North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Tornado

I'm looking out of my window at a giant black cloud that is about to unleash a whole lot of rain very soon, and probably the odd flash of lightning too.
Things could be worse. On this day in 1054, the earliest recorded tornado in Europe scared the hell out of the folk in Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath. Nothing so exciting has happened in Kilbeggan since (and Ireland hasn't had many tornados either, thankfully).