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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion : 2019 and Winter 2020

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  • #902
    [Deleted User]
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    Big flash and bang in Grangecastle Dublin. Might get a nice show driving home in 25 mins.


  • #903
    Trebor176
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    Thunder in D22.


  • #904
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    That was loud


  • #905
    [Deleted User]
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    seems to be bypassing Carlow now all around but not over., east west north south but over carlow is a thunder free zone lol

    More big bang over Grangecastle.


  • #906
    RubyK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭RubyK


    Got the dogs out for their walk, just in the door and the rain is getting heavier. Still rumbles but sounds quite far away. Tramore.


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  • #907
    wowzer
    Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭wowzer


    Thunder and showers arrived Dublin 15, Ongar


  • #908
    mickger844posts
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    Less rumbles of Thunder now in Waterford City. Can’t see any flashes to our South or West. I wonder is it loosing intensity. Rain has just started

    https://www.waterfordcityweather.com


  • #909
    crowther15
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭crowther15


    Big clap of thunder few mins ago here in Clonee D15.


  • #910
    ciaran76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    Thunder in Dunshaughlin co Meath. Getting louder and some rain.


  • #911
    Boxing.Fan
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    Crack of thunder in finglas lasted about 10 seconds. Sun is shining at the same time and pissing rain.


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  • #912
    Wanderer78
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    Rumbles are getting louder, Waterford city


  • #913
    pad199207
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,219 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Flash and house rattling thunder in Kildare


  • #914
    eon1208
    Registered Users Posts: 286 ✭✭eon1208


    What actually causes this narrow corridor of activity. Is it an upper cold front moving over the warmer air mass or what. I would be interested to know


  • #915
    JeffK88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭JeffK88


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Flash and house rattling thunder in Kildare

    Scattered rumbles here in newbridge with occasionally 1 or 2 minute bursts of heavy rain


  • #916
    sparrowcar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭sparrowcar


    Wow... that was some alarm clock.
    The size of this thing.


  • #917
    champchamp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭champchamp


    Earlier in Waterford...


  • #918
    Larbre34
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    There is a dedicated event thread folks, please head on over and join the fun.


  • #919
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,323 ✭✭✭highdef


    champchamp wrote: »
    Earlier in Waterford...

    Awww, it stopped before the thunder :(


  • #920
    Jakey Rolling
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    Sitting out with my coffee, watching the stream of thunderclouds pass north over the Comeraghs about 10km East of me. Strikes lighting up the clouds every few mins. All back-lit by a lovely sunrise over Slievnamon.

    Reminds me of balmy summer's on the continent.

    100412.2526@compuserve.com



  • #921
    [Deleted User]
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    To say that was a disappointment was an understatement !!!

    All the way home to Carlow from Dublin there wasn't a single flash of Lightning, One loud clap in Grangecastle Dublin and a few rumbles and a bit of rain a while before I left work.

    The Road home to Carlow was also damp there was no heavy rain certainly no downpour on the entire stretch of road.

    Watching this develop in Work last night was exciting then for it all to me not worth a sh1t lol, it's just typical.

    Just goes to show while the radar might show a lot of sparks they are quite spread out and doesn't really indicate a level of intensity because out of a level of 1-5 I would consider this to have been below 1 lol.

    Perhaps other people witnessed more than a few flashes and bangs but this was not a Thunderstorm not even close.


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  • #922
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    To say that was a disappointment was an understatement !!!

    All the way home to Carlow from Dublin there wasn't a single flash of Lightning, One loud clap in Grangecastle Dublin and a few rumbles and a bit of rain a while before I left work.

    The Road home to Carlow was also damp there was no heavy rain certainly no downpour on the entire stretch of road.

    Watching this develop in Work last night was exciting then for it all to me not worth a sh1t lol, it's just typical.

    Just goes to show while the radar might show a lot of sparks they are quite spread out and doesn't really indicate a level of intensity because out of a level of 1-5 I would consider this to have been below 1 lol.

    Perhaps other people witnessed more than a few flashes and bangs but this was not a Thunderstorm not even close.

    Same as that but I guess I was lucky got to see one nice fork lightning on the curragh plans before I got home,I didn't even need to put on wet gear.
    Looked more impressive on radar by a long ways.


  • #923
    [Deleted User]
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    I suppose the radar looks so impressive because it shows strikes from what, 30 mins previous ? where as in reality it's a lot lot less.


  • #924
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I suppose the radar looks so impressive because it shows strikes from what, 30 mins previous ? where as in reality it's a lot lot less.

    I use an Australian weather app,it shows lightning strikes very well for Ireland plus precipitation ect ,it showed a lot less strkes


  • #925
    [Deleted User]
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    ZX7R wrote: »
    I use an Australian weather app,it shows lightning strikes very well for Ireland plus precipitation ect ,it showed a lot less strkes

    What is it ?


  • #926
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    What is it ?

    Weather & radar on play store
    I find it excellent and have used it in different countries.


  • #927
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=10
    Serious storms over central Europe at the moment


  • #928
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm going to Austria to the Alps on Friday for a few days then back to Germany, hope to see some action !


