A sweltering citizen complains about the weather, wants the city to do something about it:
It's too hot. Please ask the dpw to turn down the sun. Ask the Mayor to allow Thunderstorms.
UPDATE: City marks case closed:
Case Noted. Requests filed but difficult to fulfill as [city of Boston] has no jurisdiction over sun/rain. i hope this info is helpful.
From West Roxbury to East Boston, Nstar cables and transformers failed last night, plunging residents into steamy darkness.
"Faulty equipment" sparked an outage in the Centre Street corridor from West Roxbury into Jamaica Plain last night.
On Prescott Street in East Boston, Kathy Bui reports power went out around midnight, finally came back around 5:30 p.m.
There was a bit of haze in the air between the Back Bay and Roslindale around 5:45 p.m.
Jared Villemaire took this shot looking north across the Charles shortly before 4 p.m., as tornado warnings were out for the northeastern corner of the state, from Billerica to Cape Ann.
Daniel Brim took this shot of a wall cloud in Lynn around 4:20 p.m.:
Dani B. photographed the post-storm rainbow over Cambridge.
Omen over the Garden? Gary Waldeck captured the view over the arena:
More rainbow photos than you can shake a stick at.
Last week:
Double rainbows all over the place.
Lindsay Birch snapped the scene in South Boston around 5:45, adds:
Looks like I got my run in just in time at Castle Island.
Chris Weigel watched lightning hit the ground at Logan Airport:
The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Boston area through 9 p.m. - and a flood warning for Norfolk and Middlesex counties.
Fletcher Lang captured the double rainbow over Huntington Avenue from the MFA this evening.
Cycle Style Boston captured the double rainbow over the Pru:
The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for eastern Massachusetts starting tonight through 8 p.m. tomorrow, what with more heavy rains expected tonight.
June 9, 1953 was hot and humid. The weather bureau predicted thunderstorms, some possibly severe, for central Massachusetts. It got those storms - and an F4 tornado that touched down to the northwest of Worcester, creating a trail of death and destruction that ended only at the Framingham line, after the Fayville post office was flattened. In all, 96 people died that day.
Among the photographers who rushed to chronicle the damage was, of course, Leslie Jones:
Tree down, car stuck in Back Bay. Photo by Janice Dominguez.
High winds yesterday proved too much for several trees in Boston (or as the Globe put it: More than 3 trees), including this one on Comm. Ave. between Dartmouth and Exeter in the Back Bay.
With triple-H conditions forecast through the weekend, it might be time for a trip to Revere Beach, as Leslie Jones took in 1919. But you might want to get there early - it can get crowded, as he showed in 1937:
The Worcester Line has trouble in cold weather. It also has trouble in warm weather - the MBTA just announced speed restrictions on the line because of the high temperatures.
The formerly upright tree, at the intersection of Warren and Walnut avenues, is now horizontal and lying across the road, at least until the DPW or Parks Department can remove it.
Gradon Tripp managed to photograph the giant cloud of doom about to crash down on 128 north around 4:30 p.m.
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