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Thursday/Friday: Lightning Storms, Flash Flooding Event Thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    I'm lucky to live in a flat in a 200 yr old house, walls are 2 feet thick, rarely have a problem with the heat


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,041 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    all this jibber jabber. :)

    Are we having thunderstorms/thunder&Lightning/rain or what ??
    All of the above, some of the above or none ?

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,976 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Not able for this dead heat.

    I have to pack a car boot with stock for work tomor morning and I’m going to leave it to the morning. I’m dreading it but It’s too hot right now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭pad199207


    27.2°c Kildare


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,417 ✭✭✭highdef


    I'm lucky to live in a flat in a 200 yr old house, walls are 2 feet thick, rarely have a problem with the heat

    Similar here. The sitting room is basically an old cottage from 1901 and it's 22c there. The living room in the new part of the house is over 25c.

    Lots of decent convection to my west and south west. Sky quite dark in that direction. Still very warm hazy sunshine at my location in North kildare and temperature has begin to rise again with a new maximum of 27.5c now. No wind whatsoever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    First drops of rain just started, ominous clouds overhead.SE Tipp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    Just looking at the lightning maps for Cornwall versus the rainfall footprint and the lightning is not confined just to where the precipitation is, which suggests the storms are dry


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    Convection now also over south wexford
    A very heavy shower near Aberystwyth west wales probably firing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Just switched on the TV and there is an episode of Raging planet on about lightning storms, maybe it's a sign:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Latest WV image. Showers beginning to look more active along and to the east of the main frontal zone.

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    New Moon



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    hawkwing wrote: »
    First drops of rain just started, ominous clouds overhead.SE Tipp

    There was literally a few drops gone again now though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,417 ✭✭✭highdef


    The last few frames of visible satellite in sat24 "may" be showing the beginnings of property convection over the Wicklow mountains. Needs another few frames to be more confident. It would make a fair bit of sense that the mountains would provide extra orographical lift.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,417 ✭✭✭highdef


    The last few frames of visible satellite in sat24 "may" be showing the beginnings of property convection over the Wicklow mountains. Needs another few frames to be more confident. It would make a fair bit of sense that the mountains would provide extra orographical lift.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,742 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    GFS going for coastal porn overnight, storms in the eastern half of the country primarily. Though they could pop up anywhere.


    15-574UK.GIF?25-12


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Anybody else have that sinking feeling:D:pac:

    Let's hope something happens next few hours:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,886 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    The best dynamics will be after midnight, patience required. Would say 70% chance of thunderstorms in the Dublin area around 0300h. 50-50 further west rising back to 70% around Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm awful worried lads, in my mid-thirties now and there might only be another fifty years left. Better throw in the towel and take it out of the dryer soon. It's obvious Met Eireann have a personal vendetta against me, such defiance is deeply upsetting.

    In all seriousness, we had our fun in the midwest 10 days ago. Hopefully others get front row tickets to the light show later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭pad199207




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Current satellite:

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    Clouds moving S to N, but what little wind there is here at least is from N to S. Met reports suggest variable and light to calm winds over much of the country.

    New Moon



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,742 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    After seeing that I guess hail is a potential disruption here when things get going.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,041 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    jeez lads yere gas. :D

    19 pages of chatter, and all we have so far is a warm day, with some cloud.

    Put the lube away !

    :D:D:D

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    If its good visuals I'll you tube live my trip later on the route discussed yesterday I'm taking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    greenspurs wrote: »
    jeez lads yere gas. :D

    19 pages of chatter, and all we have so far is a warm day, with some cloud.

    Put the lube away !

