Heavy Showers/Thunderstorms - Friday June 8th

YFlyer · 08-06-2018 6:02pm

sumtings wrote: »

West limerick city, saw a flash and have heard a couple of rumbles but no rain yet

Rained at the university.

Oneiric 3 · 08-06-2018 6:03pm

Tomorrow and the following few days looks better for eastern regions.

spookwoman · 08-06-2018 6:07pm

might head out looking for somewhere it might head like west of kilkenny

Meteorite58 · 08-06-2018 6:12pm

A few rumbles here near Tralee, sky darker and temperature has dropped from 24.3c to 20.6C, some nice big convection inland.

osarusan · 08-06-2018 6:17pm

Didn't check any forecasts, knew nothing about storms. Left UL at about 5.15 and there was light rain. Then on my cycle home the skies opened and it was some seriously heavy rain. Thunder cracking behind me.

Drains were swamped and the road had maybe an inch of water in places. As I was cycling the water off my own front wheel absolutely soaked both my shoes. Apart from the seat of my shorts, every other bit of me was as wet as possible.

There was something enjoyable about it in a way, once you're so wet you can't get any wetter.

Jpmarn · 08-06-2018 6:18pm

Still dry south of Limerick city. Being under threat from the nearby thunderstorm for the past hour. It seems that the threat has receded but not totally gone. I have a new 4K camcorder rolling but I don't think I'll be capturing anything interesting. Seems that the west county Limerick is under attack. The Met Eireann station at mt Dillon in Co. Roscommon has reported over 25mm rain at 1700.

CrowdedHouse · 08-06-2018 6:20pm

A few rumbles from that one I pictured earlier

Four Phucs Ache · 08-06-2018 6:22pm

2 claps of Thunder in laois now, 1 min apart

Meteorite58 · 08-06-2018 6:23pm

Sat Pic at 15.35 . Some nice big cells.

Dundee SRS

dexter647 · 08-06-2018 6:24pm

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

2 claps of Thunder in laois now, 1 min apart

What part of Laois may I ask?

Meteorite58 · 08-06-2018 6:25pm

https://twitter.com/barrabest/status/1005125929704845312

YFlyer · 08-06-2018 6:27pm

osarusan wrote: »

Didn't check any forecasts, knew nothing about storms. Left UL at about 5.15 and there was light rain. Then on my cycle home the skies opened and it was some seriously heavy rain. Thunder cracking behind me.

Drains were swamped and the road had maybe an inch of water in places. As I was cycling the water off my own front wheel absolutely soaked both my shoes. Apart from the seat of my shorts, every other bit of me was as wet as possible.

There was something enjoyable about it in a way, once you're so wet you can't get any wetter.

I'm still on campus. Waiting for the right moment to cycle home.

Was like a drowned rat cycling home last Friday down the riverbank. At least the coast was clear

Mobhi1 · 08-06-2018 6:28pm

Dry, and lovely clear sky in Dublin. 22.6C here after an earlier high of 23.7C.

Meteorite58 · 08-06-2018 6:31pm

Record of detected sferics so far today

Netweather

Four Phucs Ache · 08-06-2018 6:33pm

dexter647 wrote: »

What part of Laois may I ask?

5 miles north of portlaoise

Meteorite58 · 08-06-2018 6:36pm

Some very heavy rain happening now, slowly moving E, SE

Most recent white +

Four Phucs Ache · 08-06-2018 6:37pm

V.heavy rain towards portarlington now, like a grey wall on the landscape

Rikand · 08-06-2018 6:39pm

90 minutes of near constant thunder and lightning here in west Athlone. Most of the lightning was sheet but saw 2 very clear cloud to ground strikes just to my south. Reckon they touches down not far from drum community centre or summer hill school. The boom that came from both strikes was enormous. Just grabbed a patio chair from out the back and sat in the front porch until the wife and kids came home.

Was lovely!

Thunder gone now and just buckets of rain coming down. Everything flooded!

Best storm I have seen around here for many a year

John mac · 08-06-2018 7:01pm

I drove through some epic rain earlier , Longford and Termonbarry, lots of lightning too..one fork just on the west side of longford

Oneiric 3 · 08-06-2018 7:05pm

Where the extent of showers fell today so far:

Four Phucs Ache · 08-06-2018 7:14pm

Major thunder over laois last 10 mins, 20-30 secs apart

jimmynokia · 08-06-2018 7:14pm

Rikand wrote: »

90 minutes of near constant thunder and lightning here in west Athlone. Most of the lightning was sheet but saw 2 very clear cloud to ground strikes just to my south. Reckon they touches down not far from drum community centre or summer hill school. The boom that came from both strikes was enormous. Just grabbed a patio chair from out the back and sat in the front porch until the wife and kids came home.

Was lovely!

Thunder gone now and just buckets of rain coming down. Everything flooded!

Best storm I have seen around here for many a year

AND NO PICS....GTFO

dexter647 · 08-06-2018 7:15pm

Very heavy rain here now and thunder getting closer:D....South west Laois

Darwin · 08-06-2018 7:17pm

Yep, me too, no convection yet but getting quite gusty outside. Sensor light upstairs has come on it's so dark!

