Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Summer/Autumn/Winter 2014-15

patneve2

Knock Airport has been reporting thunderstorm conditions at least once every day for 4/5 days, never seen that before. Meanwhile, very hot here in Rome with a max of 34 C, dead TS cell over my head atm thats spitting rain and causing the humidity to reach uncomfortable levels.

eastmayo

Ya I live beside knock,plenty of thunderstorms here the last few days,plenty of fork lighting on the way home from work at 4 30 this eve

Mac_

Phenomenal storm just passed over Antrim. Bright forked lightning and constant booms of thunder...moving away to NE

hotwhiskey

We have had thunder 4 days in a row I can not recall that happening before I remember 3 days back in the 90's. Today has been the best by far.

spooky woo

more thunder in cavan virginia are loud rattles no lighting from what i can see heading cavan town direction

Rikand

patneve2 wrote: »

Knock Airport has been reporting thunderstorm conditions at least once every day for 4/5 days, never seen that before.

Flew in there this morning and it was absolutely lovely!



which I am glad about

Xenji

It has been a good few days, we have had thunder every day since Saturday including today.

Storm 10

Level crossing struck by lightning in Gort Co Galway, train and traffic held up

spooky woo

Thunder

ninebeanrows

Not too much action here, although a few claps of thunder from a few different cells through the afternoon.

Managed to get 9 holes in :P

Rikand

Cracking cell making direct impact on Athlone town. A flash every 15 seconds, I'm a bit west for the full show

homer simpson

Just kicked off up with me again, a rumble every 5 - 10 seconds the last 5 minutes, no flashes yet though must be behind the rain.

cyclops999

Rikand wrote: »

Cracking cell making direct impact on Athlone town. A flash every 15 seconds, I'm a bit west for the full show

Long time since I've seen so much lightening walls vibrating with thunder absolutely cracking in Athlone area.

cyclops999

Rikand wrote: »

Cracking cell making direct impact on Athlone town. A flash every 15 seconds, I'm a bit west for the full show

Long time since I've seen so much lightening walls vibrating with thunder absolutely cracking in Athlone area.

Assassin saphir

sky has gone black over cork airport to my sw. Hopefully it's our turn

Jpmarn

Showers are inclining to move from a westerly direction. May be the capital might be for a lightening show later on this evening. There is a cell threatening Limerick City and my area at the moment. This cell could give off a spark or two.

Hammer Archer

The Cbs that produced the storm over Cavan/Monaghan earlier was extremely impressive from a distance.
Had a few rumbles of thunder in the distance in Meath in the early afternoon but nothing to write home about.

aghost

cyclops999 wrote: »

Long time since I've seen so much lightening walls vibrating with thunder absolutely cracking in Athlone area.

I can see that from my garden. I think it's heading my way, looks massive

Rikand

Took a couple of videos from that cell that was over Athlone. Screenshot from one of the videos I took on my phone

Darwin

Some monster CBs to my west and north, expecting something to happen soon!

IT-Guy

Pic of a funnel cloud forming taken in my village (Rathcormac, Co.Cork) earlier and sent to Red FM who posted it on their FB page. Haven't seen this anywhere else and am assuming it's legit! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152118040912060&set=a.10151566681457060.1073741861.50571612059&type=1&theater

maquiladora

That looks like being the end of any thundery days for these parts probably for the next week or so at least.

homer simpson

maquiladora wrote: »

That looks like being the end of any thundery days for these parts probably for the next week or so at least.

Today had pretty much everything, lots of torrential rain, spectacular could formations which then led to a great thunder storm, and finally a fantastic post sunset sky.

These 2 photos were taken 2 hours apart :cool:

delw

Disappointing day here as regards to thunder etc...maybe better luck next time,looking forward to a few nice days ahead,now wheres my factor 50

Oneiric 3

Just looking back through my weather log, have recorded a fair number of days with thunder here this year so far. Not all were overhead, with some just consisting of a rumble or two, but to hear even one rumble of thunder is worth all the gold in the world (IMO)

Days with observed thunder heard in 2014 so far (NE Galway: Lat 53.53. Long: -8.85)

Jan 6th
Feb 1st
Apr 23rd
Apr 27th
Apr 30th
May 20th
Jun 7th
Jun 8th
Jun 9th
Jun 10th

Days with thunder heard since in the 2nd half of 2013:

Jul 19th
Jul 23rd
Jul 26th
Jul 27th
Jul 28th
Oct 27th
Dec 22nd
Dec 23rd

Adding up to make an impressive total of 18 days with thunder heard here in the last 12 months.