    :D:D:D

    There's always hope, after all some of us think the Irish football team might be good one day:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Looking at the radar looks to be a good chance of some action later on in the East


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,086 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Yes the occlusion arriving in the SE of Ireland is producing a lot of lightning in the Devon/Cornwall peninsula as well as convective outbreaks over west Wales as instability deepens. Looking good for the eastern 100 kms of Leinster anyway


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Taking it's time eh, thought we would have seen lightning break out already from the SE. Still loads of time of course. Convective cloud building in the SE but cloud tops not particularly cold yet.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Yes the occlusion arriving in the SE of Ireland is producing a lot of lightning in the Devon/Cornwall peninsula as well as convective outbreaks over west Wales as instability deepens. Looking good for the eastern 100 kms of Leinster anyway
    Even if people are further inland in Leinster it should still make for a good lighting show tonight.
    Sometimes it nice to just sit outside with a beer and watch from a distance.
    That's my plan for the night....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,086 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    ZX7R wrote: »
    Even if people are further inland in Leinster it should still make for a good lighting show tonight.
    Sometimes it nice to just sit outside with a beer and watch from a distance.
    That's my plan for the night....

    Where you at yourself ZX?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    Am in North county Dublin, the sky to my south is definetly darkening


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Am in North county Dublin, the sky to my south is definetly darkening

    Sunny with broken clouds in Terenure


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Are we about to see our first sparks in Wexford / Wicklow , not far from Arklow.



    Current Dew Points

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    Winds all over the place


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    very hazy cloud now in Meath, but still lovely and warm, temperature 22C. I'm not sure i'll see any thunderstorms tonight here in Meath but we've had a great day with plenty of sunshine and warm temperatures and that's all I could ever ask for. Hopefully we get more days like today once we get the next 2 weeks of cool and unsettled weather out of the way. Second half of July and into August is still looking fairly promising.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    Just north of Arklow here, skies nothing unusual but cloudy. Not threatening looking!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    Double post


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    Are we about to see our first sparks in Wexford / Wicklow , not far from Arklow.


    Current Dew Points

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    Winds all over the place


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    Dry here in Arklow but I can see high precipitation not making it to ground
    Attached view looking South snd view looking southeast


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,622 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    ZX7R wrote: »
    Even if people are further inland in Leinster it should still make for a good lighting show tonight.
    Sometimes it nice to just sit outside with a beer and watch from a distance.
    That's my plan for the night....

    Just remember, the 2M distance is only a minimum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,043 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Serious Betty Swollox weather in Waterford


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Where you at yourself ZX?

    Live in suncroft outside Kildare town,
    Wicklow man originally.
    Soon to live in medyka Poland.
    Flying out next month


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    An Ri rua wrote: »
    Just remember, the 2M distance is only a minimum.

    I'm married ,a 100 km is not enough distance sometimes ha


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    EC 12z rolling out and giving a risk to much of the country bar the southwest. Interesting cell heading up east coast around 3am.

    A long night ahead.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    EC 12z rolling out and giving a risk to much of the country bar the southwest. Interesting cell heading up east coast around 3am.

    A long night ahead.

    I get the feeling there will quite a few of us battle soldiers waiting up tonight into silly hours of the morning waiting for something to happen. With rare chances such as this even the possibility of a flash of lightning is enough to keep many up and witness a spectacle that is common in most parts of the world but a rare beauty in a country such as Ireland!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 CeeCeeBloom


    Few drops of rain in D24 right now. Noticeably cooler too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Wetbulb 20.5c and Air Temp 24.8c at 7.40pm in South Laois!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Bejubby


    Nice formations happening .
    South co wexford


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Mortelaro wrote: »
    Dry here in Arklow but I can see high precipitation not making it to ground
    Attached view looking South snd view looking southeast

    Very similar sky here in the west. Brightens up now and again then gets threatening looking again for a while before breaking up again.

    New Moon



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,409 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Risk for Cork city? I always hear south west or south east but Cork city is neither of those really so always wonder what the forecast is for us!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Dead still in North Dublin, still quite warm, and the ants have to decided to take flight this evening also...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭sweet_trip


    Some lightening off the south-east coast of Rosslare, good bit out though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 Whehey!


    I live by the sea and right now I can't tell the difference between where the horizon is and where the sea ends, there both the very same colour. Very eery almost expecting a pirate ship to float by


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