Friday's storms

Thursday heat and humidity were supposed to bring strong storms to the area and did not; the sky wasn’t falling. Friday did bring some storms, but coverage was still not extensive. All I had at the WeatherWatch Tower was a few minutes of gusty winds; no rain, no lightning. Fine by me.
The areas in Vermont that did see stronger storms were the Lake Champlain counties. There was some minor wind damage, but hail was the main feature. Mostly small, there were a few instances of large hail. A trained spotter in Grande Isle reported 5-10 minutes of hail up to .88 inches. The largest reported stone fell, up by the border, in the town of Franklin... an estimated 1.75 inches (that’s big for Vermont).