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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion : 2019 and Winter 2020

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  • #1592
    chris2007
    Registered Users Posts: 311 ✭✭chris2007


    Met radar is showing lightning strikes


  • #1593
    coffee to go
    Registered Users Posts: 523 ✭✭✭coffee to go


    chris2007 wrote: »
    Met radar is showing lightning strikes

    I'm working at home today - This bunch of sparks went right over the house. Almost instantaneous between flash and thunder. Rain absolutely pummelling the place.

    Pretty dramatic to say the least!


  • #1594
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Torrential downpour now in S Wexford with Thunder


  • #1595
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Several strikes around Sneem.. took pics will post later...


  • #1596
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Popped down to the shop earlier, about 4 or 5 flashes from this storm as it passed through. I saw a funnel shaped finger from it too, could be nothing, it come from the cloud in the second pic.

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  • #1597
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    I'm convinced that i saw sheet lightning to the south/west of me just now

    Lucan


  • #1598
    KildareP
    Registered Users Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭KildareP


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    I'm convinced that i saw sheet lightning to the south/west of me just now

    Lucan

    There's a spotlight moving around the sky at the moment for the last week, can't really tell where it is coming from but it's fairly bright and moves quickly. Might be that?

    I can see it from both the M7 and the M4.


  • #1599
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    I'm convinced that i saw sheet lightning to the south/west of me just now

    Lucan

    Power is gone in Newcastle


  • #1600
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    KildareP wrote: »
    There's a spotlight moving around the sky at the moment for the last week, can't really tell where it is coming from but it's fairly bright and moves quickly. Might be that?

    I can see it from both the M7 and the M4.
    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Power is gone in Newcastle

    Is it bright blue?

    At first I thought fireworks in the clouds but looked a lot like lightning.

    If a transformer blew out or something that could explain the blue flash


  • #1601
    jc11
    Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭jc11


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    I'm convinced that i saw sheet lightning to the south/west of me just now

    Lucan

    Fireworks? Was walking dog past night in Lucan and lots of flashes around..


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  • #1602
    KildareP
    Registered Users Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭KildareP


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Is it bright blue?

    At first I thought fireworks in the clouds but looked a lot like lightning.

    If a transformer blew out or something that could explain the blue flash

    It is. Thought it was lightning myself at first but on high ground you can actually see it roaming around.

    I'd say the powercut in Newcastle might be the more likely explanation though! Unlikely coincidence.

    EDIT: looks serious, 1500+ customers out.


  • #1603
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Something went bang in Grange Castle

    Blue and green sky


  • #1604
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,699 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Something went bang in Grange Castle

    Blue and green sky

    Power outage! https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/


  • #1605
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    KildareP wrote: »
    There's a spotlight moving around the sky at the moment for the last week, can't really tell where it is coming from but it's fairly bright and moves quickly. Might be that?

    I can see it from both the M7 and the M4.

    It's going on a lot more than a week, it's annoying as f1ck, drives me nuts coming up the M7. It was really bright tonight.


  • #1606
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    Few rumbles of thunder in Wicklow at the moment.


  • #1607
    dogmatix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭dogmatix


    HighLine wrote: »
    Few rumbles of thunder in Wicklow at the moment.

    Did not hear any thunder myself - but I was driving home on the N11 just before the wicklow town exit when there where three very bright white flashes spaced about 1 minute apart. It was like a camera flash suddenly going off - very bright but diffuse and seeming to fill the whole sky with light. Would have been about 17:45.


  • #1608
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭highdef


    Some strikes recently picked up over the Wicklow Mountains, in the vicinity of Kippure. I wonder if the mast was hit???


  • #1609
    Captain Snow
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Captain Snow


    highdef wrote: »
    Some strikes recently picked up over the Wicklow Mountains, in the vicinity of Kippure. I wonder if the mast was hit???



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  • #1610
    Kamili
    Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    I think it hit beside the mast.


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  • #1611
    Captain Snow
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Captain Snow


    Kamili wrote: »
    I think it hit beside the mast.


    494707.png

    Where did you get that Graphic?


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  • #1612
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Kamili wrote: »
    I think it hit beside the mast.


    494707.png

    https://www.lightningmaps.org/

    Zoom right in


  • #1613
    Kamili
    Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    apologies forgot to include the link ;)

    https://www.lightningmaps.org


  • #1614
    Rougies
    Registered Users Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Rougies


    The lightning map isn't pinpoint accurate and those two closest strikes are only about 100m and 200m away from the mast, they almost certainly hit it.


  • #1615
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    Rougies wrote: »
    The lightning map isn't pinpoint accurate and those two closest strikes are only about 100m and 200m away from the mast, they almost certainly hit it.

    Was going to post the same.. that's a circa 120m mast on top of a 750m mountain so I'd be almost certain those strikes were on the mast rather than nearby.


  • #1616
    Rougies
    Registered Users Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Rougies


    HighLine wrote: »
    Was going to post the same.. that's a circa 120m mast on top of a 750m mountain so I'd be almost certain those strikes were on the mast rather than nearby.


    Open Street Maps are amazing in many ways, but every peak in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains are shown as about 50m higher than they actually are. Not sure why this is, but probably due to low resolution heightmap data of the area.


  • #1617
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Small chance of a bit of sporadic lightning today , more so perhaps in Atlantic coastal counties. Cold air aloft over the relatively warm seas might get enough convection going becoming briefly electrified.

    Hail shower just went through here near Tralee.

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  • #1618
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,100 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Days like today you'd miss the rainfall radar.


  • #1619
    Captain Snow
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Captain Snow


    Strike Off Shore in the Intense Rain.

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  • #1620
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There was some rain in the early hrs of this morning and around 5 am it thundered down with rain and sounded like hail, it was very loud.


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  • #1621
    lolie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭lolie


    Captain Snow wrote: »
    Strike Off Shore in the Intense Rain.

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    My sister was on the EK163 flight from Dubai and it was hit by that strike.
    She said between the bang and the flash it frightened the life out the people onboard.

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