mac

My favs for October: Weather: Wibs 2 KF 1 RL 2 Blackie 1 BE 1 Non-Weather Blackie 1 BL 1 Wibs 3 Slinky 3 Filski 2

My 3rd weather related pic

Couple of weather related photos.

Very heavy rain in Ireland at the moment:

Nice report Supercell - looks like things are going to get very interesting in your part of the world!

My votes for August: Weather Blackie 1 JC3 OON1 RJS1 RN1 Non-weather Filski N3 Blackie N3 Slinky N2 Filski N2 JC N3

Keeping with the holiday theme.... No 1 Looking down at the Italian Alps from 35k feet! No 2 Lake Garda No 3 Dolomites

Weather Pics: Shuggee 2 Phil 1 Blackie 1 Essan 3 Mam 1

Circular rings on top of anvil cloud - anyone got any ideas what could have formed them?

Great pics again this month and thanks Phil for amazing lightning shots. Heres my 2nd weather pic for July - a fast approaching gust front.

Thanks. Best year I can ever remember for storms here. Had thunder here on 6 out of the last 10 days.........

Nice FC cloud from earlier this evening over County Antrim

Great pic..as far as I know they don't inhabit irish shores Hopefully I'm wrong

WEATHER: OON1 WIBS2 NS1 Filski 1 Essan3

Hi all A dying/sinking CB cloud - taken yesterday evening following localised storms across the area.

Great pics, amazing to think they were taken in high summer

So thats where 'A bolt from the blue' originates - a new one for me aswell. A few years ago I witnessed this phenomenon but I just didn't realise it at the time! August, 2000 and we were on holiday in Orlando. On the day in question severe thunderstorms were forecast for the area where we were staying. My wife decided to go shopping, giving me a welcome chance to concentrate on the storms rather than adventure parks etc. Right on queue a monster storm developed, severe even by Florida standards. Lightning was splitting the sky, forking in all directions, thunder a constant roar and the rain - as if someone had just turned on a tap. Eventually it moved away, much to my relief. I normally love storms but on that occasion it just wasn't any fun. In the end my wife returned in the hire car, looking very pale. She's always been scared of lightning. She rolled down the window and asked me if it was all over. I can remember looking up at the sky - totally blue apart from one tiny cumulus cloud and telling her that it was safe and that the storm was over. As she got out of the car there was a huge flash of lightning and immediate thunder - like a bomb going off :huh: Since that day I've often wondered how such a tiny cloud could produce a huge bolt of lightning. Now I know - it came from the main storm which must have been miles away at that stage. Needless to say that she's never let me forget it!!!

Well its been raining hard for the past 2 hours but nothing like earlier today. Northern Ireland Water stated they had received unprecedented reports of flooding, affecting quite a few areas and many hundreds of homes. Just as the current rain starts to get lighter I notice another fairly intense line of showers in Donegal moving east.....no associated sferics yet but to be honest we don't need any more rain for now

well done ....definate funnel

GFS still going for widespread thundery activity on Tuesday, continuing the pattern of the last few runs. Zilch in the way of Tstorms here so far this year in N Ireland....

A warm 15.7 please

Thanks for the link NL, explains its very well. I just wish ANY type of storm would be kind enough to head this way

I just have to ask it...what are Pulse Thunderstorms

Great work to the team for some fantastic images. Thanks NL for the stitching...it shows the huge scale of the wall structure! I noticed some small streaks of bright light, particulary in the 3rd picture. Were planes flying in conditions like that or is it just due to water droplet on the lens? Good luck for the rest of the trip

Not at all, I think Meto were taking a real chance there! An update has just been posted covering ALL of UK: "Major risk of snowfall to all areas, falls from 25 to 1000 inches likely. There is also a major risk of extreme heat/tornadoes/drought/hurricanes throughout the period".