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It's as if this marginal thunderstorm is playing hopscotch - downpour and lightning was over there, to my west beyond the NY state line, and then suddenly it's blowing up over Canton, Simsbury and Avon to my east, with nothing in between.

Nobody expects... an 8 AM October thunderstorm. (Not here, more to the south and east of here - that means you, New Haven...)

With lightning, too - I was surprised to get an alert from my lightning app...

It's not often that I wake up to loud thunder, but I just did - that line coming from eastern NY into CT looks like the real deal.

I was happy to have power flicker only twice (in Washington Depot) - somehow seem to have missed the brunt of it.

Hope they don't get a TOR in Torrington...

Turned into a TOR warning? WTF I'm just south of that 'box' = a little distant muffled thunder is all that I've heard from it, but sun came out here.

And thunder in Litchfield County, CT. Not a lot of it, though (unlike the Boston area).

I will be doing my part next week by running my new-ish portable air conditioner. BTW, I was not paying close attention to the forecast, thinking that any rain would hold off until later this afternoon, and so I was taken by surprise to hear the heavy rain that moved in a short time ago. Hoping that we still get some thunderstorm activity later on.

Not to mention the insane growth of the grass - usually can get away with not mowing the lawn until the first week of June, but not this year.

Just noticed that the WU forecast moved the anticipated onset of thunderstorms earlier by at least several hours - but it did so by extending the potential duration of the thunderstorm activity rather than by merely shifting it earlier. So, perhaps there may be 'fun' times ahead, from early this afternoon through the evening hours.

The lightning activity in western CT looks better on the map than it appears to be "in person". Still, waking up to a thunderstorm is a nice touch...

Was expecting some lightning (because I got an alert from an app on my phone) only to discover that it was just a few isolated strikes in the Hartford area.

And here I mistakenly thought that Epping, NH was the center of the universe. My bad...

Only a single lightning strike so far in CT?