Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion 2013/14

Lumi

Fantastic light show & long, loud thunder rolls.....

RuthieRose

Holy god. A gun went off
That was so loud

chris2007

Any chance of some of theses storms reaching the east coast?

snowstreams

Looks like flash flooding will be a problem now. Car Park outside is like a river! Lovely rolls of thunder though.

Trebor176

The heavens opened briefly in Clondalkin around five minutes ago. It was extremely heavy, but no sign of any thunder.

Cocolola

RuthieRose wrote: »

Holy god. A gun went off
That was so loud

I nearly jumped out of my skin with that one! Was looking out the window at the lightning, though to myself "Jeeze that was a bright flash" and then BANG!! Right over the damn house

phenomenalcat

Galway city getting pasted. Several strikes now

Thunder and lightening here in Galway city

El_Dangeroso

Thunder and lightening a-gogo in Galway city at the moment! LOVE thunderstorms!

Elmer Blooker

chris2007 wrote: »

Any chance of some of theses storms reaching the east coast?

only if the Wicklow Mountains could be moved, looking very unlikely at the moment.

snaps

Can hear thunder now in South mayo, possibly from the band heading up from Galway. Skies looking very black to my south.

_Whimsical_

Serious thunder and lightening in galway city for half an hr now. The air feels fresher already.

maquiladora

chris2007 wrote: »

Any chance of some of theses storms reaching the east coast?

Not likely today, stay tuned for the days ahead though.

smallwonder

Rumbles and rain just hitting Letterkenny. Lights just went on and off! Early home time perhaps

RuthieRose

Still rolling in the distance. That was epic!!! I nearly died with that loud bang!! Loudest I've heard in ages!!! Place dripping wet. Had all the windows open!!!

Storm 10

Unrelal thunder and lightning in Galway City now torrential rain and the loudest thunder I think I have ever heard

snaps

RuthieRose wrote: »

Still rolling in the distance. That was epic!!! I nearly died with that loud bang!! Loudest I've heard in ages!!! Place dripping wet. Had all the windows open!!!

Where are you? Casablanca?

RuthieRose

Still seeing lightening. Long rumbles in the distance. Galway city is drenched.

RuthieRose

snaps wrote: »

Where are you? Casablanca?

Close. Knocknacarra!!!

Deank

There's a lot of strikes hitting now.
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Assassin saphir

Lots of black clouds over Cork airport. Is it our turn now? Fingers crossed

RuthieRose

Standing corrected... Again. Another flash bang over Galway bay!

This must be going on an hour now!

Storm 10

I can only describe what I saw over Galway City from one very black cloud as a waterfall, you could see the rain falling down vertically and fast from the cloud, never saw anything like that before, I would say there is flooding in parts of the City.

snaps

Just seen a flash over the conemmara mountains. then a clap of thunder. No rain here yet, but boy are the skies black. Conemmara mountains now disappeared from view, due to the rain there.

Lumi

A couple of images of the storm as it approached Galway

sunbabe08

Assassin saphir wrote: »

Lots of black clouds over Cork airport. Is it our turn now? Fingers crossed

Oh god please reach youghal

RuthieRose

Rain seems to be stopping in Galway now. Still the odd flash. That was the best irish thunderstorm I have witnessed ever. So many loud bangs and flashed and that loudest one hurt my ears. I jumped clean off the chair!!! I only hope for all of ye to get it. I can still hear the thunder coming from the north of the city.

maquiladora

Lightning detected near Cork City.

Storm 10

Great pictures lum, shows the wall of water I was saying I saw in an earlier post, pity you did not catch lightning.

martic

A nice bit of thunder and lightning after passing Lifford, my early warning system (the dog) nearly put the door in 10 minutes before it started!!!