Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

SEPT 23 1989

quick question

do we ever get ground to cloud lightning in Ireland?

Mr Benevolent

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

quick question

do we ever get ground to cloud lightning in Ireland?

We do, but it's a fairly rare type of lightning though.

kfk

Shelf cloud (thats what Im told it is) in Belgium. Probably posted on here already but for those who have not seen it

Hal1

Jaysus you'd think godzilla was emerging from the sea the way all those people were running .

Storm 10

Hal1 wrote: »

Jaysus you'd think godzilla was emerging from the sea the way all those people were running .

So you would stay there and not worry about the lightning, they done the correct thing, get to hell out of there

Jim Martin

Very exciting event yesterday at 20.15(although not quite as exciting as the Ennis tornado!) - observed a small funnel cloud near Mt. Callan. At first, I thought it was a jet trail of something coming in to land at Shannon but very soon realised by its shape and movement that it wasn't! It only lasted for approx half a minute and was nowhere near to coming down to the ground (thankfully, as it wasn't far from my house!)

Spoke to Brian Delaney the Customer Liaison Officer at Met Eireann this morning and he sent me a rainfall radar map for that time which showed a small area of rain which co-incided with the event. He was glad of the info!

Iancar29

Storm 10 wrote: »

So you would stay there and not worry about the lightning, they done the correct thing, get to hell out of there

:P:rolleyes:

Tornando9

Found a better video from yesterday Ian have you seen this.

Iancar29

Tornando9 wrote: »

Found a better video from yesterday Ian have you seen this.

That is EPIC!! WHO do i credit?!

100% landspout , I wouldve ran right up to that and got a photo in front of it!


Again , they form underneath the rising air within a cumulus cloud .

Iancar29

My mate was up in Donegal last week for a wedding , check out this jammy shot the 2 newly weds got !




https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201249522994469&set=a.3482287990271.146938.1663473513&type=1&theater

Iancar29

Iancar29 wrote: »

That is EPIC!! WHO do i credit?!

landspout , I wouldve ran right up to that and got a photo in front of it!


Again , they form underneath the rising air within a cumulus cloud .

CORRECTION : I got the formation right but the name wrong , its a DUST DEvil.

My apologies.

The difference in the 2 being that no funnel forms for dust devils .

demakinz

Some cool looking clouds over my house Yesterday.

redsteveireland

demakinz wrote: »

Some cool looking clouds over my house Yesterday.

Saw them over my house today as well, pretty cool looking alright!

Snowc

Jim Martin wrote: »

Very exciting event yesterday at 20.15(although not quite as exciting as the Ennis tornado!) - observed a small funnel cloud near Mt. Callan. At first, I thought it was a jet trail of something coming in to land at Shannon but very soon realised by its shape and movement that it wasn't! It only lasted for approx half a minute and was nowhere near to coming down to the ground (thankfully, as it wasn't far from my house!)

Spoke to Brian Delaney the Customer Liaison Officer at Met Eireann this morning and he sent me a rainfall radar map for that time which showed a small area of rain which co-incided with the event. He was glad of the info!

Was it this jimmy ?

dmc17 wrote: »

Something in the clouds over Clare!

dmc17

Snowc wrote: »

Was it this jimmy ?

That was just over Mt. Callan too

V_Moth

Hailstorm in southern Germany :eek:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=95a_1375948831

lolie

Thunderstorm over Warsaw at the minute, some nice big bright flashes

http://oognet.pl/content/details/276

Jim Martin

Yes, that's exactly how it appeared! Thanks for putting the photo's up.

notnumber

demakinz wrote: »

Some cool looking clouds over my house Yesterday.

Cool alright, thought it was mammatus but couldn't have been, what would those formations be called?

maquiladora

It's a bit too far away yet, but Thursday looks like it might have some thunderstorm potential again.

eskimocat

notnumber wrote: »

Cool alright, thought it was mammatus but couldn't have been, what would those formations be called?

Have a quick look on the cloud appreciation website, it looks like it might be Asperatus, the cloud type that is going for classification at the moment. Its a good shot, might be worth submitting to the Irish or UK cloud appreciation society for confirmation

eskimocat

maquiladora wrote: »

It's a bit too far away yet, but Thursday looks like it might have some thunderstorm potential again.

Great, missed out on the fun of the last run of thunderstorms so hoping for a bit of fun with these, although not free to chase. Will desk top chase to hearts content though... Roll on... roll on....

DOCARCH

Isolated sferic recently over Meath. http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html Probably from that heavy looking shower on radar.

Red Nissan

A Dust Devil is caused buy a warm updraught that rotates and can form with no cloud. It does not create a funnel or attach from ground to cloud.

A land spout [water spout] can form from a convective Cumulonimbus cloud and can take a on defined vortex and funnel cloud to ground.

A tornado is spawned from a super-cell [storm] and any such formation can be damaging.

Assume this is correct?
Questions: Can a spout be damaging? Can it become a tornado?

vickers209

How tomorrow looking any upgrades yet:D

maquiladora

vickers209 wrote: »

How tomorrow looking any upgrades yet:D

No, I'm afraid it got downgraded instead!

vickers209

maquiladora wrote: »

No, I'm afraid it got downgraded instead!

Ah Shuks

DOCARCH

Looks like quite an intense shower over Achill at the moment. Wonder might it produce something?

sparrowcar

DOCARCH wrote: »

Looks like quite an intense shower over Achill at the moment. Wonder might it produce something?

Heading down to Achill now till Sun.. I'll set up on the beach and give a nowcast as they come in off the sea :-)

PauloMN

V_Moth wrote: »

Hailstorm in southern Germany :eek:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=95a_1375948831

Was in southern Germany myself that day, further south than where that video was taken. We didn't get the mad hail, but we did get a nice electrical storm and torrential rain. Here's a still I pulled from a video I took that evening: