photographer anthony quintano snapped these electrifying photos from across the hudson river in hoboken, new jersey. the storms also brought some much- needed rain to the area. the national weather service says some parts of new york city are in a moderate to at ea high desert area of san bernardino county we're taking a live look at the blue cut area of san bernardino county we're taking a live look at the blue cut fire at last report...the fire has spread 30- thousand acres. firefighters still at zero percent containment. here in the valley we're seeing and smelling the smoke... (ab-lib live pics) let's go to 13 first alert chief meteorologist bryan scofield with more on that air thursday but due to the wildfire near the cajon pass, smoke and haze will stay in the valley. mountains will be effected by the smoke the most; into respiratory issues. we could at times see these levels settle in the valley through the rest of the week. weather will be quite settled through the week and weekend. highs will be near normal the next few days with overnight lows near the seasonal temperatures as

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photographer anthony quintano was ready with his camera tuesday night during the storm. he snapped these electrifying photos from across the hudson river in hoboken, new jersey. the storms also brought some much-needed rain to the area. the national weather service says some parts of new york city are in a moderate to severe drought. 3 scientists say... july was hot--- in fact record breaking! nasa says... it was the warmest july record continued a streak of 10 consecutive months dating back to october 20-15.they also say... july was warmer than ?any other month? on record. 3 3 ((???1:15 seconds??)) ((???tease ahead??15???)) ahead??15???)) humid. pop up storm possible. high: 86tonight: partly cloudy. some fog. low: 71 friday: risk of storms, especially at night. high: 90 saturday: scattered storms, mainly in the morning. high: 78 sunday; few showers. high: 75 forecast...today: warm and humid. pop up storm possible. high: 86tonight: partly cloudy. some fog. low: 71 friday: risk of storms, especially at night. high: 90 saturday: scattered storms, mainly in the morning. hig

photographer anthony quintano was ready with his camera. and also in new jersey wilcox boulevard is. the storms also brought some much-needed rain to the area with the northeast in a drought. let's take a look at the forecast. people start with the radar view and see what is going on across the area. we will zoom in first across halifax county with a pretty good thunderstorm warning issue to let us know what about that. these are slow-moving so they are not likely to dump that much of rainfall. a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for central halifax county until 5:15 pm. it is stationary with winds of 60 miles-per-hour. it will done some heavy rainfall. you can see all the lightning with highway 301 and very much stationary. 3 inches overtime of rainfall. expects some across the tillery community. the aware of that between now and 5:15 pm. so let's continue our tour and see what is going on closer to the triangle with scattered showers developing through raleigh and garner toward the north east. you will see new activity across fr

photographer, anthony quintano snapped these. man, just take a look at those. gorgeous. >> you've been tracking a lot of these pictures, right? great to see. >> i can't stop watching. one thing we've had a chance to see here in the northeast in the summer. to see. that's down lightning. that's 1 billion volts of e nergy. and that bolt of lightning, by the way, is just the size of your pen. >> it's just that wide. >> looks like there's a massive column. >> but this year, we've got a chance to see a lot of heat lightning. you see that racing across the sky, from cloud to cloud. really pretty. it's a result of the heating today. we had a lot of heating, a lot of humidity. when t hings are cool. here we go. we won't have that tonight. there will be maybe some rumbles of thunder in new jersey i want to talk about. we lived across in central park here. all the way to long island. high, thin, cirrus clouds here. about a thimble full of moisture in the atmosphere. >> big spread there. big breeze, makes it feel comfortable this afternoon. less humid this afternoon. but