Halloween Convection - N. Ireland 2009

Halloween Oct 31st 2009. Strong convection and multicells near Maghera, Tobermore, and Draperstown, N. Ireland during the afternoon. A brief funnel cloud appeared over E Maghera at the time. Thunderstorms broke out in places and mesocyclones where present in some of the cells over NI. Strong t-storms with large hail and rotating wall clouds/possible funnels where also seen from Dublin, ROI.

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• Maghera
• Tobermore
• Draperstown
• N. Ireland

[nosmohttff]

This video deserves 5 stars for nics weather and the fottage ( Sorry for bad spelling i am from norway :P).

[asteroid42531mckenna]

@nosmohttff Thanks very much for your comment, it's great to have someone from Norway on watching. Thanks.

[davidstorm0]

beautiful storms that had captured ... this very good video

... congratulations for the video

[asteroid42531mckenna]

Thanks Davidstorm0, haven't seen any more convection since. Cheers.

[pilotpat86]

Nice video. I was out on the same day (driving to Limavady). I saw some beautiful mammatus clouds at the edge of a CB. Really need to get a camera!

[asteroid42531mckenna]

Thanks, glad you seen the mammatus on the same day. I hope you get a camera soon because we need more storm photographers in NI to cover these events over a wider area. There's some amazing things happening from time to time. You must have seen cool sights in the past from the plane too. Best of luck!

[asteroid42531mckenna]

LOL, you haven't had roses in 25 years!!!!....I would go mental. Just kidding, but seriously I do love roses, great chockies as you said. Cheers

[asteroid42531mckenna]

Thanks for the info, that fits in with what I observed because during the late afternoon the convection

rapidly died when the temp dropped. There were very good lapse rates though which helped with the thunder.

[supercellstorm]

All that convection was due to solar heating of the day, and even, temperate waters that were the trigger mechanism for the clusters that you could shoot.

Greetings and thanks for the reply.

[janiecat69]

LOL!! A tin of roses, I haven't had one of those since I left New Zealand 25 years ago. Good chockies.