July 2026

[MJO812]

[psv88]

100.1 for the high, 85 now and breezy with some drizzle 

[MANDA]

51 minutes ago, Picard said:

That is one hell of a map.  I would expect problems on a night like tonight, but JCP&L has the worst record of keeping lights on.  They are always the highest outages measured by percentage of their total customers. 

Not sure what happened in my area.  My power went out before the winds really hit.   We had a CTG strike, a boom of thunder and off went the power.  Then the winds really picked up.  Lighting must have hit something.  Grid was probably pushed to the limit already with the heat.

[SouthernNJ]

TEWR from 7:37 PM.  Damaging winds were moving through Morristown and most of the county, on the leading edge of, or even in front of the line itself.  A separate thunderstorm downburst was moving along the Essex/Passaic county line and into southern Bergen/northern Hudson counties.  At the time of this radar image, warnings were still 10 to 16 minutes away from issuance for the 4 eastern counties.

[Picard]

Almost 239,000 outages in NJ currently, down a little from 256,000 earlier.  That's insane.  This is going to be a while for those affected, I'm afraid.
https://projects.nj.com/data/outagetracker/

[MANDA]

Just got update from JCPL.  For my area "estimated restoration times will not be available until tomorrow afternoon"

This is not going to be a quick fix.

[psv88]

Chicago getting crushed 

[BoulderWX]

Just getting cell service back. Still no power. Lots on damage and trees down in my yard and neighborhood.

[jm1220]

17 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Chicago getting crushed 

Yep, nailed twice today. This afternoon’s were pretty crazy, wind must have gusted to 50 where I’m staying. Quite a bit of tree/property damage around the city. 

[Cyg]

My town went ahead with their fireworks tonight despite the storm damage. My power ended up coming back on after about two hours, but I noticed most streets were out while heading downtown. Twigs and small branches were everywhere, and a couple streets were impassible with downed limbs and power lines. Needless to say turnout at the fireworks was pretty low. 

Edit: Looking at the outage map, basically my entire town is out of power except for my little neighborhood, sheesh.

[BoulderWX]

1 hour ago, MANDA said:

Just got update from JCPL.  For my area "estimated restoration times will not be available until tomorrow afternoon"

This is not going to be a quick fix.

Got the same, good times. 

[weatheruser]

That was intense. I thought we were getting a tornado 

[MANDA]

12 minutes ago, BoulderWX said:

Got the same, good times. 

Reading between the lines I think it means  they are doing little or nothing until daybreak.

[SI Mailman]

Just got a rumble of thunder out of nowhere