Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring/Summer 2018

SleetAndSnow · 27-05-2018 01:57AM

00:04 is when I heard the first thunder clap off in the distance in the city. 2:57 it's still going. This is going in my history books anyway.

27-05-2018 01:59AM

getting cooler now and the breeze is coming opposite the lightning. Some fork flashes now.

pad199207 · 27-05-2018 02:01AM

Can see new tower going up the back of it

pad199207 · 27-05-2018 02:06AM

Wind is very strong now

Kermit.de.frog · 27-05-2018 02:08AM

Lightning very bright now. Constant - once every 1 - 2 seconds.

pad199207 · 27-05-2018 02:08AM

Friend in Bunclody said lightning has hit his neighbours house and blew everything off the walls

Kermit.de.frog · 27-05-2018 02:10AM

North Wicklow now and North Kildare in firing line from new cells. Flashing away here - spectacular really.

pad199207 · 27-05-2018 02:10AM

Hearing deep rumbles now

27-05-2018 02:11AM

Short while ago over Cork. I saw the strike that produced the huge bang other posters were mentioning (had just stopped videoing, typical!) direct cloud to ground strike somewhere around the docks.

Haven't seen a storm like this in Ireland since I was a child!

Itssoeasy · 27-05-2018 02:11AM

It seems to getting further away in cork city. I can still hear it but it's not right on top of me.

SleetAndSnow · 27-05-2018 02:12AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Short while ago over Cork. I saw the strike that produced the huge bang other posters were mentioning (had just stopped videoing, typical!) direct cloud to ground strike somewhere around the docks.

Haven't seen a storm like this in Ireland since I was a child!

its incredible really how the city didn't lose power.

Needless this is the best storm i've experienced in my nearly 18 years here, and I got a lot of it on camera. Delighted.

Aglomerado · 27-05-2018 02:12AM

Epic flashes here in North cork. Power out on my road and alarms going off.

Davaeo09 · 27-05-2018 02:13AM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

its incredible really how the city didn't lose power.

I've a friend out on Sherkin how bad is out out on the sea can anyone tell me?

27-05-2018 02:14AM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

its incredible really how the city didn't lose power.

I think it's because there weren't many ground strikes, most of it seemed to be cloud to cloud, thus no strikes on the power lines.

EdgeCase · 27-05-2018 02:16AM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

its incredible really how the city didn't lose power.

Needless this is the best storm i've experienced in my nearly 18 years here, and I got a lot of it on camera. Delighted.

Generally, power loss during lightening storms tends to be more of a long-run rural medium voltage distribution line issue.

Cork City wouldn't have any medium voltage distribution overhead at all. Everything's underground. What you see over head in some older suburban areas is just low voltage 230V / 400V lines feeding houses.

You could get an issue if you had a direct strike on a substation, but they're typically well protected with lightening conductors.

27-05-2018 02:17AM

Getting closer and feel drips of rain.

sunbabe08 · 27-05-2018 02:17AM

https://twitter.com/sunbabe08/status/1000551200817864704

what i captured earlier.

Junkyard Tom · 27-05-2018 02:19AM

Would watch again. It's a 5 out of 5 from me.

★★★★★

SleetAndSnow · 27-05-2018 02:21AM

Thanks for the explanations on power loss, appreciate it. Thank god we didn't then

I think its safe to go to bed now anyway

Kermit.de.frog · 27-05-2018 02:22AM

Dubs, look southeast. Spectacular.

Thunderstorms developing and moving north could yet effect us.

sdanseo · 27-05-2018 02:24AM

Footage got corrupted

you'll all have to take my word for it that the sky it lit up like a Christmas tree.

sunbabe08 wrote: »

what i captured earlier.

Sounds like you needed a stiff drink after that one!

Kermit.de.frog · 27-05-2018 02:24AM

Greystones and Bray in line in the next hour or so.

refusetolose · 27-05-2018 02:24AM

pad199207 · 27-05-2018 02:28AM

Lightning has ceased a good bit now

Mam of 4 · 27-05-2018 02:32AM

I don't know if I was imaging it , but thought I saw a flash here , Laois ..

Calibos · 27-05-2018 02:32AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Greystones and Bray in line in the next hour or so.

Feck!! I sleep in an Attic Conversion! Am I going to die?? If you don't see any more Costa Del Bray posts from me this Summer you'll know what happened to me!

Wood Roof joists don't act as a Faraday Cage do they?

;)

Expensive PC, 34" Ultrawide Monitor and VR Headset unplugged from power sockets and Network Cable!! However the 10 year old Plasma TV's around the house need replacing anyway so they're staying plugged in!!

Work at 7:30am tomorrow. I have a feeling I ain't getting any sleep tonight!

RobbingBandit · 27-05-2018 02:33AM

Lightning in Dublin 11 no thunder.

sunbabe08 · 27-05-2018 02:33AM

sdanseo wrote: »

Footage got corrupted you'll all have to take my word for it that the sky it lit up like a Christmas tree.

Sounds like you needed a stiff drink after that one!

literally stunned for a few minutes. nothing else i taped after that lived up to that one. i've never seen fork lightening live before, so that was an absolute treat

CirrusBusiness · 27-05-2018 02:34AM

Very heavy downpours with regular flashes and rumbles now. Spectacular.

South Carlow.

Kermit.de.frog · 27-05-2018 02:34AM

Storms developing now heading toward Dublin (probably). Huge flashes now, can see the anvils.

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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring/Summer 2018

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