Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

maquiladora

dopolahpec wrote: »

Looks to have dropped in intensity as its hitting the city

These type of cells dont last very long, without good wind shear to seperate the downdraft and updraft they burn themselves out in less than an hour usually, new cells can pop up quickly right behind them though.

pad199207

maquiladora wrote: »

These type of cells dont last very long, without good wind shear to seperate the downdraft and updraft they burn themselves out in less than an hour usually, new cells can pop up quickly right behind them though.

Yeah but i tell ye that was a very strong cell. there was convective gusts here ! rain fall rates of just under 100mm/hr recorded here

Monkaa

Live up the Dublin mountains myself...loads of Thunder & heavy rain for about 15 mins, just passing now heading towards the city if anything left in it

xXxkorixXx

that mammatus over arklow about 5 minutes ago

vickers209

maquiladora wrote: »

Big cell heading towards Bray/Greystones. Lots of lightning. Might be weakening a little now though.

Anything heading wicklow town direction

Sierra Oscar

Thought I saw a flash of lightning in Dublin 2, didn't hear any thunder though so not so sure.

wind is blowing any showers fast,

More activity heading from the south west heading up now, might get lucky here soon.

Wind is just too strong for anything to last.

maquiladora

pad199207 wrote: »

Yeah but i tell ye that was a very strong cell. there was convective gusts here ! rain fall rates of just under 100mm/hr recorded here

Yeah it looked impressive on radar.

V_Moth

Some pics from Kilcoole of the cell over Bray/S Dublin. Continuous thunder and the odd flash here the last few minutes. Lovely active skies

dopolahpec

The storm moving through County Down looks like something else altogether.

whitebriar

xXxkorixXx wrote: »

that mammatus over arklow about 5 minutes ago

Lots of thunder ,very audible connected to that just 3 miles south of the town.
I could hear it here for the last 45 mins! At least 20 strikes visible,and much low booming.Action centred near Tara hill.

rilz

Some cracker cells popping up, can hear constant rumbling in distance. It is great sky watch day

dopolahpec

Amazing how quickly things have calmed down on the radar. A real lull in activity. None of the echoes west of Meath are producing lightning.

maquiladora

dopolahpec wrote: »

Amazing how quickly things have calmed down on the radar. A real lull in activity. None of the echoes west of Meath are producing lightning.

Cape is restricted to the east and northeast now, there's no energy for thunderstorms further west.

pad199207

some activity south now maybe moving up to the east for more action

Drumpot

Came down to beach in bettstown (facing east). I'm wondering if anybody has a suggestion? Have I a better chance of seeing lightening facing south (towards north dublin) or north (towards Dundalk)?

whitebriar

New storm fast approaching now,looks like a direct overhead for Arklow shortly

Rock Lesnar

Just had the mother and father of a Thunderstorm here in north meath, torrential rain, and the flashes of lightening were incredible , was driving home from navan and saw at least 3 strikes that came straight down and they had to hit land somewhere, Thunder was sharp and very loud.......great stuff

seven_eleven

Absolutely nothing in the south east all day. Looks like the east got hit fairly hard with lightning. Lucky.

redsteveireland

pad199207 wrote: »

Yeah but i tell ye that was a very strong cell. there was convective gusts here ! rain fall rates of just under 100mm/hr recorded here

I was in Naas for that one earlier, rain was crazy and a few nice rumbles from it too. There wad bad spot flooding on the motorway afterwards too.

whitebriar

These cells are narrow but violent.
Sounds like an airport runway at the moment.

Drumpot

By the way there was a good downpour of hailstones with one of the thunder showers.

I watch some of those storm chasing programmes and notice that there is nearly always hail before a tornado. Not saying that this means that one was coming but is hail common with thunder storms?

lolie

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

Just had the mother and father of a Thunderstorm here in north meath, torrential rain, and the flashes of lightening were incredible , was driving home from navan and saw at least 3 strikes that came straight down and they had to hit land somewhere, Thunder was sharp and very loud.......great stuff

Any videos?
Parts of east cavan/north meath have had a serious amount of thunderstorms.
I've never seen so much black skies and thunder in the distance the past week in that direction.

dopolahpec

maquiladora wrote: »

Cape is restricted to the east and northeast now, there's no energy for thunderstorms further west.

Is there the potential for a second wave of severe storms later this afternoon or has the worst passed?

glossy

missed us...

whitebriar

Explosion over the yard just now,near Arklow

And another

Rock Lesnar

lolie wrote: »

Any videos?
Parts of east cavan/north meath have had a serious amount of thunderstorms.
I've never seen so much black skies and thunder in the distance the past week in that direction.

Tried hanging out the window while the young lad took the wheel but as he's only 5, it was a bit difficult to keep the car straight and get a good video so unfortunately didnt get one ........;)

maquiladora

dopolahpec wrote: »

Is there the potential for a second wave of severe storms later this afternoon or has the worst passed?

The worst looks to be over.

martic

Some beautiful clouds today, a few blasts of thunder in the Derry direction earlier.

pad199207

Lots of convection out West again....