Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Autumn/Winter 2016-17

JCX BXC

Possible heavy thunderstorm rain in the TAF for Belfast International until 1am and until 10pm in Belfast City

ArKl0w

Lashing here under an Irish Sea rain train at the moment,having avoided it most of the day

JCX BXC

Fair few strikes off the system heading towards Newry, also one strike on land between Drogheda and Dundalk

pad199207

Heavy rain here in Naas now

ArKl0w

Thunder here near Arklow now

Oscar Bravo

2225 update from met eireann
A lot of dry weather overnight, with some clear spells, but scattered heavy showers will continue in some eastern and northern areas with isolated thunderstorms

Oscar Bravo

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

2225 update from met eireann
A lot of dry weather overnight, with some clear spells, but scattered heavy showers will continue in some eastern and northern areas with isolated thunderstorms

Can confirm that. Flash of lightning with near immediate thunder here in Dundalk.

LEIN

There was a long tumble here in North Wicklow at around 4.

PukkaStukka

Seems to be sparking well around Belfast lough

Makapakka

It's insane in Dublin 5! The clouds are moving on but the rain has actually got heavier!

Oscar Bravo

Nice thunderstorm between Ballymena and Larne up north currently.

Jpmarn

There is a big thunderstorm over nice, corsica and Sardines islands. It is moving towards Rome where I am these days. It looks like plenty of natural fireworks tonight.

Pangea

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Nice thunderstorm between Ballymena and Larne up north currently.

Video: 'Freak' weather leads to multiple road collisions in Northern Ireland
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/video-freak-weather-leads-to-multiple-road-collisions-in-northern-ireland-35130234.html

Meteorite58

Day 1 Convective Outlook
VALID 06:00 UTC Fri 14 Oct 2016 - 05:59 UTC Sat 15 Oct 2016

ISSUED 07:52 UTC Fri 14 Oct 2016

ISSUED BY: Dan

Scattered showers, some thundery, associated with a shortwave will continue to migrate NW-wards from the northern Irish Sea towards the Hebrides during Friday. Reasonably steep mid-level lapse rates and low CAPE suggests some sporadic lightning will continue to be possible, especially over water where warm SSTs will help develop deep convection.


Rain already into SW Ireland will slowly slide NE-wards with time during Friday and Friday night, perhaps with some sporadic embedded lightning. The post-frontal environment is characterised by much steeper lapse rates, and so the risk of lightning (albeit still sub-SLGT) increases with showers behind the cold front overnight, especially over seas. Small hail and gusty winds will be the main hazards.

Meteorite58

Interesting looking for the S and SE in these runs

Iancar29

Caught yesterday storm as viewed from the Hill of Tara while out hunting for some aurora.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-dSh3uKHs

Storm ?

highdef

A lot of developing cells are making a bee line for the south east

Oscar Bravo

Yep, someone in Rosslare or Wexford should be hearing thunder now

Storm 10

Some great lightning in Florence Italy on this live camera

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/toscana/firenze/ponte-vecchio.html

pedigree 6

Very calm conditions in wexford.
Thunder and lightning.

pedigree 6

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Very calm conditions in wexford.
Thunder and lightning.

It might be finished.

pedigree 6

pedigree 6 wrote: »

It might be finished.

Oh mother of God.
I'm a big feckin eejet.
I was out waiting to see anymore flashes and I heard a clicken beside me.
Next thing lightning struck I think the electric fence or a tree.
Very very close.
About 20ft away I think.
I'm inside now and it's started lashing.

km79

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Oh mother of God.
I'm a big feckin eejet.
I was out waiting to see anymore flashes and I heard a clicken beside me.
Next thing lightning struck I think the electric fence or a tree.
Very very close.
About 20ft away I think.
I'm inside now and it's started lashing.

YIKES

Tiredout

km79 wrote: »

YIKES

Huge flash and bang. Power gone almost as soon as the flash of lighting. 9km from enniscorthy. No power for miles around it seems

pedigree 6

Tiredout wrote: »

Huge flash and bang. Power gone almost as soon as the flash of lighting. 9km from enniscorthy. No power for miles around it seems

I see that on powercheck.
I have power here but the neighbours a mile away don't.
Electricity went off for just a second here.
My strike here didn't show up on lightning radar.
I'm wondering now was it just a feeder coming from the ground that didn't connect as the thunder was a few seconds after, not instantaneous.

