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Thursday/Friday: Lightning Storms, Flash Flooding Event Thread

Kermit.de.frog · 2020-06-24 21:06:42

Could be a memorable event tomorrow evening and overnight for many and deserves it's own thread. It should all kick off around early afternoon with elevated storms developing in the southeast, from then on the atmosphere gets ever more unstable and storms breaking out widely through the evening with increasing intensity…

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#872 26-06-2020 11:06PM

Jpmarn

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On Thursday near my location near Limerick city it was looking like a cell was developing. It was after 5pm. I was working in my garden at the time. About 15 minutes later this cloud had more or less dissipated. I thought we were in for some short period a thunderstorm. It was very warm and humid.

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#873 27-06-2020 12:49AM

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Just heard a crack of thunder in D6, heavy rain shower just passed too

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#874 27-06-2020 12:53AM

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Meteorite58 wrote: »

Lightning flashes or sometimes called sheet lightning are the bolts in clouds or behind clouds that create the flash effect.

They are known as 'openings' here in Donegal. Always assumed everyone else called it that too?

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#875 27-06-2020 01:19AM

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Pangea wrote: »

They are known as 'openings' here in Donegal. Always assumed everyone else called it that too?

Sheet lightening my mother always told me. Dublin

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#876 28-06-2020 07:11PM

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https://twitter.com/gardainfo/status/1276890923033604096

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