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One of the best lightning displays I think I saw was I want to say April of 2002...though it may have been May. It happened on a Sunday. I was in New Britain at my grandparents there and we had a nasty storm roll through during the afternoon which produced 1.5" hail (still largest hail I've seen). Then back in West Hartford that night, we had a second round...and the lighting with this was insane...just non stop flashing as the storms approached and lots of CGs and loud thunder. There was one too (I can't even remember the year but I think it was August. Had to be summer of 2007 I think). My friend came down from New Hampshire randomly and we drove around the part of West Hartford towards the Reservoir where its elevated and the amount of CGs...that was actually scary stuff. It was just like gunshot sounds. Literally was like the CGs were striking next to us.

at 3:33 in that video, you can hear the charge build up like 5 seconds before the strike. it's insane

Thank you for making me aware of this. This and video of the tornado approaching the guy in the window are two of the most incredible things on the web to me

Yeah I remember a few pretty good lightning events on the Cape in the 80's and 90's. one may have been 7/10/89, had pea size hail for 30 minutes and wind too

There’s others but I mean the big boys. I don’t get off on Wiz type storms.

No changes in my model thinking above. No thread from myself at this time. Will try and check back tomorrow. 231pm/2

That is a long area of watches

I recall an early 1990s storm like that when I was in Newport RI. Maybe 1992 or so? Constant strobing.

its amazing out now...took a while but we got there.

I went from a cool 53 this morning and wore a jacket to 75 with some sun.

Definitely spiking. Cool looking temp graph. You can see when the line of thunderstorms went through

yeah I posted that, not sure if others did. Those storms were absolutely wild, only times I saw lightning like that in New England was the 2000 supercell and 6/20/95

That had like a 10% chance of verifying…

Looks like some popcorn cells starting to show up to the west

Well thankfully ...this is what I said: "We may actually scour out prior to the real warm front moving through over the course of the next several hours ... but, if that happens the high intense sun will then process the shit out of the prefrontal inversion and we may see a "frontal leap" up to a bicycle ride S of Brian where it stalls until next spring ..." Which is exactly what happened, bold. Brian might be hosed though hopefully The last hour we went from 62 to 74 here and probably we still have a shot at the upper 70s given to heating at this time of year lasting until 4 oclock,

I told Mr Map to put fertilizer down so it better rain lol

This has blip written all over it, like one off fluke.

Torch!

Yup that and the Aug 10th 2000 nocturnal event..Sad that only two in 25 years stand out lol

Gibson's pitching. Yup.

73/63

Yeah - lasted 10-15 minutes. Probably somewhere between .25-.5 inches I'd estimate I think we're in the same town, unless you've moved anytime in the past 10 years or so

About 6 weeks later (Mid-July) we were visiting family at DEC and near sunset on Saturday a storm passed maybe 6-8 miles to our south. Most frequent flashes I ever hope to see - 100/minute plus - and the thunder was like a drum roll thanks to distance/frequency. Later that evening another storm dumped 3" at the kids' place in 90 minutes; lots of thunder but nothing like the earlier one. Next morning at church folks were exclaiming about the light show - impressed even the locals.

ECM is 1-2" through Monday then an additional 1-1.5" in scattered showers through the 7 day most of that on Tuesday Much improved forecast from a couple days ago now mostly Monday and Tuesday as cloudy and wet

Fickle evolution. Hopefully the wetter models are right. It won’t cause flooding since the rain comes over a few days and we need to build up the groundwater for summer.