Edit: just checked on YouTube the thunder is a few seconds after the lightning.

Anyway still alive.

average_runner

Got off the bus in wexford, walked home in the fork lightening ad then got soaked

ArKl0w

Bone dry here but the precip that's had a fair few sparks in the Celtic sea is very heavy and will be passing up over Wexford Kilkenny Carlow Wicklow area in a few hours so might give thunder

It's gone quiet in it recently though

Oscar Bravo

13.2 mm of rain at Johnstown Castle in the past hour.

ArKl0w

Lots of lightning strikes south of Wexford now too

Wanderer78

Thunder very close to Waterford city

thomasm

Huge thunder claps in Waterford now

Wanderer78

Kaboom Waterford city

ArKl0w

A whole area of potential thunder in a train through SW Wexford,east Waterford east tipp and eventually up into Kilkenny and Carlow
The band is almost stuck it's so slowly edging snails pace north eastwards meaning the same areas mentioned are at risk for a good few hours yet being fed from the SE to NW along the line of the front
The risk area eventually sliding eastwards bringing areas like Wicklow Kildare and Dublin into the mix later on in the night probably

ArKl0w

New cells about 20 Kms south southeast of Rosslare
They should pass through Wexford town in the coming hours through Enniscorthy maybe and on into Carlow
The flashes are probably visible out to sea from Wexford town but certainly Rosslare already I'd say

ArKl0w

First downpour of the night here now
I'm signing off but unless I'm comatose ,I expect to be awoken by thunder overnight at some stage
Enjoy if you get it

La.de.da

Few nice flashes and booms in South tipp about an hour ago now. Wonder is there any more to come.


Impossible to gets dogs out for their wees.

JCX BXC

Still strikes along the Wicklow coast, rain rather heavy over the country now as well as a few intensifying showers up north.

ArKl0w

Carnacalla wrote: »

Still strikes along the Wicklow coast, rain rather heavy over the country now as well as a few intensifying showers up north.

Aye,slept like a baby until woken not by thunder but torrential rain,very very loud a few hrs ago
Its still lashing now as I head out to work

DOCARCH

Pretty sure I just heard thunder here (in Dublin 16).

ArKl0w

Some washout down here and still raining
28.4 mm since midnight

Gavlor

Nice pic taken by a local photographer. Waterford was lit up last night!

https://twitter.com/noelbrowne5/status/787087217617473536

Cool pic,

Just goes to show the level of light pollution those yellow dirty lights cause. I think light levels should be halved at night from Midnight to 6am.

JCX BXC

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Cool pic,

Just goes to show the level of light pollution those yellow dirty lights cause. I think light levels should be halved at night from Midnight to 6am.

That photo is quite clearly highly edited (filters etc).

highdef

Deleted User wrote: »

Cool pic,

Just goes to show the level of light pollution those yellow dirty lights cause. I think light levels should be halved at night from Midnight to 6am.

Off-topic but I wonder if the urban night skies change much as we switch more and more to LED based lighting, which is more daylight coloured?

Oscar Bravo

We have a mix of new LED lighting and the old SOX lighting in castlebar, the LED delivers a very white light directed straight at the ground, the way the lanterns are fitted directs most of the light straight down whereas the old lanterns let it escape upwards to. The LED'S on the N5 which passes through town can be dimmed also.

Calina

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

We have a mix of new LED lighting and the old SOX lighting in castlebar, the LED delivers a very white light directed straight at the ground, the way the lanterns are fitted directs most of the light straight down whereas the old lanterns let it escape upwards to. The LED'S on the N5 which passes through town can be dimmed also.

We got LED in the estate lately. Personal impression is that it's a lot darker now.

pedigree 6

There's another band of rain just off the cornwall coast atm producing lightning strikes heading for the south east.
Hope they miss the south east and go straight to Dublin.

Calina

Calina wrote: »

We got LED in the estate lately. Personal impression is that it's a lot darker now.

Yeah, light now reflected where it's supposed to be and not scattered everywhere.

JCX BXC

LED's don't do much for a feeling of security and safety though do they?

Anyway I really don't think this is a discussion for here