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Tis looking stormy out!

Insect Overlord · 2011-08-24 13:37:57

I can't remember the last time I started a thread in here! So, anyway, how about that weather? Serious thunder and lightning in the last few minutes!

24-08-2011 2:37pm

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I can't remember the last time I started a thread in here!

So, anyway, how about that weather? Serious thunder and lightning in the last few minutes!

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#2 24-08-2011 2:51pm

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Insect Overlord wrote: »

I can't remember the last time I started a thread in here!

So, anyway, how about that weather? Serious thunder and lightning in the last few minutes!

And hail stones, WTF is that all about?

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#3 24-08-2011 2:53pm

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Absolutely brilliant

Still continuing.

Apparently the sun is shining in Cork at the moment.

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#4 24-08-2011 2:53pm

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Hail stones in August, of all months!

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#5 24-08-2011 3:04pm

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A seriously messed up day!
Sun was shining this morning so took off to work in sandals!! Regretting that decision now!! My feet are freezing!

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#6 24-08-2011 3:06pm

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So Google didn't lie to me! If they are to be believed we can expect the same tomorrow.. http://www.google.ie/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=limerick+weather

At least Fri is supposed to be nice?

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#7 24-08-2011 3:13pm

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Mental weather out here in UL.

An grian ag taitneamh and suddenly this epic downpour. Happened twice now. Not a good day for graduations!

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#8 24-08-2011 3:37pm

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Mad feckin' showers since lunchtime. One minute it's sunny, short sleeves, then thunder and lightning on with the jacket and run for cover.....now sun out again ...oops, here comes another one!

Crazy.

I blame the weather.

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#9 24-08-2011 3:51pm

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Those hailstones were pretty big. Big enough to sting when they hit the skin of the arm anyway.

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#10 24-08-2011 4:19pm

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hailing merrily along

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#11 24-08-2011 4:58pm

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You think it was bad in Limerick. I was in Tuam. I had to stop in the line of traffic along with everybody else. We couldn't see the road and the lightening was actually blinding because the rain was so heavy.

Crazy it was.

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#12 24-08-2011 5:02pm

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Just woke up after a night shift,looks lovely out...what ye all talking about!

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#13 24-08-2011 5:03pm

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TestTransmission wrote: »

Just woke up after a night shift,looks lovely out...what ye all talking about!

You must have a nicely insulated room to have slept through the thunder and the hailstones!

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#14 24-08-2011 5:04pm

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It looks lovely out now for the fourth time today! We have had hail (big ones at that), thunder, light rain, sunshowers, and heavy rain!

Completely nuts.

After the hail shower, car and house alarms were going off everywhere

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#15 24-08-2011 5:10pm

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Picked my brother up from the airport this morning. He just flew in from New York and couldn't believe how good the weather was here.

Of course he slept through the earthquakes in America yesterday, then came home to sleep off the jet-lag and slept through the storm here!

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#16 24-08-2011 5:18pm

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Insect Overlord wrote: »

You must have a nicely insulated room to have slept through the thunder and the hailstones!

I've had one of my bedroom windows open since I got to bed this morning,only woke up there after my alarm went off

Was it that bad over our way, im only a stone's throw from your place sure

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#17 24-08-2011 5:26pm

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hit the whole country I believe test

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#18 24-08-2011 5:29pm

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It was very bad over Caherdavin, etc, between 14:30 and 15:00.

Looking lovely again now though. Just in time for training. >_<

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#19 24-08-2011 5:54pm

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****in typical, we get hailstones and thunder storms in august, but when the winter rolls around and everyone else gets snow, we've grand sunny days. FOCL (F our collective lives)

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#20 24-08-2011 6:57pm

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Saw this thread and feared the dog will have gone mental and i was right no sign of her. If anyone is out around the corbally to barry's cross direction please keep an eye out for a medium sized black and white dog that looks quite old (lot of grey on her face) but is only 4.

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#21 24-08-2011 7:18pm

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Typical Irish weather, nothing new to see here... kids are back to school next week so it should be a scorcher then...

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#22 24-08-2011 9:10pm

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I went to Loophead lighthouse, back to Kilkee and then up to Spanish Point and got no rain worth talking about, some nasty looking black clouds but never really rainded all day.

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#23 24-08-2011 9:16pm

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We decided to start painting our house when the hail came. Back to square 1 again

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#24 24-08-2011 10:07pm

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bazz26 wrote: »

Typical Irish weather, nothing new to see here... kids are back to school next week so it should be a scorcher then...

Scorching patience during rush hour more like it. :mad: (Especially on Clare Street/Dublin Rd)

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#25 24-08-2011 10:21pm

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Ahem Weather Forum

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#26 24-08-2011 10:27pm

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Wow I was in Cork today and the weather down there was lovely. There was a couple of showers & that was it.

Looks like I was better off down there

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#27 25-08-2011 12:57pm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ey500siHQc

I dread to think what our winter will be like this year! :eek:

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#28 25-08-2011 4:52pm

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Another batch of thunder sounds like it is on the way towards the city, coming in from the South West.

Can hear it in the distance

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#29 25-08-2011 4:57pm

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damn thunder is playing havoc with my puppy toilet training.

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#30 25-08-2011 5:50pm

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Was the longest I ever heard thunder, the cloud was huge and the thunder just kept on going and going and people still out walking dogs! So bad.

Few shots of lightening too - but nothing major

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#31 25-08-2011 5:57pm

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I was coming in from Ennis this evening, a major thunder shower as we passed Shannon, worst rain I've seen in a long and eejits driving without turning on their lights :mad:,

Probably preaching (hopefully anyway) to the converted but please turn on your lights in poor visibility and turning on lights doesn't mean turning on the parking/side lights.

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