Thunderstorms 14th/15th August 2022

I can't believe you missed out. One of the best thunderstorm events I have experienced in Ireland, thankfully I live on high ground so escaped any flooding. The kids loved it too!

My observation of Sunday night's thunderstorm in the Limerick City area at least, was that there was very little cloud to ground lightning.

Almost every stroke I saw was cloud-to-cloud and I reckon this resulted in relatively little damage to property and livestock. I heard of no cattle killed around the country and no houses or structures damaged.

The 1985 storm killed a lot of livestock, including five cattle on my father's farm in North Tipperary. There were several other similar occurrences around the country.

We didn't so bad here in Carrick on Shannon, lightning storm Sunday morning 4am and massive thunderstorm 7pm same day, green, yellow and blue strikes where seen, i wasn't around for 85 Storms but my best one was 26th November 2010 lasted 10 hours best thunder snow

I remember that well, was in Dublin airport and ended up stuck there for the day… it was actually a bit of craic in the bar watching the show out the window!

They were struck by lightning. It was during the night and they were huddled together in a group in a field by a roadside hedge.

I remember they were totally unmarked by the lightning and a vet came to certify them dead for insurance purposes.

It was such a sad sight and I never forgot it.

At my home near Limerick City.

Was great to be honest, 2 of my favourite weather events in 1 "thundersnow" 😁

A screenshot from the minute long video clip I took Sunday night . Portlaoise .

This is a lightning trigger that I use for getting day or night lightning photos.It simply plugs into the camera mounted on a tripod, and an infra red sensor on the front triggers the camera shutter the instant a lightning flash is detected. It's years old, as is my Canon DSLR but is very reliable and easy to use.

(Apologies for the sideways images. I tried to edit them before uploading but they still display sideways.

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That's spectacular, very atmospheric.

A short compilation video with footage of 3 storms over the weekend of 13th to 15th of August. The first to my south east near dusk on the Saturday, the second to my west in the early hours of Sunday and the final one overhead and to my northeast late Sunday and into the early hours of Monday morning.

Video and audio quality is not great as I used my not very fancy phone.

The trigger comes with a cable which connects the trigger to the camera via the flash socket. The camera is set up on 'manual' and the shutter speed and aperture set manually according to the level of ambient light. A night time exposure would need a shutter speed of around 10 secs. The camera is focussed manually to infinity.

When a lightning flash occurs, the infra red sensor on the front of the trigger instantly fires the trigger and usually the lightning is captured, hopefully in focus and at night, a long exposure then allows for reasonable exposure of the surrounding area.

My photos, posted a few pages back, were too underexposed at around 5 secs. as I hurriedly set up the camera. I was in bed when the storm got going so I hurriedly got up, got the tripod and rushed things a bit. I should have experimented with shutter speeds beforehand but of course, didn't.