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The Bassmaster Elite Series is on Champlain Thurs-Sun. Pretty fun to watch and see how little has changed since I last fished it 10 years ago. Weights seem to be coming back a bit from a few down years in 2015-2018. https://www.bassmaster.com/video/bassmaster-live-mix St. Lawrence River next week will be tons of 4-6lbs smallies and big waves.

I feel like this time last week we could toss everything HRRR after how poorly it had been doing. Then it sucks you back in after doing OK with Tues-Weds. 12z NAM is back down to earth a bit imo.

Interesting combination of factors. Over 4" of rain so far this month. Trees have been uprooting with minimal wind (e.g., gusts 30-35mph) from these thunderstorms. I'll be curious to see what more rain and wind does. In the past week here are dozens of new trees lining the shores of the Quabbin.

After living through the March 2010 events in RI I'm all set. Rather deal with an ice storm as long as I have my wood stove. I lived above a liquor store at the time and URI cancelled classes for the week so I ended up running pumps and shop-vacs all week in the warehouse. Then you have to wake up every hour or so to make sure things are pumping. We had massive spikes in crime (e.g., shop lifting, home break-ins, vandalism) since all the police are busy blocking off roads. Business owners were standing guard at their stores 24/7.. That week Coventry and West Warwick were like living in a Mad Max-era.

Gustnado lol. We all know what it really was.

Might drive up to the Rt. 2 area later on, NAM wants to crush it.

Random: Found this chart yesterday on microbursts and found it interesting. https://www.weather.gov/media/lmk/soo/pulse_svr_flowchart.pdf

What was up with the winds late last night? Heard them around 1am and ended up having a good sized limb come down, took out some of the tomato plants in our garden and snapped a wall of our raised bed,

Decent winds when it came through Belchertown. Rt. 21 closed due to trees down in the south part of town as well as some side streets.

Wouldn't be surprised if someone in Mass/CT/RI got a "burst" today. Obligatory weenie image given my statement:

Some pretty wild videos of it coming across Long and Great Pond. It seems like a sneaky good severe weather area. Might be moving up there next year, Great Pond has some of the better bass fishing in New England.

For sure. Some rotation on velocity approaching Florida/Berkshire East area.

@HIPPYVALLEY about to get blown away?

Great post. I ended up just going down a "Loaded Gun Theory" rabbit hole.

Drive an extra 25 minutes NE to the Old Enfield Lookout around the Quabbin. There is also the stone tower at the top for a better view. Can see west to Greylock, north to Monadnock, and east to Wachusett.

It was amazing to see it blow up in real time. This is looking south at it.

Yea keeps the high MLCAPE to that RI/SE Mass area but doesn't fire much up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornadoes_striking_downtown_areas_of_large_cities I think one of the more memorable ones, though only an F2, was in Salt Lake City.

I was actually referencing tomorrow in that post lol Looks like something trying to brew between Wallum Lake and 146 on velocity. Funny, a FB memory from 10 years ago popped up today. We were night fishing on Wallum and got chased off around 2am by a memorable light storm.

18z NAM a little more generous with the shear down into Mass, CAPE gone wild. Also looking like more of a west wind which could be an interesting ingredient. I'm thinking NE CT, southern Worcester County, northern RI, into Bristol County for the best/worst of it.

Agreed on the northern/central NE for best as of now. There is an interesting combination of ingredients coming together at the right time in southeast Mass to keep an eye on.