Thunderstorms 14th/15th August 2022

Met.ie update for the south Dublin coast. Started to rain, camera packed, wish me luck!

Flash in dublin i see on the radar

Tonight proving that it’s extremely difficult to get an inland night time storm. Albeit the one in Meath

Fantastic ! I can only imagine how loud the thunder was

I'm loving it, got a ten min video of it too! What a night

You and me both! The last time I experienced this level of thunderstorm activity was in Virginia in America.

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.

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).

Yes, some flashes and distant thunder from Donabate N Dublin now