Thunder and Lightning

eirebhoy · 22-10-2003 12:03pm #1

Isn't this thunder and Lightning great

. I am lying in bed sick at the moment and all I can hear is hail stones, thunder and lightning, a few dogs barking and a few car alarms going. The place feels really bad outside while I'm in here watching telly and eating my goodies.;)

Sarky · 22-10-2003 12:05pm

Aye, nothing like a good thunderstorm.

Pity there's no sign of one in Galway...:(

Dustaz · 22-10-2003 12:14pm

TEH GODS AER DISPLEASED!!!

Dublin Airport is shut down apparently.

ixoy · 22-10-2003 12:14pm

No - it's awful! The incompetent fcukers at Irish Rail had a signalling problem AGAIN (they had one yesterday evening, delaying me by 30 mins) so I had to go in the thunder and lightning to wait for a bus and got into work late! And I was consistently woken up during the night by it so I'm wrecked. Great?! How about awful :mad:

Sandi · 22-10-2003 12:19pm

Dammit! I'm missing out! I love thunderstorms. Great to watch at night when you're all warm and cozy indoors.
Hopefully when I'm back home in Dublin at the weekend it'll be stormy. Westmeath is just cold...

Don1 · 22-10-2003 12:19pm

Nothin quite as cool as sittin out watchin a mediterranian thunder storm. Manificent. Well until it's starts rainin so hard it hurts then you have to settle for the hotel balcony!

aodh_rua · 22-10-2003 12:23pm

It'd certainly be cool to sit in bed and listen to it - but it's no fun getting about.

Can anyone remember such a long thunderstorm before? I'm in Dublin and it's been going for hours...

misswex · 22-10-2003 12:25pm

The thunder and lightening is fantastic!!

It'd be nicer if I was at home with a roaring fire and hot chocolate than working in a boring office!!!!!!!!

Don1 · 22-10-2003 12:28pm

/me jealous. It's just cloudy and cold in Carlow.

eirebhoy · 22-10-2003 12:29pm

Originally posted by misswex
The thunder and lightening is fantastic!!

It'd be nicer if I was at home with a roaring fire and hot chocolate than working in a boring office!!!!!!!!

Nice idea.;) Altough the tunderstorm appears to be over where i am anyway.:(

LoneGunM@n · 22-10-2003 12:37pm

I love lightning storms .... especially when the thunder sounds like it's trying to rip the sky appart!!

I hate the feckin' rain though .... went out on lunch & got pished on :mad: .... and what makes it worse was I sat in the deli for lunch [so I could eat my lunch whilst it was warm] & they fecking charged me €3.00 extra ....

jonhate · 22-10-2003 12:47pm

Fecking cool day out!!
LOVE Thunderstorms Proper Bo i tell thee...

Oh yeah back to the gods being displeased....what the hell did you guys do

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Funky · 22-10-2003 12:51pm

first lightening i saw was at 7 yesterday and last i saw today was at 12 so thats a hmmm 17 hour long thunder storm :O (at least)

Mac daddy · 22-10-2003 12:51pm

I'm out in blanchardstown in work there is snow outside ???

AL][EN · 22-10-2003 12:53pm

no sign of any thunder and lighting in cork

:mad:

as sandi said hopefully there'll be more at the wk end in dublin while im back there!!!

well then if the thunder gods are angry why don't we just just march to one of the outlying villages outside dublin raise it to the ground burn there crops and sacrafice them to appese the thunder gods anger?

ToxicPaddy · 22-10-2003 12:56pm

Yeah it was class... i was driving into dublin last night about 12ish from the midlands and I could see the lightening in the distance.. twas class...

And all last night and this morning.. was cool to watch..

Nothin quite as cool as sittin out watchin a mediterranian thunder storm. Manificent. Well until it's starts rainin so hard it hurts then you have to settle for the hotel balcony!

Saw a class lightening storm a few years back in france, could see if coming from miles away out at sea..

Sat back with a nice cool drink and watched it for hours coming in
over the sea, then a small strip of land that seperated the lake from the sea, then the lake itself and finally pass overhead..

Class way to relax and spend an evening..

ToxicPaddy · 22-10-2003 12:57pm

Originally posted by AL][EN
well then if the thunder gods are angry why don't we just just march to one of the outlying villages outside dublin raise it to the ground burn there crops and sacrafice them to appese the thunder gods anger?

Ya mean somewhere like Navan or Balbriggan and Bray..

Count me in

*Pitchfork at the ready...*

viking · 22-10-2003 1:02pm

There's nothing like looking down on a thunderstorm from an airplane. Saw a fantastic one a few weeks ago coming back from hols, it was beautiful. Everyone on the plane moved over to the one side to see it - I'm surprised the plane didn't lean over as there were so many people looking at it.

viking

AL][EN · 22-10-2003 1:28pm

Originally posted by viking
There's nothing like looking down on a thunderstorm from an airplane.

