Some small but potent storms kicking off around the country. Worth a separate thread as this risk for big thunder and big lightning is there until tomorrow night at least. All parts at risk this evening but east and south main focus tomorrow.
Met.ie update for the south Dublin coast. Started to rain, camera packed, wish me luck!
Quiet here 4 miles east of Athenry, but fresh flash above kilcolgan just now. Didn't hear the thunder so its some distance away.
Good job I didn't go to bed!
Flash in dublin i see on the radar
Ahh, thought i caught something from the corner of my eye. Galway city east, elevated
Just spent the last hour watching the lightning out of my bedroom window here in Limerick.
Mega! Incoming to Greystones now.
Got a mad notion to head to Clare this evening and video'd that flight from Warsaw pull out of landing in Shannon!!!
Flashes every 10 seconds and constant thunder south of Greystones.
An excellent first post! Welcome aboard @Cretin.
Just endless flashes out at sea. Thunder died down a bit in Wicklow town but the light show is something to behold.
Tonight proving that it’s extremely difficult to get an inland night time storm. Albeit the one in Meath
Cheers. Been a lurker for a while. Had to show off my photos 😂. Taken with a Samsung S22 Ultra.
Fantastic ! I can only imagine how loud the thunder was
My god. Never seen the like of the lightning in Greystones. Near constant flashes for the past 10-15 minutes!
I'm loving it, got a ten min video of it too! What a night
It looks like the lightning is moving further out to see as it approaches Dublin. If it's the case, there may be nothing inland.
You and me both! The last time I experienced this level of thunderstorm activity was in Virginia in America.
You guys on the east coast are getting what i got this evening, was brilliant, stay safe recording because there was plenty of fork lightning and have phones charged just incase power goes, i should have done that but didn't
Yes. Looks to be moving out to sea in Greystones and intensity reducing. Seems to be mainly inter cloud.
North Kildare Meath border and nothing happening. Pics are CLASS though, keep em coming!
Was thinking I'd missed it because the crappy boards post clock says your posts were an hour ago. Finally remembered a post about that boards glitch and got up and opened the Velux to look out and sure enough. Lots of regular huge inter cloud lightning from that cell to the South East of Bray/Greystones. Not much rain in Bray though. Nothing torrential yet anyway.
Its great that its mostly intercloud because it means I an enjoy it without being paranoid that I'm going to get hit in my attic master bedroom. LOL.
I've never seen anything like this, in terms of how long the storm is lasting and how frequent the flashes are. Fairly incredible.
Intensifying again but moving further off the coast into the Irish Sea.
At this stage, I think us Dubliners can call it a night. Unless anything happens further inland in the next while, it looks like Dublin will miss out.
I counted several strikes in quick succession on Blitzortung. So near yet so far!
Another active wave is moving onshore in the southeast, that one seems likely to move up west of the Wicklow mountains, stall out over inland southeast, weaken then redevelop during Monday morning, and end up feeding into heaviest bands around Tipps-Limerick. Thurles is supposed to be in a bullseye for 35 mm rainfall much of it later tomorrow.
As per comments of those in the know, Dublin may erect the shields and keep this current activity off the coast.
Generalized rainfall forecast for next 24h would be 5-10 mm central Leinster, 10-15 mm southeast Leinster, 15-25 mm most of Munster except perhaps Clare and Kerry, locally 25-35 mm in a few places (the guidance is often quite accurate as to patterns but not exact details so while Thurles is shown to be the spot, it could turn out to be any other place within 25-50 miles of there).
Can see the lightning now and hear distant thunder out to sea
Yes, some flashes and distant thunder from Donabate N Dublin now
Got a notion to head to East Clare this evening. Great displays of lightning with a decent amount of it fork lightning.
Thunder finally reaching near Dublin, just off coast. Plane from Lanzarote doing a detour to avoid
Moving well offshore now from Greystones. Mostly distant flashes and thunder now.
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