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A PHOTO TAKEN in Limerick yesterday showed what looked like a twister.
However, Met Eireann confirmed to TheJournal.ie that it might in fact just be a funnel cloud.
It said these can and do occur frequently in a situation where there are heavy showers.
So what’s a cloud funnel then?
Turns out a funnel cloud is not dangerous unless it stretches down and touches the ground – in which case it can become a tornado.
Fortunately for the people of Limerick- this funnel remained airborne.
As you were.
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No,
that’s definitely a lamp post…
It took a look down seen it was over Limerick and tough better of it. !!!!!!!!
Wouldn’t blame it
Good man, obnoxious pr*ck.
Thanks.
Cloud funnel passed over my house a few yrs back, and nearly brought al in the garden with it, so they can cause some damage
A funnel cloud IS a Twister (or tornado) it just isn’t one that touches down and therefore doesn’t do any damage (usually) a rather badly written piece of journalism I’m afraid either that or the weather person did not make themselves very clear.
There are few things more terrifying than seeing one of these things coming in your direction, it may stay up above you or it could touch down and for an exposed person that can be very bad (buildings, animals, cars too)…Ireland is lucky that most funnels here are no longer than F1′s or F2′s – still bad if it takes off YOUR roof but not as bad as the monsters they get quite often in North America.
does the journal advertise for clowns….
Well obviously Gravel since you answered.
Looks like you’re the clown!
It’s Sin Fein putting politics beyond use!
Yawn..
remember seeing one past by me in a campsite in oxygen a few year back, thought it was someone with a wind machine at first, then next of all a tent gets lifted about 200 feet in the air. mad crack altogether !
Clickbait title.
Looks like my storm chasing career is on hold!
I’m growing old, the lights are dim,
my harbour light’s going out,
what was once my sex appeal
is now my water-spout…
The government will start to charge a tax on taking photos next… loll.
I don’t see any ice cream in the photo?
A missed opportunity for the “twenty quids worth of damage” joke.
Along the Boyne west of Trim is a place where tornadoes show up almost yearly and they have caused some damage in recent years , maybe our new journal expert Melodi could provide some more vivid and heart stopping details on these for us?
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