Possible Heavy Thunderstorms & Local Flooding (Wednesday 18th July)

BEASTERLY

Was out running and heard a few rumbles. Active enough cell to my east, off the Wexford Coast.

darkman2

Showers evolving to thunderstorms for some as they approach east coast. Seferics appearing now.

M.T. Cranium

Radar appearance over Kildare, Dublin, Meath, Louth suggests any of this complex of cells could briefly attain severe levels with hail, strong wind gusts and slight risk weak tornado. Keeping a close eye on it for any more definite signs of specific severe storm location, Dublin city will be hit around 3:15 pm by looks of current radar, intensity at least moderate showers and gusts to 35 mph, possibly more intense.

Larbre34

Spot on MT, in Dun Laoghaire on the South Dublin coast it went dark and overcast very quickly in the last 15 mins and is now raining moderately with very big pick up in the wind. No sparks ive noticed yet

Must be very early in your morning now MT?

sunbabe08

there appears to be a line of showers heading towards in the south east.

M.T. Cranium

Not too early, going on for 0800h here. Radar now shows fairly intense activity over north end of Westmeath heading in general direction of Athboy (4:15 pm) and Trim (4:40 pm) for any observers in that area, let us know what you're seeing.

cotton

Larbre34 wrote: »

Spot on MT, in Dun Laoghaire on the South Dublin coast it went dark and overcast very quickly in the last 15 mins and is now raining moderately with very big pick up in the wind. No sparks ive noticed yet

Must be very early in your morning now MT?

And 45 minutes later the sun is splitting the stones again.:)

davehey79

absolutely bucketing down here in Longford Town and gone very dark within the last half hour

davehey79

lightning , thunder and hailstones now !!

davehey79

Power failure now ! Never seen rain like it

M.T. Cranium

Thanks, that confirms our suspicions of a severe storm developing, have already placed an alert in forecast section for north end of Westmeath, south-central Meath as this cell continues southeast (ESE) past Athboy and Trim. Any observations from around there will be very helpful. This activity is about 1.5-2 hours away from Dublin if it holds together.

lolie

davehey79 wrote: »

lightning , thunder and hailstones now !!

Any pics or vids for us

davehey79

I didn't get any from where my desk is in the office in afraid (was busy hitting save on all open windows)

robclay26

It's an extreme downpour here just west of trim! Never seen heavy rain to last so long
And rumble of thunder

Larbre34

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Thanks, that confirms our suspicions of a severe storm developing, have already placed an alert in forecast section for north end of Westmeath, south-central Meath as this cell continues southeast (ESE) past Athboy and Trim. Any observations from around there will be very helpful. This activity is about 1.5-2 hours away from Dublin if it holds together.

It certainly is, main cell is moving ESE rapidly, it might get to Dublin a little earlier even than that. Without the mountains in the way it may still be very coherent, the northern half of Dublin County should get a drenching, will be interesting to await the level of special effects to go with it

PauloMN

Lashing down in buckets here in Trim, wind picked up unbelievably as well, bins knocked over etc.. Mental rain though!

Babooshka

Downpour of rain just started in Citywest Dublin 24....is this the beginning of that rain belt already here?

Larbre34

Unusually good definition of the cells on the radar, the 16+mm/hr cores are very clear

paddymc1

Nice rumbles of thunder here in Celbridge

fr wishy washy

Same here in West Wicklow. Gorgeous day out the front and like Winter out the back garden.

kwik

Im in ballyfermot and can hear distant rumbles. Sounds fairly active to 3 rumbles in five minutes or so.

djhaxman

paddymc1 wrote: »

Nice rumbles of thunder here in Celbridge

Looks very dark out that way alright. Haven't heard anything here yet.

Edit : scratch that, boom!

dacogawa

Picked back up on the raintoday 16:45 heading straight for Dublin, happy I'm home already!

flanzer

Been watching this coming in from the Airport. It's not too far away now.

This is taken facing North West of Dublin. Those clouds are gathering pace too. Kinda freaky looking!

To Alcohol

Shower just passed through Sallins just now. Lot of thunder and I saw one flash of lightning.

diceyd

im in finglas,massive black cloud rolling in

MrFrisp

Not much at all happening here in Cork..

Few dark clouds around,,and one or two light showers...Breezy...

Other than that,,all quiet...Sadly...






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paddymc1

Heavens just opened out of know where kids out playing didn't know what happened.
Very Dark here still rumbles going but not seen any lighting yet.

paddymc1

Keep loosing signal to Sky TV here. Coming and going

megatron989

Wonder how far into south dub this will effect. In dalkey now and already had a few heavy showers. But hard to tell from current radar how it will track.