Now id say THAT would be cool id say id love to have seen that!

ToxicPaddy aaaaa im not pushed so long as the thunder gods are pleased!! if you have a preference then sure we can go for Navan or Balbriggan or Bray

Retr0gamer · 22-10-2003 1:32pm

If you come near balbriggan to sacrifice me I'll be waitimg for ye with me sharpened teaspoon.

daveg · 22-10-2003 1:33pm

Originally posted by Sarky
Aye, nothing like a good thunderstorm.

Pity there's no sign of one in Galway...:(

Not a sausage just blue sky's. Worst I ever saw was travelling from Boston to New york by car. Had to pull in at the side of the road as you couldnt see 2 feet in front of you. Lightning was amazing.

patch · 22-10-2003 1:46pm

It's fcuking freezing in galway though. I had to switch the airconditioning over to heat.

Does anybody else notice you have to turn the shower up to a number higher every morning so it's hot enough?
The ice age is coming! :eek:

eirebhoy · 22-10-2003 1:46pm

Originally posted by Funky
first lightening i saw was at 7 yesterday and last i saw today was at 12 so thats a hmmm 17 hour long thunder storm :O (at least)

its still going here in D2.

eirebhoy · 22-10-2003 1:48pm

Originally posted by patch
Does anybody else notice you have to turn the shower up to a number higher every morning so it's hot enough?
The ice age is coming! :eek:

Yeah, I noticed during the summer that I could bairly hack the shower on the lowest level, now I have to put it up a lot higher.

gimme · 22-10-2003 1:57pm

weather is gone nuts because we're polluting the earth and mother nature is displeased.
next the seas will rise and we'll have to call kevin costner.

Krusty_Clown · 22-10-2003 2:19pm

Best lightning I ever saw?

Travelling up the side of a canyon in a jeep, in Moab National Park in Utah.. A fork of lighning landed in the basin of the canyon we were travelling up, about three hundred feet away from us.. Amazing sight/sound/experience, but not uncommon out there..

You can wealk travel around the canyons and see the results of many lighning strikes.. Blackened rocks/patches of ground, etc..

Great place..

Sauron · 22-10-2003 2:55pm

Aye tis great...I haven't seen actual fork lightning in Ireland b4...
lightning has been hitting the big RTE mast in Dublin again and again...theres some huge rolls of thunder.....best thunder storm for years imo:) :ninja:it went on for hours.. to bad its over :rolleyes:

Bard · 22-10-2003 3:03pm

I was standing on Donabate beach one stormy night - about 3am I think it was - as I was on my way home from work. A lightning storm had come along the motorway with me as I'd driven there, displaying arcs of electricity across the road ahead like a jagged white rainbow which lit my way as most of the roadside lighting had failed. It was stunning. It was a wild night.

I stood on the beach watching more lightning strikes hit the Irish Sea in quick succession as another storm moved along the water in a northerly direction. A few strikes hit further in towards the land. As I walked back up to my car, which was parked in the small little car park area at the bottom of the hill by the Martello tower at the start of the beach, I stopped to take a final look around and I heard a sudden thunderous rumbling just up ahead. What I saw next indelibly imprinted itself on my brain.

A massive lightning strike hit the Martello tower which was no more than 5 yards away from me. The strike may have lasted less than half a second but it seemed to me in that freeze-framed moment in time to go on for - oooh- at least 20 - 30 seconds. After standing stock still in shock for what really was 20 - 30 seconds, I thought I might as well make my move for home.

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Thunder/Lightning storms are fun. They're nature showing what it can do... the planet showing that it's alive and kicking... the clouds in the sky not getting along... you get the picture.

How many times have I said it recently... "well we had a great summer... we can't complain too much..."

feck that, I love the Winter time

lodgepole · 22-10-2003 3:10pm

It kept me up all ****ing night. My room overlooks the Wicklow mountains so every time the lightening struck my room would flash white. When I finally got some kip, I was awoken two hours later by even more thunder. On the plus side my lift to college is a scared learner who wouldn't drive in it, so I got a day off.

misswex · 22-10-2003 3:11pm

Yeah winter time rocks

Sauron · 22-10-2003 3:28pm

Very Very Frightning...:eek:

misswex · 22-10-2003 4:10pm

Somebody has obviously been listening to a bit of Queen this afternoon

Mac daddy · 22-10-2003 5:15pm

Originally posted by gimme
weather is gone nuts because we're polluting the earth and mother nature is displeased.
next the seas will rise and we'll have to call kevin costner.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

hippy

DerekD Goldfish · 22-10-2003 6:09pm

My house was hit by lightning about 3 months ago. I was the only one in it and I was changing the chanel on the tv at the time and it blew up in my face.

amp · 22-10-2003 6:16pm

That was so cool today. FLASH!.... BOOOM!. It's still flashing occasionally here in Dun Laoghaire. Really shut up those stupid dumbass people who can't wait till Halloween to set off their puny fireworks.

