Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring/Summer 2024

Needmoretea

It looks like everyone but the south East and East got a real blast and loads of lightning! I was just wondering was it expected or predicted by met Éireann? I dont want to have a go at them and derail the thread, but was it a surprise? Going by the comments and pictures, it was insane!

Oneiric 3

Positive lightning strike out the back the other night.

typhoony

It was worth the wait but a quiet summer overall for convection and looks like the last for this month.

typhoony

Well looks like a failed prediction on my part as an active front is approaching the west this morning could well produce a few thunderstorms

Elmer Blooker

I presume we’ll see a continuation of pattern we’ve had all summer today - heavy rain and some thunderstorms in western areas, the front will weaken and disintegrate as it approaches the Dublin area giving the usual mm or two there. I’d love to be wrong and get 25mm+ but unlikely, not seeing a pattern change yet.
PS. the front seems to splitting in half already in the Clare area

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518214#Comment_122518214

Looking at the current radar and a few of the forecast models, I can't foresee thunderstorms per se today. A few spots might experience some thundery rain....... The kind of weather where there's a spell of very heavy or torrential rain and a couple/not many lightning strikes and/or a few rumbles or cracks of thunder and then it's just plain rain again after a couple of minutes. That's textbook thundery rain to me.

Storm 10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518338#Comment_122518338

ME said last night heaviest of the rain would be in the South looking at the radar the worst seems to be in the North West at present, we had torrential rain in Galway for around half hour very dark.

Akrasia

Just saw a flash of lighting on the outskirts of Ennis.

Or maybe I was imagining things

Meteorite58

Parameters there for some activity later with some embedded storms along the cold front moving on to the Western coasts tonight and maybe a couple overnight crossing the Northern half of the country. Possibly isolated with a low chance but enough MUCAPE at a few hundred j/kg , upper shear, lower shear, decent lapse rates along the coasts, cold upper pool and upper trough all aiding instability. Heavy convective showers moving into the W, NW and some moving across the country some bit. W

The Macho Man

Does anyone believe there's any truth to this for the midlands tonight?

JCX BXC

I see it regularly for Galway, it's meaningless. When a thunderstorm does arrive it's often not there.

M.T. Cranium

Conditions are developing for thunderstorms to develop in central and eastern counties 0200-0500 with a brief interval of strong wind gusts as a meso-scale low forms after midnight and tracks across Dublin around 0300-0400. Confidence moderate, it could flare up quickly, over east Galway to n Tipps.

highdef

Lightning strike just north of swords, Dublin.

tom1ie

very heavy showers in south Dublin.
Thundery looking sky.

Storm 10

Very heavy showers in Galway and a lot moving in might get a few sparks

igCorcaigh

Nice bit of thunder in Cork city 👍

sunbabe08

I just heard thunder in cork city right now. Wasn’t expecting that today

Condor24

Thunderstorm moving through east of Moate. A few loud rumbles here.

DOCARCH

Interesting looking shower head to South Dublin....viewed from Greystones.

Teemarie

Thunderstorm here about an hour ago south Wexford...short and intense….but now no power 😑

Meteorite58

A lot of convection embedded in the front moving close to Ireland, AROME and ECM showing thunderstorm potential mainly in the SW, W later tonight / early morning. Tongue of warm moist air moving towards Ireland with a lot of shear available later close the coasts and overland. Perhaps some forcing ahead of the front. Hail is even showing up on the prediction charts but it would take some convection to make that happen tonight.

Staying mild into the early morning up to 17C with a DP of 16C.

Will see if we get something.

Just below recent Satellite pic from EUMETSAT showing areas of convection and cloud top temperatures.

typhoony

Conditions don't look conducive for thunderstorms overnight

The Macho Man

Currently being treated to tue mother of all thunderstorms in Skiathos in Greece, will try and get footage uploaded later if I get any good ones

The Macho Man

Managed to get this around 6am from my balcony , nice way to start the day.

glightning

Awesome

glightning

Here's a video I shot of a CG in Clearwater Florida back in July. Set the quality to 4K and zoom in to see it hitting the boat mast!

https://youtu.be/EcaLaoAvNIU

glightning

And here's another video showing the epic CB cloud as it was approaching. Massive anvil!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WteRPeEmRKc

The Macho Man

Excellent sound on that video. What device did you capture it with? I took a fair amount of footage of the storms here over the last two days and was very disappointed with the sound quality.

Meteorite58

Going through my phone and found this CG strike that my son captured early morning of the 12-08-24 at 0.21 approx.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1830275678870380705

Dazler97

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122565713#Comment_122565713

What country ?

rainagain

After a few years living in Switzerland, I miss storms and check the reports, this evening looked wow

glightning

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122570426#Comment_122570426

iPhone 15 pro

The Macho Man

Is it not possible to delete comments? Don't know how my two above posted like that.

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122578762#Comment_122578762

Will do.

pureza

Are the forecasted thunderstorms in the east and southeast,pardon the pun,a bolt out of the blue?

No mention here

They look imported and there does seem to be plenty heat energy ?

Thunder87

Think I just heard a rumble of thunder in North Dublin, the first time since June last year if so. Though I live near the airport flight path so could just have been a particularly loud plane!

Dazler97

There could be some isolated thunderstorms this evening 🤔 let's see

esposito

Very dark skies in Dublin. Heavy shower/ thunderstorm incoming!

Needmoretea

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122582172#Comment_122582172

Thought I heard the same, and am also near a flight path :-) That was before a heavy shower just passed over us

pureza

Heavy hailstones here in Arklow

1sttime1

Thunder and lightning on the M1 near the Donabate exit.

DOCARCH

Ominous looking north of Greystones.

igCorcaigh

Is blitzortung behaving OK?

I thought there would be activity from England/Wales over to the SE, but no sparks at all on the UK map.

pureza

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122582381#Comment_122582381

Thats arrived here now with another pour of hail and gusty wind,the next few days instability should be interesting as the heat energy enters the mix?

spoonerhead

Just heard some faint thunder in the distance at D12. Looks like there’s some sparks in the shower in Dublin bay

DOCARCH

Distant thunder now in Greystones. Irish Sea direction.

pureza

Seeing lightning from Arklow now too

The Macho Man

Are Met Eireanns predictions of potential thundery downpours tonight and tomorrow to be believed?

sparrowcar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122640756#Comment_122640756

No... much better to take the advice of amatuer weather enthusiasts here instead.

The Macho Man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122640819#Comment_122640819

Yeh I usually never trust them but there is a lightning storm in central England moving westerly currently