Still holding out for another repeat of June 1986 though. Someday...

road_high

This evening turned out really lovely here after all those monsoon like downpours and thunder.

tylercollins

A few images I took yesterday from a small chase around the North Coast

Red Nissan

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=swpxg2%3E&s=8#.U5hV8nJdU4I

View My Video

Nearest I got to anything yesterday.

jfSDAS

Great reports and pics everyone ... keep 'em coming!

Apologies if this has been posted already, but Martin McKenna in Maghera has a nice report of recent storms at http://www.nightskyhunter.com -- click the "Sky Events Now" link on the left-hand side of his home page.

Scroll down Martin's sky events page and you'll see some draw-dropping photos of a waterspout over Lough Neagh on June 3rd.

Keep looking up!

John

lolie

Few pics and video with few small flashes from yesterday.
Heard plenty of thunder from lots of different cells but unfortunately most of the good stuff went either side of here.
Here's hoping for lots more over the summer.




The cell over north Dublin yesterday afternoon was visible from here, about 50 miles away.
All followed by a nice sunset.

Bsal

We should have some nice cells pop up in the east during the afternoon and some convergence at the coast.

lolie

Bsal wrote: »

We should have some nice cells pop up in the east during the afternoon and some convergence at the coast.

Few sparks maybe?

sparrowcar

Well anyone think we might get a spark or two this eve?
I see some cells building over the midlands.

spooky woo

Cells over balieborough co cavan

M.T. Cranium

Within 30-50 km of Athlone possibly a brief thunderstorm now to sunset. Not very fast moving and likely to become non-thundery after midnight further into Westmeath, Meath, Louth, east Ulster.

Danno

Lightning detector picked up two strikes from the Roscommon/Longford shower... heavy shower rolled through here and gave a rain rate of 28mm/hr briefly and dark sky to boot... no thunder heard tho...

lolie

Nice few sparks in southern England now.

lolie

Some epic lightning reported in parts of southern England last night.
At least 10 houses in Reading damaged by lightning.
Wonder did Harps see any of it.

5 second exposure shot from twitter.

Harps

lolie wrote: »

Some epic lightning reported in parts of southern England last night.
At least 10 houses in Reading damaged by lightning.
Wonder did Harps see any of it.

Didn't even know about it until I heard on the news that Gatwick Airport was hit last night! I'm a light sleeper so assume it bypassed me

lolie

Harps wrote: »

Didn't even know about it until I heard on the news that Gatwick Airport was hit last night! I'm a light sleeper so assume it bypassed me

It caught a lot of people by surprise.
I was gonna txt the brother in Tooting but thought it would prob die out but it kept going.
He's up at 6 all week so prob wouldn't have stayed up to late.
Wasn't to far from London.

Video

Thunderstorm tomorrow? Cape over 1200 -4 LI in some places... very high temps for this time of year..

maquiladora

Video wrote: »

Thunderstorm tomorrow? Cape over 1200 -4 LI in some places... very high temps for this time of year..

Moderate risk for southern regions later in the day. Weak cap that will probably break in the late afternoon/early evening, potential for a few airmass storms to pop up.

M.T. Cranium

Unofficial (MTC) thunderstorm watch now in place for inland south and west generally speaking along a sea breeze boundary 10-30 km inland from south coast and then north-south from about Cork (city) to Shannon to Galway and then across Connemara towards Westport. Not expecting storms in all these areas but watching radar for development, valid now to 8:30 pm.

Somewhat higher risk in south-central Cork (county) and western Mayo, but would expect if these verify a third area on either side of the Shannon estuary. Cells once formed would likely move southwest in southern portions and south in northern portions of the watch zone.

irobmw

Under some dark clouds now in Cork City.

teddybones

Looks like a few sparks off east coast this morning according to sat 24. Is this right?

El_Dangeroso

Has this been linked to on this thread before?

Lightening strikes in real time across Europe:
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en

Love the little 'click' sound effects!

Video

Very active day for europe

DOCARCH

Video wrote: »

Very active day for europe

Spain and Portugal pretending to be a Christmas tree! http://www.euclid.org/realtime.html

TedR

What do the experts reckon... any chance of a spell of thunder/lightning on the end of this current spell of warm weather?
Feels very heavy/close in Dublin. Fingers crossed!

Kermit.de.frog

TedR wrote: »

What do the experts reckon... any chance of a spell of thunder/lightning on the end of this current spell of warm weather?
Feels very heavy/close in Dublin. Fingers crossed!

Thursday and Thursday night currently looking interesting with some heavy pulses of rain moving up across the country from the south. Some of this looks very heavy atm in the southeast in particular.


Even tomorrow there is a smaller chance that East Leinster may see some heavy showers and they could have thunder too but it's marginal depending on exactly the wind direction. For storms we would want it just off shore as opposed to an onshore wind.

So a risk tomorrow but a bigger risk by Thursday.