Been sitting on my balcony with the cats, enjoying the refreshing cool breeze and sipping some Limeade. Storm coming in from the northwest, the St. Lawerence Valley and St Lawrence Seaway area, moving through the central Adirondacks and Tughill Plateau, and now coming into Great Sacandaga Lake and Northern Saratoga County, and then next here, into Warren County and the Glens Falls/Lake George Region, and then, very probably, into the Champlain Valley. Eventually this one will wind up in Vermont and New Hampshire--parts of which have been already inundated with rain, this summer.

I've been watching nature's fireworks show from afar, for the past half hour--even when it was some fifty or sixty miles off yet, it was lighting up the northwestern skies. It's about 20 or 25 miles away now--no thunder or rain yet. Just silent lightning. Gonna' be a humdinger, even if the loss of daytime heat calms it down from what it was an hour ago.

ADDENDUM: Just re-checked the Natl. Weather Service radar out of Albany, and once again, the storm's dividing before it gets here, and the worst of it is going north of Lake George, and south into Saratoga County--we'll just get some heavy rain and the odd flash of lightning, probably.

It's strange, but it's been doing that most of the summer--the worst of the storms going mainly south or north of my location--it's almost as if this city is the parting of the Red Sea when it comes to bad storms, ha-ha. Which is fine by me--we had some horrendous storms last summer...one had us all leave off our phones at work, 'cos there were so many direct strikes all around our office building--even setting a local pub on fire. Most phones and computers are pretty safe to use during a lightning storm--I mean, it really would have to be an extremely close or direct hit to hurt you any, but still--not wanting to touch electrical equipment during a violent storm with lots of cloud-to-ground lightning--that's not being a worry-wort, that's just common sense, I reckon.