Thursday/Friday: Lightning Storms, Flash Flooding Event Thread

Am up on top of hill in North kildare with uninterrupted views right down to the Wicklow mountains and am viewing just east of south. After 5 long minutes, I finally saw a distance flash!

Thunder and lightning near us at the Wicklow gap

First rumble of thunder here in Portlaoise .

down pour here now in north kk

So muggy here now, if it rains im going out to sit in it in my jox

Sferic detected near Waterford city.

Looks like there's another train about to start to the west of the current Pembrokeshire - Wexford/Wicklow one.

The sferic in Waterford looks to be the start of that one.

The isle of man storm was at its most intense an hour ago, looks to have petered out a bit now, it was very intense though when it was really firing. Unfortunately the intensity of the storms floating up from waterford northwards are nothing special, kind of thing you would see a night here and there in any given summer. So it would seem to me that anything that will deliver will come in very early hours of the morning. It wouldnt appear that anything crazy is on the cards in next few hours, but who knows. Might be thunder in dublin around 3am maybe, a few odd flashes before that I see one or two in wicklow.

Whole sky just lit up in Kildare

Oh the criaic was mighty in the Isle of Man.

Huge flash and loud thunder SW Kildare