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In pictures: today’s bizarre weather

Forget about four seasons a year. We’re getting four seasons a day, it seems.

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SUN. CHECK. RAIN. Check. Thunder & lightning. Check.

We have no idea what’s going on weather-wise but today has brought the changeable weather that the good folk over at Met Éireann had predicted.

Bright blue skies were replaced by dark, ominous-looking clouds. The Meteo Times kindly sent TheJournal.ie its photo-log of the day, which shows how the people of Leitrim were basking in glorious sun while those in the capital ran for shelter from some “driving rain”.

In pictures: today’s bizarre weather
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  • Satellite

    Satellite image of Ireland at 1pm. Three lines of thunderstorms can be seen (Sligo to East Galway, in the Midlands and another in Mid Ulster).

  • Lightning

    Red marks the lightning spots from today.

  • Kilkenny

    Sunrise. Image: Lil Dunne

  • Dublin

    2pm, Dublin. Image: Sandra Creevey

  • Tullamore, Offaly

    Thunderstorm on Tuesday as seen looking from Monasterevin towards Tullamore. Image Miriam Kelly

  • Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim

    Image Michael Cecil

  • Howth, Co Dublin

    2.15pm. Image: Roz O'B

  • Edenderry, Co. Offaly

    Image: Dave Hughes

  • Dun Laoghaire Marina

    Also 2pm. Image: Paal Janson

  • Dublin in the Afternoon

    Thunder approaches on Tuesday afternoon. Image: Coran Kelly

  • Drogheda, Co. Louth

    Image: John O'Carroll

  • Drogheda, Co Louth

    Image: Carol McCabe

  • Clogherhead, Co. Louth

    Ominous clouds. Image: Mary McCourt

  • Athlone, Co. Westmeath

    Tuesday morning. Image: Denise McNamara

  • Athea, Co. Limerick

    Tuesday morning. Image: Grainne Mannix

  • Cork

    Mary Cadogan describes her 'Irish Summer' composition as 'driving rain'.

  • Meanwhile, in Leitrim

    Or the Costa Del Keshkerrigan as Blanaid Hoffman calls it at 2.45pm.

  • And on Monday...

    Some of the biggest raindrops seen in Dublin 7. Image: Breda O'Hara

  • Also on Monday

    Intense rain core and lowering over north Dublin on Monday evening. Image Ian Carruthers

  • West Cork

    Is it safe to come out now? Madeleine McKeown sent us this image from West Cork
  • Satellite image of Ireland at 1pm. Three lines of thunderstorms can be seen (Sligo to East Galway, in the Midlands and another in Mid Ulster).
  • Red marks the lightning spots from today.
  • Sunrise. Image: Lil Dunne
  • 2pm, Dublin. Image: Sandra Creevey
  • Thunderstorm on Tuesday as seen looking from Monasterevin towards Tullamore. Image Miriam Kelly
  • Image Michael Cecil
  • 2.15pm. Image: Roz O'B
  • Image: Dave Hughes
  • Also 2pm. Image: Paal Janson
  • Thunder approaches on Tuesday afternoon. Image: Coran Kelly
  • Image: John O'Carroll
  • Image: Carol McCabe
  • Ominous clouds. Image: Mary McCourt
  • Tuesday morning. Image: Denise McNamara
  • Tuesday morning. Image: Grainne Mannix
  • Mary Cadogan describes her 'Irish Summer' composition as 'driving rain'.
  • Or the Costa Del Keshkerrigan as Blanaid Hoffman calls it at 2.45pm.
  • Some of the biggest raindrops seen in Dublin 7. Image: Breda O'Hara
  • Intense rain core and lowering over north Dublin on Monday evening. Image Ian Carruthers
  • Is it safe to come out now? Madeleine McKeown sent us this image from West Cork

And it doesn’t look like this afternoon will be the end of it. Forecasters are expecting the unsettled and changeable conditions to continue through the end of the week with “very wet weather” sweeping in off the Atlantic overnight on Thursday. This will continue to affect the island during Friday.

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