Here it comes!

There's a great big line of ugly just to the west of here and it's sweeping this way. The forecast is for severe thunderstorms with the possibility of strong winds and large hail. When it does get here we're sure to have a heck of a light show and quite a lot of "booming." The colors on the map are red and yellow with a bit of orange mixed in and the line goes from Lake Ontario all the way down to Maryland. There are few if any gaps in the line in the Twin Tiers (Northern PA and Southern NY) so this one won't slide to the north and south of us as the last one did.

"I love a rainy night. I love a rainy night. I love to hear the thunder and see the lightening light up the sky."

UPDATE: 8:18 PM We have just dodged the single "scout" cell ahead of the front, but I'm not sure how. The map shows it moved right over us and the thunder from the cell seemed to come from all directions.

UPDATE 2: 9:20 PM The front edge of the line has begun to move through. First the fairly strong winds whipped the trees back and forth; then the thunder, lightening and rain started. Nothing too severe as of yet. The temperatures have taken a nose dive from above 80 degrees to about 70. There's still some lightening about two miles to the west-northwest of us and this will be moving through in the next 15 minutes.

UPDATE 3: 9:35 PM Where's my freakin' storm! It looked very serious on the weather maps. It sounds very serious in the distance. BUT it almost completely fizzled when it got to the eastern portion of the county where we are. Oh, there's some rain but it certainly isn't drenching. There's some lightening, but, if you measure from the light to the thunder, it's several miles away. Here? Pffft! Not so much.

UPDATE 4: 7:30 AM Saturday As Peggy Lee sang: "Is that all there is?" We got nothing. I feel like Charlie Brown at Halloween. During the much anticipated Trick-or-Treating, all the kids are getting goods galore. yet at every door, poor CB reports, "I got a rock." almost 250 reports of damaging wind and hail from this system according to Accuweather and all we got was five minutes of wind, some light show far in the distance and maybe an hour of rain. Trees did block Route 220 to the east of us. There was a possible tornado sighting between Elmira, NY and Ithica, NY to the northeast. But here on the hill? Zilch. At least we get the benefits. It's 20 degrees cooler this morning (50 degrees vs yesterday's 70) and the humidity has dropped over 25% from near 80% to only 50%. Beautiful morning.