Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring /Summer 2025

Meteorite58

For the record.

Meteorite58

Bit of artistic licence but put a screen grab from yesterday through a filter and picked up the lightning better, also took out the telephone pole and line , loads of noise and I'm only looking at it on the phone, probably poor when enlarged but giving it a go anyway 😀

sunbabe08

rumble of thunder down in youghal right now

sunbabe08

well that was an interesting couple of minutes. A couple of rumbles of thunder and some heavy rain

SeaBreezes

Woke me up.

Igotadose

Off the Dingle Peninsula, not far from the Murrioch/Ballydavid area, the Three Sisters. Photo snagged from FB

Igotadose

A different view from the Dingle Peninsula. Reminds me of ball lightning but it isn't.

Storm 10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123734939#Comment_123734939

Got the boot

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123734939#Comment_123734939

Pulling our leg!

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123734939#Comment_123734939

That's Páidí O Sé kicking a ball around 😇😁

SeaBreezes

ECM sees thunder off south coast in the wee hours?

igCorcaigh

@SeaBreezes

thunderstorms for Cork overnight?

The Macho Man

Portarlington too, although earlier they were showing lightning from 2am to 5 so it's reduced down

chris2007

Dublin too

PukkaStukka

I wouldn't get hopes up. Similar lightning forecasts were issued for my area earlier this week and previously. There were no storms.

igCorcaigh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757400#Comment_123757400

Very tricky to forecast, as is known. I'll trust some sources on here more.

JanuarySnowstor

Met Eireann seem to see a risk also. Their latest text reads embedded thunderstorms tonight.

I don't see a risk myself but happy to be proved wrong!!

Meteorite58

Would think the best chance of an isolated thunderstorm, albeit slight, developing in peak diurnal heating towards the East this afternoon/ late afternoon.

Chris_5339762

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757509#Comment_123757509

I always go by temperature more than others on here. 13 - 14c is just too cold for thunderstorms here despite the instability and the heat still in the land.

Weather BOFH

A few rumbles and torrential rain here in South Kildare.

pad199207

Distant thunder here in Kildare with heavy rain

Ros4Sam24

No surprise there, sparking as soon as they reach England

DOCARCH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123759650#Comment_123759650

Can see the CB associated with that shower here in Greystones.

kittyn

Gone very dark here 🤔

pureza

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123759748#Comment_123759748

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123759856#Comment_123759856

Looks impressive on Sat stretching into North Wexford on its south end

It’s wall is approaching us here near Arklow now

Haven’t heard any thunder but you’d expect it

kittyn

Here’s hoping as we have t had a decent storm in a good while but I’m not overly confident 🙈

Ros4Sam24

I imagine the scenes in Northern Italy are quite spectacular. What I would pay for some of that action ⚡️ ⚡️

PukkaStukka

Looking at a webcam for north of Lake Garda earlier. The occasional strike was visible

Meteorite58

Will see tonight's charts if tomorrow keeps up the look of having some scattered thunderstorms moving across the country as the upper trough goes more negative and the center of the surface low gets closer to the NW feeding in bands of rain which on the latest charts look heavy in places and some hefty accumulations along Atlantic counties . Strong winds across the country and inland areas will be feeling it much more tomorrow accompanied with the driving rain.

Meteorite58

Probably on the + side of marginal tomorrow I would have thought for a few sporadic isolated thunderstorms, soundings below for North of Galway near Tuam.

The best chance of a storm probably in the Northern half of the country and maybe around the W or NW, N with the most chance nearest the circulation of the LP and with the most instability. Small chance and very hard to pinpoint, lots of heavy convective showers streaming in over the country, cool and windy.