Thunderstorms Thread

Danno

Looking NE over the Nore Valley.

Total rain fall from todays thunderstorm monsoon is 12.2mm with 10mm of that in 45 minutes

I've only one pic of the edge of the storm just as the first rumbles started after 3pm,It's nothing spectacular.I genuinely got scared as the lightning was very close.
The cb's were very active and building fast though from about noon to 2pm before the sky started to completely cloud over.

High light of the storm was driving into arklow,lightning flashing, with brown rivers of water cascading down the road.I had to slow down as going more than 15mph the water would spash up in waves from side to side obscuring the view

Who needs photo's with that description.

Delighted with all the rain and hopefully more tonight.

Danno

Two storms, One N Over Ballacolla, The other E over Castlecomer - two forks - one from each storm within 5 seconds of each other - mad! :eek:

Danno

The Ballacolla storm is vicious!

Danno

Storm moving S for me - rain and lightning 1 mile away - strike every 30 sec

thunderone

THUNDERSTORM REPORT

LOCATION: NORTH OF ABBEYLEIX LAOIS

ACCOUNT: 3 loud claps of thunder.Sheet lightning seen (low level)
at 20:05,20:09,20:11

The storm seems to be over Durrow/Ballacolla at the moment

SNOWBIE any maps from your detector?

Thunder_struck

Am I safe in West Dublin tonight? Snowbie? Gizza forecast!

Danno

Got it here snowone

Danno

Rain teaming down now

Nightwish

Wo0t! Thunderstorm in Kilkenny right now!

Snowbie

Thunder_struck wrote:

Am I safe in West Dublin tonight? Snowbie? Gizza forecast!

Very heavy rain about an hour away m8.Might be a storm or two in it.very hard to tell were it be but chances are 50/50.

Snowbie

It apears that a line of increased showers with a TS over monaghan has now formed moving in a SSE direction towards Meath Dublin and Kildare area.

thunderone

Thunderstorm tempo has increased dramatically over my area now.
Lightning every minute or so.
Approx 5 miles from my location.(29secs between flash and thunderclap) average of 5 I measured.
Again mix of sheet and fork.Pretty impressive.
ZERO windspeed.

Snowbie

Lads will you post your locations

Snowbie

Activity dying down.

lucernarian

Just drizzle here, a murky evening here in Drogheda/south Louth. There has been no lightning or even thunder around here during the week. (At least not when I was awake:))

thunderone

Snowbie,
My location is Abbeyleix. The frequency of flashes may have decreased but the storm is still ongoing.
There have been some spectacular flashes. I was out watching from a very good viewpoint. I did take pics but again my shutter speed is to slow.

Some very good fork strikes. I would say 5 miles south of my location, Durrow or Ballacolla in Laois.
Danno is probably close to this storm.

Snowbie

Thx Thunderone.Post those pics m8

Danno

Storm was right over us here in Durrow, incredible forks which seemed to go inter cloud. Very heavy rain for about 10 minutes around 8.30pm. Lightning now pushed over Ballyragget and further down the Nore Valley.

Astro1996

heavy rain here, lights just dipped and loud rumble of thunder - tallaght

Snowbie

Lights here dipped also,heard no thunder must be south of Tallaght.

Hal1

Astro1996 wrote:

heavy rain here, lights just dipped and loud rumble of thunder - tallaght

Yea keep your lights dipped /jk. Downpour here too, southside. Few flashes of sheet lightining.

Snowbie

Wow nearly a power surge.Lights flickering like mad here still no thunder heard.

It's back

Lots of sheet lightning here now and low rumbles

No rain as yet

drive3331

Lights dipped and some rumbles of thunder in Kilcock

aidan_dunne

Portlaoise here and the lights just flickered here a moment ago as well. No thunder though. What the hell is going on?

Snowbie

Everybody at once.Must be strong signals outputed from this.From Dublin to Wicklow to Portlaois.My Detector cant pinpoint it either.

aidan_dunne

Snowbie, quick question, have you got your detector switched off? Just checked it there to see if there's anything showing up on it to explain the lights flickering here a moment ago and it doesn't seem to be working.

The tax man

Same thing in Rathfarnham. Lights flickering but not really seeing or hearing anything outside.
Was down in Athlone earlier today and saw and heard some T+L.

aidan_dunne

Yeah Snowbie, either there's been one hell of a strong singal outputting from that strike or whatever it was to effect so many people over such a wide area at the same time, as you say, or maybe lightning has hit a power station or substation somewhere to cause what we've just seen.