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Deluge with scattered thunder and lightening. I'm up to 2", including an inch in the past 27 minutes. We're passing through 3-4 inches easily based on that radar. My street is a river. Meanwhile, if I'm reading it right, it looks a huge bow echo is heading into South Jersey. Wild evening.
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Pretty wild up here with CTG lightening and booming thunder. Day has become dusk and the temp is down to 65. I've got speakers paired together all throughout the downstairs for the dog which is helping her today thankfully. Already over 1/2 inch of rain and looks like we're not done with this round yet.
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Nothing here, but I could see the towering clouds all around in multiple directions. This station in Bergen County is showing an inch of rain in 10 minutes if you break it down into the 5 minute observations from 18:30 and 18:35. https://www.njweather.org/data?resolution=5minute&range=latest&station_id[]=1033
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Ditto for Sparta. Looks great. I have a shiptload of them up here. We got five in the last week just from being out on the deck. I've found them crawling across the deck rails and even the deck chairs, and one up the wall of our kitchen! We don't even butt up to the woods, so they must be from the copious amounts of deer wandering through the yard. I just sprayed the hell out of the deck, deck planters, and surrounding lawn with pet safe spray so I'm hoping that does the trick. Ticks in general are really getting out of control and tick borne illness, some serious, continue to rise.
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Cape May only had 0.71" for the entire month before today. There up to 2.83" for today, including 1.89" for the past hour and the radar is still training over that area. Amazing how you can get a lot of it back within a short time frame.
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/northjerseyweatherobservers/posts/10163347026888108 Impressive video of the storm that may have dropped the tornado near parsippany.
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I topped out at 1.38" after the much smaller second round. In my childhood home in Lafayette - 5 miles as the crow flies, Mom reports 2.5", and she's good with the rain gauge, I taught her well! Zooming in on Weather Underground does show several reports in the low 2s throughout that general area. It's a bummer that Rutgers doesn't have more stations in this area. There is a rather big gap in coverage from the High Point / Vernon / Sandyston area down to Central Morris County. There is a station in Lafayette, I drive by it frequently, but it rarely reports anything anymore. Hell, I'll even volunteer to help maintain a couple of them if they put more up.
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Just measured here and have exactly 1.25" in both the electronic tipper and the plastic one. The sun had come out but now clouds and darker skies have returned. It looks like more spots are starting to develop to the SW again and we'll see if they bring anything. I had a quivering, panting dog glued to me earlier so she is unhappy with this morning's weather. We'ved tried music, calming chews, treats, and playing with her. Nothing seems to help. As I finish typing, rain has started again here.
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Looks like a hell of a drive on the thruway, even if it only lasts a few minutes, that's some serious precip.
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Ripping up here as storms train through. I've already blown past an inch and counting just in the last 20-25 minutes. Frequent thunder and lightening.
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Hey Sparta. Sparta here too - over near the health and wellness center on 517 (Sparta Ave) We were out from 11:15 - 11:50 but it came back, and then blinked again. We're good for now, but the JCP&L outages are stacking up. Almost 30K and counting. I have a small station over here but nothing fancy, as well as an official plastic rain gauge since the electronic tipper is unreliable, sometimes it works, sometimes not.
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The reported AQI in Duluth, MN right now is 1129! I've seen a few others today just over 1000 in the upper mid west. We don't really track AQI regularly, but that is nuts. That cell down around LBI was nuts. I didn't smell the smoke as much sitting outside tonight, as I did earlier.
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I can see the smoke now against the dark green woods moving through the wind. Strong smell. Interestingly enough, the sun seems brighter than it has since this all started. Maybe because it's more surface smoke now?
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That magenta and deep red air quality is edging closer.
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Most of it is probably aloft.
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It must be a pretty serious issue given the length of the outage and no estimate for restoration.
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Air Quality Indexes are off the charts in the upper mid west. Higher than 2023, The extreme readings are knocking on the door of Buffalo. Hopefully it doesn't reach here and without that satellight working, we won't know for sure.
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Completely smoked in here with zero sunlight, and the storms have moved on, so it's not that. I only picked up 0.01", they went around me. I did hear thunder. There are a couple of Air Quality Index (AQI) of 800-1000 in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I don't think it got that high in the 2023 smoke out. https://www.airnow.gov/national-maps/ https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/?monitors=ozonepm&xmin=-12204191.014333315&xmax=-7507899.996493336&ymin=4559496.5702827135&ymax=6460026.841564831
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Unfortunately, where the worst of the drought is in South Jersey has seen little to no rain. Cape May still sits at 0 for the event.
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Temps mid-upper 90s in south jersey already and it's only a little after 11 am!
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Still 177K out according to the tracker - the vast majority being JCP&L. This has ended up quite serious for some communities - lots of people sitting in heat and humidity with no AC and once 24 hours hits, you start looking at a lot of food spoilage just as some freezers might be stocked for 4th of July. Hopefully there are cooling centers available. Stay safe.
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Almost 239,000 outages in NJ currently, down a little from 256,000 earlier. That's insane. This is going to be a while for those affected, I'm afraid. https://projects.nj.com/data/outagetracker/
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That is one hell of a map. I would expect problems on a night like tonight, but JCP&L has the worst record of keeping lights on. They are always the highest outages measured by percentage of their total customers.
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The 60 mph winds missed me. But the dog is an absolute mess from the thunder and we picked up 2/3" of rain. I'm having to sit with the poor thing in our home office with music going. And if they start shooting fireworks later at Lake Mohawk, I'm in for a long evening. Hope you get your lights back on. Good times. Stay safe.
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Down to 71 from a recorded high of 100! The 100 is probably a couple degrees high due to the sunny location of the sensors.
