Florida Lightning Season On Fire, Storms Continue

Yesterday was truly one of those very cool Florida sea breeze thunderstorm days, where there was lightning storm action almost on cue. I watched the east coast sea breeze boundary explode with thunderstorm convection between the Palm Beach coast and Lake Okeechobee. The convection outline the lake shadow very nicely yesterday, developing into a narrow arc of lightning storms. At the same time, storms were getting underway on the west coast sea breeze and moving slowly east with the boundary.

These two boundaries came together north of Lake Okeechobee and exploded into deep convective intense lightning storms, with non-stop lightning for hours. The storms were very slow moving with the current weak steering flow, and many locations picked up 2-3 inches of very welcome and needed rain. The storms continued to develop and almost like a domino affect, they exploded from southeast to northwest along the east and west coast boundaries collision, that followed the Kissimmee River. It was very cool to watch on radar and live in person as the towers were kind of back building northward along the boundary, making for a awesome time lapse (not edited yet) video.

How About Today?

Today looks to be a repeat of Mondays Florida weather, with another round of lightning sea breeze storms that will be slow movers to the south-southeast. Today I plan on shooting some longer sets of time lapse video of the sea breeze collisions, so I will be getting a early start to my setup. Upper level temperatures are a tad cooler today, so some of the storms might have more of a punch. Lightning should be pretty intense again today as instability is impressive again. The interior part of the state will be another lightning enthusiasts dreamland. Some of the storms might last well into the evening hours after dark, setting up for a possible digital lightning photography session…I’ll keep my finders crossed.

For now… off to get me a ice coffee (extra cream and sugar), run some morning errands, and keep a close eye on the hi-rez visible satellite images late this morning to see where my native boundaries will setup. So, here to some close CG (cloud-to-ground) lightning strikes, and some hard rock convection.

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