Stormfly

Well if we have good cold with zero precip there's always this! If you want to get serious making snow and have a firefighting supply available (high flow rate well, retention pond, et-al) and permission to use it you can make bonafide amounts like ski resorts do!

Four hundredths in the Young tipper here. Nice lightning to our NE lasted about 20 minutes with some rumbling. Came out of nowhere seemingly. Blew up fast and then out. Like the city slicker on a camping trip trying to start a campfire with three logs and a pint of white gasoline!

Interesting tiny cell popped up, heavy rain out of nowhere lasted for 5 minutes. Lightning detectors started going off and I heard some rumbling. Looked to the northeast and lots of flashes. Very isolated and short lived. Still counts. If I was up on a roof/tower/tree I'd have to get down so it always counts. Beautiful morning, cleared out nice. Sky is deep blue over the spruce line. Milky way should show nicely the next few nights. Gonna try out the night mode on this shiny new iPhone 13 Pro Max on a tripod.

Big nothingburger loaded with mustard! The mustard being that yellow line of slight risk...\ Yes the Mid Atlantic, where the most memorial events happen without warning or expectation!

Um, hell yeah!

Our rule of thumb is when DP hits 70F it can come on.

It's getting my attention now!

Lower 50s, completely clear, probability of Blue Jay screaming 100%. Man they are loud! Also was out near the line with the pup and heard some geese honking. This is my favorite time of the year. Minus leaf cleanup!

Oh my the northwesterly breezes are back and it feels so nice. Can't wait for real fall weather to get here and stay around for a while. I can't stand being in the shop with a big fan blowing on me while grinding chains. We do torch like crazy this time of the year. Recall October 01, 1986. I remember it was easily in the lower 90s because I was pulling Heliax on a tower job in Severn. Got wrapped up that day around 1730 and seeing impressive towers with lots of flashes to the west. That night we had legit severe, knocked out power quite bad in Harford and one of our sites in Phoenix MD took a direct strike and needed attention. One of those freak storm days. The day after was very nice though, kind of like what tomorrow is wrapping up to be.

I saw a firefly last night! I had a feeling we were going to have a second instance of them as I've been noticing their larvae in the grass when walking at night. The last time we had a second run was fall of 2017 and 2009. The air feels fantastic this AM. Windows open, whole house fan on low. Yesterday was oppressive to say the least. Replacing a water tank and I was sweating like a damn pig! Enough of the July weather, I am ready for fall!

Nice T&L here! Decent storm.

Big flashes to our west picked up on tower cam. See if it holds. It would nice to get some rain and maybe a breeze tonight.

Sept 1983 had some big heat. 83-84 winter was decent. I'd take it again. BUT! there was some bitter cold too that I could do without. Anyone remember the days with carbureted cars (and manual choke!) you'd have put "dry gas" or "heet" in the tank or risk dreaded gas line freeze, the Watusi jack rabbit start and surging that makes you look like you're just learning to drive stick! That combined on hilly roads full of patchy ice certainly made things interesting.

RE: storms on Radarscope... I'll take PETERED OUT BY i-83 FOR $1000, Mister Jeopardy host! ;-)

Wow that's the kind of failure that should never happen! Especially in that (wind) zone. Gotta love the durability of LED lighting however. If that was HID (canopy) and FL (signage) it would be out.

Some impressive boomers last night over northern PA. I thought I had State College site selected in Radarscope. Nope! When they show up like that (so far from the nexrad site) you have some serious height!

Apparently hours can be passed and rushed! As they say "In an ambulance, got a chance! In a hearse, gotta be worse!" And there's this:

Beach would be awesome right now! Swells from Larry, very warm temps! I remember swells from Bonnie back in '98 very well. It was quite strong just off Assateague beaches and there were red flags for rip currents which are best avoided unless you know what you can get into.

Most likely primary side (6-7kV) fuse cutout open. Affects small number of customers. Unfortunately requires a lineman to replace and/or clear fault. Thank goodness for reclosers (circuit breaker-like overcurrent devices)! The power in rural areas is much more reliable because of them as things like a tree branch, squirrel, snake, etc. causing a fault that would wipe out a fuse get cleared automatically. A persistent fault (wire down, tree on line, etc.) will trip it out and send a signal for crew dispatch of course. If your power goes out, comes back on for a bit and goes off again in cyclical fashion approx 3 times then stays off that's a recloser in action. They don't protect individual home feeds, however so the fuse opens on your particular pole pig it's gonna be out until you see a bucket truck. I was awoken around 01:24 this AM by alarms and pointed the PTZ in the usual direction and saw green flashes every time the UPS engaged. There's a section of road to our north that has lots of tree branches near a single 6kV overhead and every time it rains hard this has been happening. Fortunately they are small enough to burn off and NOT trip the line off but it causes noticeable anomalies that our UPS' take action on. Sometimes bigger limbs do cause faults on that run and trip that line out but we have isolation switches in several places (along with 3 phases) so our power comes back relatively quickly. Far cry from what it was 40 years ago. Barely half an inch from those storms, no wind, and some DEEP rumbles as the lightning seemed to pick up once the initial part passed to our east. At least we got some nice cooler weather ahead! Wish it would last longer though.

Petered out as usual. Just heavy showers with some rumbles of thunder embedded. Relaxing to listen to the rain on the skylights.

Lightning frequency has dropped considerably.

Frequent lightning showing up to our west via PTZ on east tower.

Who ordered the triple nothingburger from Five Guys?

Our "severe" barely meet severe as defined. However when they do show up, it's often when we least expect it and warnings may not be in time.

Alley implies in the middle so left and right coasts would be gutters.