Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion : 2019 and Winter 2020

KildareP · 30-10-2019 8:13pm

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.

SEPT 23 1989 · 30-10-2019 8:21pm

Something went bang in Grange Castle

Blue and green sky

DOCARCH · 30-10-2019 8:25pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Something went bang in Grange Castle

Blue and green sky

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

30-10-2019 9:38pm

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.

HighLine · 04-11-2019 7:01pm

Few rumbles of thunder in Wicklow at the moment.

dogmatix · 05-11-2019 1:48pm

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.

highdef · 07-11-2019 12:45pm

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

Captain Snow · 07-11-2019 12:46pm

highdef wrote: »

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

Kamili · 07-11-2019 1:07pm

I think it hit beside the mast.

Captain Snow · 07-11-2019 1:08pm

Kamili wrote: »

I think it hit beside the mast.

Where did you get that Graphic?

spookwoman · 07-11-2019 1:24pm

Kamili wrote: »

I think it hit beside the mast.

https://www.lightningmaps.org/

Zoom right in

Kamili · 07-11-2019 1:44pm

apologies forgot to include the link

https://www.lightningmaps.org

Rougies · 07-11-2019 2:51pm

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.

HighLine · 07-11-2019 4:49pm

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.

Rougies · 08-11-2019 1:34am

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.

Meteorite58 · 09-11-2019 11:33am

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.

JCX BXC · 09-11-2019 1:52pm

Days like today you'd miss the rainfall radar.

Captain Snow · 09-11-2019 7:43pm

Strike Off Shore in the Intense Rain.

09-11-2019 7:53pm

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.

lolie · 09-11-2019 8:41pm

Captain Snow wrote: »

Strike Off Shore in the Intense Rain.

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.

Captain Snow · 09-11-2019 8:52pm

lolie wrote: »

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

Bang on..

Meteorite58 · 10-11-2019 8:09pm

Lightning for the last couple of hours off the NW, wonder will some come close to or over land.

Met Eireann mentioning it ' Rain will clear eastwards to scattered showers tonight with the risk of hail and sleet on northern hills. Some of the showers will be heavy and blustery across the west and northwest later, with the ongoing risk of hail and lightning

Mickeroo · 11-11-2019 12:09am

Two lightning strikes in the last 5 minutes or so in Mayo. Thunder seemed to come a good bit after.

km79 · 11-11-2019 12:13am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Two lightning strikes in the last 5 minutes or so in Mayo. Thunder seemed to come a good bit after.

What part ? It’s a big county we live in ...........

Kermit.de.frog · 11-11-2019 12:14am

km79 wrote: »

What part ? It’s a big county we live in ...........

Indeed it reminds me of Texas.

Comhrá · 11-11-2019 12:32am

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Indeed it reminds me of Texas.

....just not as warm and hasn't as many cowboys.

uck51js9zml2yt · 11-11-2019 2:29pm

Had hail, thunder and lightning in the last hour in tralee

km79 · 11-11-2019 2:44pm

Comhra wrote: »

....just not as warm and hasn't as many cowboys.

Meteorite58 · 11-11-2019 8:14pm

Kayson Witty Trachea wrote: »

Had hail, thunder and lightning in the last hour in tralee

Heard that as well, some big blustery showers about today, some of hail.

Meteorite58 · 12-11-2019 9:12pm

Risk of hail and thunder tomorrow more so in the SW I think but most of the lightning if it occurs could happen over water or near the coasts. Some convection might get a lift off the mountains in Kerry giving some lightning. Will see.

Cold mid level and upper level air temperatures should provide half decent lapse rates, perhaps a very mixed profile but should encourage good convection and produce hail and wintry precipitation. Mountain tops should see a bit of a whitening.

SlowBlowin · 12-11-2019 10:37pm

Starting to unplug now.

Meteorite58 · 16-11-2019 6:10pm

https://twitter.com/BOM_NT/status/1195568655867793408?s=20

pad199207 · 22-11-2019 7:28pm

Flash of lightning here in Kildare in the distant a few minutes ago. Almost like a power flash look to it

thomasj · 22-11-2019 7:33pm

pad199207 wrote:

Flash of lightning here in Kildare in the distant a few minutes ago. Almost like a power flash look to it

I saw a large flash near Hartstown in the 15 minutes . It's been constant torential.rain here for the last couple of hours

Mortelaro · 26-11-2019 7:25pm

Strikes in the Celtic sea from the blob of rain heading onto the leinster coast at the moment

SlowBlowin · 14-12-2019 9:19pm

Big area around Sneem with no power, following short but intense lightening.

lolie · 14-12-2019 9:27pm

SlowBlowin wrote: »

Big area around Sneem with no power, following short but intense lightening.

If this is correct it was some serious strike.

SlowBlowin · 14-12-2019 9:51pm

Sneem is without power at the moment. There were 3 or 4 strikes, very intense and very powerful, power went within a second of the first strike.

SlowBlowin · 14-12-2019 10:12pm

Must have been some strike, 2 more faults on the map now.

Edit : 8 ESB faults now from the strike, over 15 km apart.

anacc · 14-12-2019 10:15pm

lolie wrote: »

If this is correct it was some serious strike.

What app is that?

lolie · 14-12-2019 10:42pm

anacc wrote: »

What app is that?

Its not on an app.
Follow this link, you can zoom in by selecting the county.
You can either take a screenshot or use the icon in top right corner to download the image.
https://meteologix.com/ie/lightning/ireland/20191214-2130z.html

Storm 10 · 15-12-2019 12:28pm

Lightning showing up off the South Coast

DOCARCH · 07-01-2020 8:59am

A couple of strikes this morning west of Galway city/Spiddal area.

Storm 10 · 07-01-2020 11:54am

Saw a beautiful bright fork lightning just East of Galway City

zell12 · 07-01-2020 11:55am

highdef · 11-01-2020 11:40am

Very well defined squall line has developed recently, currently stretching from Belfast in the North East to Kerry in the South West. M.T. did mention the possibility of one developing in a recent forecast.