Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Spring/Summer 15

sunbabe08

Getting dark here in cork. Is there definite lightening for tonight?

Wanderer78

Super-Rush wrote: »

Somethings brewing.

wheres this?

Oscar Bravo

Cork airport TAF warning of Thunderstorm,rain,small hail/snow pellets on approach .EICK 031842Z 0318/0418 10016KT 9999 SCT012 BKN017 BECMG 0319/0321 BKN005 TEMPO 0319/0405 4000 SHRA BKN005 BKN020CB PROB40 TEMPO 0319/0405 3000 TSRAGS BKN005 BKN020CB BECMG 0322/0324 15013KT BECMG 0404/0406 24016G27KT 9999 SCT010 BKN016 BECMG 0410/0412 22013KT

Super-Rush

Wanderer78 wrote: »

wheres this?

Carlow looking south.

maquiladora

For what it's worth, the intense blobs of precip have vanished on the latest short range model update. Still looks showery tonight but a downgrade in terms of intensity.

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/short-range.asp

RobertKK

Very dark skies in Kilkenny.

Had some light rain already.

RobertKK

We will have nothing like North west Italy at the moment and it has been that way for hours there...

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

frogloch

Anyone in cork, must be a cloudburst going by latest radar.

Trebor176

The strikes off the south coast of Ireland seem to be moving further east. There have been some strikes in Wales too.

maquiladora

Strike showing up over Ennis. Not sure if it's an error though.

Danno

maquiladora wrote: »

Strike showing up over Ennis. Not sure if it's an error though.

Got that on my own detector here. Thing to remember is that Ireland is pretty poorly covered by the detector networks and only some strikes will be picked up on the mostly British network.

frogloch

There,s a definite easterly airmass coming in here over wexford, its not cold but the cloud is moving nnw. It kindof calm, sound would carry a long distance.

pad199207

Starting to get a bit more busy South of Wexford now

WheatenBriar

Danno wrote: »

Got that on my own detector here. Thing to remember is that Ireland is pretty poorly covered by the detector networks and only some strikes will be picked up on the mostly British network.

Radar wouldn't be the May west south of Waterford either where there's just been a strike in light precip

M.T. Cranium

Personally not quite ready to upgrade from WATCH to ALERT status yet, but with some development underway, more optimistic than pessimistic. Might upgrade at any point now to midnight.

V_Moth

RobertKK wrote: »

We will have nothing like North west Italy at the moment and it has been that way for hours there...

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/piemonte/torino/piazza-vittorio-veneto.html

Livcam from Turin for anyone waitingon Irish t-storms later on

pad199207

Strike off Hook Head now

sparrowcar

I'm still camping in a field on the Cavan/Fermanagh border, hopefully something later tonight.

To answer an earlier question about why in a field camping it's not to sit and wait for a storm like some smart arse suggested earlier.. I'm a scouting volunteer.

frogloch

Cloud is moving northwards, breeze is coming from east here in wexford.

lolie

maquiladora wrote: »

Strike showing up over Ennis. Not sure if it's an error though.

Brother is in limerick and said he seen a flash and rumble so no error.

WheatenBriar

frogloch wrote: »

Cloud is moving northwards, breeze is coming from east here in wexford.

Yeah same in Arklow and I'd agree it's a warm breeze,not at all feeling like it's what a breeze off the Irish Sea would feel like

Takeshi_Kovacs

sparrowcar wrote: »

I'm still camping in a field on the Cavan/Fermanagh border, hopefully something later tonight.

To answer an earlier question about why in a field camping it's not to sit and wait for a storm like some smart arse suggested earlier.. I'm a scouting volunteer.

One of my favourite things about summer camp in scouts, was being out in a thunderstorm and the rain hopping off the tent, flashlights at the ready for the obligatory night hike...

maquiladora

At the moment, doesn't look like there is much following on after that little cell near the Wexford coast that has produced a few strikes.

Oscar Bravo

looks very very quite following on , Maq.

pad199207

Sky looks like its about to go bang here over Naas. Very Turbulant looking.

maquiladora

I can hear the distant thunder here in Waterford from those strikes around Hook Head.

pad199207

Wind is nearly opposite to the direction of the clouds

Simon Gruber Says

I remember being on a camping trip with the scouts up in the Wicklow mountains. Huge thunderstorms rolled in off the Irish Sea that night. Ended up soaked to the skin and our tents collapsed in the wind.

Oscar Bravo

Belmullet doing quite nicely out of the south easterly flow, 18 degrees at 10pm, theres many days of the year that wouldnt get higher than that!

frogloch

Thunder and the heavens have opened,i was wondering how long that water could stay up there. Oh wait it's stopped now.