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Storms juuuuust missed my place in the western suburbs of Allentown. The cool outflow feels nice at least.

Quite the tree damage I am told Springfield VT to Claremont NH. I-91 was closed for a time. Saw this report: "You can see the path just south of mile 48. I-91 is a debris field for a quarter mile. Twisted trees snapped off that were more than a foot in diameter."

Contrast between dense smoke and n smoke along convective line in n. PA is wild

Dews have dropped a ton. Actually feels nice. 74/51.

Yeah we got it pretty good

Yes, good point referencing history. Something that gets ignored all too often these days b/c if interferes w/ hype or a narrative. Large wildfires in Canada have a cycle of 50-80 years. The dark days here in the 18th century have been traced to large wildfires in Ontario from paleoclimatology IIRC. This is the problem w/ these days, the media and politicians prey on recency bias and short memories and act like what is happening now is unprecedented or not supposed to happen. We are wired to think in human lifetime frames of reference, but that is nothing compared to climate and geological frames. Wildfires are so endemic, some species of plants have evolved to only to germinate w/ fire present The seeds of many plants in fire-prone environments need fire, directly or indirectly, to germinate. These plants produce seeds w/ a tough coating that can lay dormant, awaiting a fire, for several years. So summarily demonizing wildfires is misguided and narrow-minded. Yes, their impacts can be devastating, but that is no different that say hurricanes and tornadoes as to the natural order of things. Fire has a natural role in the environment/ecosystem and it was established long before humans existed.

Smoke hit like a freight train a few minutes ago. I don’t miss that pungent odor one bit

Missing me just a few miles to the north. I was watching the lightning in the north sky. Just some sprinkles here.

I peaked at 98/74 - DCA hit 97.

Yes!

Strong nw wind and smoke keeping temps below 98.

Since there has been no rain here in weeks, I managed to hit 99.9 today. Next few days are going to truly suck

Indeed it does. I think out of the last 4 times we've gone camping, there's been a fire ban for 3. Interesting AFD from BOU this afternoon about next Tues-Wed: I can't imagine what this feels like now... I'd bet one of the 3 times PW exceeded 1.5" was in the flood of Sept 2013, which was the only time I've felt like there was a tropical storm in CO (small dense raindrops, air you could cut with a knife). It was interesting to note that average PW increases to 1.3-1.5" for the Denver area, with the EC ENS having the highest values near 1.5" (seems overdone as only 3 soundings from Denver have EVER exceeded 1.5" PW).

Blessed miss north

GOES-19/GOES-EAST is down so currently there's no live satellite imagery for the entire eastern half of the country.

Suffolk water authority “halt lawn watering immediately”

Completely smoked in here with zero sunlight, and the storms have moved on, so it's not that. I only picked up 0.01", they went around me. I did hear thunder. There are a couple of Air Quality Index (AQI) of 800-1000 in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I don't think it got that high in the 2023 smoke out. https://www.airnow.gov/national-maps/ https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/?monitors=ozonepm&xmin=-12204191.014333315&xmax=-7507899.996493336&ymin=4559496.5702827135&ymax=6460026.841564831

Good thundershower now

Storms fired to the north, but everything is going southeast. Best we'll get is a glancing blow. Looks like Carbon County is getting/gonna get slammed again.

Heavy rain in castleton corners section with thunder gusty winds, nothing at station on West shore yet. High temp of 97° now down to 80°. Quick 0.40".

Heard from my in-laws in Deering there's a ton of down trees on lines up on their hill from that line at 4AM. Awaiting pics.

Kind of funny that the record warm low for July 14 is warmer at Marquette (76) than it is for Detroit (74)

It certainly is beautiful there. But yeah, hard to not cheer for Messi.

Big time lightning with that cell in NW Northampton Cty right now. 484 lightning strikes in the past hour on my Tempest from storms in my area.