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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
    Registered Users Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    Thunder in D22.


  • #904
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    That was loud


  • #905
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    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 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭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
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭mickger844posts


    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 Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭ciaran76


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


  • #911
    Boxing.Fan
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Boxing.Fan


    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
    Registered Users Posts: 28,780 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Rumbles are getting louder, Waterford city


  • #913
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,114 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Flash and house rattling thunder in Kildare


  • #914
    eon1208
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭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 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 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭sparrowcar


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


  • #917
    champchamp
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭champchamp


    Earlier in Waterford...


  • #918
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,776 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


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


  • #919
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,129 ✭✭✭highdef


    champchamp wrote: »
    Earlier in Waterford...

    Awww, it stopped before the thunder :(


  • #920
    Jakey Rolling
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Jakey Rolling


    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.

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  • #921
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    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: 3,426 ✭✭✭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]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    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: 3,426 ✭✭✭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]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    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: 3,426 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


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


  • #928
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    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 Posts: 13,498 ✭✭✭✭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.

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

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



  • #930
    Captain_Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭Captain_Crash


    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]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    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.


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