Even cooler was that I got to sit in traffic for nearly three hours listening to music, while watching that and getting paid. Life is truly sweet sometimes.

sionnach · 22-10-2003 6:55pm

still lightning here in dcu, its not REAL lightning tho, best ever was when i was on holiday in a chalet in the alps, there was a massive lightning storm at bout 2am, we turned off all the lights, it was class cos we were facing a huge forested valley, sometimes we could see the trees get hit by lightning and catch fire

FoXXy · 22-10-2003 7:32pm

thunder woke me last night and i almost had heart attack, it was like the sky was being blown apart! scary stuff..... the storm has been going all day here in killiney.... maybe cos the house is on the beach....

<< looks out the window over the sea at the lightning.... scary but cool, reminds u that nature can kick some ass too

Johnny_the_fox · 22-10-2003 7:40pm

its mental ...

Some video clips of thunder and lightning can be viewed here

Supercell · 22-10-2003 7:42pm

This is madness!!
It must be a freak event, never ever in my life experienced the like...but its fun...turn off the lights ..grab a beer and watch nature put on a show !!

Michael Collins · 22-10-2003 7:43pm

Originally posted by eireboy
its still going here in D2.

Yep still going as strong as ever in D14. This is the strangest thunderstorm I've ever seen, usually it's quite mild and tropical when we get thunder but this is COLD (possibly evil?) thunder.

lodgepole · 22-10-2003 8:08pm

Originally posted by Longfield
This is madness!!
It must be a freak event, never ever in my life experienced the like...but its fun...turn off the lights ..grab a beer and watch nature put on a show !!

We did that down in Fethard on Sea in Wexford... Sat on a cliff with our beers and watched a mental storm about 5 miles out at sea. Fantastic show...

ondafly · 22-10-2003 8:08pm

it was still going on here (D15) until about the start of Teachers on CH4 - but now the rains really picked up !

Anyone think the floods will return ! don't fancy all that hassle coming home from work again !

oh and there goes another bang !

babyhack · 22-10-2003 8:12pm

still going her in D12

Tis FUN FUN FUN

dont think it has ever been this long in ireland
well not that i can remember

Barry Aldwell · 22-10-2003 8:13pm

Still going, but it seems to be heading north. Hopefully it'll come back. School during a thunderstorm is FUN.

Syd_Vicious · 22-10-2003 9:31pm

This is Syd_Vicious speaking...

The thunderstorm is STILL GOING up here in Tallaght (that's D24 for all u people who don't know where Tallaght is)

We even had a power blackout about half an hour ago...was funny...I was looking out my attic window when all of a sudden all the lights on all the houses just went off! That was cool lookin' but that meant I couldn't see a bloody thing!

I remember a time when I was down on camp and we were all at Brittas Bay and the lightning was stricking the sea in front of us... we all enjoyed the display of nature's love lol

The best lightning I've ever seen was when I was looking out my window during another thunderstorm and lightning flashes RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY WINDOW and struck the alarm box on my next door neighbours house...I saw the blue lightning bolt right in front of my face...it like just a few tiny inches away from me...that was great!!!

I love thunder and lightning...I just wish it would stop bloody rainin'!

This has been Syd_Vicious speaking...

amp · 22-10-2003 9:35pm

Sorry, who are you again?

Tusky · 22-10-2003 9:37pm

boooom ! love thunder , still going on

Syd_Vicious · 22-10-2003 9:42pm

This is Syd_Vicious speaking...

I'm Syd_Vicious and I'm a poster on boards.ie thank you very much

Good Lord, the rain is absolutely pelting down out here!!!

Just thought I'd add dramatic effect

This has been Syd_Vicious speaking...

lordsippa · 22-10-2003 10:46pm

The heating's down here at home... so cold... so very cold...

Just heard more thunder. Still going in D14.

Oh yeah... best lightning I ever saw was in Yosemite, on Half Dome... was flashing across the valley and hitting some of the higher peaks, but it wasn't even cloudy over us.

Fantastic stuff!

Riamfada · 23-10-2003 1:10am

Okay the first bang was officially 24 hours ago. It calmed down a bit this afternoon but it seems to be picking up again. Nearly blinded by a flash driving in the ****ty rain. Fun Though. Just Watched Red Rose by Stephen King and im kinda scared. (Flash) so (bang) isnt this a tad bit long to be going on?? Anyway looks like I wont be going to college tomorrow, stay in and have some Sxhex wit me burd!

Bard · 23-10-2003 1:31am

Originally posted by amp
That was so cool today. FLASH!.... BOOOM!. It's still flashing occasionally here in Dun Laoghaire. Really shut up those stupid dumbass people who can't wait till Halloween to set off their puny fireworks.

Yeah, I can just imagine some deity up in the sky yesterday evening muttering to themselves... "FIREWORKS?!! I'LL SHOW THEM BLOODY FIREWORKS!!!"

Thunder and Lightning

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