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Stms moving through. Rains helping clear the air. Very nice break

I bet they're gonna fly:

Not as visible the last couple of years but you can still see traces.

COD: Satellite and Radar (Friday July 17, 2026 at 17:56 PM EST)

The smoke today smells worse than usual. The smoke I remember out west was a straight campfire smell. This smells like campfire mixed with New Jersey (a mix of burning rubber and bad BO).

As far as Gulfport, FL, this has already been the most exciting weather event since Milton.

Hugging the Herpderp. Other mesos look like shit.

Just missed here as well per usual with pop ups. Something about this location is no good for those.

Smoke will limit fuel - but there is a theory smoke can create its on low-level system to enhance a front. We’ll see!

You know it

yeah - i mean vis is a little better, smells gross out though.

this sucks

The ground smoke mixed out here hours ago too.

So, will tomorrow's high severe chances finally overcome the Tamaqua Split?

It's been raining and thundering the past hour with gusty winds and occasional heavy rainfall rates. Currently 70 with moderate rain.

Storms popping everywhere.

Just wanted to add for the Maryland folks. The Maryland Department of Environment has some real nerdy pollution meteorologists. Their forecasts are almost always spot on and they regularly coordinate with the various NWS offices. We're very fortunate to have these folks in our state!

Close to zero here to your south

Yes sir. 11Lbs short of a personal best, but I'll still take it at 44lbs. The past two trips my son has hooked something absolutely monstrous and it's thrown the hook both times. My son and I are on some really big fish at the moment and I think it's only a matter of a trip or two until we land something on a whole other level. We've had some opportunities at something special the last few trips but we just can't land it. I've been a few pounds short of the state record twice in the past 20 years when it was still down in the 50lbs range. Now that it's at sixty six pounds, and i'm fifty years old, the Flathead record is starting to become a tall order

Wisdom often comes with age compared to simpletons still wet behind the ears. Be patient, you will arrive at the wisdom stage much sooner than you think.

I was on a Lufthansa regional flight once from London to Munich… There had been a body-building competition and there were like a dozen absolutely massive human beings on the flight (all eating their Tupperware's of chicken and rice). They actually had to walk up and down the plane and redistribute the body builders throughout the plane before we could leave the gate. My buddy was like, dude, if we are so close to a limit that this airline official is walking the rows with a calculator and getting 300+ pound dudes to swap seats with petite women to even out the plane’s weight… like if that dude sits in 3A, this plane won’t get off the ground but if he’s in 36D we take flight… WTF, lol.

Thank you grandpa.

Doesn’t have to be an Iowa derecho just give me a GD thunderstorm

Seems like once these storms roll over the mountains it really amplifies them at least for Monroe county. .

My forestry education at U. Maine included only one semester on wildfire behavior/control. However, 2 historical fires in Maine illustrated some interesting facets. The largest of the 1947 fires, one which covered about half of the 200k acres torched that October and wiped out the centers of 2 small towns, was already large when a dry cold front quickly changed the wind from SW to NW. That almost instantly making the long flank into the head and endangering those on that flank side. At the time, October had had no measurable rain and the last week of September only 0.08". Given the diurnal ranges at CF time, the air must've been extremely dry. PWM temps: 10/23 83 35 CF early afternoon? That night? 10/24 59 26 10/25 65 20 The 2nd fire was in July 1977 at the SW corner of Baxter Park with some Great Northern land also involved. In November 1974 a heavy wet snow followed by strong NW wind flattened 3,000+ acres. Due to Governor Baxter's deed of trust, very little salvage was done beyond roadside cleanup. June 1977 had been wet, but July had had very little rain when lightning ignited the ultra-seasoned tangle of trees in mid-month, the fire covering nearly all of the blowdown area plus some outside of it, about 3,500 acres in total. The forest had been heavily stocked with mixed hardwoods and softwoods, not especially old but probably about 30 cords/acre and very few trees remained standing after the 1974 event. Stems were often piled 12-15 feet high. The forester who was managing the salvage told me that the flames were able to move downhill at night, thanks to the incredible volume of well-seasoned fuel.