Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

maquiladora

Iancar must be gettin some good pics in Ashbourne.

Lenny5

Fork lightning spotted for the first time here in Castlebar. :-) plenty of flashes too.

Davaeo09

Any chance of some activity making its way towards Kilkenny/Waterford area?

Tornando9

Equilibrium level is -40°C which means towers have a free path all the way to 34,000ft which is our tropopause.
I'd say there are overshooting tops on the Meath cells.

PauloMN

Lashed out of it here in Trim, with some fireworks to go with it.

pad199207

How long will these cells last this evening?

Tom Cruises Left Nut

I hope that growing blob south of naas decides to keep growing !

Tornando9

pad199207 wrote: »

How long will these cells last this evening?

Not long Pad. Diurnal heating is the trigger
MLCAPE is quite good so if we had more shear they could have gone on for a few hours after sunset.

Could be added forcing from an upper jet but i'm not sure

pad199207

Here is the Timlapse i did earlier of The N Kildare/Meath cell
The tower on the left can be clearly seen anvilling out at the top!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zit1hBo9tjk&feature=youtu.be

andrew

Are there any sources for some kind of 'a beginners guide to reading summer/thunderstorm charts' (a-la the ones which exist for winter/snow charts).

maquiladora

pad199207 wrote: »

How long will these cells last this evening?

CAPE will be back down to the low-mid hundreds by around 9pm.

Penname

Southern aspect of that cell slamming Meath at the moment. The height of it is something else.

Deank

t|nt|n wrote: »

You cn see the monster to the north of Sallins, look at the height of it !!

I heard the rumbles from it near Mondello, had to rush to get the BBQ finished, it's got extremely hot in the last hour, temp reading 23.4 now, humidity is only @ 55% though, temps gone up nearly a degree in the last hour.

Tornando9

@Pad A cell getting going down near Castledermot could be headed our way see how it develops

maquiladora

andrew wrote: »

Are there any sources for some kind of 'a beginners guide to reading summer/thunderstorm charts' (a-la the ones which exist for winter/snow charts).

I'm sure Karl won't mind me linking to this here.

http://www.irelandsweather.com/forum/index.php?topic=1138.0

It's a good introduction and explains a lot of the terms and ingredients needed etc.

pad199207

Here is the Timelapse i did earlier of The N Kildare/Meath cell
The tower on the left can be clearly seen anvilling out at the top!

lolie

Had a nice little thunderstorm earlier, plenty of lightning but no forks.
That storm over north meath earlier must have been impressive, could here almost continuous thunder from it in the distance for nearly half an hour.

TheMilkyPirate

I've given up hope now were too close to the coast, Storms are literally forming over my head now and heading north.

Bollocks anyway

pad199207

Lightning is decreasing quickly now across the country

maquiladora

baraca wrote: »

I've given up hope now were too close to the coast, Storms are literally forming over my head now and heading north.

Bollocks anyway

Southeast wasn't in a great spot for storms today because of the southwest-northeast motion. At least it's been mostly nice and dry though. :pac:

diceyd

incoming:D

chris2007

Rainfall Warning for Ireland
Widespread thunderstorms this afternoon and evening with locally over 20-30 mm in 6 hours and spot flooding.

Issued:Sunday 28 July 2013 17:00
Valid:Sunday 28 July 2013 17:00 to Sunday 28 July 2013 23:59

diceyd

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RobbingBandit

Anything major due in Dublin airport region in the next while?

vickers209

Bibical rain comming down in Dublin 11

shamwari

vickers209 wrote: »

Bibical rain comming down in Dublin 11

Indeed. I just got caught out in it

Iancar29

Couldnt stay up in Ashbourne long as the Mother had to be collected...
Got some nice shots up there but nothin great...

Got home ,and then anvils start shooting up around me! ha
Got 3 nice rumbles out of it and some moonsoon size raindrops , i thought it was hail at first ! ha

Anyways heres 2 iphone shots... If i have the energy ill upload a video or 2 of the rain and rumbles





This Updraft was rotating!

Popoutman

I was out kayaking on the Shannon this afternoon when a cell blew up over us. I had the GoPro with me, so I got some footage of the strikes.

Here's a still from my video..


Some crack of thunder off that particular one. Wasn't too happy to be paddling on the river with sharp-edged paddles, so we got to the bank, balled up away as far from the trees as we could, and watched the show. At least the paddling gear meant the torrential rain wasn't an issue. I would have preferred to have been in the car a half-mile downstream, but it wasn't safe to do anything else.

Storm 10

I was in Athenry Co Galway when a storm went through ,unreal rain roads flooded and some nice lightning with loud thunder

km79

Storm 10 wrote: »

I was in Athenry Co Galway when a storm went through ,unreal rain roads flooded and some nice lightning with loud thunder

Was that today ? We are leading a charmed life here. Storms to west and east of us for majority of the day. Avoided us again