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By adamg - 8/21/16 - 2:13 pm
Bellevue Pond in Medford, or what's left of it

Gedalia Pasternak notes that on a map this field is officially known as Bellevue Pond in Medford.

The National Weather Service says we could get some heavy rain tonight, thanks to a front that is currently over New York state.

By adamg - 8/14/16 - 8:27 pm

UPDATE, 8:44 p.m. Warning canceled for Boston, although it's kind of boomy and rainy here along the Roslindale/Hyde Park frontier.

Until 9 p.m.

CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE`S LEADING KILLERS.

By adamg - 7/23/16 - 6:49 pm
Storm moving in over Boston

It looked like a killer death storm was about to swallow up Boston late this afternoon. That John Gage was able to post this photo strongly suggests it didn't.

It did, however, get pretty intense in places such as Chelsea and Melrose: Read more.

By adamg - 7/22/16 - 9:42 pm
Lightning south of Roslindale

Ed Grzyb watched lightning strike south of Roslindale around 9 p.m. in a storm that proved not to be a repeat of Monday's tree destroyer.

By adamg - 6/29/16 - 7:04 pm
Rainstorm over the Harvard Bridge and the Charles River

Tamas K-L watched the storm over the Charles this afternoon.

By adamg - 4/7/16 - 5:54 pm

Erica Mattison videoed a Park Street platform today.

By adamg - 3/28/16 - 8:22 am
Woman walking on the street in the rain in old Boston

The info with this Leslie Jones photo doesn't say where or even exactly when it was taken, but it kind of feels like Boylston Street in the late 1930s or early 1940s, no?

From the BPL Leslie Jones collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.

By adamg - 11/13/15 - 3:32 pm
Storm over the Back Bay and South Boston

Around 1:45 p.m. at Castle Island.

The view across Pleasure Bay towards the Kennedy Library was equally dramatic: Read more.

By adamg - 9/30/15 - 12:32 pm

Storrow Drive flooding

George shows us what it was like on the Mass. Turnpike outbound around 11:45 this morning.

By adamg - 9/29/15 - 10:34 pm
Fallen tree in Allston

Adrienne M. shows us the tree that fell across Raymond Street in Lower Allston tonight.

By adamg - 9/29/15 - 12:15 pm
Clouds past Logan Airport

Gathering storm? Some of the clouds past Boston Harbor and Logan Airport this afternoon.

We're no longer in the five-day cone-of-probability for Tropical Storm Joaquin, so let's worry about the torrential downpours that mean flood watches for the area roughly north and west of 128 tonight through Thursday.

Eric Fisher at WBZ says don't count Joaquin outjust yet:

Everyone from North Carolina to New England should pay extremely close attention to Joaquin. There will be flooding regardless, but a near pass or landfall could allow areas to blast into the double digits for rainfall with ease. I’m not seeing a situation where *someone* on the East Coast doesn’t get soaked in flood waters. The pattern almost guarantees it. The trick is figuring out where. And in the meantime make sure your sump pumps are in working order!

By adamg - 9/28/15 - 9:24 pm

A tropical depression currently called just 11 might, maybe, possibly, bring heavy rains and high winds to the Boston area this weekend. We're currently in cone of probability for the storm, which could become Tropical Storm Joaquin tomorrow, if its winds get above 35 m.p.h. But National Hurricane Center forecasters currently aren't really sure of the storm's exact track and intensity yet.

By adamg - 8/18/15 - 4:14 pm
Bright road in Dedham, dark skies over Boston

We came out of the Halfway Cafe on Washington Street in Dedham around 3:05 p.m. to the sound of thunder - even though it was still sunny overhead. But when we looked north, into Boston, we saw the city covered by an ominous cloud.

By adamg - 8/17/15 - 5:08 pm

Lulu522 forwards a copy of the photo she took from her 36th floor perch in downtown Boston as one of those storms rolled into Boston on Saturday.

By adamg - 8/15/15 - 8:32 pm
Stormburst over the Massachusetts Turnpike

Violent thunderstorms moved across the Boston region this afternoon and evening, soaking some, giving others vivid lightning displays and rainbows, forcing the delay of a New England Revolution match at Gillette and turning the Natick commuter-rail station into the sort of raging water-filled arroyo you normally only expect to see after freak storms in a western desert: Read more.

By adamg - 8/4/15 - 8:45 pm
Sun rays after hail storm over Millennium Park in West Roxbury

Millennium Park in West Roxbury around 7 p.m.

Maureen Hoch saw something similar at sunset in Watertown: Read more.

By adamg - 8/4/15 - 8:10 am
Cloud over Somerville

Teeheehee looked northwest from Somerville as the storm came in this morning.

Earlier in the morning, Leah Klein watched the sun come up over Eagle Hill in East Boston: Read more.

By adamg - 8/1/15 - 2:04 pm
Ominous cloud over Everett

Stefani Vieira snapped this photo around 1:20 p.m.

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