Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion: Summer 2022

It was around 4pm and my father had my sister and myself helping to bring in bales of hay from the field, square bales...

The events started while we were in the field and it was not a huge field, but there were several lightning strikes up close, never saw lightning as close as this and my father rushed to get us into the tractor for safety and we went home.

It was really severe, the electricity didn't go straight away, so my father decided the cows had to be milked, my mother had us all praying the rosary that the lightning wouldn't kill him.

It just went on and on and the electricity did go eventually, very frequent non stop lightning, the noise of the thunder and my mother was just so freaked out by it, she lit a blessed candle.

During the night, apart from the lightning, the rain and hail was deafening when it came and went.

One of the met station recorders for rainfall recorded 21mm rainfall/hail in a 15 minutes period.

Overall it was a scary event due to the sheer intensity and then we didn't have all the information we have now, so we had no idea when it was going to end as it just seemed to go on and on. It was a long night.

Lots of dead animals and I think there was also people who lost their lives.

Big flash,long roll of thunder- Castlebar. Appears to be moving East. Grew very quickly

We have not had the potential we have tonight for years in terms of widespread lightning storm activity. Just hope it comes off. Could be very memorable.😬

Big drops of rain here in south cork city, very earthy smell in the air

West Limerick, 200M ASL, 18:00, clammy, hot and dead still, no movement from wind turbines all across the horizon, cloud has been building but looks more suited to rain, not looking heavy or dark enough for Thunder, yet!

I was thirteen and will never forget it. Staying with my cousins in cabinteely. It was scary as anything. Lost electricity early. Shotgun lightening for hours, dies down and back again at dawn. All the colours of the rainbow in those forks. Lots of livestock died. It was very severe. Really epic. Never seen anything like it since.

What do farmers do with cows during a thunder storm? Especially if it's been predicted.

Just kicking of north of Killarney

Didn't think it would start there, hopefully it starts firing up elsewhere in the next hour

The cell over killarney is bang on queue re gfs predictive rain. This is the one that likely does the damage as it tracks East through the South Midlands. As I said earlier I expect it to track north of Cork, but hey ho who knows!

Dead heat here in Cavan. Not a breath of air or a bird to be heard. Fingers crossed we get a bit of it.

I was wondering what that smell was

big fat drops here on the north side of cork city!!!!

South East usually gets a lot of activity following the path of the Three Sisters and the valleys in between. Not sure how this evening will fare for us but hoping we get some activity at least.

Thunder, lightening and rain here in Co.Mayo approx 10km from Knock airport.