Famous Thunderstorms

**Metrostars** · 19/07/2006, 1:11 PM

We had some great thunder and lightening last night from about 7-8pm and again 10-12. Check out this pic from my local newspaper:
http://www.norwalkadvocate.com/news/...-top-headlines

**Thunderblaster** · 20/07/2006, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by Thunderblaster

As the Spanish Plume moves northwards over Ireland, get your cameras ready to take pictures or record the potential storm of the century. If it is hot today, there is the possibilty of real booming thunder and in yer face lightning of the 25th July 1985 mode!!

Really dissapointed that it did not happen at home.

However, in Counties Louth, Down and Antrim, I heard that it was a spectacular lightning show all night last night and there were 1,000 strikes recorded from the storm.

I heard that there was some very good footage taken in Lisburn.

Originally Posted by Metrostars

We had some great thunder and lightening last night from about 7-8pm and again 10-12. Check out this pic from my local newspaper:
http://www.norwalkadvocate.com/news/...-top-headlines

Yum Yum!!

I'm sure that bolt of lightning put some manners on the scallywags!!

**Magicme** · 21/07/2006, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by Thunderblaster

Really dissapointed that it did not happen at home.

However, in Counties Louth, Down and Antrim, I heard that it was a spectacular lightning show all night last night and there were 1,000 strikes recorded from the storm.

I heard that there was some very good footage taken in Lisburn.

We had some too....I hardly slept coz had been joking all week that due to the metal rod newly inserted into my ankle that I was a walking Lightening Rod...then I got scared when the lightening started!

It was only a small storm tho.

**Thunderblaster** · 24/07/2006, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Thunderblaster

Really dissapointed

Disappointed!!

Doh!!

TB, get your spellings right!!

**Docboy** · 25/07/2006, 3:25 PM

[QUOTE=dahamsta]Glastonbury in June. Words fail me, it was just incredible.

I'd back up that one Adam. Lying in my tent dying for a p**s waiting for the storm to disipate until finally I had to open the zip and hope for the best. Unforgetable!

**Thunderblaster** · 29/07/2006, 11:45 AM

Anybody check out the front page of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express yesterday? Class lightning picture taken over Eastbourne in Sussex!!

**Thunderblaster** · 30/07/2006, 8:24 PM

Originally Posted by Thunderblaster

Anybody check out the front page of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express yesterday? Class lightning picture taken over Eastbourne in Sussex!!

There was a better picture in the Daily Mail of HMS Victory in Portsmouth and spectacular lightning in the background!! Pretty cool!!

**Thunderblaster** · 19/08/2006, 4:19 PM

The atmosphere was electric, literally, over the last couple of days. Thursday afternoon was a thunderstorm classic in Repton, Derbyshire while the Mayo Schoolboy Academy side were playing Derby County. The thunder started to rumble in the first half and as it got nearer, it was constant claps and rumbles. First flash of lightning was observed at half time when we were giving the half time team talk. The thunder grew louder in the second half and about ten minutes in there was this tremendous bolt of fork lightning, and I shouted "Wow-Wee" followed by a clap of thunder. Moments later came the next bolt and the game got abandoned. One stupid wag started to shelter underneath a bush. We got our stuff and ran for the house. As we were running alongside the tennis court, it got hit by a bolt; just as well I told the kids to keep away from the trees and the rain started to cascade down. There was one particular incident when the lightning and the (very loud, explosive) thunder came together. Each bolt of lightning was greeted with a cheer. Word came through that a house was hit by lightning close to us and falling masonary flattened a car

. That thunderstorm was my worst experienced outside of Ireland and the second worst after the Aughrim Street storm in 1990. Went to Burton on Trent in the evening and there was some lightning again. Passing through Stoke on Trent yesterday morning, the bus lit up with the lightning and there was this almighty bang of thunder. That was not the end of it, back on Irish soil, there was lightning in North Kildare/South Meath last night. Cool stuff!!

T-12

**Thunderblaster** · 18/11/2006, 5:34 PM

Had a bit of thunder and a bit of lightning yesterday evening. Apparently, a lady got some lightning pics, so it would be interesting to see.

If you are looking for some lightning fun, then check this out!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkaS7mf2hrI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jhjIdbg73w

**Thunderblaster** · 30/03/2007, 10:03 PM

We enjoyed some thunder on Sunday December 3rd, Friday 29th December in Liverpool, a right display of thunder on Saturday 20th January and again on Thursday 15th February.

**Thunderblaster** · 16/07/2007, 10:44 PM

There was some thunder on the 11th June that I missed but yesterday evening, I enjoyed watching a downpour and the lightning lit up the main street with a rap of thunder a second later. Today, the rumblers were at it again and it was a nasty sounding rap of thunder. It doesn't thunder for 40 days if there is a thunderstorm on St Swithin's Day, does it?

**tricky_colour** · 16/07/2007, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by Thunderblaster

Had a bit of thunder and a bit of lightning yesterday evening. Apparently, a lady got some lightning pics, so it would be interesting to see.

If you are looking for some lightning fun, then check this out!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkaS7mf2hrI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jhjIdbg73w

I heard a tremendous lightening strike last night which shook my house, apparently it hit a house about 3/4 of a mile away and blew the tiles off the roof, it sounded louder to me than the one in the first video, I could feel the house shake. God alone knows what it was like for the owner of the house who was inside at the time. Apparently he was "badly shaken up" - I bet he was

**sligoman** · 17/07/2007, 12:05 AM

Awful thunder in Sligo this afternoon.

**Wolfie** · 17/07/2007, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by Thunderblaster

We enjoyed some thunder on Sunday December 3rd, Friday 29th December in Liverpool, a right display of thunder on Saturday 20th January and again on Thursday 15th February.

Fair play Thunderblaster. 6 posts on the topic without a break. You're enthusiasm for all things thunder and lightening related has an almost pathological level to its intensity. It's almost as if its your source of power.

Are you a superhero?

**the 12 th man** · 17/07/2007, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Wolfie

Fair play Thunderblaster. 6 posts on the topic without a break. You're enthusiasm for all things thunder and lightening related has an almost pathological level to its intensity. It's almost as if its your source of power.

Are you a superhero?

**passinginterest** · 17/07/2007, 4:22 PM

Loudest thunderclap ever, about an hour ago, I was in Kildare Street, Dublin city centre. Lightning flash looked like it was right outside the window and thunder was deafining. Cool.

**McShels** · 19/07/2007, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

Loudest thunderclap ever, about an hour ago, I was in Kildare Street, Dublin city centre. Lightning flash looked like it was right outside the window and thunder was deafining. Cool.

I was walking along Pearse St when I heard a very loud thunderclap, quickly followed by lightning, was cool.

Best I remember was the day I got married, at some point during the mass there was a loud clap of thunder which seemed to be right above the church roof, the priest stalled for a second and someone shouted 'Run, the Lord has spoken'. That was in October 2002

**KevB76** · 20/07/2007, 11:27 PM

Myself and a colleague were driving up to Galway yesterday afternoon when we spotted what can only be described as a tornado !! Dark grey cloudy sky with a full on funnel coming down to the ground, and this thing was not small. Dont know how long it was there before we noticed it but it withdrew back into the clouds within a few minutes after that. Never seen anything like it, didnt think we would get that sort of thing here. Has anyone else seen it or something similar ?