Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring /Summer 2025

Jpmarn

Got woken up by surprise thunder in the Ballysimon area near Limerick City in the last hour. There was no mention of early morning thunder in any of Met Eireann forecasts. As the time of writing it is still banging. According to ESB Powercheck there are power outages reported but I am okay. I noticed yesterday evening that it looked rather unstable in the sky.

Jacksie66.

The thunder and lightning in Limerick is insane. Some of the loudest I've heard in a while..

James Bond Junior

That was a lovely wake up call this morning, meaty bangs and rumbles from about 5.30am just north of Limerick City. Reminds me of the very rare but real thunderstorms I used to get when living in the Middle East.

highdef

Was woken by a short sharp shower just after 05:40 near Ardagh, Longford. Very humid outside and borderline warm. Very dark to my south now.

redsteveireland

Lightning activity seems to have calmed down now and just heavy rain on the way here

leahyl

Was woken by insanely heavy rain around 1:50am with thunder and lightening too - I don't normally wake that easily!

CrowdedHouse

I see lightning strikes have appeared south of me.

I think I heard rumbles about 4 am too but I was zonked 😁

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pureza

met eireann adding now cast yellow warnings to more counties this morning

Who wrote last nights script and who’s in charge there?

It’s gone to pot in glasnevin

I can see the un forecasted Kilkenny showers from here in Arklow and it’s 23c at 9am

Robwindstorm

Alot of nowcast warnings showing up lately alright. I was well away from the storm activity in my location but I could still see the potential in the cloud formation early last night.

tom1ie

Any chance South Dublin gets a few sparks today? ⚡️

highdef

Towering cumulus building rapidly to my West, which would put it over east Roscommon.

teddybones

some lovely clouds over Roscommon. Taken from the East Mayo/Roscommon border. Hoping we will get a few sparks but think the sweet spot will be further east and north

Dazler97

what is today looking like for thunderstorms

ClimateObserver

A few scattered sharp showers dotted around this evening, hard to see much in the way of Thunderstorm activity. You'd think the Atlantic returning would spark off a few!

glightning

As usual, that is reserved for England.. Yet again..

.Donegal.

Had a little bit of rain. Different story across the Irish Sea.

ClimateObserver

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568307#Comment_123568307

A good bit of activity for the very north of England and the south of Scotland.

Meanwhile, I've highlighted two areas in blue for us - probably will amount to nothing, but there is some convection kicking off in that trough line - whether it develops into storms, thats another story.

Dazler97

We may have a few pop up storms overnight here's hoping 😀

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568333#Comment_123568333