Storm 10 · 08-06-2018 7:30pm

jimmynokia wrote: »

AND NO PICS....GTFO

Can't understand why someone could not put a smart phone out a window and record the lightning, on a day when we had record lightning no one has posted any video

road_high · 08-06-2018 7:31pm

North Kk. You can hear the odd rumble off towards the Laois direction. Gone darker all round

jimmynokia · 08-06-2018 7:38pm

Storm 10 wrote:

Can't understand why someone could not put a smart phone out a window and record the lightning, on a day when we had record lightning no one has posted any video

Understandably a risk but I'd be sat right under it ðŸ˜‚

AlanMcC23 · 08-06-2018 7:55pm

Thunder and fork lightening with seriously heavy rain in mountmellick, laois

An Ri rua · 08-06-2018 8:00pm

Direct hit lightning strike on Mountmellick town just now. I reckon half a second max between the flash and the bang (more like a cannon and a rip!).

Grandeeod · 08-06-2018 8:03pm

AlanMcC23 wrote: »

Thunder and fork lightening with seriously heavy rain in mountmellick, laois

North Laois and SW Laois getting it. The bit in the middle is just rain as it passes over.

Darwin · 08-06-2018 8:06pm

It looks like most of the strikes are around the Mountmellick/Portarlington area, we had torrential rain for the last 30 minutes but no lightning.

cyclops999 · 08-06-2018 8:09pm

Rikand wrote: »

90 minutes of near constant thunder and lightning here in west Athlone. Most of the lightning was sheet but saw 2 very clear cloud to ground strikes just to my south. Reckon they touches down not far from drum community centre or summer hill school. The boom that came from both strikes was enormous. Just grabbed a patio chair from out the back and sat in the front porch until the wife and kids came home.

Was lovely!

Thunder gone now and just buckets of rain coming down. Everything flooded!

Best storm I have seen around here for many a year

M6 between Jct 14 Ballinasloe & 13 Athlone cars aqua planing off motorway huge amounts of surface water

TheRiverman · 08-06-2018 8:26pm

cyclops999 wrote: »

M6 between Jct 14 Ballinasloe & 13 Athlone cars aqua planing off motorway huge amounts of surface water

Probably idiots driving too fast and not respecting the weather conditions or more careful drivers.

irishgeo · 08-06-2018 8:37pm

It was some rain in tuam earlier. Just about made it from the car to work before it started.

lolie · 08-06-2018 8:53pm

Screenshot of a flash earlier this evening.
Plenty of thunder heard in the distance today but seen very little lightning.
At least we escaped the worst of the downpours here.

Danno · 08-06-2018 9:11pm

Ballyragget 6mm
Durrow 7mm
Johnstown (Kilkenny) 23mm

Some difference over ~10 miles.

RobertKK · 08-06-2018 9:26pm

Danno wrote: »

Ballyragget 6mm
Durrow 7mm
Johnstown (Kilkenny) 23mm

Some difference over ~10 miles.

and it keeps dying out here just before it reaches me here in north east Kilkenny.

Only got 0.4mm earier today.

jimmynokia · 08-06-2018 9:49pm

View this evening looks like no action for dublin...

https://imgur.com/a/1vnlt5b

Danno · 08-06-2018 9:51pm

https://twitter.com/laoisweather/status/1005188818230759425?s=21

Can see the edge of it behind the rainbow @RobertKK

jimmynokia · 08-06-2018 9:52pm

https://twitter.com/convectivewx/status/1005184951397093378

sryanbruen · 08-06-2018 9:55pm

Flash flooding Omagh to Monaghan.

https://www.facebook.com/DonegalWeatherC/videos/1574794275963649/

Grandeeod · 08-06-2018 10:04pm

jimmynokia wrote: »

View this evening looks like no action for dublin...

https://imgur.com/a/1vnlt5b

It is over!

jimmynokia · 08-06-2018 10:09pm

Just taken now really nice https://imgur.com/a/GmnHkq8

jimmynokia · 08-06-2018 10:10pm

Grandeeod wrote: »

It is over!

Yip and tomorrow dont look better although If things really kick off I might travel.

Oneiric 3 · 08-06-2018 10:12pm

Does anyone have a link to the Iceland lightning maps? Ta in advance.

Squatter · 08-06-2018 10:13pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Does anyone have a link to the Iceland lightning maps? Ta in advance.

Link to 24 hour option: http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

Link to 7 day option: http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/index.html?

Rougies · 08-06-2018 10:14pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Does anyone have a link to the Iceland lightning maps? Ta in advance.

Presume you mean this one?

http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

Oneiric 3 · 08-06-2018 10:14pm

jimmynokia wrote: »

Just taken now really nice https://imgur.com/a/GmnHkq8

Stratocumulus stratiformis

Oneiric 3 · 08-06-2018 10:19pm

Cheers Sqautter & Rougies. They are the ones. Amazing to see just how much of the country is covered with recorded sferics today, especially given the benign looking synoptics at the moment.

Rougies · 08-06-2018 10:48pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Cheers Sqautter & Rougies. They are the ones. Amazing to see just how much of the country is covered with recorded sferics today, especially given the benign looking synoptics at the moment.

It was a great day for a lot of the country alright, I'm glad lots of you got some action. I'm dying for a decent thunderstorm here, it has been years since we got anything noteworthy other than a few rumbles here and there.

I have vague memories of the big one in 1985, I was only 6 years old but it stuck with me and I think I've been chasing that memory ever since. The early snow memories of the 80s have been re-lived multiple times in recent years which just goes to show how rare a good thunderstorm is, around these parts anyway!

Heavy Showers/Thunderstorms - Friday June 8th

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