Brian McGrath

Hi Stelmar Things here in Ireland especially in the West have reached crisis point, all roads into and out of Galway including main roads are flooded houses and business premises are flooded and people are unable to get to work due the roads being flooded,in the surrounding counties rivers have burst their banks as the water continues to rise, 4 young girls from the University in Galway were killed when their car struck a truck, weather poor visibilty and floods getting part of the blame. This morning local councils are saying they can do no more as the rain has been constant since Tuesday evening and there is no where to pump the water too. To add to all this the Irish Met now are giving us Storm warnings for the weekend which could see violent winds hit us and no respite for next week, with all this rain and wind trees are now starting to fall.I will try to get some pics and post them. Latest Radar of rain over Ireland http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp .

Very dark here now as you can see on the web cams more Thunder on the way http://www.galway.net/about/webcam/

Check out the latest Irish Met Radar lots of activity here at the moment with lots more moving in from the South West http://www.met.ie/

Heres a web cam from Galway Harbour if you scrool down to the 2nd picture you can see another Thunder Storm coming in over Galway Bay on the West Coast of Ireland we have had torrential rain here all day with floods. The 3rd camera down is broken its shows the recent fine summer we had. http://www.galway.net/about/webcam/

West Coast of Ireland being battered by Thunder Storms all day severe flooding in most areas and still going on. For all you experts is the large clouds too the South West of Ireland showing up on this link are they Thunder Storms?/ http://www.sat24.com/

Very stormy here all day, wind at present gusting over 70mph with heavy hail showers and a temp of 7 degrees

Well I woke this morning at around 3.30am and it was bucketing snow, everywhere was white with around 2 inches, got up this morning and there was not a trace of snow to be seen anywhere, when it was snowing the temp was 0 degrees and this morning at 8am it was 3 degrees. What happened????????

Finall the snow gets to Galway tonight not much but its arrived, bitter cold with temp 0

Hi Timmytour Galway Airport flights to the UK are the only ones suffering delays at present, there is supposed to be a band of Rain or Snow that will move down over the Country tonight or tomorrow so I guess you wont know until that happens if flights will be going or coming. We were forecast to get Snow last night but it was rain.

If we were to get anything like the UK have at present we would grind to a halt, we dont have the equipment here to deal with snow like that. The BBC were showing Ireland overnight getting a lot of snow and spreading into the West "hopefully"

My three of Thunder Cloud Anvils and Mammatus over Galway City

Spectacular Thunder and Lightning storm here at the moment

Spectacular Thunder and Lightning storm here at present, Temp 24 degrees and its flat calm so its a ver slow moving storm.

Lashing rain here now, latest radar below.

Last year was great but dont forget that Easter was in April last year not the middle of March

Irish Met are saying we are in for a very windy night here with heavy rain clearing in the morning to wintery showers with sleet and snow.

Thanks to all for the replies, I know now its something that can happen but its my first time to come across it. Regards Brian

As Paul says it was the static on the radio also correct me if I am wrong but I am told if a flash of Lightning is very close to you it makes a loud crack followed by instant thunder.

Hi Roisin We had a lot of lightning this morning which was very bright but no thunder, now I have never seen lightning without thunder,I know you can see a lightning storm miles away but this was close.

Hi Andy Bown, I would have to say it was close as it was dimming lights and the brightest part appeared to be overhead, it lasted for an hour and every flash could be heard on the FM radio.

Hi Guys This morning from around 7am we had torrential rain, we also had lots of sheet lightning every few minutes which was a brilliant blue colour. What surprised me was during this time of lightning we did not have one clap of thunder. Wht caused this I always thought thunder followed lightning. Over to the experts here. Brian

Very Stormy here now with winds gusting over 80 mph the latest Irish Radar clearly shows the Storm centre over Mayo

Flooding all over the place here today, its been so dark the street lights were on during daylight hours never saw so much rain. check the latest Irish Met Radar

Very bad here now torrential rain and 60pmh winds

Very windy here now with winds gusting to 60mph, been gale force all day with the rain now just coming on to the coast.