Weather, Storms & Hurricane Blog

 
Florida took a pounding yesterday from severe weather, very heavy rains and few tornado reports. I was working along the east coast much of the day shooting video for local TV and boy did I have a lot of weather content yesterday. The storms packed a nice punch with hail and strong microburst winds. There […]

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Friday ended the weekend with a lightning started wildfire on the north side of Okeechobee City, located in South-central Florida. Area thunderstorms with very active lightning, started the fire north of the north High School campus on the eastern side of S.R. 411 North. I was actually out on my way to dinner with Kersten, […]

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Well it’s July 20th and there still is nothing going on in the tropical Atlantic basin, but this could be changing soon. July normally can be a slow month for tropical storms and hurricanes, and this looks to be the case this year. I have received a few emails asking…
“the season has been so dead, […]

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It looks like the area thunderstorm pattern will continue active through next week. Today once again storms should develop over inland locations and slow drift westward. As we move into the weekend, the steering flow will return to westerly helping to really produce some good strong convergence along the east coast sea breeze boundary. I’m […]

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First off, I’ve had some internet down time from my ISP, and this kept me from updating this morning. Things got back to normal by midday, but I was already out on the road shooting video for The Weather Channel. Had another round of strong to severe isolated thunderstorms today and yesterday along the east […]

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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 […]

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Now that my busy first part of my weekend is over, I’m ready to enjoy some good thunderstorm action today. Looks like were setting up for a pretty busy afternoon with sea breeze storms July style. A weak 10mph southwest flow at the surface, with expected well developed east coast sea breeze and lake breeze, […]

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