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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Spring/Summer 2018

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    #332
    SleetAndSnow
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    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.


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    #333
    [Deleted User]
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    getting cooler now and the breeze is coming opposite the lightning. Some fork flashes now.


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    #334
    pad199207
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    Can see new tower going up the back of it


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    #335
    pad199207
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    Wind is very strong now


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    #336
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Lightning very bright now. Constant - once every 1 - 2 seconds.


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    #337
    pad199207
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    Friend in Bunclody said lightning has hit his neighbours house and blew everything off the walls


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    #338
    Kermit.de.frog
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    North Wicklow now and North Kildare in firing line from new cells. Flashing away here - spectacular really.


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    #339
    pad199207
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    Hearing deep rumbles now


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    #340
    [Deleted User]
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    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!

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    #341
    Itssoeasy
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    It seems to getting further away in cork city. I can still hear it but it's not right on top of me.


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    #342
    SleetAndSnow
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    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.


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    #343
    Aglomerado
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    Epic flashes here in North cork. Power out on my road and alarms going off.


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    #344
    Davaeo09
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    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? :/


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    #345
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #346
    EdgeCase
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    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.


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    #347
    [Deleted User]
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    Getting closer and feel drips of rain.


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    #348
    sunbabe08
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    https://twitter.com/sunbabe08/status/1000551200817864704


    what i captured earlier.


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    #349
    Junkyard Tom
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    Would watch again. It's a 5 out of 5 from me.

    ★★★★★


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    #350
    SleetAndSnow
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    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


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    #351
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Dubs, look southeast. Spectacular. :D Thunderstorms developing and moving north could yet effect us.


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    #352
    sdanseo
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    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!


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    #353
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Greystones and Bray in line in the next hour or so.


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    #354
    refusetolose
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    S2sS4hb.jpg?1


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    #355
    pad199207
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    Lightning has ceased a good bit now


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    #356
    Mam of 4
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    I don't know if I was imaging it , but thought I saw a flash here , Laois ..


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    #357
    Calibos
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    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! :D

    Wood Roof joists don't act as a Faraday Cage do they? ;);) :D

    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!! :D

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


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    #358
    RobbingBandit
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    Lightning in Dublin 11 no thunder.


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    #359
    sunbabe08
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    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


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    #360
    CirrusBusiness
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    Very heavy downpours with regular flashes and rumbles now. Spectacular.

    South Carlow.


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    #361
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Storms developing now heading toward Dublin (probably). Huge flashes now, can see the anvils.

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