Wxtrix

and boom! storms all over my area.

a high of 97, snd currently 93/75/104 with clouds and thunder.

it'd be nice to have storm sirens though. I lived in Minneapolis for a few years in the pre-internet years and they were very useful if you weren't near a radio or a TV.

i could hear the emergency vehicle sirens --turns out yet another house got struck by lighting and was on fire.

now 78/75 with .15” of rain. 2 warned storms came through in the last hour and i’m hearing sirens.

woohoo, it’s raining!

95/75/105 it rained a little this morning and we’ve only had a little sun. one storm just scooted NW of me and another is brewing (i can hear thunder).

a storm popped up overhead this afternoon and dropped .93" here. parts of town got several inches and the county was under a flood warning for a while. still need a lot more, though.

.79” with some thunder and lightning overnight. not even close to putting a dent in the drought out here.

AQI here is back to red.

drove around town to run errands and was surprised at how many trees and branches were down (we're about 2 miles from downtown and had no damage). also saw the buildings that had been set on fire by lightning which is usually pretty rare here.

more on the lightning here--so far i've read that one building downtown got hit by lightning and also a house in my development.

i finally got a storm. we were up in Martinsburg and it was just pouring and as we made our way home we started to see small branches on the road and some things blown around in the neighborhood. we picked up about .75" of rain, and the temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees to 70. the incredible lightning was the story of this storm--constant strikes all around as we drove home.

.26" here for the month. 2.72" for June. it's dry out here.

.08”, sun coming out again. truly depressing.

the sun just came out at my house. you can't make this stuff up.

84/76 with a thunderstorm literally splitting over my house.

.15”. at least it’s something.

hearing thunder and it’s sprinkling. maybe it’ll even rain a little.

it's got to change eventually, right?

it’s much better out here. and some rain showers popped up but of course they missed my house.

What’s that smell? Smoke from Canadian wildfires emitting particular scent https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/whats-that-smell-smoke-canadian-wildfires-emitting-particular-scent/XLZWQ5WC5RDALISQUUUBBVZM6A/ Isoprenoids are compounds released when vegetation burns. Those compounds produce what we think of as a wood-burning smell or “campfire” smell. Well, those compounds break down quickly when exposed to UV radiation from the sun. Hence, the scent doesn’t travel too far. What does carry a distance are volatile organic compounds like Benzene, Formaldehyde and Acrolein which all have a more pungent, sweet or metallic smell. That is what most of us have been smelling when stepping outside the last couple of days. Benzene is particularly dangerous, with long-term exposure, which is one of the many reasons we are encouraging you to stay inside while the air quality is so bad.

no relief tomorrow out here. i’d better get my watering done now. Alert: Air Quality Alert until 12:00AM Friday Dear Nixle User, The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has issued a Code RED Air Quality Alert Thursday for Winchester and the eastern West Virginia Panhandle. A Code Red Air Quality Alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region are unhealthy for the general population. The effects of air pollution can be minimized by avoiding strenuous activity or exercise outdoors. For more information on ground-level ozone and fine particles visit the web site Virginia DEQ air quality web site at www.deq.virginia.gov.* AFFECTED AREAS: FREDERICK ... CLARKE ... MORGAN ... BERKELEY ... JEFFERSON

it’s closer to the surface today.

the Charles Town dot doesn’t reflect totals a few miles west of it—we’ve only had 1.50”. it’s ridiculous.