Weather, Storms & Hurricane Blog

 
I was out shooting thunderstorm time lapse video this afternoon and had a nice close-by Cloud-to-Ground (CG) lightning strike in the field in front of me. I was panning the camera at the moment of the strike, so the image is a little grainy. You can see a thin leader branch at ground level leading […]

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Interesting morning, and now afternoon in the southwest Caribbean Sea. A tropical wave / tropical disturbance, has been very active much of the day down there, with deep consistent convection (thunderstorms), with signs of some upper level outflow (fanning) to the north of the system. Looking at Hi-Rez visible satellite loops, you can see some […]

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Once again, yesterday was one of the those weird days where your expecting some good storms, but then everything holds and you get just some garden type storms in a feeder band like featured extending from the weak low pressure over northeast Florida. Warmer temps in the mid-levels and moisture mixing out some yesterday, kept […]

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Today is shaping up to be a day of possible severe storms, some rotating storms at that, and much needed rainfall. A weak area of low pressure will be developing over southern Georgia later today at the surface, while a potent upper-level system slides southeastward into the northeastern Gulf. This all will produce a southwesterly […]

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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 […]

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Area’s of Southern Florida had a nice rainfall pickup on Sunday with a left over surface boundary in the area and local sea breeze storms. There were several widespread area’s of 2-3 inches of decent rain totals, which is very welcome. My place saw none of this rain over the weekend, as there seems to […]

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Kersten and I were just hanging around the house having a lazy Saturday, when I looked out the back kitchen window to see a large plume of dark black smoke. I first thought maybe there was a house or structure on fire with all the thick black smoke. So, Kersten and I jumped into the […]

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