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71F  Moderate rain with occ. lightning/thunder.  .47"  Been raining light to moderate past couple of hours.  

19 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

I assume you mean the lightning and not the explosion?

The theory anyway is intense steam updraft rapidly separates out positive charge, and in the stronger ash/steam plumes is able to do so in such a way to create enough of a gradient to cause discharges over a relatively short distance compared to thunderstorms. These would likely be positive "CGs" vs. a typical negative CG of a thunderstorm.

Thank you Ocean.  Yeah the lightning was what I was referring too.  Can't remember ever seeing a steam explosion cause this.  Multiple flashes in that cloud.  

Amazing footage from Hawaii today, yes it is weather-related.  The lava has been entering the ocean creating steam clouds,  This morning an explosion occurred at the ocean edge. (5 people were hurt on a tour boat that was too close) Lightning started going off in the rising steam and explosion cloud.  Very rare footage, not even sure what caused this at only a few hundred feet off the ocean surface.  Thoughts?

1 minute ago, OceanStWx said:

CAMs have a pretty solid line moving through the area in the afternoon tomorrow. So at the moment it is looking like a widespread wetting rain, but maybe not widespread 2" stuff.

Where does the line form is my worry back here in Central NH.  Looks good further SE but Im worried that Im too far NW to get into the heaviest stuff.  So many fronts have had bad timing up here.

5 hours ago, S&P said:

I'd take that, at UUU have had 1.6" since June 1 and about 2" since the middle of May

Wow,  that is dry.  Just took a picture of the daylilies/hydrangea Garden as compared to last year.  Hydrangeas have not bloomed yet.  Many daylilies branches are going brown and its trying to put on a partial show.  Note as compared to last summer when everything was lush and green.  

Thanks for the answers to my brown lawn question.  As some of you know 5 years ago we lifted and moved our house to pour a new foundation.  All the great soil and lawns got destroyed and bulldozed.  After the job we brought in loam but it is only perhaps 3 or 4" deep.  Then hydroseeded.  Now to keep the lawn green I have to water like crazy and fertilize which I never had to do before with the deep, rich old farm soil.  I was just worried that if I let the lawn go it would never come back and would have to tear it up and hydroseed which I never want to do again.  So its good to know that I can just let it brown out now.  Hopefully next week we will get some rain to the rescue.  4.5" or so of rain since May 1rst and a super heat wave doesn't make for a great lawn.

Lawn question for you guys.  If an established lawn completely browns out due to lack of rain will it come back when rain resumes?  I have been able to keep our lawns halfway decent with our well water but now Im getting to the point that I am going to just have to really cut back due to the dryness.  Last of our water evaporated from our pond today so the groundwater must be dropping steadily.  Just don't know if a brown lawn would come back if it goes totally dry.

30 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Wow. Unreal that it hadn’t melted yet. 

If you stop by northbound the older guy behind the counter can show you his car.  He is 76 and said he had never seen anything like it.  He has pics on his iphone of the white ground and the dense fog afterwards.  He said the hail was 2" deep.  The gardens got trashed there.  

6 hours ago, dendrite said:

Mile 50-51 on i93 was ravaged by hail. Lots of leaf debris and the smell of vegetation through that stretch. 

I took a ride down to that area mid day today exploring side roads and then coming back north on Rt 93.  Just to the west of Rt 93 looks like microburst damage off one road.  I counted about 20 large trees down.  Coming back north on Rt 93 I stopped at the Canterbury Rest Stop which is in that mile marker 50-51.  Spoke to the attendant on duty.  He showed me pictures on his phone.  Silver dollar and ice cube size hail.  The ground was white.  Cars were dented.  His car was totaled he said from hail damage.  Showed me pictures of his hood with tons of dents.  His car's windows were not broken but some people getting off Rt 93 were.  Amazingly I still found hail on the ground, 20 hours after the storm.  Here is a picture of that, still quarter size after all those hours.

1 hour ago, OceanStWx said:

Not BDL, but Ryan FTW!

http://ulocal.wmur.com/mediadetail/33108126-Tornado?gid=91795&uid=&sort=upload DESC&offset=9

Apparently that happened in Salisbury on Friday. 

Another interesting video. If I saw this as a weather spotter I would have to think twice as to what I'm seeing. Some low flying scud with weak rotation or a funnel cloud or possibly an F0 tornado what do you guys think?

A friend (ha, a very ditzy one just called).  Just drove from Concord NH past Exit 20 on Rt 93.  She said the storm had already moved through but that there was a lot of "ice and snow" on the ground and many branches down.  Trying to pinpoint exactly where she saw it and details were impossible but I was able to get out of her that it was closer to Exit 20 than Concord.  Needless to say, there must have been  a lot of hail on the ground since she said the ground looked like snow..

