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Late March T-storm Potential UK & Ireland 2010

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« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2010, 10:43:09 pm »

Thanks for that Martin yes lets hope for a big upgrade
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« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2010, 12:07:07 am »

Big upgrade tonight Padraig for much of Ireland on Mon, also looks like some potential for S Ireland and Britain on Wed followed by Britain again on Fri. Hope this upgrade continues over the weekend.

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« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2010, 12:30:49 am »

Yes hopefully it does the trend looks good now and has been more or less showing this setup for a few days now Smiley
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« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2010, 09:41:49 pm »

Martin - What's the minimum CAPE value that would be meaningful ?
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« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2010, 11:16:53 pm »

Still some action possible tomorrow according to latest GFS for N.Ireland with 300-400 CAPE and LI of -1. Also showing potential for Friday but thats too far off for any reliable forecast.
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« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2010, 11:53:11 pm »

had a lovely day today highs of 15.4c nice and mild a little bit of convection in the late afternoon had some big drops of rain falling out of nowhere but very light

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« Reply #21 on: March 22, 2010, 01:58:20 am »

HI Paul, ESTOFEX have a t-storm risk out for N. Ireland and Scotland on Mon here...

http://www.estofex.org/

As for minimum CAPE? - it always depends on the other ingredients. 2000 CAPE would be amazing, however 100 to 200 CAPE in a highly sheared enviornment could produce severe winds and a tornado which has happened many times before in the UK. There were even 3 funnel clouds in the Republic a few years back with 50 CAPE.
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« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2010, 02:21:02 am »

In more detail...



Storm Forecast
Valid: Mon 22 Mar 2010 06:00 to Tue 23 Mar 2010 06:00 UTC
Issued: Mon 22 Mar 2010 00:00
Forecaster: SCHLENCZEK
No threat levels have been issued.

SYNOPSIS

An upper cut-off low enters the W Mediterranean on Monday morning, moving towards Italy. Over central Europe, conditions will become more stable as an upper ridge approaches from SW Europe. Over the North Atlantic, a large low pressure system affects Ireland, the British Isles and Iceland during the period.

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...N Ireland, Scotland...

Near the upper cold core of an embedded trough west of Ireland, upper level cooling will lead to a few hundred J/kg CAPE. Strong QG forcing and enhanced deep layer shear (20 - 30 m/s) may lead to a narrow convective line that will cross the area from the west to the east during the morning / afternoon. Some isolated convectively enhanced wind gusts are expected to occur but a level 1 seems not warranted, though.
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« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2010, 12:28:59 pm »

Just been blasted with hail and some impressive gusts of wind as the leading edge of this shower hit here.
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« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2010, 12:39:37 pm »

Tornado discussion from TORRO for us today..

Lightning already in W Ireland
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« Reply #25 on: March 22, 2010, 02:00:17 pm »

Quite a beefy hail shower has just passed lisburn, some of it near pea sized and strong wind gusts but no lightning.
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« Reply #26 on: March 22, 2010, 03:41:17 pm »

Yeah, vicious showers here too h8h8h8h8h8
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« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2010, 04:39:49 pm »

Magnificent Mammatus clouds over Antrim at lunchtime - pics when I get home! Also the view across the Lough looked pretty stormy earlier.
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« Reply #28 on: March 22, 2010, 06:08:02 pm »

what a day its been here had some very heavy squalls today both with hail, but it was the second one that got interesting had very heavy hail in it windows damaged 3 miles west of me now just few reports mind you. Heard a a few rumbles of thunder about two o clock and then reports of thunderstorm over Dublin
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« Reply #29 on: March 22, 2010, 10:44:23 pm »

It was great to see some interesting weather hit our shores again with a squall line passing over here this morning producing some good downdraft gusts and decent hail, this was followed by a number of showers into the afternoon and a fair few lightning strikes recorded across Ireland and the UK including some in the vicinity of Belfast Lough. I wasn't able to get out to get any images but just grabbed a few from the house.





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