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Another heavy downpour going on here now.
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All of the early action doomed our chances for late day and evening, but we got plenty of rain so I'm ok with it.
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1.20" so far here today. With the heavy downpours shifting south, we'll have to see if we get something more here way later.
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Now the worst of this next round missing me slightly to the south. Central Middlesex County will get a lot of rain. Would've been a pretty good flooding threat here if this next batch was slightly more to the north.
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I've always noticed that warm front storms have the most lightning.
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Coming down in buckets. This is wonderful.
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These storms don't have much wind but WOW, so many very close lightning strikes. Haven't had lightning like this in a long time.
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Pouring again. Obviously we're gonna get a lot of rain today.
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These storms have been nice -- not the very strong wind that would cause damage, but lots of lightning.
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Yeah another downpour here now with some lightning.
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And the funny thing is, remember how I mentioned that yesterday's 12z HRRR nailed our area today around 10 in the morning. That HRRR run yesterday ended up being correct, but future runs lost it. It's such an inconsistent model, but it's certainly useful at times.
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You have to wonder if this early convection is messing up our chances for later, but I don't care -- that was a very nice storm. I got a quick 0.46" from it. Glad the vegetable garden got a good watering.
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Yeah I just had an extremely close lightning strike that sounded like a shotgun blast too. Love it!
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Pouring.
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Yeah not warned but man I can hear a ton of thunder from this storm that's about to hit northern Middlesex County and Union. I'm excited.
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Yeah good looking storm about to hit our area. I'm glad we're getting lucky early just in case the stuff later misses us.
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The timing on tonight's HRRR and NAM3km is around 2 to 4 in the afternoon, and they really hammer us with a big line of strong storms. I'm looking forward to big storms with heavy rain, but hopefully it won't be so severe that there's a lot of damage. Obviously the potential for that is there though.
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It'll be interesting to see if HRRR and NAM3km are correct about our area getting hit hard during the morning. I would think afternoon/evening is more likely, but we shall see.
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I see HRRR and NAM3km actually have a morning round now too, hitting us very hard here around 10am. Then the afternoon round and another round later at night. Hard to believe we'll get hit by 3 rounds, but 2 rounds seems like a pretty good bet. We need more rain so I hope the models are right.
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You would hope that people with underlying health conditions like asthma or COPD would know to not exercise outside in these conditions. I assume it's mainly healthy people outside on the courts in these conditions. As many doctors have pointed out, conditions like today are manageable for most healthy people. They were able to play a baseball game in Philly this evening. People with underlying conditions can suffer an acute serious problem in conditions like today, but for people that are healthy it would take prolonged exposure (like weeks or months) to cause serious problems. Just a day or two in a reasonable AQI (like 150 to 200 like we had most of today) isn't going to cause a problem beyond minor issues like eye burning or nose irritation.
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Yeah it got up close to 500 in 2023 which obviously is hazardous. So while this is bad, it doesn't compare to 2023. I was outside doing work in the garden earlier and it didn't bother me. I have bad allergies to things like tree pollen in the spring, but luckily this smoke doesn't seem to bother my eyes.
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Weird because the AirNow.gov website says the AQI is 152 here right now. Who knows which to believe.
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Seems like it's mostly in the unhealthy for sensitive groups category in our area. Nothing compared to what happened a few years ago.
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Surprised the AQI isn't higher with all this smoke.
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Missing me just a few miles to the north. I was watching the lightning in the north sky. Just some sprinkles here.