  • #929
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,666 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    Throwback for its 10th anniversary. 10 years ago today, there was outbreaks of heavy thunderstorms in the west and east of the country. I'll let Met Éireann explain what happened:

    During the period from midnight to 0900, thundery rain affected the east and northeast of the country, especially the Dublin area. Rainfall totals in this nine-hour period were around 40-50mm in parts of the city. A 60-minute fall of 26.5mm at Dublin Airport between 0400 and 0500 was the largest clock-hour rainfall ever recorded at the station. During the afternoon and evening of the same day, another narrow band of very heavy, thundery rain affected parts of Clare, Galway and Mayo, bringing even heavier falls. A daily total of 67mm was measured at Newport, Co. Mayo, and it is likely that some places had more than this. A 60-minute fall of 41.6mm at the station would be expected there only once every 150 years.

    Event threads:
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055608848
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055610048

    A radar image I found on Google Images.

    zzfDeEh.gif

    Photography site - https://www.sryanbruenphoto.com/

    Weather photo portfolio - https://sryanbruen.myportfolio.com/weather-1



  • #930
    Captain_Crash
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    sryanbruen wrote: »
    Throwback for its 10th anniversary. 10 years ago today, there was outbreaks of heavy thunderstorms in the west and east of the country. I'll let Met Éireann explain what happened:


    I remember this very well. Living in Lusk at the time just north of the airport and to this day is the only time ever the weather worried me... I remember it waking me up and I sat looking out the window at the rain and floods of water flowing down the road wondering if the house was going to flood. The lightning was impressive too as it reflected off the rain and lit the place up like a hot summers day.


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  • #931
    [Deleted User]
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    I think I remember this, if I remember correctly there was also a big electrical storm around then, amazing lightning but no Thunder.

    These were the years 08-11 or around that period where we got many torrential downpours in the Summer. Around the time of the really Cold Winters.


  • #932
    Oneiric 3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    14ExqU4.gif

    Another image I found in me archives for earlier that morning:

    5TSB3zj.gif

    New Moon



  • #933
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,227 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Ah the old radar brings back some nostalgia. I remember glaring at it in 2009 and 2010 to see if snow showers would reach West Clare!,


  • #934
    redsteveireland
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    Spotted the remains of a "dust devil" with clumps of Hay floating in the air while driving near Carnmore Gaa on the way out of Galway city around 15:30, any other sightings?


  • #935
    Storm 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,970 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Thunder storms in the North of Spain any chance they will head in Biscay and come in our direction


  • #936
    Donegal Storm
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    Nope, our air flow is coming from the north west at the moment.

    Really puts the crap we get in context when you look at the storms on the continent today, just a normal thundery summers evening for most yet if we had the same here it'd be talked about for decades!

    Screenshot-2019-07-03-at-20-55-10.png


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  • #937
    [Deleted User]
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    Lightning was shown on sat24 over Ireland, not much couple of strikes.

    Also showed up on the met Eireann radar ?


  • #938
    pad199207
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,219 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Interesting chart from Convective Weather of Thundery activity across Britain and Ireland

    2845-F9-C3-A936-4-A38-A360-B36-D283-A21-BB.jpg
    upload images


  • #939
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,323 ✭✭✭highdef


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Interesting chart from Convective Weather of Thundery activity across Britain and Ireland

    2845-F9-C3-A936-4-A38-A360-B36-D283-A21-BB.jpg
    upload images

    So it looks like Kildare, followed by Meath, are the most thundery counties so far this year.


  • #940
    Rock Lesnar
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    highdef wrote: »
    So it looks like Kildare, followed by Meath, are the most thundery counties so far this year.

    Well apart from the half hour we got last week, iv'e heard no thunder here in my area of meath this year at all


  • #941
    [Deleted User]
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    I’m in Mellau in Austria atm and look at sat 24 and see what’s heading my way !

    Hope it’s a good one !


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  • #942
    [Deleted User]
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    It’s here he’ll of a wind rose just before the thunder , some echo from the alps!


  • #943
    buser2x
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭buser2x


    bizarre weather this year


  • #944
    [Deleted User]
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    Thunder in the distance every few seconds going to be a good one by the sounds of it!


  • #945
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah here wtf lol

    Gone already wasn’t bad at all , just goes to show all those thunderstorms on the continent seen by say 24 and others doesn’t give any real indication of the intensity of the thunder or thunderstorm In any way.

    Same as the bit of thunder we had was it last weekend ? Looked a lot worse on the radar.


  • #946
    RobertKK
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    There is a level 3 warning on Estofex for north east Italy, risk of large hail, strong winds and tornadoes, currently it looks severe on ->
    https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=0.00;ts=1;z=6;y=46.0732;x=24.7742;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;tsc=1;as=19-06-10T00;


  • #947
    RobertKK
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    https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/friuli-venezia-giulia/trieste/piazza-unita-italia.html
    webcam for Trieste, one can see some lightning flashes.


  • #948
    MajesticDonkey
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    Better cam now: https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/slovenija/primorska/portoroz/portoroz-plaza.html

    (except for the fact that it keeps bloody moving)
    Another one: http://www.caorle.com/en/webcam-caorle/webcam-levante-beach-caorle.html


  • #949
    [Deleted User]
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    Looks like that might be what's heading to this part of Austria where I am now but I won't hold my breath, might get here in the early hrs of the morning.

    Doesn't look too exciting on the cams yet anyway.


  • #950
    [Deleted User]
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    Here's a Thunderstorm. Not what we get these days, few rumbles and flashes.



  • #951
    [Deleted User]
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    We'd probably Sh1t ourselves here in Ireland if something like this hit us !!!

    A proper Thunderstorm !



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