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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring/Summer 2024

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  • #932
    Dank Janniels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Dank Janniels


    Power back on in North east Galway. Was off since midnight.👍️



  • #933
    glightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭glightning


    Just catching up on the thread. Some brill pics from last night :-)

    Well it seems the west has done very well storm wise over the past few years. They had a really good run of storms last year was it? Or maybe the one before?

    Meanwhile, the east and Ulster seem to be well below the historical average. Here in Ulster for example, I've noted that most storms are to the west of Lough Neagh in recent years. And it feels long time since we've had a good batch of storms move south to north up the east side of Ireland.



  • #934
    glightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭glightning


    I'm living in hope that with the zonal pattern we've been seeing for a while now that another similar opportunity might arise over the next few weeks. Or perhaps a short plume event in September. Wishful thinking!



  • #935
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,039 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Poking the camera out the window during the heavy rain in the early hours of this morning.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1823116253646446886



  • #936
    .Donegal.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,026 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122496458#Comment_122496458

    This part of Ulster did well. North west Donegal had a multi hour stationary thunderstorm back in May as well. Last summer probably had the most thunder I’ve experienced during a summer.



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  • #937
    Kutebride
    Registered Users Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Kutebride


    Beautiful starry night

    15⁰Meathh



  • #938
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,646 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122496258#Comment_122496258

    That was probably me yeah. I seen a second drone capturing the summer festival fireworks but got a strike over Lambay with mine after recording them fireworks too then proceeded to Tower Bay to get a decent composition.

    Photography site - https://www.sryanbruenphoto.com/

    Weather photo portfolio - https://sryanbruen.myportfolio.com/weather-1



  • #939
    Markus Antonius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    Unfortunately had the DSLR pointing out the wrong window when this happened last night:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6AcGh7-QoE



  • #940
    pureza
    Registered Users Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭pureza


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122496340#Comment_122496340

    The lightning bolt causing the damage usually isn't at the transformer itself

    The lightning can hit a pole several km's away

    The surge then travels along the line untill it hits a transformer or a fuse

    The fuse tripping cuts the power immediately to everyone above it on the line but the surge could still be travelling to the next transformer and burn it out

    The tripped fuse will stop the next bolt going any further and doing more damage

    The ESB have done a brilliant job of putting them on,they look like long springs at the top of some poles and make a sound like a gunshot when they trip

    Often during bad storms,power is pro actively cut by the ESB on lines or tripped at a sub stations untill a storm is over to prevent damage

    This blacks out a wider area untill the storm passes and saves ESB crews a lot of repair work



  • #941
    glightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭glightning


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122497025#Comment_122497025

    That was very close - if not a direct hit. Within a few hundred feet at most. When I was in Florida in July we had close strikes, and even ones that were less than 1/4 mile away had a slight delay. Yours is almost instantaneous.



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  • #942
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,547 ✭✭✭squonk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122496340#Comment_122496340

    It lit up the sky much further away. I’m near Doolin. I could just see the reflection of the clouds though.



  • #943
    Storm 10
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    Many years ago I worked in telephone exchange in Enniskillen, when a storm would happen we placed bets to see which location would be the first to trip a buzz bar in the exchange when a pole was struck great fun.



  • #944
    Markus Antonius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122497121#Comment_122497121

    Was sitting in the living room with the light off enjoying the flashes far away. Before that strike happened it got really, really dark outside, it looked like the led bulb in the room had a slight glow and honest to god I could feel a slight staticy feeling running through my legs, then that blast happened, was incredibly loud. Could have sworn I saw a line hit the transformer outside but doubt it was that close...



  • #945
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,210 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122496340#Comment_122496340

    Could see it from Galway city! Looked crazy.



  • #946
    glightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭glightning


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122497599#Comment_122497599

    Could have been no more than one street away at most given the instant thunder



  • #947
    glightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭glightning


    Pretty good lightshow in the distance in Bremen, Germany at the moment if you catch it quick :-

    https://www.youtube.com/live/rlj8zl6dr48?si=FV-loXHYGolnM7sL

    Germany does well when it comes to big summer storms. Benefits of continental climate.



  • #948
    glightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭glightning


    Another better quality view here. Storm seems to be approaching the city as there was no lightning visible on this one 15 minutes ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_n-YOrULDA



  • #949
    glightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭glightning


    Denmark putting on a hell of a light show now too :-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-9Lb-tIrA



  • #950
    glightning
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭glightning


    Groningen, NL in the middle of a light show :-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQTQ-MnYQ08&list=PL6b88W2TR3Xq2gvxye7Y1UnNATXxKXRpx&index=8



  • #951
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,039 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    For the record sferics detected by the LEELA Lightning Detector and Blitzortung for the 11-12Aug.

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  • #952
    Needmoretea
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭Needmoretea


    It looks like everyone but the south East and East got a real blast and loads of lightning! I was just wondering was it expected or predicted by met Éireann? I dont want to have a go at them and derail the thread, but was it a surprise? Going by the comments and pictures, it was insane!



  • #953
    Oneiric 3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Positive lightning strike out the back the other night.

    bolt11.png

    New Moon



  • #954
    typhoony
    Registered Users Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭typhoony


    It was worth the wait but a quiet summer overall for convection and looks like the last for this month.



  • #955
    typhoony
    Registered Users Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭typhoony


    Well looks like a failed prediction on my part as an active front is approaching the west this morning could well produce a few thunderstorms



  • #956
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,167 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    I presume we’ll see a continuation of pattern we’ve had all summer today - heavy rain and some thunderstorms in western areas, the front will weaken and disintegrate as it approaches the Dublin area giving the usual mm or two there. I’d love to be wrong and get 25mm+ but unlikely, not seeing a pattern change yet.
    PS. the front seems to splitting in half already in the Clare area



  • #957
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭highdef


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518214#Comment_122518214

    Looking at the current radar and a few of the forecast models, I can't foresee thunderstorms per se today. A few spots might experience some thundery rain....... The kind of weather where there's a spell of very heavy or torrential rain and a couple/not many lightning strikes and/or a few rumbles or cracks of thunder and then it's just plain rain again after a couple of minutes. That's textbook thundery rain to me.



  • #958
    Storm 10
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518338#Comment_122518338

    ME said last night heaviest of the rain would be in the South looking at the radar the worst seems to be in the North West at present, we had torrential rain in Galway for around half hour very dark.



  • #959
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Just saw a flash of lighting on the outskirts of Ennis.

    Or maybe I was imagining things



  • #960
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,039 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Parameters there for some activity later with some embedded storms along the cold front moving on to the Western coasts tonight and maybe a couple overnight crossing the Northern half of the country. Possibly isolated with a low chance but enough MUCAPE at a few hundred j/kg , upper shear, lower shear, decent lapse rates along the coasts, cold upper pool and upper trough all aiding instability. Heavy convective showers moving into the W, NW and some moving across the country some bit. W

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  • #961
    The Macho Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭The Macho Man


    Does anyone believe there's any truth to this for the midlands tonight?

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