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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion Autumn 2025

  • 04-09-2025 11:48AM
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    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 13,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    A few big convective showers here in Tralee this morning with towering clouds about, parameters very marginal for some thunderstorm activity, maybe some short lived isolated storm travelling across the country in the afternoon but chances low.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,458 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Crack of thunder here in Kildare



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Hearing thunder in Greystones.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭boccy23


    Thunder at lunch near Naas



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭pureza


    As posted in the older thread,fair bit of thunder near and to the south of Arklow earlier



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,458 ✭✭✭pad199207


    More thunder in Kildare



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,631 ✭✭✭highdef


    Very heavy rain around the N4/M50 interchange

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 PukkaPad


    Rumbling away here in tallaght!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    Longest rumble I've ever heard in Celbridge at 3.20pm and a good few rumbles since. Torrential downpours with it too, just stopped again for the moment and it's suddenly sunny.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,178 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Question we had some pretty heavy showers in Galway today very stormy looking sky so how come we rarely get thunder in Galway. I was certain we would have gotten something out of those clouds.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,604 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Speaking as someone from Galway I can tell you thunder is relatively rare. In August/September, you'd need more humid conditions. People complaining about it being "close" all day is a sign of potential thunder.

    To be honest, I remember thunder more in November/December than this time of year.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,178 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Yeah we seem to get it in Winter after a windy episode that is followed by heavy showers bright blue lightning , we can only hope.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 13,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    What sferics showed up but more storms detected by posters than what appears on the maps.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭pureza


    After a very hot day here in Koh Samui Thailand ,we’ve a cracking good thunderstorm at the moment with lots and lots of lightning and booming

    Why does this not show on blitzortung or lightning maps dot org ,no detectors here?

    We are on the east of the island and its relentless

    Thankfully its night time here when it started

    Darkness comes around 630pm



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 13,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    ECM showing the back end of the frontal passage active with thunderstorms possible later tonight /early morning mainly off the SW but some could move in overland also and maybe with a bit of lift off the Mountains could grow a bit. Charts showing very favorable lift and lots of shear available. I wonder is slowblowin in S Kerry tonight?

    Tomorrow maybe along the S / SE counties could see some activity.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 358 ✭✭The Macho Man


    I spent 2 weeks in a beach hut there in November 2003! We were island hopping. And we had whopper night time storms. Once the storms passed queue the loudest frogs I've ever heard, all bloody night 😄



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 13,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    A complete bust last night and only a few up in Northern counites today, big storms in the UK.

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 13,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Cold pool and trough over the country tomorrow and during the afternoons modest peak diurnal heating, parameter's in general only barely marginal but the indices are showing potential for isolated storms in the afternoon moving across the country W to E . The cold uppers aiding instability the most i would think.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,785 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    thunder, waterford city



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,981 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Thunder in South Leitrim. About 1 hour before that we had hail.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭pureza


    lots of thunder in Arklow again this afternoon

    Loads here in Koh Samui also



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,520 ✭✭✭gipi


    I've been getting alerts from the lightning app about strikes off the coast of Dublin this afternoon



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Something brewing to the SW of Greystones in the last hour. Probably come to nothing until it moves out to Irish Sea!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    Super shot of lightning above Haulbowline Lighthouse (Co. Louth) this evening that I had to share from Ann Bruen - p.s. we're not related!

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 358 ✭✭The Macho Man


    Serious patience and a lot of luck I'd say to get such a great picture.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    More luck than anything as she was out for the moonrise which was nowhere to be seen :P but I'd take some lightning bolts any day over a moon!

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,631 ✭✭✭highdef


    Big long convergence line just to the west of me in county Longford.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    Was this the CB that started firing off Carlingford yesterday evening? This was taken overlooking Skerries then

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 13,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Much cooler air moving across over the country from Weds bringing with it showery troughs as the cold airmass becomes unstable over the warm seas ,from later Weds / early Thurs loads of convection developing and thunderstorms forming over the Western seas and moving inland maybe along Northern counties. On Thurs the cold airmass and unstable troughs along with sunny spells producing showers dotted across the country some getting big enough to produce hail I would think and thunderstorms could occur just about anywhere , initially from early along Atlantic coasts and moving across the country during the day peaking perhaps in the afternoon from the days sunshine and modest heating, could well be around 13 to 15C and colder under showers.

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 13,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Very heavy showers this evening moving in off the coast here near Tralee and can feel it cooling down. Can see in the Satellite animation the convection growing , maybe some sparks along the coasts overnight and towards morning and moving more inland during the day tomorrow. The last shower here sounded like there was a bit of hail in it, quite blustery in the big showers.

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    Potential for widespread convective showers and breezy and possibly windy/ blustery out of those showers. Hail and thunderstorms possible just about anywhere.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,442 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    Thunder in Blessington now, and it's quite windy.



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