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Whats most extreme/weird weather youve seen

  • 13-08-2014 8:54pm
    #1
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭


    Watching a programm on extreme weather such as spider lightening or massive hail stones

    Ive never come across anything like it

    Have you?


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  • #2
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Specialun wrote: »
    Watching a programm on extreme weather such as spider lightening or massive hail stones

    Ive never come across anything like it

    Have you?

    Why would you have sex with extreme weather conditions :confused:


  • #3
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    I (and a few more Boardsies!) were at a festival in Belgium a few years ago where there was a crazy storm that came out of nowhere. A few people died! Was mad. The hailstones were huge...people had massive dents on their backs.



  • #4
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Why would you have sex with extreme weather conditions :confused:

    When I was living in the States, I was awoken one night by a *severe* thunderstorm.

    The only logical course of action was to masturbate furiously. I felt like Thor.


  • #5
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Monsoon thunderstorms in Africa. Pretty cool.


  • #6
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    T'was outlandishly mild here today.


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  • #7
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    I was in Belfast last year and it was sort of sunny. Freaked me out. I thought it always rained there.


  • #8
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    I was in NYC one night and all of a sudden a strong wind developed and things were being blown around the street, I then heard what sounded like explosions(was thunder) and a few mins later the heavy rain came, it felt like I was in a movie! I took shelter in a mcdonalds, which is the worst tasting fast food in USA, double cheeseburgers were 1dollar (2euro here), thats the only good thing about McD's there


  • #9
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Was in Brisbane during the Queensland floods of 2010. When the banks burst, in the space of an evening it turned a meander in the river into an island, marooned us and the rest of the residents at the highest point of land for three days before it went down again.

    Posted this somewhere else on the forums about thunderstorms:
    Most awesome one I've ever seen, and probably the most dangerous, was in Namibia about eight years ago. Was driving through the mountains out towards the skeleton coast, beautiful out in front, but all you could see in the rear view mirror of the truck was a huge dark mass of clouds slowly rolling in. It caught up just as I hit a mountain pass and the forked lightning had to be seen to be believed. Forks were hitting the peaks on each side every 10-15 seconds, sending showers of boulders down into the valleys below. It was like end of days - beautiful in its sheer violence. And I was sitting inside the only metal object for 500 miles, hoping that Faraday had gotten it right...


  • #10
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    It was sunny in Cork today so I went for a walk in shorts and t shirt.....
    fcuking weird!!!!!!!


  • #11
    Jogathon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Jogathon


    Hurricane Dean in Mexico in 2007. Hurricane Sandy in NY last year. Both were category 5 hurricanes but Sandy was far more devastating.

    Have also been caught in a coup in Thailand, an earthquake in Peru and saw the tail end of a tsunami in Mexico too. Am unfortunately running out of people to holiday with....


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  • #12
    takamichinoku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    I was in NYC one night and all of a sudden a strong wind developed and things were being blown around the street, I then heard what sounded like explosions(was thunder) and a few mins later the heavy rain came, it felt like I was in a movie! I took shelter in a mcdonalds, which is the worst tasting fast food in USA, double cheeseburgers were 1dollar (2euro here), thats the only good thing about McD's there
    Free wifi on every corner and pretty good coffee, Micky D's was one of my favourite things about NYC tbh ...wouldn't go near the food though.

    Had a similar experience with crazy weather over there too, got seriously soaked walking down one block from my hostel to the underground. Was so bemused and pissed off about it (was about to grab a 2 hour train to the airport) that I changed everything asides from my boxers waiting for the train.
    The lightning was absolutely crazy too.



    In other different places have different weather to here news: Florida is very warm and the whole place is so humid that it's like a bathroom after an especially hot shower with the windows closed.


  • #13
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    chunky marble sized hail stones (opporative word there as opposed to pebbles) in the middle of sumer in france


  • #14
    Ferris_Bueller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭Ferris_Bueller


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    I (and a few more Boardsies!) were at a festival in Belgium a few years ago where there was a crazy storm that came out of nowhere. A few people died! Was mad. The hailstones were huge...people had massive dents on their backs.


    :eek: Jesus christ it's like something out of a horror film. What did everyone do?! Surely the festival couldn't have continued in weather like that.


  • #15
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    Jogathon wrote: »
    Hurricane Dean in Mexico in 2007. Hurricane Sandy in NY last year. Both were category 5 hurricanes but Sandy was far more devastating.

    Have also been caught in a coup in Thailand, an earthquake in Peru and saw the tail end of a tsunami in Mexico too. Am unfortunately running out of people to holiday with....

    jesus wept do you have 666 tattoo on you somewhere, fook en hell thats some run of bad luck


  • #16
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    Ferris_Bueller wrote: »
    :eek: Jesus christ it's like something out of a horror film. What did everyone do?! Surely the festival couldn't have continued in weather like that.

    think the festival* continued down the road if you get me











    *tents


  • #17
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    http://25.media.tumblr.com/2af1ea7f8691347c2ba9c036275c9f75/tumblr_mgv1euZeBW1s32n64o1_500.png


  • #18
    Ferris_Bueller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭Ferris_Bueller


    Mr.S wrote: »
    While the storm was passing over, everyone just took cover, it was crazy, we where in one of the smaller marquee tents and you could see the roof coming down and the support creaking and literally everyone panicking and pushing. The acts that where on at the time all just left the stage. We where waiting to see some band and they came on just as the storm hit, and then went running.

    When the storm passed and the weather picked up, you couldn't leave the arena for a while as the exists where all blocked with wreckage and stuff.

    They cancelled the festival for the day and told everyone to go back to the campsite, and would see if they could re-open in the morning. A few hours later, after the deaths where confirmed and the arena was surveyed etc, the whole festival was cancelled.

    Incredible, I'd say it must have been a terrifying experience! And I thought the weather at Castlepalooza last week was bad :pac:


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