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Hot Temps and Convergence Busted The Cap

Finally! It rained on Thursday, and I mean it rained! We had a outstanding strong pulse thunderstorm develop on the east coast and lake breeze boundaries and track northeast over much of the Lake Okeechobee region. I was actually already out shooting for another project, when I began to notice the developing towering Cumulus field. It was very hot, with temperatures in the lower 90’s. You could feel that the low-level moisture had increased, and with the 93F temps, and some good forcing, something had to give.

Sure enough, by late afternoon, thunderstorms began to break out along the western side of Lake Okeechobee, and strengthened as they moved northeastward. I dropped what I was doing and started to think about where I would intercept the cell. By 6 pm, the storm had a warning on it, and was heading for some remote locations on the east-northeast region of the lake, so that’s where I headed. I was greeted with blowing white sand and dust in the inflow winds of the approaching storm once I got to the beach area of the lake. The storm had some decent organized structure, but was begging to look mostly outflow dominant, which is pretty much the case with Florida late spring storms.

Is It A Tropical Storm Or What?

Soon, the core reached my location, and the temperature dropped from the lower 90s to the upper 70s within 10 minutes as some strong microburst straight-line winds blasted me with heavy rains and cooler downdraft air. The car was rocking, and the palm tree’s looked as if I were filming a minimal tropical storm. There were a few tree’s I saw that were knocked over from the winds. I was not only enjoying the strong winds and some storm structure, but also the very heavy pounding rains. It’s been 19 days since it last rained here, and it was lovely to smell and hear the rains.

Defiantly Too Busy To Be Bored

I have been extremely busy this week, and working on several projects that have me running like mad. I had nothing too important to blog about this week, so I took a few days off from this blog. If we can get through this ridging and kick in our wet season, I’ll have a little more to post about weather-wise. I’m trying to get things in place for the hurricane season, and this will all pay off later this summer. Anyways, have a great weekend and I hope to have some more storm scenes from the weekend to share next week.

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