Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring /Summer 2025

Romero

Flash of lightening and bang of Thunder in Lucan just now

Elmer Blooker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632150#Comment_123632150

woke me up N Dublin so must be quite close

RobbingBandit

Raining hard in Finglas now just one bolt and a rumble of thunder

Trebor176

Yep. I had my window open and heard it in Clondalkin.

Bargain_Hound

That was the loudest bang of thunder I think ever heard, woke me up up front dead of sleep (d15/ongar). I thought our house was hit.

PixelTrawler

I’m in Clonsilla and was deep in a dream. That was like a bomb went off. Don’t think I’ve ever heard a noise that loud.

thomasj

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632158#Comment_123632158

I was looking at a map of the strike and it seemed to indicate there was a direct strike in the Rusheeney Green area which was quite close to me.

some monster bang it was !

Bargain_Hound

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632162#Comment_123632162

Wasn’t just me so, exactly how I felt. Windows open too because of the heat.

Bargain_Hound

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632163#Comment_123632163

I couldn’t see it on the strike map, makes sense so, that’s right beside us.

thomasj

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PixelTrawler

it was on lightning radar for a few minutes and the dot was over the Liffey just south of us. I’m still shaken by it as I was in a really deep sleep. Somehow the kids slept through it.

PixelTrawler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632168#Comment_123632168

your map makes more sense no wonder it was so loud… that’s closer to me

thomasj

if it's closer to you , I can only imagine how loud it was . It felt like it shook the house here

Bargain_Hound

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632169#Comment_123632169

that’s exactly how I feel too! Deep dream. Unusual experience. Scrambled to close all the kids windows and none of them budged.

Dazler97

wow a lot of people must have been woken up in Dublin by the looks of it

Bigmac1euro

my windows were vibrating in D15 😂

Instant adrenaline. Wide awake.

redsteveireland

Was woken by torrential rain in athenry at some hour, wife says there was lightning, I slept through all the excitement apparently.

redsteveireland

Thunder in Galway City and torrential rain

Jpmarn

In the boards weather forecast contest for July 25 thread we are watching for the highest rainfall in a clock hour. So far the highest rainfall in hour was reported at Belmullet Mayo at 1700 Sunday 13th was 10.7mm. This record may be broken today with widespread risk of thunderstorms throughout the country.

Oneiric 3

Where the feck this did this come from. Mad thunder and llghtning out of nowhere. Torrential rain.

PukkaStukka

Would I be right in thinking that given the amount of lightning detected in Connaught yesterday that the disruption to power supply was not comparatively severe? Am basing this assumption on there being no significant reports of outages here, or on mainstream and social media

Storm 10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632444#Comment_123632444

I read some posters on here who said they had non stop thunder and cloud to cloud lightning which I would assume is the reason for not too many faults.

PukkaStukka

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632456#Comment_123632456

Yes, I'd be thinking the same!

Robwindstorm

With low pressure swirling over us I think we might get a few storms bubbling up despite it being fresher.

Comhrá

I recall a thunderstorm in, I think, 2023 in Limerick where I live. It was fairly prolonged with lots of cloud to cloud lightning, mostly obscured by cloud and rain. The thunder wasn't overly loud, presumably because the lightning strokes were so high in the sky.

I recall looking at https://www.blitzortung.org/en/historical_maps.php?map=12 afterwards and there were hundreds of sferics displayed.

If that storm had taken place somewhere distant from me, I'd have been greatly disappointed, thinking I'd missed an epic thunderstorm.

Sometimes those lightning sites flatter to deceive. High level thunderstorms seem to be more common in Ireland rather than the cloud to ground variety.

skinnyfries

Incoming …… Dundalk South

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Oneiric 3

Given the shear intensity of the showers that are rolling through here at the moment, I can only imagine that these will only further increase in intensity as afternoon heating kicks in. Another day of potentially intense thunderstorms and flashflooding across a wider part of the country me thinks.

Ballylad

a few rumbles south of Tullow at the moment

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632549#Comment_123632549

That looks like nothing much at all, from my point of view.

squarecircles

Today

Cooler and fresher than recent days with sunny spells and heavy showers but generally dry early on across Ulster and Leinster. Later this afternoon, cloud will further increase across the West and Southwest with showers merging to longer spells of rain in these parts, along with embedded thunderstorms this evening. Highest temperatures of 15 to 21 degrees with freshening southerly winds, gusty around downpours. Winds will remain lighter across the North and Northeast.

Tonight

Showers or longer spells of rain tonight, turning heavy and thundery at times, especially across western counties with spot flooding and the potential the lightning damage. Lowest temperatures of 9 to 13 degrees. Breezy across the southern half of the country with rather fresh southwest winds; just light to moderate variable winds elsewhere.