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Thursday/Friday: Lightning Storms, Flash Flooding Event Thread

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


    Lightning strike about 20kms east southeast of hook head


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


    leahyl wrote: »
    Risk for Cork city?!
    Would put it at about 30% chance. Which I admit sounds very non-committal.

    New Moon



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭Darwin


    Just caught the Channel 4 weather, shows precipitation up a lot of midland and north midland counties from 9pm, not much for Dublin I'm afraid. You can watch it here from about 36 seconds in:
    https://www.channel4.com/weather/video


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


    NW breeze here, though still very light, is picking up ever so slightly, suggesting that the air is being sucked away towards somewhere east of here. Pressure is falling slowly as it has been for the last 3 hours or so.

    New Moon



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,759 ✭✭✭degsie


    Just felt a drop of rain, west Dublin. Going inside!


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


    Is shannon radar acting up again?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭Rougies


    spookwoman wrote: »
    Is shannon radar acting up again?


    Looks fine to me.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Its on the way :)

    and a new cluster of strikes from the same cell

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭snowjon


    Clouds at lunchtime today here in Bangor , Co. Down , and then this evening . It looks more like the towering Altocumulus Castellanus this evening - maybe a good sign for storms later !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,162 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    Looking toward West Wicklow it's a mix of grey and pink sky, almost like fog coming down, there is something on the way


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    The Met Éireann aviation chart for 1 am shows a trough lying Donegal Bay - Dublin - SW Wales, moving northwards at 30 knots. Weather associated with it forecast to be occasional moderate/heavy rain showers/thunderstorms, with occasional embedded Cb bases 4500-9000 ft. All the airport TAFs mention just a slight (PROB30) chance of thunderstorms.

    The high dewpoints of 20+ degrees didn't materialise today, so needless to say neither did those crazy SBCAPE charts we were seeing in yesterday's runs. A very strong cap was in place both here and in England, and it took some uplift from terrain to form those storms over the SW UK. The Camborne sounding from midday shows steep mid-level lapse rates that aided that deep convection, but we need similar to occur with the help from the upper trough. The few strikes southeast of Wexford is something, I suppose, but I was hoping to see a lot more action by now. I might just stand on my roof holding a metal pole later to try to devine something out of the air but I'm not too enthused by it all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,981 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Uncomfortably hot here in mid Kildare

    We need rain lots of it and the temps to drop


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Its been a disappointment. If we were to see anything major, we needed to see a lot of Biscay action earlier today. But nothing, so I'll not be in watch later, I don't think anything is materializing from this.


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


    Its on the way :)

    and a new cluster of strikes from the same cell

    VznxzT5.png

    That train looks like its heading for the Arklow station? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    Its been a disappointment. If we were to see anything major, we needed to see a lot of Biscay action earlier today. But nothing, so I'll not be in watch later, I don't think anything is materializing from this.

    Great input there


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Going to be a late one


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,759 ✭✭✭degsie


    Why do these threads turn into lightning/flooding porn? These events can be destructive to people, animals & property. The zeal with which people look forward to this stuff is disturbing imho.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭Rougies


    degsie wrote: »
    Why do these threads turn into lightning/flooding porn? These events can be destructive to people, animals & property. The zeal with which people look forward to this stuff is disturbing imho.


    Another one to cross off my event thread bingo card!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    That cell off Rosslare hasn't shown sferics in 15 or 20 mins


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭sumtings


    degsie wrote: »
    Why do these threads turn into lightning/flooding porn? These events can be destructive to people, animals & property. The zeal with which people look forward to this stuff is disturbing imho.

    Because people are complicated and can appreciate the sublime power of nature, while not wishing that power be destuctivally aimed at people, animals and property and knowing that how they feel about it has no effect on the outcome.


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


    That cell off Rosslare hasn't shown sferics in 15 or 20 mins

    Ah well
    Raining here in Arklow now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭pad199207


    That cell off Rosslare hasn't shown sferics in 15 or 20 mins

    Just sparked again there lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    degsie wrote: »
    Why do these threads turn into lightning/flooding porn? These events can be destructive to people, animals & property. The zeal with which people look forward to this stuff is disturbing imho.

