CT Valley Snowman

Yeah man was gripping the steering wheel tight near exit 46-47 in Enfield, looks like mainly some leaves small branches right here. My empty garbage cans blew about 20 feet.

95/70

Its historically and climatologically favored to do so. Need to see some type of deepening trough to the west and a blocking ridge to the east with a strong S flow that slingshots the storm up the coast. Many times the storms recurve around the ridge and/or or get pushed out to sea by the westerlies. Seems like the Carolinas could be more favored if the ridge remains strong and in place longer but who really knows at this point.

Who gets the honor of posting that bad boy?

Strong to perhaps a few marginally severe storms tomorrow with the cold front.

Who knows. Maybe this verifies next Sat but not holding my breath.

Crawling instead of marching it would seem.

Combination of dews and heat has been impressive. The dews may have helped on a few occasions from realizing the true atmospheric potential on the thermometer in terms of triple digit heat hear in the valley, but the combo along with the tropical rains have certainly been impressive. Next week looks hot regardless of how much of a door/ocean/cloud cover influence attempts to try to temper things. Seasonal trend has been for that to be overplayed. Hopefully we see some more chamber weather 2nd half of the month. Haven't looked at it much so that's more of a sentimental notion. Ready to start moving beyond this and start thinking about frost covered pumpkins and foliage.

73 here. Lol at 83. Might hit 100 with that launching pad.

95 for the high at BDL. 96 here. Phone was reading 97 with a HI of 108 in downtown Springfield earlier. Dog days for sure. Early dismissal tomorrow for the 1st day of school, lol.

Low of 50.6 . A bit of haze from the western fires in the sky.

Yeah. BDL just south of here is 8.81 for August so far. Damp times.

We bang again around here. This pattern has been relentless ,especially across the interior.

Only about .25 or so here all weekend here. Not complaining at all. Sun poked through and was able to get yardwork done which hasn't been easy this summer.

Storms do finally seem to be weakening now but that tweet gave the impression we would be in the clear by 8 or 9 at the latest. Anyways off to bed thankfully no power, flooding issues here now.

Oops. Box's tweet around 5 P.M. NWS Boston‏Verified account @NWSBoston 5h5 hours ago More [Evening Update] given temperatures are not rapidly (less than 6C/KM) decreasing with height aloft & vertical wind shear is weak (less than 20 kt), #thunderstorms will weaken with sunset and NOT persist overnight. Thus drying trend as the evening progresses. #MA #RI #CT

Best lightning for me in many, many years. So many close strikes earlier, house rattling piercing type thunder and just prolific lightning both in cloud and cloud to ground. Power off an on several times. It's been one hell of a stormy night.

Lol, I cut back to 2-3 miles 3 days a week in this crap. Indoor supplement if needed.

Box climate summary has BDL at 22 days so far on their website. 4 days in May, 4 in June, 11 in July, and 3 so far in August.

Several Reports of trees and wires down around town even a tree onto a house. Looks like the worst was a bit east and south of here. Impressive gust front and lighting/downpours for sure.

Not severe but a darn good storm here. 40 mph winds with torrential rain and vivid lightning.

No warning but looks like we about to bang pretty hard.

No doubt about that. I was up in the Tamarack region of Maine last week and what was considered tropical humidity by the local folks just didn't meet my standard of oppressive. Many days were 78-83 during the day and 66-70 at night. 68-71 dews were bad but when dews are consistently hitting 73-77 down here with during surges of tropical air it just didn't feel as oppressive and there was always a breeze by the lake where we were located.

I live in Death Valley and that was a notable, very significant heatwave but not quite top end historic I never hit 100 with 99 and 96 my two hottest days. I remember hitting 100 3 days in a row in a heat wave when I was younger. Several days were in the low-mid 90's with a pretty good south wind that kept the full atmosphere temp from being realized. Dews were impressive, hit 77-78 a couple of times and spent many hours above 70. Definitely one memorable hot stretch and dews were top shelf material but the S flow kept this from being what it could have been in the temperature department. s

Maybe NWS just holds off on the heat warnings if the coverage area is isolated. Vast majority of the CWA is at advisory levels including much of the counties that Keene ,Orange, and Westfield are located in.