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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring/Summer 2024

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    The UEFA EUROS knock out match tween Germany Denmark has been stopped due to severe thunderstorm over head. Lots of lightning strikes plus big hail stones and very heavy rainfall



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭aidanodr




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,189 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    I can’t access any lightning maps, it appears that they have all crashed, I can’t think of any other explanation? LOL



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭dmc17




  • Posts: 0 ✭✭ Damon Gentle Speech




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    More pics from Dortmund .. Germany v Denmark match suspended. Though looking like starting again now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Could be some thunderstorms tomorrow across the east ,let's see anyway



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,893 ✭✭✭sparrowcar


    Risk seems to be in the evening and overnight in the east.

    From met.ie

    It will be a mostly dry start to tomorrow, Friday with sunny spells during the morning. Cloud will increase in the afternoon and slow moving showers will gradually spread from the southwest. Some of the showers will turn heavy with the chance of thunder and spot flooding. Highest temperatures of 15 to 17 degrees with light southwesterly or variable winds.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Shortwave rough producing heavy shower going through Tralee now, a lot of deep layer shear available today with some lower level shear and increasing cold upper pool, all very marginal, will we see a few isolated storms break out , especially the Southern half of the country, maybe a few tonight also more towards the coasts, maybe the W or SW or S but low chance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,253 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Torrential rain, thunder and lightning here in Castlebar moving east



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Very heavy rain went through here near Tralee for over and hour around 17.30 to 19.00, brighter now from the West but some big convective clouds around the coasts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Powers gone here due to lightning 🌩



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 421 ✭✭StormForce13




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Yes carrick on shannon , but I'm always prepared for a outage have candles , gas stove , power banks batteries etc



  • Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭Weather BOFH


    Torrential rain here in South Kildare just after 8pm, gutters overflowing, roads and garden flooded.

    Hit a peak rate of around 80mm/hr with a rumble or two of thunder.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭The Macho Man


    Currently a large torrential downpour in Newlands Cross, no thunder or lightning. Just a big dump of rain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,232 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Heavy Downpour of rain and hail in Kildare with thunder



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Looks like potential for heavy rain and thunderstorms on Monday. Complex LP with occluded fronts and troughs moving over Ireland with a lot of relative vorticity, possibly a couple of center's of LP . Shear is low but a lot of moisture in the atmosphere , temp into the high teens ( ARPEGE showing just getting over 20C ) and humid with subtle areas of convergence. Possible negative tilted trough moving through its axis aiding instability. Potential for localised flooding under some of the convective rainfall or slow moving thunderstorms.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    A shift in track of the LP for Monday could see most of the thunderstorm activity over the UK. Lower chance now for Ireland but could get the odd isolated storm.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Main areas with a small chance of some activity tomorrow is the SW and perhaps along the South I think. Low chance of Isolated storm, some heavy convective like showers expected.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭skinny90


    Saturday looks like there will be an increased chance for cork, limerick clare and the midland's



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,988 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Monday is looking interesting from Galway to Dublin



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭glightning


    How has this year been for you thunder wise? Literally have had almost zero thunder here this year where I live in Co.Antrim Perhaps 3 to 5 claps back in May (I think). And the way this summer is going, I fear that might be all we will see.

    Also, this was a daytime storm yet again. I haven't had a good nighttime lightning storm here in 7 years now. Which is pretty crazy (and disappointing). Night time lightning would have been a thing that occurred at least every second year here up to 2017.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    I haven't even heard thunder or seen lightning yet this year. I'm in Limerick City and weather-wise it's been the most boring year with probably zero events of any significance that I can think of. In years past, July and August would have produced at least one decent thunderstorm but so far this year, I haven't even seen a proper cumulonimbus cloud, never mind a thunderstorm.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭esposito


    Yeah a very boring year so far. Only a sultry and thundery August and snowy December can save it!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭The Macho Man


    Sth East seems to have been the place earlier in the summer, a couple out Wesht but overall just a damp wet summer rather than an active one. I'm in Portarlington which straddles that midlands storm corridor and there's been nothing here at all. One or two down the road in Offaly but compared to last year its really really disappointing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Thunderstorm warning has been issued but I think they should be covered by area not counties



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Skies look very turbulant over Dublin (viewed from Greystones). Was out for a quick walk and was half expecting to see lightning.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,189 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    some strikes around Celbridge area it appears according to radar but no reports from posters here ..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,232 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Over Naas



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,077 ✭✭✭pureza


    Quite a lot of thunder at the curragh,I'm told

    'Savage' was the word used



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭highdef


    Intense thunderstorm approaching Burlington, Iowa (includes audio too) -



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭highdef


    Much better further south @ Fort Madison!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭glightning


    Always amazes me how little thunder you hear from some of these US storms. Obviously a lot of the lightning happening waaaay up in the anvil



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    I was on a few storm-chase tours in the USA back in the noughties and often our group was standing close to, or under supercell storms with tops up to 40,000 ft. or higher.

    Frequently the lightning was cloud-to-cloud and very high up in the top part of the cell and in effect five or six miles away, hence the thunder was quite faint when heard from ground level. It was eerie, especially after darkness fell, to watch near-constant lightning flashing in and around the upper storm structure, with just distant rumbles of thunder to be heard.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭glightning


    Yeah, exactly. I see this all the time on US storm chasing videos. Lots of lightning flashes but little thunder captured by the camera. Also seen this for myself this year in Florida where there was lots of lightning (daytime) going on but very little thunder heard compared to the action. For the same reason, all up high in the anvil part of the storm.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭The Macho Man


    I stopped trusting Met.ie a long time ago but their current hourly forecast for tomorrow in the midlands has lightning around 2pm. Can anyone on here confirm that possibility.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Yes lightning 🌩 showed for me tomorrow afternoon as well

    Can anyone post the thunderstorm models for tomorrow



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,988 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Was due in waterford was well but now none.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Shows for Dublin too but forget the hourly thing and read the forecast. No mention of thunder.



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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    A couple of clusters of lightning strikes off the SW west coast at the moment.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Another cluster of lightning strikes now off the Galway coast.

    So, maybe some merit/basis to ME (online) forecast.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,518 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Looks like thunderbirds are go in the SW/W today, hopefully we see some decent snaps shared here.

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Kutebride


    Blue skies on thr ramparts on Navan for morning run.

    Wind rising now emmmm..



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Bright ,sunny and breezy from the East here in Tralee but gathering dark cloud from the West, sparks nearer the coasts now, will they move inland?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,722 ✭✭✭weisses


    Nice few rumbles here in W Kerry … steady rain with light winds



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭highdef


    Strong breeze in Trim, Co. Meath. Also evident now is some Altocumulus castellanus, a fairly good sign of mid-atmospheric instability and possibly also high mid-altitude shear. I'm keeping a close eye on the radar to see if any squall type features develop.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,863 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    It is so dark in Westmeath Ive had to turn the lights on. Bit of rain now, but not thundery rain. Sort of, one step above drizzle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭highdef


    There's a chance of some thundery outbreaks as the cold front passes over the country but probably no more than a couple of strikes in any given location. Ie: Thundery rain rather than an actual thunderstorm.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,863 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Camera is at the ready but im not holding much hope.



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