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The most important thing is people walking away safely, which hopefully everyone did tonight. After that, then looking at the property losses, including vehicles. The costs and resources to repair or replace these things is astronomical these days, and with modern day cars, it doesn't take much water incursion to completely ruin it or run a tab into the tens of thousands in repairs.

Looks like there is about to be a lot more totaled out expensive cars floating around (literally).

Storms firing off to my north. That cell off to my north is warned. I can hear the thunder and see dark sky in the distance.

I was going to ask where the heat advisories were, but it looks like everywhere, except Sussex County. I'm at 94, DP 76, HI 107. That has a high bias as the sensor housing is in the direct sun. But I went out to shoot some water on the plants and it feels every bit of what the reading shows. Brutal. I only lasted about 10 minutes.

At some point this afternoon, the Hillsboro station recorded a HI of 121. If you point and click into the View Data option, it shows.

Some stations are heading for real-feel temperatures of 120+, at least in short bursts. Maybe some of that data would need to be smoothed out to compensate for sensor noise, but still.

Heat indexes already 105-110 in spots to our south!

Well they had it half right, it got very sticky and warm here in the late afternoon - standing over the grill was brutal. Weather station read a 101 heat index around 5:30 pm with a dewpoint of 78.

I wonder what kind of rain totals are occurring up and around the Binghamton area. It looks like some training was taking place up that way and they have been building back to some extent as the morning progresses.

Thundering here.

Someone is getting a sheet ton of rain with the way it's moving, and also appears to be re-loading a bit on it's back end.

Picked up 0.6" in about 12 minutes with that cell that passed over me. Nothing severe, just torrential rain and a bit of a breeze with some rumbles of thunder.

And just like that. The sun comes out and dewpoints into the 70s. Feels like summer.

You never cease to amaze.

2.65" storm total. We really got under some heavy radar returns for several hours overnight.