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Convective Potential Ireland/NI Sat-Thurs May 16th-21st

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« on: May 19, 2009, 07:54:40 pm »

Everything seemed so good here today, plenty of warm sunshine which got the convection going during the afternoon. Lots of very black clouds around, forming a shelf-type structure with an obvious area of rotating scud, funnel clouds seemed possible several times despite the lack of wind shear. This was followed by sharp showers and plenty of congestus, several cbs, some mammatus and even whale's mouth type structure not associated with a shelf. By the the late afternoon it was show over, just grey outflowy cloud and drizzle. A real let down. The salt was rubbed in the wound when I retured home and seen the t-storms which formed below Lough Neagh again. I heard reports of thunder/lightning, torrential rain and flooding. Everything seemed to miss here again. The highlight though was a monster cell I spotted at 17.00 on the S horizon to the E of Slieve Gallion with a huge solid white anvil, it looked to be doing the business!!, impressive beast. Round 3 on Wed.
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