Utahraptor

August 27, 2016

Hook echo?

June 10, 2016

I had to reupload my video of monday/tuesdays storm because I found a CG in the raw video that I somehow overlooked while editing...

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

June 7, 2016

I got a nice thunderstorm last night near Newcastle in County Down.

The larger strike was a positive CG, the base of the bolt even took on a smooth appearance, and the shockwave was powerful to shake the car even at a distance of 3 miles!

I uploaded a video of the storm too, right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQtZi2ifZKg

Hopefully today will deliver the goods as well!

July 5, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1FuivYZ1Ww

Video of some thunder from today in Co. Armagh

I saw a few big CG's before this video was taken, but sadly they weren't captured

July 1, 2015

Finally a storm fired in Ireland, I wonder what it will do next

June 30, 2015

I see what looks like some Altocumulus castellanus amongst the mid level cloud, feeling quite humid as well

June 30, 2015

GFS is saying there will be a lot of convective precip in my location tomorrow, but the NMM shows nothing...

Which one is more trustworthy?

June 29, 2015

I hope that trough will trigger a few thunderstorms for NI... MLCAPE values seem very high on the NMM12 where I am, but I am a bit skeptical of that

June 28, 2015

Any sferics showing up around Aberdeen anyone? We've got thundery showers here just now (no thunder though). Temp was 21 now 18.

There was a sferic north of Aberdeen on blitzortung not too long ago

June 9, 2015

Be careful for what you wish for! Instead of the North Sea the bloody Irish Sea may interfere.

Maybe, but NI is getting nothing as far as I can see, sad times

June 9, 2015

Just another westward shift.. Please

June 8, 2015

Any potential for NI?

June 3, 2015

Hoping for a shift to take the plume back to NI... But I'm sure that won't happen at this range

June 1, 2015

18z not looking as nice as the runs before it, hopefully it will improve tomorrow :/

June 1, 2015

Still nothing but distant flashes of winter lightning this year. Hopefully the plume will do something good, and if not then maybe I'll see something when I'm up in Poland...

June 1, 2015

I know it's still subject to change, but I couldn't help but notice the DLS values over Northern Ireland, where I am, and decent enough MLCAPE on the medium range NMM

seems like a good sign that its modelling a lot of convective rain

Elevated supercell potential? Or better still, MCS event?

I guess I can only dream at this relatively far (by tstorm standards) range... 4 days to go, let's hope the plume doesn't shift east again

October 12, 2014

Anyone else see potential with this? Or am I just optimistic?

October 10, 2014

Wow nice! Good to see pics from Ireland, you guys have done pretty well recently I think.

Thanks! Being honest, I expected nothing more than a few offshore flashes, not a storm like this!

October 10, 2014

I couldn't share this earlier because the lightning blew out my internet and it wasn't fixed all week, but we got a pretty nasty thunderstorm here on Monday the 6th...

Here's some distant lightning...

A considerably closer strike...

And a strike so close that I actually felt the shock in my leg (Here I am attempting to place the coat over the camera again as a makeshift rain cover)

Unfortunately raindrops on the lens messed with the focus of some strikes.

The storm also produced a lot of hail, so deep that the land around me was just completely white, these photos don't really do it justice

Here's the video of the storm, the thunder sounds great especially with headphones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfx1IfMhZ9Q

August 10, 2014

Awesome and someone who doesn't put stupid music to proper loud storms either!

I did music on mine as I couldn't hear any thunder, cam was awful

Thanks! Yeah, I don't see much point in smothering the sounds of the storms with music, unless it's a compilation of non stop lightning strikes, especially at night