Avg spd at 10 mile marker: 14.2 mph. It's been over a week since last ride due to heat wave (some areas have had 9 straight days w/ 90 F or above temps, and 100 F + on Monday 7/5/10, when I shot video of last stg of Longsjo Classic bike race Women's Pro/1/2 and Men's Pro/1 aft'n crits dntn Fitchburg, MA). Today, had to dodge what we used to call air-mass thunderstorms when I was in met. school (don't know what they're calling 'em now), not in the forecast, which were blowing up overhead at noon ( heard one clap of thunder at 12:17 pm, and later when home at 1:40 pm and 1:50 pm). Never had any rain during my ride, but there was evidence it had rained in town while I was out on ride (and w/ the 1:40 pm storm). Stopped into work to check out the wx radar; saw the cells were training and the next one was making a bee-line for Spencer from I-84 in northern CT, so returned to home base. Mostly sunny w/ towering Cu's exploding into Cb's, air temp mid 80s F, dew pt mid to upper 60s F, wind calm to vrbl under 5 mph, basically S or SW.