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Convective/Thunderstorm Discussion : 2019 and Winter 2020

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  • Registered Users Posts: 599 ✭✭✭Captain Snow


    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.

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    Bang on..

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    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

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  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,073 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 48,129 ✭✭✭✭km79


    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 ...........


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,370 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    km79 wrote: »
    What part ? It’s a big county we live in ...........

    Indeed it reminds me of Texas.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,730 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Indeed it reminds me of Texas.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭ Kayson Witty Trachea


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 48,129 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Comhra wrote: »
    ....just not as warm and hasn't as many cowboys.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


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

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


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    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.

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


    Starting to unplug now.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58




  • Registered Users Posts: 7,095 ✭✭✭pad199207


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭thomasj


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


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


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


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭lolie


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    Big area around Sneem with no power, following short but intense lightening.

    If this is correct it was some serious strike.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    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.


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


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

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭anacc


    lolie wrote: »
    If this is correct it was some serious strike.
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    What app is that?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭lolie


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Lightning showing up off the South Coast


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Saw a beautiful bright fork lightning just East of Galway City


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,880 ✭✭✭✭zell12


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,098 ✭✭✭highdef


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Longing


    The squall line is from Kerry to Aberdeen in Scotland now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭Darwin


    Just hitting my part of the world now, pretty intense downpour with gusty winds


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    Dublin airport getting it at the mo. Visibility very poor with intense wind and rain


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,507 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Very dark under it Dublin City Centre.


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