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You may have to just cover for someone on a day we have a risk so you can do it

Nice hail core west of Kinderhook. 70dbz to over 10k on Albany radar...unfortunately storm probably not being sampled fully either. Actually is that a TDS too??

Just got the watch notification!!! This is why May 1st is called the start of severe weather season. So anyone who weenied that before take your weenie back

that little cluster headed for Pittsfield is going to be a good wind producer

The llvl flow is backed enough to where there could be a tornado is any cell remains discrete and can become mature enough. Dews are a bit low so LCL's are sky high so that will probably hinder this a bit but its something to watch for

They do in the desert

Should be, we're maximizing heating which is always critical when dealing with lower dews/marginal lapse rates. llvl lapse rates are quite steep from the heating and even 2-6km lapse rates getting at/above 7 C/KM...good indicator there should be some localized damaging wind gusts today.

have to start small

Been a decent start locally in the thunderstorm department. Had a nice one the other night around 3:00 AM and then there was one a few weeks back like 10-11 PM which had good thunder/lightning. Would like to see some branches come down with some hail today though

mlvl lapse rates look to "steepen" some through the day.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH COMING!!!

GWDLT

Should be some decent storms though...won't have to go far today!

yeah that's probably about accurate...probably closer to the 5 window than the 7 though. Stuff probably starts firing 3-4 PM

also wish mlvl lapse rates were steeper but that's the theme for here

I will be staying up the rest of the night

Friend of mine said fishing spider

I was afraid of the T word. Oh God if those are running in the wild up here…

What kind of spider is that? Looks like an Australian plate spider thing

What in the hell??? Where is that? That is way too big. Please tell me that’s not like your house. Spiders that big should not be here. One aspect of climate change nobody talks about…the spiders are getting bigger and moving north

Looks like we setting up for a very warm second half of the month. Once we get past this upcoming week it's off to the races.

This is so much better than winter. Winter is only enjoyable if it is snowing but outside of it snowing, what is there to like about cloudy skies with low sun angle and temperatures in the 20's or 30's (or colder) and wind?

One of the best lightning displays I think I saw was I want to say April of 2002...though it may have been May. It happened on a Sunday. I was in New Britain at my grandparents there and we had a nasty storm roll through during the afternoon which produced 1.5" hail (still largest hail I've seen). Then back in West Hartford that night, we had a second round...and the lighting with this was insane...just non stop flashing as the storms approached and lots of CGs and loud thunder. There was one too (I can't even remember the year but I think it was August. Had to be summer of 2007 I think). My friend came down from New Hampshire randomly and we drove around the part of West Hartford towards the Reservoir where its elevated and the amount of CGs...that was actually scary stuff. It was just like gunshot sounds. Literally was like the CGs were striking next to us.

That is a long area of watches

its amazing out now...took a while but we got there.