There's been a solid hook on that storm for awhile. Not surprised we have such a robust looking supercell. Often times on the leading edge of these MCSs that move through in the summer is where you have transient supercellular storms. And the VIL values are off the charts, very high dbz in the core
There will definitely be smoke coming through tonight. It might linger into the morning. It won't be as bad as tomorrow evening though. You can see it on the visible satellite moving south from New York
Just sent in a report to the NWS. Was a great storm here. Gusty, drenching rain, and got hail cored. Saw the VIL radar and knew there had to be something, was expecting pea size (0.25" but got up to 0.5")
The look for much of the latter half of this month has been the high geopotential heights across SE Canada and low heights across the SE. Stuck in the middle is weak flow and generally seasonable temps. Occasionally we'll get a disturbance to ride the ridge north of us and bring a glancing blow of showers and a brief cool down. That's what we can expect this Friday evening and Saturday as a disturbance and cold front moves through.
So, hopefully we get some showers this weekend