ApacheTrout

That's triple nasty, eyewall. We are under Double Filthy Conditions today, just a notch below your weather. Woke up and found dew on the grass with an air temp of 78F. . Went for a walk in the woods and came back drenched, feeling like I walked in the swamp, under water, uphill both ways, with a sloth on my back.

For Saturday in my neck of the woods, NWS has 95 F, WU has 97 F. Those are very rare forecasted high temps. Yeesh. And I won't even comment on the Heat Index (find a happy place, find a happy place, find a happy place), but here's this morning's AFD from the NWS: Current heat index values are between 95-104, with a few locations across Addison county likely to exceed these.

0.41 inches of rain. There was maybe 0.05 from yesterday's brief showers, but I didn't remember to read the gauge in the afternoon yesterday to separate out that total from this morning's event.

3.23" total. 3rd highest 24-hr total in the 10 years since getting the Stratus.

Orwell VT

3+ inches today. A bit wet.

0.83 inches of rain yesterday. As miserable as yesterday was, I'll take this weather over last year's just about any time. For comparison: April 2018, 4.46 inches May 2018: 1.07 inches, BTV temp departure: +5.9F April 2019: 4.71 inches May 2019: 4.90 inches, BTV temp departure: -1.8F The dry and warm 2018 led into an extended drought, with my area receiving only 3 inches of rain in June and again in July, and only 2.66 inches in August. That was rough.

Tough, nasty day for working outdoors. Thoroughly soaked, and the chill landed like punch in the gut. 0.75 inches of rain, now sitting at 47°F. Thankfully, this is short term.

Beautiful, eyewall. I could only see the green faintly. Was the pink visible to the naked eye?

a little too much light still in the western sky here in Orwell. Sparse, thin clouds, but otherwise mostly clear. Fingers crossed.

It's logarithmic. From NASA: " And then come the X-class flares. Although X is the last letter, there are flares more than 10 times the power of an X1, so X-class flares can go higher than 9. The most powerful flare measured with modern methods was in 2003, during the last solar maximum, and it was so powerful that it overloaded the sensors measuring it. The sensors cut out at X28."

And that was followed by an X9. Top of the scale.

There's time for this to strengthen by this evening.

G2 storm in progress. http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-geomagnetic-storm-progress.