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Sadly, I must go to sleep. I hope everyone who is staying up for this enjoys it!! And thanks again for all the info. I really appreciate it. If it gets crazy here, I will be up to watch it later.

Thanks again!! It feels almost tropical here now.

Stupid question, sorry! NWS says the low will be 49 degrees. But the temperature is rising? Is the low temp expected to occur after the front  passes?

OK, thanks!!

I don't understand much of what meteorology has to offer, I will be the first to admit!! So, is this line of storms - very far away from RI - where the big winds  might be (once it gets here), or might there be big  winds in advance of this front? If it matters, the winds here are picking up, and they have dropped lower (not so much in the trees always at this point).

Winds roaring overhead - tops of trees. Very breezy at ground level, but I can hear that there is much more above in the trees. Northern Lincoln RI (close to N Smithfield, Cumberland & Woonsocket).

Breezy again here. It seems to get intense, then calm down.

I can't see well enough outside - not sure what that sound was. But it is now howling here.

After my last post, it calmed back down to "breezy". But it is getting frisky here again. I just heard a sound that I can't indentify. I'm going to check around the house.

Wind picking up here (Lincoln/Smithfield RI). Before I would have said "breezy". Now it is more intense. No anemometer, sadly.

It's still pretty calm here around Lincoln/Smithfield RI (sorry, I'm right on the line).

Thank you @KoalaBeer!!!!

Thank you @OceanStWx! Do you know of a radar option for my location that is free?

I have the most stupid question. NWS Taunton/Norton MA radar is out. Can I find a radar that is operational for this area?

Nope. Just a whole bunch of rain and some distant lightning. Wind was only on the tops of tall trees. 

Cumberland/Lincoln/Smithfield area. I've been waiting all day for something. Maybe, just maybe, now? One close lightning so far. Severe t-storm warning. I'm hopeful. Perhaps some goodies tonight?

Any hope for thunder around Cumberland RI? lol

So are the "fireworks" done for SNE tonight? Or could that stuff in NJ/PA hold together to get into SNE?

Still quite muggy here (around Cumberland RI). It feels much, much warmer than it is.

Going on round two here (Smithfied/Lincoln/Cumberland RI area). After round one (which, as always, pepped up as it moved east of us) the air was nice and cool. I thought it was over, went inside. Round one seemed to be more cloud-to-cloud. 

Then more thunder, so I went outside to check it out. It was completely hot and muggy again. Round two sounds more like cloud to ground.

So we've been seeing lightning (flashes, not bolts) and listening to thunder for well over an hour now.

Some precipitation - it was a thunderstorm before it got to me - just passed by to my North. I'm curious if anyone can explain to me (a) why this developed and (b) why it was not forecast? 

I love thunderstorms and have tried to pay attention to when they form over the years. To me, the air seems "ripe" for a storm, but my more recent knowledge says that those two variables are not all it takes for a storm to form.

Can high heat and humidity create instability?

Can anyone help me understand why I am seeing things pop on radar now? I'm east-southeast of Attleboro, MA.

Just now, OceanStWx said:

Right, the rain was being pushed ESE but the hail stays close to the updraft itself. So the updraft was moving ENE into air that wasn't being rained into. 

Thank you so much for explaining! I got to see a very nice storm today and I also learned more about thunderstorms! A great day all around 

2 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

It was a splitting supercell. Hodographs were fairly straight to begin with (storms tend to split with a right mover and a left mover). Typically our winds in the northern hemisphere favor right movers, but the hodographs actually had a slight cyclonic curvature. This actually favors the left moving supercell a little. So the storm that broke NE was the left mover.

Based on overall shear/storm relative winds precip would be carried ESE out of the updraft. So the left mover would actually be moving into clear air, whereas the right mover was moving into the area just hit by its own forward flank.

Thank your for explaining how the storm broke into two and how I was able to enjoy it when I was sure it would pass  to my south! 

Does the fact that it was moving into "clear air" have an affect on the fact that it started to hail prior to  rain? Please forgive my ignorance.

Oh, I also found a video on YouTube which seems to show that a tornado should occur in the rear of the storm, not in the front, if I understood it properly.

Hi! I totally missed this thread yesterday and I hope I can be forgiven for that.

So I was in the storm that was  in the video in Cumberland RI (I was in Lincoln RI). I have a meteorological question about  what I experienced today. 

The cell that affected my area had been tracking to the south of me - it should have passed to  my  south. However, it broke into two parts. The part that hit my  area actually moved towards  the east northeast, when the prevailing direction of the front was moving towards the east southeast. I didn't anticipate that, so I was late getting to a place to watch it (thunder allerted me - then I checked radar and saw what had happened). By the time I could see outside, I saw some pretty good  winds going, but no precipitation. I could still hear thunder. But my question relates to this next observation: it began to hail before it  began to rain. 

I've  tried to search online to see if this is where  the hail normally is in a storm (in front of the rain), but I haven't been able to find anything specifically about the location of hail in a side-view of a thunderstorm. I found one image that showed a tornado in front of the rain, however.

Can anyone let me know if this is normal?

Although  we did not have the same  size (consistently) of hail as the video  from Cumberland, I did find one quarter-sized hail stone (it is in my freezer, lol). It is amazing what a big difference a small distance can make in these  storms. I was maybe a mile from the Cumberland line as the bird flies - possibly less.

Any education that somenoe can provide would be greatly appreciated!!

I understand that this is a tight community. I am not part of it. But I have been looking at the NE portion of American Wwather for years now. It seems  as  if there is a consensus here that there are only two things (regarding weather) that are worth talking about: hurricanes and snow storms. 

There may be some convection (pardon if I use a term that I do not understand, but I mean thunderstorms) in SNE on 6/29 and on 6/30. The NWS has posted a possibility of "large  hail" for Sunday, and in nearly 20 years of reading forecasts from the NWS, I don't recall seeing that mentioned for SNE previously.

Can anyone  here give me an idea of the magnitude of this threat?

I hope someone will entertain the concept of speaking to someone who is not part of this tight community. This is  a weather place. I'm asking about weather... ?