12 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

The speed shear in the very lowest layer of the atmosphere combined with intense thermals (updrafts) could likely stretch the vorticity into small tornado. Obviously more of your land/waterspout scenario than a true tornado.

It was a very interesting set of circumstances, a weather oddity for sure.  Can't call it a waterspout, nor really a dust devil.  Would it go down in Hawaii record books as an F0 tornado?  

14 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Small bright echoes appeared very close to my place (but downrange, as is common.)  Stuff to the NW appears to be weakening.  Probably another 20-drop event.

Watching a nice line of storms that is getting going.  Trajectory looks to take it about 5-10 miles south of me.  Brian and Eek may do very well.  Very frustrating when you really need rain and watch the town next to you get a drenching.  

35 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Basically our owner had control of everything, disappeared, left us hanging, and ignored every attempt to reach him. He finally talked to me and threatened to just end the entire site/community. I said F that and went behind his back with stormtracker, john-wow, and the mods to start a new forum here.

Yes I remember, lots of drama and exasperated people.  You and the other guys did a great job and everyone came over.  

Since Geomorphology was my college major I have been watching the ongoing Kileau volcano eruption with interest.  It has dropped off the news cycle but still going strong.  Most of the flow from fissure 8 (which is spewing the magma) is flowing into the ocean creating new land.   A matter of fact over the next week or two the State of Hawaii will have a new eastern point as the lava flows further out in the ocean.

Weatherwise it has been really interesting to watch.  The steam at ocean edges rises and forms clouds and showers as the trades blow SW.  Heat directly over fissure 8 does the same thing.  Yesterday a showerpast over the area and a tornado formed over fissure 8.  Very cool video showing what looks like a real tornado.  Not sure of the details, maybe the thermals and light winds got the thing going?  Turn the volume up as they talk about it.  Was strong enough they could here it. Here's the video.   

59 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Lots of bears this year!  Fun to watch but makes me a little nervous about kids playing in the back yard. 

I need to start carrying my camera every time I go outside.  

Yep,  one just walked across my pasture.  See them very often.  Also lots of moose this year.  

19 minutes ago, dendrite said:

The paperwork says a 70ft gravel well. So not very deep.

After our .77 in May we started watering like crazy in early June.   Im sure we are really stressing our pump running 4 hours of water each day to try to keep our gardens and lawn green.  The 1.20" storm in June helped but now everything is really drying out.  I have a deep  drilled well but noticed the water pressure has been getting low as its taking longer for the water to come up to its static level.  I'll see what happens on Fri AM with fropa but if we miss beneficial rain Im going to stop watering lawns and gardens.  Just hope our 25 baby apple trees make it, pond is almost dry

88/75F  Towering Cu all quads.   Really feels oppressive today very little breeze and with less haze than yesterday solar insolation is really strong.  Expect showers/storms to pop anytime probably just south 

Just now, tamarack said:

That one included a ground-shaking blast at our place that reduced our dog to a quivering ball of terror, but had little rain.  Then 75 minutes later came a quieter TS that brought most of the 0.48" I dumped out of the gauge at 7 AM.

Glad your getting some rain.  Every night its all to my north.  Friday fropa looks too early for any severe here in C NH but still 4 days away

Nice thunderstorm going up west of BTV.  Shadow is cool.

31 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Damn Gene!  It's 85/71 here.

87.5/76!  Have the house AC on and its 72.  First time ever some condensation is forming on my shade facing windows. Very cool to see.

Edit:  I'm seeing lots of 75-78F dews on WeatherUnderground weather stations but official sites have dews in the low 70's.  Maybe next hour they will come up.  Don't understand the discrepancy

Unfiltered sun out now.  Dews have been rising steadily this morning.  Can really feel the difference since yesterday.  86/75!

10 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

I’ve got my eye on convection west of Ottawa. That’s firing on the leading edge of lift from the MCV.

Now that I can loop the NNY convection it seems to be moving more ESE.  I'll focus more on what is upstream.

Convection starting to fire in extreme Upstate NY.  On its current heading it would be coming through the White Mtns.  Are the upper level winds such that as the complex moves east it tends to round the bend and move more south or would it stay on its due SE course?

Just now, OceanStWx said:

SPC goes with enhanced for NNE later today/tonight.

I just saw that.  Wonder if we can get an MCS to dive more southward than southeastward and get us in the Lakes Region?   I doubt it but will have to watch upstream this PM