previous summers, that sort of classic convection, those lovely fluffy white cumulous clouds billowing upward after a clear morning, while the heatwave may have broken it's still lovely weather, the cold fronts aren't smashing in with the horrible rain from the atlantic. It has been the nice rain if you know what I mean. I say hold on to the humidity, the break will be all the sweeter if it comes with summer's end. Imagine a lovely fresh day in early september as the leaves begin to turn.

Israeli Superiority

Showers in south Wicklow heading directly north.

Carroller16

Very Heavy Rain and Thunder in Dublin 6.

Iancar29

dopolahpec wrote: »

I'm seeing very rapid cloud development in north Dublin in past half hour out my window. Would be great to do a stop-motion of the way they are pluming upward. This is something we also missed from previous summers, that sort of classic convection, those lovely fluffy white cumulous clouds billowing upward after a clear morning, while the heatwave may have broken it's still lovely weather, the cold fronts aren't smashing in with the horrible rain from the atlantic. It has been the nice rain if you know what I mean. I say hold on to the humidity, the break will be all the sweeter if it comes with summer's end. Imagine a lovely fresh day in early september as the leaves begin to turn.

Yep ! , cumulus towers all around ... some nice motion in them too!

Not bad for 11am!

maquiladora

Slightly better CAPE and lift on the 06Z GFS for this afternoon/evening. A little bit of extra juice for whatever pops up.

Ulster and north midland areas looking like the best places today, could see convergance storms in Connacht later in the day. Scattered risk elsewhere I think.

RobertKK

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Bucketing down here in KK. Can anyone tell me if its producing sparks? Cant check from here in the course.

Edit: Informed by a friend there was a rumble

Here is a picture of that shower looking down south from North Kilkenny.

http://i.imgur.com/DCzOTs8.jpg

Comhrá

Nice line of showers coming onto the SW coast soon. Hopefully it may develop when it gets over the warm land. Some sparks for Munster later today?

http://www.sat24.com/en/gb

Birtles

impressive lightning map from met.ie for yesterday. never seen such a concentration of strikes over a large area.

http://www.met.ie/climate/lightning.asp

ninebeanrows

Some big towers going up early in the day. Heavy downpour in CC about 30 minutes ago.

There is some potential.

chris2007

There was a clap of thunder here in Coolock about a half an hour ago anyone else hear it?

Saganist

Bucketing in Dublin City Centre.

maquiladora

chris2007 wrote: »

There was a clap of thunder here in Coolock about a half an hour ago anyone else hear it?

I've only see lightning detected in NI so far this morning.

Rikand

Got some heavy looking stuff on the way to Athlone on the radar. Any chance of it bringing some action ?

rilz

Big towers shooting up right above me. Looking good this early. Wanna see a good storm. Has that look about it

Downpours around Oak Park Carlow was on the Bike and got saturated, but that's part of the fun cycling.

No thunder at all, the sky looks bad enough but nothing so far.

The showers seem to be intensifying as they reach Carlow Kildare.