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The smoke here in Norwich is out of control:

I just went for a walk in downtown BTV. I was immediately struck that the smoke was worse than I expected. It improved quickly once I cleaned the smudges off my sunglasses.

Big big nuclear winter incoming!

Angelo Caro Narvaez chose to defy the dress code and paid the cost: https://deadspin.com/see-it-olympic-skateboarder-falls-nuts-first-into-rail-1847358141?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=deadspin

Dont even get me started on how hot they used to make those little apple pie things.

We like to blame the lawyers but it is some idiot who goes into their office with the idea they have a case that gets things going. Ex the infamous McDonalds coffee was too hot case. It is not just the lawyer who has no shame there.

It is unusual to see such a range of colors on a single hydrangea.

very cool map of smoke spreading over past couple of days here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/21/climate/wildfire-smoke-map.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Holy crap we just had a strike right on top of us out of nowhere!

Severe Thunderstorm Warning Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Gray ME 940 PM EDT Tue Jul 20 2021 NHC009-019-210215- /O.CON.KGYX.SV.W.0048.000000T0000Z-210721T0215Z/ Sullivan NH-Grafton NH- 940 PM EDT Tue Jul 20 2021 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN SULLIVAN AND SOUTH CENTRAL GRAFTON COUNTIES... At 940 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Canaan to 9 miles south of Lebanon, moving east at 50 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... Grafton, Enfield, Canaan, Danbury, Groton, Grantham, Cornish, Croydon, Hebron, Orange, Springfield, Wilmot and Plainfield. This includes Interstate 89 between mile markers 41 and 49.

Is there circulation on the Windsor and Orange County lines right before the storm passed into NH? Can someone check with better radar access. Windsor and Orange meet in the middle of VT, east. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=local-Vermont-comp_radar-24-1-100-1&checked=counties-usint-map&colorbar=undefined

Goods winds and a lot of lightning. Just a constant display of lightning. Just one really close strike. My wife thought she heard something come down in the woods but I was in a spot where the windows were shut at first. We are surrounded by hundreds of acres of trees however so I would be surprised if nothing fell. Winding down now. Best lightning display here in a few years.

That reminds me. About 25 years ago I was sitting in my apartment waiting for some storms to roll in. There had been a tornado outbreak in the Midwest a day or two earlier with the same system. As I watched tv, the rain had started and then I heard that noise that tornado survivors always say they heard "it sounded like a freight train" This sounded just like a freight train and I thought wow they are right about the sound of a tornado until after about two panic filled seconds I remembered that I lived 20 yards from active train tracks. Rain just started and can hear the wind in the trees.

First thunder. It just kept rolling and sounded so weird that I thought it was the washing machine upstairs.

This was just about when I left the office in Burlington and got on the highway. I was looking over my shoulder the whole way on 89 to make sure the storms were not catching up to me. It looks like we will get hit in about 20 minutes.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch for all of VT

Found it thanks. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md1319.html DISCUSSION...Associated with larger-scale mid/upper troughing digging in the St. Lawrence Valley/lower Great Lakes region, forcing for ascent with a lead speed maximum (30-50 kts in the 500-300 mb layer) appears to be providing support for an ongoing, well organized cluster of thunderstorms across southeastern Ontario. Perhaps aided by an associated strengthening surface cold pool, this activity has accelerated some (up to 40 kt) over the past couple of hours, and may reach the Ottawa vicinity by around 19Z. Along trailing outflow into the vicinity of its intersection with a southward advancing cold front, additional thunderstorm development and intensification is now also well underway. Supported by moderate southeasterly low-level inflow of moist air characterized by CAPE of 1000-2000 J/kg, this seems likely to continue with the evolution of another upscale growing and organizing cluster/segment possible. This may begin impacting the Ontario shores of Lake Ontario into the Watertown vicinity as early as 20-21Z, perhaps a bit earlier and more substantively than suggested by the latest Rapid Refresh. Although low-level wind fields are generally weak, the effective downward mixing of higher momentum air aloft, associated with the well developed/maturing organized convective system and associated surface cold pools, probably will be accompanied by increasing potential for strong gusts at least approaching severe limits.

Nasty looking line of storms coming through Quebec in this direction. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-Quebec-02-24-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

Oregon and California are contributing as well. Washington state too,

How Norm lost his job at the brewery:

Norm!

Whereas we had an inch during the day and another inch since midnight.

waves of showers today, no thunder but heavier rain at times. Around an inch so far. Another day without having to water.

the 2 closest online Davis stations are at .89 and 1.0 so far today. Seems about right or a tad low based on the water in the pots, etc. Sadly I sit pretty much in the middle of two stations and one is out. The 1.0 is a bit further away.

Before I met her, my wife was stung in her eye. 30 years later she still feels the effect at times but not because of the sting itself. When she was stung in the eye, she was driving. She promptly drove into a telephone pole and went through the windshield. Her neck and shoulders still get sore leading to headaches. I think once she hit the pole the sting was no longer the issue.