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'Freak Weather' Conditions!

Started by Doc, Jul 02 2007 22:01

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#1 Doc

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Posted 02 July 2007 - 22:01

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 by Doc, 02 July 2007 - 22:06 .

#2 Rustynailer

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Posted 02 July 2007 - 22:13

http://www.rte.ie/ne.../0702/rush.html ;)
As for what caused the explosion, I have never heard of anything like that :lol:
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Posted 03 July 2007 - 05:50

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

Edited by Doc, 03 July 2007 - 05:51 .

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Posted 03 July 2007 - 06:23

A rumble of thunder? The media will happily call anything 'freak'.
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Posted 03 July 2007 - 07:07

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

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Posted 03 July 2007 - 10:51

Ball lightning?
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Posted 03 July 2007 - 11:34

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

surely they cant misplace an entire helicopter ?
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Posted 03 July 2007 - 11:55

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.
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Posted 04 July 2007 - 17:33

Sounds a bit X-fileish Snowbie!!! ;)

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Posted 04 July 2007 - 17:41

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 ;)
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Edited by Rustynailer, 04 July 2007 - 17:41 .

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Posted 04 July 2007 - 17:55

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

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Posted 04 July 2007 - 17:59

Id also like to nominate ball lightning ;)


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

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Posted 04 July 2007 - 18:02

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

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Posted 04 July 2007 - 18:59

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

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Posted 04 July 2007 - 19:25

View PostDoc, on 4 Jul 2007, 07:59 PM, said:

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

:lol: ;)

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Posted 04 July 2007 - 21:11

View Postkippure, on 4 Jul 2007, 07:02 PM, said:

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

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Posted 06 July 2007 - 13:05

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.
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