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A couple shots of the storm rolling in

That was pretty intense. Winds probably peaked in the 40-50 mph range. Just like this morning, the lightning was impressive. Lost power briefly. 1.35" for the day.

Getting crushed here now. Frequent lightning, wind is picking up bigtime. Pouring. Hope it stays below severe criteria. I just want the rain.

Its here. Sounds wicked. Got some cool shots while it was rolling in.

Glad I got that storm with the warm front this morning. Seeing the usual gap on the radar.

Must have been the profile pic change. Thanks @EastCoast NPZ

Close enough lol. Still better just to the south.

It was a banger. Very noisy. Wasn't really expecting much from the warm frontal passage. Picked up 0.73". Much needed.

The usual. Congrats eastern PA/NJ.

Good watch for Os fans. Not that we need a dose of reality, but this is good stuff, if not depressing.

I need a slow moving tropical depression. Just over 7" of rain here the last 4.5 months.

I think I'm gonna go with it.

Extreme drought continues here. Updated yesterday. Areas just to my south in the same category have had 3" more than me in the past week, so this seems to be lagging. My area might actually be Exceptional, or those areas should be reduced to Severe.

Funny. Also contributing is that they apparently have been serving lettuce tainted by the parasite that is causing long term explosive watery diarrhea. Lovely.

I monitor my dad's solar array and this is exactly the case.

Yep. My yard is as bad as yours since the beginning of March. I pay no attention to the predictions of an inch or more from NWS/WPC a couple days out, because it is not going to verify. At some point the Nino coupling to the atmosphere will take over and this awful dry pattern will shift- but not likely for another month or so.

Yeah there was that, but also some drier air moving from NE to SW. That dry line triggered the training storms over Jersey. The cell that developed and moved southeastward over your area could have been related to that, but weaker and on a a smaller scale.

The CanSIPS advertised h5 pattern for latter part of winter certainly implies cold enough at times. Love the look out west with the Aleutian low placement and the amped EPO ridge. Has the TPV in a favorable spot and suggests a -NAO.

Yeah that storm popped right over the bay. Did you see that training line of storms that moved across central/southern NJ? Some 4" amounts in that area.

Latest CFS runs still going Giga for late winter. Typically when we have the highest probability of a major east coast winter storm during a Nino.

Latest from Mount Holly on the smoke- Latest HRRR/RAP smoke guidance continues to depict that a slug of dense near surface smoke from the wildfires originating over western Ontario will spread into the region tonight. Skies will likely be quite hazy with visibilities projected to fall between 1 to 3 miles overnight, before improving some on Friday. With more of a northerly surface flow expected overnight and into early Friday, this may suppress the worst of the smoke south of our area by mid-day. However, as flow shifts to more southerly by Friday night, guidance is hinting that surface smoke may return into the weekend.

Not as hot as it could have been, but dewpoints are hideous. High of 93. Currently 92 with a DP of 78

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

I was rooting for them too. Damn that match changed quick. Stunner. Messi is an all time great. The final will be fun to watch. No real rooting interest.

Mount Holly AFD snippet- While some areas will likely reach the century mark again, it will not be quite to the magnitude that we experienced to start July. Humidity will be a little less as well, and the hottest conditions will only last for one day. However, heat index values are still forecast to range from 100-109 degrees for most of the area, again hottest from along and southeast of I-95. A modest westerly, offshore wind near 10-15 mph should help keep the sea breeze from making much inland progress during the afternoon hours. Thus, we expect high temperatures in the mid to upper 90s and heat indices near 100-105 degrees even for the New Jersey Shore and Delaware Beaches. The limiting factor in how much we heat will be smoke from Canadian wildfires. We are already seeing the first plume of wildfire smoke dropping south into the the Mid-Atlantic this afternoon and that will insulate the region from the highest heat. The smoke should again help mitigate how much heating we receive tomorrow so while temps are going to be hot and there are no changes to any heat headlines, we are not fully maximizing the potential heat that the thermal profile suggests we could warm to.