Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Spring/Summer 2016

Danno

Can see some of the flashes from here off on the horizon.

rilz

Something brewing east NI. Wind picking up feeling very humid.

paulhac

Can't see a direct hit on Dublin from this.

Rougies

chris2007 wrote: »

When will all this activity hit Dublin

It won't, just a lightning show viewable from the coast.

rilz

This is annoying all the big storms are just west in atlantic ocean and heading up the Irish sea missing us all apart from scotland.

ArKl0w

No change here ,still a lot of distant rumbles and lightning all out to sea but you can see the branches of the forks,some cg and a lot of cloud to cloud
It will be nearing the Dublin coast about 20 Kms out by dawn

tylercollins

Epic display from the Causeway Coast tonight, watched for over 2 hours and had to leave

pad199207

Huge flashes lighting up the eastern sky from Naas

Trebor176

Recent strike in north Dublin or just north of Dublin.

uck51js9zml2yt

Lighting off the welsh coast looks severe.

redsteveireland

Maybe it was safer that this one stayed mainly over the Irish Sea.

Larbre34

redsteveireland wrote: »

Maybe it was safer that this one stayed mainly over the Irish Sea.

You're barred....

LEIN

Very dark stuff out on the Irish Sea.

LEIN

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

So disappointing

Was going to set an alarm to get up. Glad I didn't now.

jimmynokia

Crying lookin at that and how we missed it all.

cotton

Amazing light show over the sea at greystones last night

LEIN

cotton wrote: »

Amazing light show over the sea at greystones last night

What time was that?

ArKl0w

cotton wrote: »

Amazing light show over the sea at greystones last night

Aye it came quite close to me with heavy rain for a while
There was the guts of 3 hours of lightning and low audible thunder
The lightning was rolling across the entire sky with trade mark branched forks
I'd say if it was 10 miles further west ESB networks would have had a lot of damage!

LEIN

I was woken by heavy rain and looked at the radar, I seen the good stuff was out to sea and went back to sleep.
I'm sorry I didn't get up now.

PukkaStukka

Damn. So near yet so far

LEIN

PukkaStukka wrote: »

Damn. So near yet so far

Don't think I've ever seen anything like that before. That's amazing.

pad199207

One thing ill say about the lightning last night. Even though it was miles out to sea ive never seen lightning so frequent!

PukkaStukka

LEIN wrote: »

Don't think I've ever seen anything like that before. That's amazing.

I know. It's the closest possibly to 1985 that we'll ever get....

cotton

LEIN wrote: »

What time was that?

I woke up at 2.30am, it lasted at least 2 hours. I've never seen lightning roll across the sky like that before, it was amazing.

ronnie3585

PukkaStukka wrote: »

Damn. So near yet so far

Amazing. An almost perfect Ireland shaped hole! So close...

LEIN

cotton wrote: »

I woke up at 2.30am, it lasted at least 2 hours. I've never seen lightning roll across the sky like that before, it was amazing.

I missed out

Gonzo

lets face it, Ireland and thunderstorms are just never meant to be!

ArKl0w

Aye at times the lightning strikes from Arklow took up the whole horizon at the same time with forks and branches running along it
It must have been something else to be directly under it
The windmills on the Arklow banks probably took a few strikes
There were so many,the live site just wasn't getting the quarter of them
But given Pad was in Naas,I may have been seeing lightning even as far away as the Welsh coast last night

It's important to note that storm was essentially born west of France but grew and grew because by the time it got into the Irish Sea it still had all the conditions last night that it normally would have in Biscay

pad199207

A cruel night for storm lovers if there ever was one. If only if only what if what if..... ce sera

Storm 10

Few pictures from BBC Scotland of the storms

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36844140