Florida Sea Breeze Storms Time Lapse Video

I had a lot of fun on Sunday shooting mostly sea breeze thunderstorm time lapse video in several area’s of South Florida. The cap held most of the storms until late in the day over the interior locations of the state, like around the lake and such. I shot a long time lapse of the east coast sea breeze at work, from the starting stages through mature thunderstorm.

This thunderstorm later in it’s weakening stage, threw out a outflow boundary that help to enhance the east coast breeze boundary and race it westward over the central part of Lake Okeechobee. At the same time, a ongoing storm along the west coast sea breeze boundary was slowly moving eastward. These two boundaries came together over the northern end of the lake, helping to enhance convergence and helicity as the southwest flow just above the surface was sufficient enough, along with the backed winds of the east coast sea breeze to spin up a nice little LP (low precipitation) storm.

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The rotation of the updraft tower was very impressive for Florida standards during the summer time months. In the time lapse towards the end, I run only the time lapse of the LP storm, and you can clearly see decent updraft rotation ( almost looks to be rotating clock-wise) as the lower levels of the cell fan out cyclonic, with a very small precipitation core off to the left. It was beautiful to see something rotating for a change outside of all the daily pulse convection storms daily with the native boundaries. I’m a huge fan of storm structure, either with Florida pulse storm, with shelf clouds in the summer, or mothership huge mesocyclone Supercell thunderstorms of the Great Plains.

Today looks to be active once again, with more afternoon storms and heavy rains expected. I’m actually on the coast at this time in search of water spouts with some of this convection just offshore Palm Beach. It looks to be fading here, so my attention will turn back to the mainland, as storms are looking to develop early.

I’ll keep you all posted….