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Sun seems more like actual sun and not a weird apocalyptic sun, this morning. Had to make a call about going to Hershey today, smoke looks to start clearing up there midday and storms not until way later, so we’re going.

Such a silly back and forth

Everything severe wise seems wagons south . Like South of 84. Hopefully this is not another miss with light showers

Hello again! Nice to hear from you!! I'm happy to give your comment the respect that it deserves. I'm not joking. First two sentences: I'm not concerned about events. Their not supremely important. I'm talking about the millions who work and or play outside. Back in the seventies, the best way to be fired from your job was to call your supervisor and say, I'm not going to work today or the rest of the week because the air is too dirty. Those who had been trapped in an office all day looked forward to being outside in the fresh air for an evening softball game. Some of those who worked and played in all that dirty air have lived to be over 100 years old. Last sentence: Now we know better. Do we really? I'm good friends with a person who will receive major surgery next week. Visiting and receiving phone pre-surgery guidance from about 6 people from the hospital during the past week was a roller coaster of contradictory advice. About 4 people directly gave about 25 do's and dont's. The other 2 directly contradicted some of the guidance from the first 4. Who was correct??? Watch out for those high winds later today. The SPC really enhances the threat around D.C. compared to Augusta County. Otherwise, enjoy your day.

Part of the reason we are getting the more typical 2020s summer +AMO/-PDO Niña-like pattern in North America is due to the Nino forcing being focused in the Southern Hemisphere. The forcing is usually the strongest in the Northern Hemisphere in July. This could be related to the record July El Niño strength coinciding with the Southern Hemisphere winter.

Ugh.. I thought the rain knocked down the smoke. I'm headed out for a 8 mile morning hike and it smells like electrical fire lol. Oh well. I can't sit in the house all day.

Only got down to 80 overnight here. I’d have to go back and look but that may be the all time max low temp IMBY.

I can smell it this morning again. Not as strong as yesterday

SPC has increased the risk of strong tornadoes for all of NJ and EPA.

Nothing but smoke and parched ground here. I'm not expecting any rain this evening either

Rrfs and nam are this evening now

Thundered for “what seemed” like an hour straight here around 4am. I did not expect that.

Still purple with AQI of 213 here

Eversource has a pretty crazy battery program available in CT and MA. They essentially pay you like 6x retail electricity rates when you discharge your battery to the grid during high demand. This is because New England still relies on tons of peak oil fired power plants. When those run electricity from them can be like 30x normal wholesale rates. These plants are crazy expensive because they idle 95% of the year and run off essentially diesel fuel. These oil plants are also used a lot in the winter when there are natural gas pipeline constraints in New England. ISO New England had an article a few years ago how New England burned something crazy like over $500 million in oil in 1 week during a prolonged cold snap. Here is some numbers from a powerwall in CT last year I saw online. The Eversource program is run through Tesla for payments. I think the math is these payments will pay for the battery in 5 years and they have a 10 year warranty. In 2025 there were 41 events during which my powerwall and solar setup sent energy back to the grid. • I received a check from Tesla for $1889.42 in February for these events. • On average, I sent 25.11kWh/event to the grid during each of these events. • I sent 1029kWh in total to the grid during these events. • For an average price of $1.84/kWh and average of $46.08/event. A kwh is currently around .30 in New England. Eversource bought the power from the battery at around 6x or $1.84 kwh during high demand. https://www.eversource.com/residential/save-money-energy/clean-energy-options/energy-storage-solutions

AQ still kinda ass tho even if the air looks cleaner

The storms were 4 hours early as a beefcake MCS is plowing through. Its been a long time since I've had a 'awn storm. You couldn't see the darkness coming til it was right on top nearly. Curious if the smoke caused that. Fr. lightning with constant thunder, going to be shy of an inch after its not moving fast and I see some backbuilding.

Eyeballing either side of 0.10” of rain in the gauge from a thundershower between 4 and 5 AM. Just enough to wet down things at the surface, air quality this morning for Columbia is starting off at about 186.

The Miramichi fire was mostly in NB but also involved some Maine acres. Since the Baxter Fire in 1977, Maine's biggest wildfires have been about 1,000 acres. Lorimer's work on forest history in Maine points to stand-replacement events occurring about 800 years apart for any one area. The state has very little fire-type forest and a cool moist climate with relatively even distribution by month.

Rare hatched tornado risk too.

64 degrees this morning Radar kind of looks spread out.

Oh, thank God it will be enough to keep the grass growing. That’s what I’m really worried about.

AQI still ~130-160 and the fog is making it more irritating. Yuck

About 0.08” with the morning bonus round. Hopefully 2 more rounds today?

Was just woken up by a strong clap of thunder. Thunder smoke? Why the hell not.