Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Autumn/Winter 2018/2019

emo72

did i hear some in lucan?

Funnyonion79

Yes big crash of thunder and a flash of lightning in Leixlip.

msshono

Thought I heard something in Lucan too

Patser

Yep another big flash over Maynooth, heard one 2 minutes ago as well.

pad199207

Flash over Naas

Nanoc

Never have heard anything like that, must have made contact here in Maynooth near the house 2mins ago

FBWT

Just had a few loud rumbles over the house here in Cork. Pelting hailstones now!

pad199207

Multiple flashes of lightning across the sky over Wexford Town

Cantona's Collars

Heavy rain and a lot of lightning over Enniscorthy now, it's been steadily approaching for the last while. The first good thunderclap just now.

mymo

Lightning here now with very distant thunder, on the carlow kilkenny border. Not to far from enniscorthy so probably from there

highdef

Plenty of lightning ongoing in North Wexford and south Wicklow. In the past 15/20 minutes, there's a marked development of a fairly narrow but increasingly intense band orientated NW to SE stretching from just SE of Tullow down to east of Wexford town.

pad199207

Huge flash of lighting over Naas

spookwoman

Couple of strikes around Waterford region, most were towards JFK Arboretum, Carrickbyrne Co Wexford. Caught this before the heaven opened, Campile is the town in the distance Dunbrody abbey is in the foreground

shar01

Even in the dark that's a stunning view spookwoman.

I'm awake since first peel at 1.30 (just south east of Gorey).

TitianGerm

mymo wrote: »

Lightning here now with very distant thunder, on the carlow kilkenny border. Not to far from enniscorthy so probably from there

I'm in Enniscorthy and the Thunder was biblical here last night. I'm also fairly sure there was a lighting strike close to my house because there was a crash but not like that from thunder.

Unfortunately I've no internet today so maybe that's the cause

spookwoman

shar01 wrote: »

Even in the dark that's a stunning view spookwoman.

I'm awake since first peel at 1.30 (just south east of Gorey).

Could see these huge towering glowing white clouds building out to sea and moving inland last night. Most of the flashes I saw were on the Wexford side.

spookwoman

Some sparks showing up on Blitzortung out to sea off cork. Might get some sparks later

spookwoman

Sparks out to sea off wexford waterford again

Comhrá

Some activity moving towards Cork just now.

http://en.blitzortung.org/historical_maps.php?map=12

Meteorite58

Wow, some very heavy rain in Cork. Very convective looking .

Reports please!

igCorcaigh

Yup, NE Cork getting drenched!

Meteorite58

Active cells firing away.

igCorcaigh

Is it going to come ashore?

igCorcaigh

Meh, looks like it's fizzling out.

Meteorite58

:eek:

https://twitter.com/StormchaserUKEU/status/1066732107836342272

https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/1066731652783763456

forrest gump

Hi long time viewer of this section on Boards. So thought i would share a lighting storm from Marbella in October of this year. The links are below.



https://youtu.be/Y8Y4FXQCKjQ
https://youtu.be/kejpx5LevXw
https://youtu.be/PTuDgBHRScQ
https://youtu.be/1LGvEKXZSLo
https://youtu.be/S6SzsZXSVIg
https://youtu.be/P--kHdueK2Y
https://youtu.be/1qpjoMqO614

I hope you enjoy.

highdef

Pretty good video there but there appears to be no audio.....and the video is in portrait mode :-( Thanks for sharing though, all the same

Cantona's Collars

I normally sleep through thunderstorms but was woken just after 4am by a clap of thunder and looked out to see the most biblical rain I'd seen in years here in Enniscorthy or anywhere for that matter.
The moss on the roofs around here is nearly all gone due to the ferocity of the rain.

Meteorite58

Rough day here in Kerry. Quite blustery with convective gusts getting up over 60km/h regularly and getting frequent heavy squally hail and rain showers . Temp up and down in the showers, just reached 8.1c but dropping to 6C or so in the showers. Thunder and lightning about 10.30 gave a mighty rattle to the place.

Plenty of convection streaming in off the atlantic.

Storm 10

Nice Anvil Head West of Galway City

RoisinD

Thunder lightning NW Clare

Meteorite58

Been a while since there was a chance of some convective type weather.

Cold Post frontal air mass over relatively warm seas with the passage of an upper trough producing enough instability for the formation of Convectus and Cb's giving widespread heavy showers , some of hail and thunder possible. Should be some impressive cloudscapes. Clouds moving quickly along in a fresh wind , should be sunny spells also.

Meteorite58

http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?date=2019-01-16



Day 2 Convective Outlook
VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 16 Jan 2019 - 05:59 UTC Thu 17 Jan 2019

ISSUED 20:24 UTC Tue 15 Jan 2019

ISSUED BY: Dan

Upper trough will slide southeastwards across the British Isles on Wednesday. On the forward side, a cold front will move across England and Wales under the influence of a strongly sheared environment. As such, some elements of line convection seem likely, which may produce some bursts of squally rain and gusty winds.


Behind the cold front, numerous wintry showers will develop as cold air aloft overspreads relatively warm SSTs, generating a couple hundred J/kg CAPE. Several troughs / occlusions embedded in the northwesterly flow will enhance the shower risk, providing some more organised bands of showers at times. A few sporadic lightning strikes will be possible, primarily over open seas and near adjacent coasts.

DOCARCH

Looks like a decent little thunderstorm in Clew Bay area at the moment. Fair number of strikes showing up on detectors.

Gaoth Laidir

DOCARCH wrote: »

Looks like a decent little thunderstorm in Clew Bay area at the moment. Fair number of strikes showing up on detectors.

And a high proportion of them look to be positive strikes, as is common in wintertime storms.

Discodog

First time I noticed that the new rainfall radar shows lightning.

DOCARCH

Discodog wrote: »

First time I noticed that the new rainfall radar shows lightning.

Yip....but quite crude as when you zoom in the '+'s, indicating strikes, do not scale down accordingly, so it's hard to pinpoint the location of individual strikes.

UKMO lightning detector far better to use/look at to pinpoint locations of individual strikes.

RoisinD

Kerry and SW Clare going to get some strikes out of this? Maybe some in NW CLare too

Wanderer78

RoisinD wrote:

Kerry and SW Clare going to get some strikes out of this?

Yea I'd say there's a good chance of that, active cells just off the west coast now

squarecircles

intense and prolonged hailstones this morning in west mayo,with frequent flashes of lightning,passed right over head,was a wild morning.

Meteorite58

Some upper instability tomorrow could aid thunderstorm development although low chance and sporadic. Some big showers and hail possible . The SW and W could see a few sparks maybe.

Meteorite58

Sferics detected off Clare / Galway today. Big Congestus and a few Cb's here, trace of hail in some of the showers. Big temperature fluctuation of over 2C in the last shower here near Tralee.

Storm 10

Thunder and lightning in Galway City one huge bang

Meteorite58

Mod Note: Will close this Thread for now so as not to cause confusion as I have opened a Spring / Summer thread here .....


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