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Thursday/Friday: Lightning Storms, Flash Flooding Event Thread

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    #242
    mhiggy09
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭mhiggy09


    After half an hr of cutting the lawn with a push lawn mower both me and the mower have given up the ghost. Humidity and heat is an energy sapper.


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    #243
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,708 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    24.5C here at Dunshaughlin, making today the joint warmest day of the year along with the 2nd of June. If I can nudge an extra degree over the next hour then perhaps today will be the warmest day of the year at my location.

    Phoenix Park at 25C and many other stations at 23 or 24C.


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    #244
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    About 24 degrees in Cork City. Wasn't expecting temps this high down here. Lovely!


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    #245
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Very warm in mid Kildare at the moment.


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    #246
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,139 ✭✭✭highdef


    It has surpassed 27c in North kildare. 27.3c with the sunshine turning hazy. A lot of land based convection has recently begun with some decent towers becoming evident.

    I'm also interested in the area of cloud moving into Wexford now. Now sure if it's something building or if it's something that could be triggered further as it moves over the Wicklow mountains.


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    #247
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Like others have mentioned heat is draining here in SW Kildare.

    Lot of cloud cover at the moment


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    #248
    whippet
    Registered Users Posts: 7,668 ✭✭✭whippet


    I've just finished a deadlift session in the back garden - it was almost impossible to breath. Should have sat on my arse instead !


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    #249
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,139 ✭✭✭highdef


    UKMO quite keen to suggest widespread thunderstorms in eastern parts tomorrow afternoon.


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    #250
    Mortelaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    A lot of altocumulus in Arklow now,the same as yesterday
    The air feels thick


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    #251
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Anyone know when the heat will die down this evening


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    #252
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Anyone know when the heat will die down this evening

    It won't back off much till after 8pm or 9pm and at that it will probably stay above 20c unless you get heavy showers.


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    #253
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    I'm lucky to live in a flat in a 200 yr old house, walls are 2 feet thick, rarely have a problem with the heat


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    #254
    greenspurs
    Registered Users Posts: 10,218 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    all this jibber jabber. :)

    Are we having thunderstorms/thunder&Lightning/rain or what ??
    All of the above, some of the above or none ?
    247469249_2017413731748359_7675802031635703098_n.jpg

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... "



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    #255
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Not able for this dead heat.

    I have to pack a car boot with stock for work tomor morning and I’m going to leave it to the morning. I’m dreading it but It’s too hot right now


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    #256
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭pad199207


    27.2°c Kildare


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    #257
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,139 ✭✭✭highdef


    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    I'm lucky to live in a flat in a 200 yr old house, walls are 2 feet thick, rarely have a problem with the heat

    Similar here. The sitting room is basically an old cottage from 1901 and it's 22c there. The living room in the new part of the house is over 25c.

    Lots of decent convection to my west and south west. Sky quite dark in that direction. Still very warm hazy sunshine at my location in North kildare and temperature has begin to rise again with a new maximum of 27.5c now. No wind whatsoever.


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    #258
    hawkwing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    First drops of rain just started, ominous clouds overhead.SE Tipp


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    #259
    PukkaStukka
    Registered Users Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    Just looking at the lightning maps for Cornwall versus the rainfall footprint and the lightning is not confined just to where the precipitation is, which suggests the storms are dry


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    #260
    Mortelaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    Convection now also over south wexford
    A very heavy shower near Aberystwyth west wales probably firing


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    #261
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Just switched on the TV and there is an episode of Raging planet on about lightning storms, maybe it's a sign:D


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    #262
    Oneiric 3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Latest WV image. Showers beginning to look more active along and to the east of the main frontal zone.

    CrRa68P.gif

    New Moon



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    #263
    Clonmel1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    hawkwing wrote: »
    First drops of rain just started, ominous clouds overhead.SE Tipp

    There was literally a few drops gone again now though.


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    #264
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,139 ✭✭✭highdef


    The last few frames of visible satellite in sat24 "may" be showing the beginnings of property convection over the Wicklow mountains. Needs another few frames to be more confident. It would make a fair bit of sense that the mountains would provide extra orographical lift.


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    #265
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,139 ✭✭✭highdef


    The last few frames of visible satellite in sat24 "may" be showing the beginnings of property convection over the Wicklow mountains. Needs another few frames to be more confident. It would make a fair bit of sense that the mountains would provide extra orographical lift.


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    #266
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,446 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    GFS going for coastal porn overnight, storms in the eastern half of the country primarily. Though they could pop up anywhere.


    15-574UK.GIF?25-12


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    #267
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Anybody else have that sinking feeling:D:pac:

    Let's hope something happens next few hours:eek:


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    #268
    M.T. Cranium
    Registered Users Posts: 14,326 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    The best dynamics will be after midnight, patience required. Would say 70% chance of thunderstorms in the Dublin area around 0300h. 50-50 further west rising back to 70% around Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal.


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    #269
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm awful worried lads, in my mid-thirties now and there might only be another fifty years left. Better throw in the towel and take it out of the dryer soon. It's obvious Met Eireann have a personal vendetta against me, such defiance is deeply upsetting.

    In all seriousness, we had our fun in the midwest 10 days ago. Hopefully others get front row tickets to the light show later.


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    #270
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭pad199207


    https://twitter.com/islesweather/status/1276196552751677441?s=21


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    #271
    Oneiric 3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Current satellite:

    qYVu34P.gif

    Clouds moving S to N, but what little wind there is here at least is from N to S. Met reports suggest variable and light to calm winds over much of the country.

    New Moon



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