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Another miss of rain today. I'm at 1.66" for July and .87" for August. That is from the Davis Vantage Pro 2. During one brief heavy downpour it did rain extremely hard so it might have missed a slight bit. Still it is extremely dry! Watch what happens this weekend. I just looked at the 18Z GFS. Things fall apart yet again for me? Arrgghhh...

Quite a few years ago (maybe 8ish?) Brian found a place that was selling American Chestnut seedling. About a foot tall at best. I don't remember (Brian do you?) who we got them from but they said they were breed to be blight resistant. I got 4. I planted them and 3 are doing very good. For the first time this season one is producing nuts. I counted about 20. American Chestnuts need pollen from another tree and as you can see in these pictures I do have 2 of them a couple of hundred feet apart. We will see what happens. The drought up here is taking a toll on young trees. I have been trying to water these as the leafs are starting to wilt. We have had less than 2.5" of rain since August 1rst. Missing out again today. Arrgghhh...

Yep, I am at 2.20" since June 30th. I live about 10 miles south of Rattlesnake. The surface is very dry. I thought we would finally get some real rain tonight but it looks like that won't happen. Arrggghhhh

Congrats Brian. Nice lightshow to my south early this morning. Between a shower yesterday and a light shower as the storm passed to my south a big .17"!

The line of heavy showers quickly moved through. It is still raining lightly. About .30" About the same amount earlier. It helps but we need much more. I uploaded this picture but it seems slightly under exposed. The line looked menicing but I don't think the underbelly of line was quite this dark.

Line of showers/storms about to move across Newfound Lake. My webcam site should be fun to watch. https://www.bridgewaternhweather.com/

64/56 Very light rain. Late yesterday and last night we had some nice downpours. Got .80". It's been dry today, a bit of sun earlier. Sprinkles resumed an hour ago, enough to wet the ground. 0.01"

2 rounds of showers/thundershowers now through. One earlier and one more recent. Total .86" so far. Looks like the heaviest rainfall for storm totals will be SW of me. I will be happy if we end up 1-2".

I followed the major tornado that hit the area along Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. It moved north to south. I just watched a really interesting video that was taken along the lake. It looks like as the winds shifted from the east the lake rose several fee. Watch the lake water level. Was it just the wind? Was it the rapid pressure rise? I have never seen something like this. Attached is the general area and direction. Thoughts?

I'm really looking forward to this rain. Sorry vacationers. Less than .75" this month in my area. Bring it on!

Watching the overshooting tops from about 130 miles away...

77/61F Improving vis. Dewpoint crashing. Front is through. Surface drought conditions continue.

73/66F Well there goes that. After another shower last night the grand total from this system looks to end at .36". The showers and storms forming are south and east of my location. Unless something happens to the west it looks like this is it. Thoughts Brian? Hope to make 1" for August!

We got our largest soak of the month earlier today. .23" That puts me just over .50" for August. I don't see much meaningful stuff on radar as everything quickly weakens as it goes in my direction.

It was nice to have the clean air today. It will be interesting to see how much smoke comes back tomorrow and how it interacts with the convection potential over the northeast tomorrow. Maybe it's a good lesson for future modeling. Not to get into politics but I just saw that Trump is threatening Canada with tariffs to get it's s..t together. Perhaps climate changer deniers have more to do with it than vast boral forest management?

Moderate rain showers with very high winds just moved across Newfound Lake. A very quick drop in temperature to 66Fl Boaters are scrambling. No lightning. I'm sheltered from the W/NW winds but gusted to 30mph. I'm sure winds gusted to near 50mph out on the lake. Watching the live cams. Boaters are scrambling...

80/60 Building Cu The sun is bright here. Some smoke or haze. From my vantage point I can not make out Mt Sunapee anymore (28 miles) but still can see Kearsarge to my SSW. That is 25 miles.

6:30pm 76/56 I just made a time lapse of the past 3 hours. It is interesting to see the smoke move to the south. https://video.nest.com/clip/c02c65ef933a48e098d7046464887f42.mp4

Living life on the edge. A beautiful late afternoon up here in the Plymouth NH area. Brilliant blue skies about overhead and to the north and dark and dirty looking south. It is really an unusual event. 76/56 Current cam view from Plymouth looking north

Nice to see bluebird skies again. Smoke just to my south but blue to the north. The sun is back! Other than a few Cu the skies are clear! Unlike the smoke of a couple of years ago this smoke came on quick yesterday.

The thick smoke has moved out but wow, the thickest smoke layer I have ever seen. Below is the Nest Cam time lapse. It started around 9am. At that time we had the cirrus overhead with the MCS but skies were basically clear after that. The temperature has jumped 7F in the past hour. 82/69 I'm not sure why the camera was changing the hue of the sky. Maybe to adjust for the darkness? https://video.nest.com/clip/3886a63d346441b9a07cb5463627d987.mp4

As of 11:45 here in Central NH we have a very thick smoke layer above us. The whole landscape is yellowish and the sun disc is sharp but so dim you can look at it directly. A very eerie situation. It is only 74.7F. I have no idea how this will impact the severe threat later but it is the densest smoke layer above us that I have ever seen. Meanwhile at near ground level I can see mountain ridges 30 miles distant.

As of 11:15am an extremely thick smoke layer has moved overhead. I can look up at the sun and see it very clearly. No cirrus but an erry yellow glow like NYC had several years ago. I have never seen a smoke layer as dense as this while ground visibility is over 25 miles 75/64

Looking at the sat pics this morning there are lots of fires burning in Southern Ontario. The thick smoke plume is moving into our area. How much is this going to affect the severe storms later for NNE? Also the MCS is creating a lot of cloud cover especially this morning. So we are not getting much insolation. Maybe this will reduce convection later?

Wow, SPC already in enhanced up in NNE