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Honestly I don't have the empirical evidence at hand, I assumed peak Gulf Stream temps were reached August/September. That being said, it's still a climatological anomaly. Whether because of temperatures or typical seasonal weather patterns that allow for it to happen.

I would like to note, as a born weenie, that the NHC gives JFK a 1% chance of seeing 1-minute sustained hurricane-force winds. I live in hope that the endless insanity that is 2020 gives us a landfalling NJ hurricane in July. Go ahead, give me the weenie reaction, your jeers mean nothing to me. Your weenies sustain me. ...wait let me say that a different way.

thread theme song. where's my TWC local on the 8s crew at.

this line is crawling through NJ. looks like it'll be a solid hour of heavy rain unless for some reason it dies out. by the way, put yourselves on sunset watch again tonight. could be a good one behind these storms.

@wdrag is an MVP.

No no I know, but I always took it to mean a progression of cells that run over the same place. Not one cell that just sits and sits.

I don't even know how that's possible if you're in Branchburg. Like dodging a nuclear explosion.

Man you know the s*** is going down when the advisory map looks like a delicious bowl of sherbert.

lol I am at work in NBR is it seriously dry in Piscataway? NBR is getting pasted. Is training the right word? Trains move.

Echoes clipping 65 dBz in EPA.

Wow that's a great view. And then I assume the outflow stops the convergence and chokes the storm out?

Some big CTG bolts dropping no more than 1,000 feet away. Major rainmaker, plenty of lightning, not much wind and no hail.

Came in just to say that. Never seen outflow so pronounced.

The first cell is popping up over the Philadelphia area.

Welcome to summer am I right? I did get a nice sunset. As a comment: big summer storms are like a good dinner to me. You get the appetizer, the anticipation, big heat and humidity, you watch it roll in, outflow breeze revves up, maybe you get a nice shelf cloud. Bam, it hits, big rain, wind, thunder and lightning, hail if you're lucky. It rolls out, you're absorbing everything that happened, and just as you do, a big beautiful sunset appears. Dessert! God we are so lucky to be weather enthusiasts. Here's today's dessert straight from Piscataway. Camera phone can't ever do it justice but it was good for a summer sunset.

lol it's amazing, I've been on this forum with you for a few years, I thought your weather was my weather, and I completely missed this. f'n Piscataway man lol. anyway great video.

i can assure you it's because i live in Piscataway too once i move you're gonna get hammered by rain so often you'll need to replace the veggie garden with a rice paddy

what an amazing jackpot, congratulations. any street flooding?

It might have even been 2016. I'd like to say 2017 most likely. As I remember the entire state was covered in a swarm of cells. Never saw anything like it before or since.

The last few days have been one of the more interesting setups I've seen for the area, I'll give them that. Cell to my west is hammering Somerset County and has dropped many nice CTG strikes. Question for everyone: does anyone remember a day 2-3 years ago, incredibly hot and humid, where at some point in the afternoon the entire region exploded with thunderstorms crawling random directions? It was a very distinctive event. At some point in the afternoon, like 2:30 PM, the radar went from clear to cells gushing everywhere. There was no steering flow. Cells just appeared everywhere and drifted around, the whole state was covered by red echoes, flash flooding must've been everywhere. I don't even think it was due to a seabreeze front, they didn't really propagate along a front that I could see. The atmosphere pretty much rained itself out. Wish I could remember what day that was and what the setup was, pretty wild.

and to think coming into 2020 it was months and months of above average precipitation

@wdrag great job picking up the Saturday threat early. I wish it panned out but you saw the potential before anyone else that I heard from. @forkyfork and great job to you for picking up on today's potential yesterday. This isn't a big forum but we're very blessed to have talented meteorologists and enthusiastic amateurs--one of my favorite online communities I belong to. Good luck today everyone!

maybe some storms will pop?

Might be another day for orographic lift, sea breeze, training storms. Cumulus building in the area. Weak steering flow all around. I'm watching the clouds and they're basically stationary.

These have been very, very small cells. I got about 10 minutes of a light, showery rain. Really small drops, it sort of looked like it was raining hard but it was basically an angry spritzing.