'Freak Weather' Conditions!

[Doc]

Link below to news story today of 'explosion' last night in north Co. Dublin.

www.rte.ie/news/2007/0702/rush.html Sorry - can't get link to work - you may have to copy and paste :lol:

'Explosion' put down to 'freak waether' conditions (not connected - directly anyway - to any thunderstorm activity).

Any ideas or thoughts what that might be about?

Edited July 2, 2007 by Doc

[Rustynailer]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0702/rush.html

As for what caused the explosion, I have never heard of anything like that :lol:

Russ

[Doc]

Cheers for rectifying my link! With me - the words competent and computers rarely occur in the same sentence!!! :o

Edited July 3, 2007 by Doc

[Lightning Hunter]

A rumble of thunder? The media will happily call anything 'freak'.

[Doc]

Wouldn't appear to be thunder - if you look at the attcahed news report this is sort of ruled out.

[Andy Bown]

Ball lightning?

[Lynxus]

" The fire service says a helicopter search was carried out overnight but nothing was found. "

surely they cant misplace an entire helicopter ?

[Snowbie]

No lightning in the area at the time or close by in fact.It appears to be a methane explosion of some description as it was also heard in Swords,co Dublin too about 6-7miles away.There is a tight lid on this for some reason.

[Doc]

Sounds a bit X-fileish Snowbie!!!

[Rustynailer]

I think its very nice, when we humans actually don't know what the answer is for something as simple as a loud bang. At last the unknown, we are not perfect

Russ

Edited July 4, 2007 by Rustynailer

[kippure]

There keeping very tight lipped about this. Why? Shall we call fox maulder?

[The Eagle]

Id also like to nominate ball lightning

Though radar replays from that night dont seem to be condusive with thunderstorms rather just light rain....

Edited July 4, 2007 by Darkman

[kippure]

The gardai and army we,re on the scene very very quickly? Why?

[Doc]

Maybe the cover up is that Gardai and Army were letting off bangers for the craic!

[kippure]

Maybe the cover up is that Gardai and Army were letting off bangers for the craic!

:lol:

[Supacell]

The gardai and army we,re on the scene very very quickly? Why?

UFO crash :o

[Tim B]

There was a very loud explosion up here a couple of weeks back, turned out to be kids with an industrial firework on a nearby car park.