Heavy Showers/Thunderstorms - Friday June 8th

Darwin

It looks like most of the strikes are around the Mountmellick/Portarlington area, we had torrential rain for the last 30 minutes but no lightning.

cyclops999

Rikand wrote: »

90 minutes of near constant thunder and lightning here in west Athlone. Most of the lightning was sheet but saw 2 very clear cloud to ground strikes just to my south. Reckon they touches down not far from drum community centre or summer hill school. The boom that came from both strikes was enormous. Just grabbed a patio chair from out the back and sat in the front porch until the wife and kids came home.

Was lovely!

Thunder gone now and just buckets of rain coming down. Everything flooded!

Best storm I have seen around here for many a year

M6 between Jct 14 Ballinasloe & 13 Athlone cars aqua planing off motorway huge amounts of surface water

TheRiverman

cyclops999 wrote: »

M6 between Jct 14 Ballinasloe & 13 Athlone cars aqua planing off motorway huge amounts of surface water

Probably idiots driving too fast and not respecting the weather conditions or more careful drivers.

irishgeo

It was some rain in tuam earlier. Just about made it from the car to work before it started.

lolie

Screenshot of a flash earlier this evening.
Plenty of thunder heard in the distance today but seen very little lightning.
At least we escaped the worst of the downpours here.

Danno

Ballyragget 6mm
Durrow 7mm
Johnstown (Kilkenny) 23mm

Some difference over ~10 miles.

RobertKK

Danno wrote: »

Ballyragget 6mm
Durrow 7mm
Johnstown (Kilkenny) 23mm

Some difference over ~10 miles.

and it keeps dying out here just before it reaches me here in north east Kilkenny.

Only got 0.4mm earier today.

jimmynokia

View this evening looks like no action for dublin...

https://imgur.com/a/1vnlt5b

Danno

https://twitter.com/laoisweather/status/1005188818230759425?s=21

Can see the edge of it behind the rainbow @RobertKK

jimmynokia

https://twitter.com/convectivewx/status/1005184951397093378

sryanbruen

Flash flooding Omagh to Monaghan.

https://www.facebook.com/DonegalWeatherC/videos/1574794275963649/

Grandeeod

jimmynokia wrote: »

View this evening looks like no action for dublin...

https://imgur.com/a/1vnlt5b

It is over!

jimmynokia

Just taken now really nice https://imgur.com/a/GmnHkq8

jimmynokia

Grandeeod wrote: »

It is over!

Yip and tomorrow dont look better although If things really kick off I might travel.

Oneiric 3

Does anyone have a link to the Iceland lightning maps? Ta in advance.

Squatter

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Does anyone have a link to the Iceland lightning maps? Ta in advance.

Link to 24 hour option: http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

Link to 7 day option: http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/index.html?

Rougies

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Does anyone have a link to the Iceland lightning maps? Ta in advance.

Presume you mean this one?


http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

Oneiric 3

jimmynokia wrote: »

Just taken now really nice https://imgur.com/a/GmnHkq8

Stratocumulus stratiformis

Oneiric 3

Cheers Sqautter & Rougies. They are the ones. Amazing to see just how much of the country is covered with recorded sferics today, especially given the benign looking synoptics at the moment.

Rougies

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Cheers Sqautter & Rougies. They are the ones. Amazing to see just how much of the country is covered with recorded sferics today, especially given the benign looking synoptics at the moment.

It was a great day for a lot of the country alright, I'm glad lots of you got some action. I'm dying for a decent thunderstorm here, it has been years since we got anything noteworthy other than a few rumbles here and there.


I have vague memories of the big one in 1985, I was only 6 years old but it stuck with me and I think I've been chasing that memory ever since. The early snow memories of the 80s have been re-lived multiple times in recent years which just goes to show how rare a good thunderstorm is, around these parts anyway!

Jpmarn

Mt Dillon station in Co. Roscommon got 30.8mm of rain from today's thunderstorm. Stayed dry this evening in my location south of Limerick city. There was evidence that there was heavy rain in town. Heard a good bit of thunder and saw a couple of lightening flashes.

Meteorite58

Record of today's detected lightning.

Oneiric 3

Rougies wrote: »

It was a great day for a lot of the country alright, I'm glad lots of you got some action. I'm dying for a decent thunderstorm here, it has been years since we got anything noteworthy other than a few rumbles here and there.


I have vague memories of the big one in 1985, I was only 6 years old but it stuck with me and I think I've been chasing that memory ever since. The early snow memories of the 80s have been re-lived multiple times in recent years which just goes to show how rare a good thunderstorm is, around these parts anyway!

Indeed. Ireland as a whole is desperate for storms. Even to get a few rumbles is a gargantuan struggle, even when the forecast risk is high. When you compare this to Europe, it becomes even more depressing. Some of the storms there last week were the size of Ireland!

Anyways, satellite animation for today showing the growth of those showers today. Unfortunately, the images stopped updating after 9.15pm.

https://imgur.com/a/JLg4kBd

RandomAccess

Croatia and surrounds are getting a right pasting at the moment.

I’ve never seen such concentrated strikes.

YFlyer

Jpmarn wrote: »

Mt Dillon station in Co. Roscommon got 30.8mm of rain from today's thunderstorm. Stayed dry this evening in my location south of Limerick city. There was evidence that there was heavy rain in town. Heard a good bit of thunder and saw a couple of lightening flashes.

Yes we got heavy rain. It dried up quite quickly afterwards.

km79

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Cheers Sqautter & Rougies. They are the ones. Amazing to see just how much of the country is covered with recorded sferics today, especially given the benign looking synoptics at the moment.

It kind of hilarious how my location avoided them given the mass of activity on all sides

Donegal Storm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Indeed. Ireland as a whole is desperate for storms. Even to get a few rumbles is a gargantuan struggle, even when the forecast risk is high. When you compare this to Europe, it becomes even more depressing. Some of the storms there last week were the size of Ireland!

Same here, I haven't heard a single rumble of thunder since the 26th of May last year. Oddly enough it on was my very first day back in the country having spent the previous year in the tropics with near daily thunderstorms so I didn't even take notice of it! I'd kill for even a brief pulse storm at this stage

Meteorite58

https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/1005334629476380674

Rikand

jimmynokia wrote: »

AND NO PICS....GTFO

Battery on my phone died.

I used the last 1% I had to record 1 minute of video and it was the only minute without a single flash I reckon. Just my luck

BlackandGreen

There wasn't a single clap of thunder in south east yesterday. I spent the day in Waterford, Tipp, Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford. Toured every county and not even a drop of rain. 
Bit of a shock to see how bad the west got it on that map.