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Tyler
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2008, 06:54:57 pm » |
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Cool. I love seeing those cu towers under (otherwise) clear skies, with the super blue sky. That last shot is way cool, nicely framed. Im suprised you guys have thunderstorms this late in the year (or I just have no idea about weather in ireland) It snowed in Western Nebraska 8" the other day, we are far away from our next thunderstorm
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martinastro
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Maghera, N. Ireland
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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2008, 07:11:58 pm » |
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Tyler, thanks very much for the feedback on these. It's always great to have a crisp sky around the convection isn't it. The day before had a tornado risk but the mid level cloud was a pain in the neck so not many good photo opps presented themselves except for the mammatus images on here.
Ireland is a strange place for weather. The main thunderstorm season is during the Spring and Summer just like you have in Nebraska however the Autumn and Winter can produce t-storms too. We get many low pressure storms sweeping in from the Atlantic. Some of them have very sharp cold fronts, and occasionally a good ana cold front. These can produce lightning and are famous for dropping tornadoes over the UK during this period. The post frontal air mass behind these fronts normally produce showers with hail and thunder due to the unstable atmos. So in a nutshell, thunder/lightning can happen at any season in Ireland, but the most spectacular stuff tends to be during prime solar heating time in Summer.
We have an interesting set-up during the first half of next week. Unstable polar air is descending which should provide some interesting convective opps, especially between Mon and Wed. Convective showers of hail, possibly snow, and thunder are a possibilty (we get thundersnow here). What ever happens, the sky should be crisp around the cells for some cool (literally) imaging.
My goodness, you have had 8" of snow already!!. I haven't seen snow that good here for a couple of years. This year might be different though. Our weather has been really lively since the Summer.
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