    :D exactly i'm only following to find out that nothing happens so i can walk to work in peace tomorrow and enjoy a beautiful day when i finish, imagine wanting anything else


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


    There's a storm over Anglesey now and looking east from my house, I can see the tops of the anvil. It must be a beast


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,981 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Good lord - Wife and kids crying /uncomfortable with this dead heat and we are coming up to a quarter to 9 at night?!

    What can I tell them - temps should fall around hour from now? I’m in mid Kildare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,589 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Gonzo wrote: »
    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!

    Yes. A lightning show at night is definitely worth staying up late for! The last great one i recall was in May 2001- there was constant flashes of fork lightning across the sky for over an hour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Decent drops of rain in Kildare


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭amor3


    Yes. A lightning show at night is definitely worth staying up late for! The last great one i recall was in May 2001- there was constant flashes of fork lightning across the sky for over an hour.

    Showing my age now, but there was an almighty thunder and lightening storm in the early 80's. I'm guessing it was 84 ish... relentless flashes and bangs, knocked the electricity out for hours! The best (and scariest) t & L that I can remember, I think I was only 4 or 5!!! :-)


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


    amor3 wrote: »
    Showing my age now, but there was an almighty thunder and lightening storm in the early 80's. I'm guessing it was 84 ish... relentless flashes and bangs, knocked the electricity out for hours! The best (and scariest) t & L that I can remember, I think I was only 4 or 5!!! :-)

    I remember one as well in the midlands around that time and the lightning was blouncing off lough ree.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Lovely evening in cork city, mild, very humid and heavy though! Even if we get no sparks it's been great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭amor3


    A few drops falling here now in D24. Sitting out the garden with a cold beer waiting on a show...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭lolie


    Still 20c here and 85% humidity, and me thinking I'll mow the lawn later when its cooler.

    If only we could put a few floats and an engine under Ireland and move it around a bit.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    amor3 wrote: »
    A few drops falling here now in D24. Sitting out the garden with a cold beer waiting on a show...

    Hope you have more than one, could be a wait;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭KildareP


    Gotten noticeably darker here, rain starting, breeze picked up. Nice even just for the cooling factor!

    (North Kildare/Offaly Border)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭amor3


    Hope you have more than one, could be a wait;)

    Ahhh don't say that!! Its a lovely evening either way though..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Light rain falling here in Celbridge.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭talkabout


    First rumble of the evening here in Ballybofey, Co Donegal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    amor3 wrote: »
    A few drops falling here now in D24. Sitting out the garden with a cold beer waiting on a show...

    Sitting out the back garden in D24 too, was convinced I had a few bottles in the fridge, having a cup of tea :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Just heard a long rumble to my east here...but it was this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭greenfield21


    That could be the peak of your weather watching night right there. A few drops of rain on the path looks like all we're going to get here in louth.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,321 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Just heard a long rumble to my east here...but it was this.

    I've heard a few of those too, probably the only rumbles we'll get to hear tonight. Not sure i'm going to do the all nighter at this stage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Davaeo09


    Am I right in saying MT said some between 9-12 for kick off??

    or is it just dead before it starts? :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,136 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Davaeo09 wrote: »
    Am I right in saying MT said some between 9-12 for kick off??

    or is it just dead before it starts? :/

    Depends where u are, but no, 12 to 3am more likely


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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,585 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    So hard to predict thunder in Ireland


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,321 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Depends where u are, but no, 12 to 3am more likely

    unfortunately that's far too late for a lot of people, 8pm to 12am would have been ideal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Monkeynut


    Gonzo wrote: »
    unfortunately that's far too late for a lot of people, 8pm to 12am would have been ideal.


    Zeus nor Thor don't give a dam about the time. :)

    I wish it was earlier though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Is that a pic of a supercell?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Isle of Man going to get something.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭glightning


    Can see the big fat hard edged top of the storm near the Isle of Man all the way from here (I'm in Ballinderry, Co.Antrim - near Lough Neagh). It's brightly lit up with sunlight right now


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