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Believe it or not but N. Ireland gets its fair share of severe weather from violent thunderstorms to near hurricane force gales and tornadoes mixed with hail/snow blizzards and even the odd hot Summer which will come as a surprise to many of the people living here. Severe weather is an area which I am taking an extreme interest in so I have decided to open a new section within nightskyhunter.com to share with you my reports of these interesting events when they happen. I intend to feature T-storms, severe wind storms, tornadoes, funnel clouds and interesting convective events and even unusual cloud formations. I will also include atmospheric optics and even non weather related photography. I hope you enjoy them. Click on the year of interest to see all the reports.
2010 REPORTSThe 2010 storm year has begun - currently 16 image accounts in this section and growing... |
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2009 REPORTSThe 2009 thunderstorm season was one of my finest years to date with high instability during the Spring and Summer months producing huge multicell storms, two possible supercells, the best shelf cloud I have seen, 7 funnel clouds, and a frightening severe squall line with produced damaging winds which sounded like an approaching tornado complete with night time lightning. Combined with the best Noctilucent Cloud displays I have ever seen and a Halloween fireworks display, I would place 2009 as the benchmark in standard for future years!. 22 image accounts. |
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2008 REPORTS2008 was a busy year for convective weather events and rare atmospheric optical phenomena. On here is a wide range of subject matter, some of it non-weather related, which sums up the best events of the year from my area of N. Ireland. Thunderstorms, funnel clouds, rare Moonbows, fireworks displays, snow falls, floods, Noctilucent clouds, severe winds, and even some astromical events which include a partial solar eclipse and two attractive planet conjunctions to end the year! - 34 accounts. |
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2007 REPORTSMy favourite storm year to date and the very year which got me hooked on storms and weather photography. Includes 14 full accounts with 316 images and 20 video clips. This page includes several thunderstorms, crisp convection, many mammatus displays, big waves on the Causeway Coast, Anti-crepuscular rays, a Halloween public fireworks display and a direct link to the 2007 Noctilucent Cloud Gallery. The main highlights were 5 funnel clouds including one which came close to touching down as a tornado which warranted a site investigation from TORRO |
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2006 REPORTSEight sets of reports containing 152 images covering my first attempts at convective photography covering a selection of events during 2005 and 2006. Includes a thunderstorm observed from Moyola River, numerous mammatus displays and a direct link to the 2006 Noctilucent Cloud gallery. The most spectacular convective events during this period were the December 1st and September 18th Mammatus displays. |
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Martin McKenna