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Originally Posted by wildwoodfam
We had 2 inches of rain in about 20 minutes last Wednesday and Straight Line Winds creating lots of weather related issues here in Massachusetts.
Again today more deluge but no high winds.
Just a precursor of things to come this summer!! 
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Weather patterns can change, so there is hope. But if this one doesn't, I'd have to answer, "yes."
The polar influence has been very strong this spring, and continues to be. Every time you get a powerful cold front plowing into warm, moist air, you get a huge battle zone with the warm air literally getting lifted up by the heavier cold air. That's what makes the thunderheads which are sometimes 50,000 feet tall. It gets turbulent within them, which first leads to lightning (a large-scale form of laundry static), then hail if it gets even more turbulent, and finally tornadoes. Until last week we haven't had much warmth/moisture for the cold fronts to play with, and now we're starting to get it.