Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring /Summer 2025

magicbastarder

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

we're near DCU and were both woken up by it. my family are in various parts of D15 and said it was incredibly loud for them, both my father and sister (near roselawn shopping centre, and ongar) said they thought it was an explosion at first.

tom1ie

Looks like bagnalstown in Kilkennys getting hammered with lightning at the moment.

emo72

Some dark foreboding clouds gathering down in south Dublin

Larbre34

Yeah light to moderate rain shower at Dun Laoghaire. Fat drops.

Wouldn't be surprised to see some lightning.

Weather BOFH

Good few rumbles here in South Kildare with some torrential rain.

coffee to go

Just had a big flash here in South Kildare with almost instant thunder.

Meteorite58

Big heavy showers rolling in off the Atlantic here near Tralee, big line of convection just off the coast, hard to believe dropped to 12.1C in the last shower.

Weather BOFH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632975#Comment_123632975

It dropped from a high of 19.3°C at 11:12 down to 11.5°C by 11:45 here after that shower passed through.

Elmer Blooker

something brewing in the N Wexford area between Gorey and Enniscorthy by the look of the radar.

edit: it seems to be the S Wicklow area in fact.

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123633026#Comment_123633026

That Is some drop, was there a bit of hail making it to the ground ?

Weather BOFH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123633051#Comment_123633051

Nope, just rain, though it was absolutly torrential for a few minutes, back up to 14.3°C now.

chris2007

Thunderstorm Warning

Larbre34

You'd have to laugh at the Met Éireann thunderstorm warnings.

Lightning around the south and east midlands for a few hours and when it eventually gets near Dublin its raining in Glasnevin, its 'oh, ummm, better issue yellow storm warning for those on which it is already raining'

esposito

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123633215#Comment_123633215

Yeah it’s usually a nowcast with thunderstorms. Nearly always last minute for the warnings.

The Macho Man

In Portlaoise today, that storm currently to the west of the town has thrown up some really impressive cloud formations, not my best snaps but took these on the go

.Donegal.

Earlier this morning 1500 customers locally were without power due to the storms.

sunbabe08

a rumble of thunder in Cork City

Robwindstorm

Storm approaching

Needmoretea

Heard a rumble during the night in Dublin 9 which must have been the one that woke people up in Ongar and around there. I think it's out first rumble of the year!

Great pics and photos yesterday and today especially in the west. That was some activity over Mayo yesterday! 😲

Archeron

Some nice clouds over Tallaght atm

Ros4Sam24

Playing golf in Sligo and just as we were teeing off the heavens opened at 9 40 lasted 25 minutes it was unbelievable rain. Some people said they had seen lightning and I wouldn’t be surprised as it got so dark overhead

PukkaStukka

Clap of thunder about 10 minutes ago in Portrane, NCD

Meteorite58

Quite a spread of thunderstorm and convective activity since midnight and heavy rain with it.

Dazler97

wonder if models are looking good for thunderstorms I had the tab on my phone and now it’s gone so I can’t even check but there is a rain and thunderstorm warning for counties in the west and southwest till 07:00 tomorrow morning

squonk

No hope of thunder I’d think. There isn’ta spark anywhere sauce this strong. The rain is the main event now. Bickering Schwab here in Clare since 7pm.

redsteveireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632302#Comment_123632302

Good effort from Athenry today, 10.0mm recorded at 1:00am somewhere surely did better than that.

M.T. Cranium

Gurteen reported 11.8 mm 03h.

pureza

currently here in Lhasa Tibet,it’s 24c at about 3650 metres and the mountain storms are building

i’m looking forward to them-none of the rest of the group is 😂

Here the current view

Calibos

I think Pureza our Arklow friend holds the record for 'Gallivanting' this year! 😉😉 Tibet this week? Weren't you in Peru a week or two ago….and Bali a few weeks before that?? 😉😉 Fair play!!

pureza

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123636612#Comment_123636612

A round the world ticket with several cities on all continents with great flexibility,a not well known hack for relatively cheap gallivanting (vs buying individual tickets)

I’m retired now,had a serious health situation that almost confined me to a wheelchair 2 years ago but luckily the good team at Tallaght fixed me and travel is my passion now while I can,life’s too short and can end in a heartbeat

Am on country 54,the targets to reach 100

Oh and catch lots of thunderstorms en route 😂