Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion : Winter 2020/Spring 2021

forestgirl

The sky in North offaly is getting very strange looking

highdef

Thunder heard one minute ago in North kildare

DumbBrunette

Hillwalking in west Mayo at the moment. It's beautiful here with a cold wind, but bigger clouds visible in the distance to the east (see below)

jackrussel

Looks very dark to the east of cork city at the moment

highdef

Rumbles continuing to my west

pad199207

Thunder heard in Kildare

Wanderer78

ominous clouds building, waterford city

torres9kop

Rumble heard D4

thomasj

highdef wrote: »

Thunder heard one minute ago in North kildare

Kildare isn't even on met eireanns yellow warning

Oscar Bravo

Plenty of sparks showing up across the east now

sryanbruen

My view right now from Sutton, Dublin.

Artane2002

We had a heavy shower with pea sized hail in Dublin 9 and a rumble of thunder. The rain is light now.

Gamma Flash

A few flashes and bangs in dungarvan, about to bucket down⛈💦💧

highdef

thomasj wrote: »

Kildare isn't even on met eireanns yellow warning

I may be in Kildare but near the Meath border and the storm has just about kept on the Meath side of the border throughout....barely a drop a rain here on the Kildare side but a great view of the storm.

Despite constant thunder for about 20 minutes, I didn't see one flash. Going by the sound of the thunder, it all appeared to be intercloud and very high up, from my viewpoint anyway.

DOCARCH

Looking at webcam of DunLaoghaire Harbour and it looks like some serious hail falling there?

nomdeboardie

DOCARCH wrote: »

Looking at webcam of DunLaoghaire Harbour and it looks like some serious hail falling there?

Certainly some hail mixed with the rain ~1.5 miles away

mickger844posts

Active cell to the West of Dungarvan giving plenty of sferics on the radar.
Could be an active afternoon by the looks of it.

RubyK

Lights flickering on the Waterford/Kilkenny border. Rain has started.

koutoubia

About 30 mins in North County Dublin ,Balbriggan area, a nice bright flash followed by 2 sets of Thunder followed by a biblical downpour.

Gamma Flash

Bolts coming down all around, two hit field right in front of me

Oscar Bravo

Thats some storm in the Dungarvan area

marko99

Distant rumbles audible in Bray at 1432hrs

nomdeboardie

Re blitzortung.org: When there's a strike in one location the usual white cross appears, but now also a set of smaller green dots at seemingly random distances, connected briefly to the strike location by white lines. Anyone know that this new feature represents? (A quick Google hasn't helped)

DOCARCH

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Re blitzortung.org: When there's a strike in one location the usual white cross appears, but now also a set of smaller green dots at seemingly random distances, connected briefly to the strike location by white lines. Anyone know that this new feature represents? (A quick Google hasn't helped)

They are the detector locations and the lines show which detectors are picking up (and triangulating) the strike location.

Kutebride

Distant thunder. Meath

Kutebride

Not so distant now. Loud Thunder and hail. Meath

highdef

The Meath thunderstorm, despite generating copious amounts of intercloud lightning, didn't look that severe on the timelapse video I took:

And a quick look at it at normal speed before I did the timelapse, with a hunting sparrowhawk seen too:

Trebor176

Sunny in Dublin 22 at the moment.

pad199207

Constant thunder in Kildare now with one flash seen

gipi

Distant rumbles in North Drogheda over the past 20 minutes, dark as night too. Haven't seen any flashes. There was a torrential rain and hail shower about 1.45pm