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Second round of thunderstorms making their way into Litchfield County, CT...

And I'm hearing thunder, a bit east of New Milford, CT. Looks like a small blip on the radar, but I'm a happy camper. Nice little wind burst ahead of the rain getting here. The rain has arrived, nice little summer downpour - the lightning strikes have all seemed to be pretty anemic, though.

Incoming...

Little bit of thundering going on in mid-Litchfield County (yeah, I'm in the 'severe warning' zone - in Washington Depot - not yet much rain, it's mostly to my west at the moment)

Loving the brief interludes of sunshine between the line of downpours.

Enjoying the modest T-storm in mid-Litchfield County. Nothing spectacular, but "ready to rumble".

Not much on the Eversource outage map (yet) - I'm only a couple miles from Bantam and not a drop here, no wind, no hail, just some thunder.

Looks like it's likely to slide by just to my north. Hail headed toward Litchfield. At least I can live vicariously by hearing the thunder.

A couple minutes of small pinging hail in Washington Depot CT just now... Smaller than a dime...

Yeah, well, um... lightningmaps.org shows a couple of lonely dots in or around the town of Kent. The My Lightning Tracker app shows a cluster to the east of that. Those two sources never seem to agree on the details, but they do seem to get the general gist right.

My lightning app says that I missed a bunch of activity in my neighborhood or just a bit north about a half hour ago. Heard a rumble or two, but thought it was a truck. (!) The ground is wet - didn't notice any rain.

Yeah - it's covering the ground in mid/southern-Litchfield County - and the heaviest stuff hasn't even started yet here.

No, it's not my imagination - hearing some pinging - but too dark outside to see...

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Watching the live view via the Slooh solar telescope (from the Canary Islands) of the partial solar eclipse now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O88YMlgouG8