Florida thunderstorm sunshower picture 

Well, the tropics might be dead, but the Florida sea breeze storm season is very active these days. Last summer it was not this active leading to our current drought, which by the way has improved a good deal since May with all the heavy rainfall. The lake is still low, but the canals and small lakes along the coast are full.

I had another fun day on Sunday chasing all the boundaries collisions and came away with other video beside weather. As seen in the first storm picture above, one of my favorites of the month is a weakening thunderstorms with sun filtering in through a clear slot making a awesome looking cascading rain and sunlight effect. I shot several angles of this feature and wish I had the time to shoot a time lapse, which would have been excellent.

Weak thunderstorm rotation South Florida July 2007 

Once again the lightning was intense, saw some weak low-level storm rotation, and some microburst winds northwest of the lake. Lightning started a fire about a mile west of me at one point and I went over to shoot video, getting out and hiking a trail to get closer. I came across a cool raccoon and then a large rat snake laying on the warm ground after the storm. Did some wild animal photography and then continued north for more storm action.

All in all, a excellent day for me enjoying the outdoors and summer time storms over the Florida peninsula. The action to continue today with more lake and sea breeze thunderstorms and I’ll be on the look out. I do have to shoot up some daily weather footage today, but after that, it’s convergence hunt time. I plan to mix up a video of yesterday and today’s storm action, so check out tomorrows blog post.

Have a great week folks….

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