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Decent cells popping in SNH.

Just got a code purple for tomorrow up here. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a Code PURPLE Air Quality Alert for all of central Pennsylvania for Friday, July 17th. Wildfire smoke from northern Minnesota and south central Canada will continue to result in unhealthy air quality through Friday. Everyone should limit outdoor strenuous activity and exercise due to poor air quality. Sensitive groups should avoid all outdoor activity. Sensitive groups include children, the elderly, and people suffering from heart disease, asthma, or other lung diseases.

Still running the genny, approaching 3.5 hr. Read that 6,000+ w/o power in Franklin County. Its total population is a bit under 30k.

It's all agw, nothing will stop runaway burning of the taiga

Smoke smell is as strong as yesterday, but nowhere near as bad

Close to 170 now

Been stuck in the smoke since yesterday late morning. Looks like we get a reprieve tomorrow though.

On my last load it was even getting into the truck through the air conditioner. It stinks out there. Despite the smoke, I've maxed out (so far) at 89 degrees

The past few years has been crazy with the smoke but this is the worst I’ve ever experienced. AQI in Libertyville was over 700 briefly. That’s absolutely insane. Not sure how to look up historical data on this but is this a relatively new thing within the past 5-10 years? I do not remember anything like this ever happening in the 90s - 2010s. I’m sure climate change is a contributor but what else is at play here? Why are the fires so much more intense than in decades past? Has Canada stopped doing some sort of prevention/mitigation that they used to do in the past? Have rainfall amounts dramatically decreased up there recently? Or am I simply misremembering and this has always been an issue? It feels like this only started happening maybe 5 years ago but it’s been every summer since.

Oh boy. I run one of the water tankers, so that's a regular route to Fogelsville. I can go through Schnecksville if I need to, but our 8,000 gallon tankers are permitted, and can only use 309/100, as they weigh 100,000 lbs. I wonder if Penn Dot is going to adjust the permit route so they can keep running.

What a local Steining. 5 drops.

88/77/102

On vacation in CNJ visiting family. 4pm full sun no cloud cover. .

Lost power at home. Not there but radar looked like we got hit pretty hard Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk

Current skies in East Brunswick while on vacation. .

ROgue storm in NJ

My AQi is 153 right now

If we can’t have severe weather maybe we can have severe smoke?

Vis is pretty low at jones beach right now despite a minor sw sea breeze .

Tuesday was 5 years since a fairly prolific tornado outbreak in north central-northeast Iowa. I managed to put myself in great position for the Waverly multivortex EF2 and then blow it, only getting 30 seconds or so of footage AFTER it produced its last visibly condensed vortex. Thus I don't count it as my "official" first tornado although I did glimpse an elephant's trunk vortex in my rear view mirror before pulling over, snapping a photo (during which it was still partially condensed) and then rolling video after which it stubbornly refused to condense again and I was apparently more interested in filming the more visually ominous inflow band.

Wind just picked up here way in front of front. Probably that dying shower passing overhead.

12Z GFS (among other models/ensembles as per SPC's latest 4-8) is spicy for Monday 7/20. However I think a lot is going to depend on if these fires can be tamped down somewhat in the meantime, as this would be another northwest flow setup.

Any of you CNC folks that track stats have a count on Number of days 95 or over How is that going compared to an "avearge" number

I'd stay away from lettuce, at least until the drought is over.

Yea it’s horrible out now with smoke. Smells like a camp fire is right next to you.