After heavy and intense thunder showers in the Sliabh Sneacht, Buncrana, County Donegal, area Met Eireann (Ireland’s meteorologists) are trying to confirm reports of a tornado in the area.
They confirmed to RTE that the tornado was spotted at 11.30am on Monday. They also said that they had seen “localized, heavy echoes” on the radar.
Met Éireann said “it would not be unlikely for there to be more such incidents in the next 24 to 48 hours.”
Karl Mehlhorn of the Irish Weather Network told TheJournal.ie that what people believe was a tornado was actually a rope funnel. This is a twister, or tornado that touches down at sea. It would be referred to as a water spout if it were on land.
Met Eireann confirmed that the warm temperatures and unstable air in the area would have been ideal conditions to create the rope funnel.
This unusual weather activity has been ongoing in the area. Just last week, to the south, off Mayo, an earthquake was felt. Also earlier this month the Donegal area experienced an ice storm.
Who knows what’s next.
Here’s the amazing footage captured by Niamh O’Raw from Umricam:
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Bythebay | Jun 15, 2012, 03:40 PM EDT
Crazy US weather continues...golf size hail in Texas, out of control fires in Colorado, dust storms in Arizona......
peterson | Jun 13, 2012, 02:08 PM EDT
It is either a tornado or the twisted mind of a liberal!!
tharkin | Jun 13, 2012, 03:12 AM EDT
>>>>> After heavy and intense thunder showers in the Sliabh Sneacht, Buncrana, County Donegal, area Met Eireann (Ireland’s meteorologists) are trying to confirm reports of a tornado in the area.<<<<<< ah . . . unless I am mistaken . . theres a picture of it on this very page - What else is needed to confirm a tornado? & How is it even acheived after the event!
EphraimKibbey | Jun 12, 2012, 12:44 PM EDT
Oh the difference a word makes: it is a WATER spout if it touchs down on the "WATER" (not the land.) Note to all Global Warming deniers. The Virginia legislature is trying to write codes dealing with the rising sea level as it eats away at that state's coastline. The GOP members of the legislature refused to allow the words "rising sea levels" to be used in the codes and substituted "recurrent flooding." What will they do when the beaches are all under water and there is no sand for them to stick their heads in. They also refuse to allow both "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" in the codes. It was not so long ago that the GOP was insisting that the latter should be used instead of the former. I guess people eventually caught on to that euphemism. Can anyone help the deniers with some new ones?
FastEddy | Jun 12, 2012, 11:32 AM EDT
"The sky is falling, the sky is falling ..." So that water spout comes ashore and panties get bunched in TVLand. It got to be fear of global warming, more global worming. Never in the history of mankind has raising taxes ever, ever changed the weather.
RedBranch | Jun 12, 2012, 10:54 AM EDT
Coming soon: Plague of Locusts
Portia777 | Jun 12, 2012, 09:47 AM EDT
Dear Old Mother Nature has woken up from her slumber.