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Very Warm, Thunderstorms, Flash flooding - Friday through weekend

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  • #302
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    Video wrote: »
    I've always been curious about this... where did it hit? and did it blow sockets literally off the wall ? :o
    Just seeing this.
    No sockets weren't blown or anything, and we don't know where it hit, not the house anyway. We didn't see or smell smoke or evidence of whatever.
    I think it must have been very close and created a surge or something, not a clue how these things work. We were in bed and the crackling and bangs woke us up alright, but it was too late for the electrics.

    Edit : I remember now, we heard a farmer across from us lost 5 cows to lightning that night, so must have been there, not right beside us but maybe 1 or 2 fields away.


  • #303
    raher1
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭raher1


    Meteorite58 wrote: »
    Hearing distant thunder near Tralee.


    Sherkin 11.1mm at 01.00 report

    Temp 14.2C atm
    RH 94%
    DP 13C

    No rain yet

    We are going to die


  • #304
    KCAccidental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭KCAccidental


    just got our first flash in Ballincolllig.


  • #305
    bazza935
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭bazza935


    Judging by the lightning strike map I reckon wexford/waterford will have it within an hour


  • #306
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    thought i heard thunder :D


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  • #307
    Kevcol
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Kevcol


    Heard the thunder before the rain started falling. No lightening yet. Let the show begin. Mid way between Cork and Mallow


  • #308
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    Quite spectacular in Kerry right now. 3 flashes in the last 2 minutes, iluminating the sky, interwoven with powerful thunder. It's an insomniacs dream! Magical.


  • #309
    whitebriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭whitebriar


    buyer95 wrote: »
    Is it safe to watch this from outside?
    NO.


  • #310
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    whitebriar wrote: »
    NO.

    Sarcasm man:pac:


  • #311
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    Is there lighting in Clare or even further down?

    Looking out my window and I can see it miles off, but it's so far away I'm not hearing the thunder.


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  • #312
    unkymo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭unkymo


    At least 6 lightning flashes and thunder in the last 10 minutes in Tralee!


  • #313
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    here comes the rain.


  • #314
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Haven't seen any lightening or heard any thunder in Cork City yet. It's hard to see distant lightening as there's a fairly significant orange glow in the sky from the street lights. You'd probably spot distant flashes in the countryside much more easily.


  • #315
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    unkymo wrote: »
    At least 6 lightning flashes and thunder in the last 10 minutes in Tralee!

    I can confirm this, its all hapenning here! Crazy thunder just there.


  • #316
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    In wexford town and judging by the radar and lightning map we could see some action in about an hour ill givr it till half 3 or 4 then ill leave it if nothing, Only finished work at 1am so still fairly awake...for now


  • #317
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    unkymo wrote: »
    At least 6 lightning flashes and thunder in the last 10 minutes in Tralee!

    Is it very near Tralee?

    I'm in the Galway bay and I can see all of it. Massive orange lighting


  • #318
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Unplugged all the sensitive electrical gear just in case!


  • #319
    Stargate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Friend rang , raining in Passage west with distant flashes . I am in the City and was outside , saw 1 flash to the west , it's just started to rain here now too , really heavy too !


  • #320
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    3 flashes in 30 seconds just there in Tralee.

    2 mins later, one HUGE illuminating flash. Im looking out the windown of my room and it lit up all the surrounding fields.


  • #321
    bazza935
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭bazza935


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    In wexford town and judging by the radar and lightning map we could see some action in about an hour ill givr it till half 3 or 4 then ill leave it if nothing, Only finished work at 1am so still fairly awake...for now

    In Waterford myself and reckon were in for a right storm if we stay awake


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  • #322
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    honestly on edge here waiting for the lightening to come


  • #323
    Lesmanic
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭Lesmanic


    I'd nearly drive down to cork .


  • #324
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,244 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Just woke - are we going to be disappointed here on Cork city - still nothing!!!


  • #325
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Just been awoken by a great light show in London with frequent flashes and rumbles, wasn't expecting a thing tonight so just goes to show how dynamic everything is!


  • #326
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    Its starting to come down around tralee, the lightening continues.


  • #327
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    sunbabe08 wrote: »
    Well it is called world weather forecast.

    I'll fetch you a saucer of milk.

    Getting very rumbly here in Tralee as others are saying. No rain yet. The dingle peninsula is getting a right doing I'd say.


  • #328
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    Seemed to be a big one there


  • #329
    Video
    Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭Video


    is this all cloud to cloud lightening or cg? because the detectors are getting nothing from the west... :S


  • #330
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    I'll fetch you a saucer of milk.

    Getting very rumbly here in Tralee as others are saying. No rain yet. The dingle peninsula is getting a right doing I'd say.

    meow ;) i was just point it out though :)

    luck kerry and west cork getting all the action tonight.

    i would like to point out there are nice pink blobs heading wicklow way on the irish sea


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  • #331
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    OMFG, the thunder just there is the loudest I have heard, would undoubtedly wake a light sleeper.


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