Florida gets lots of rain in the summer, as moisture laden air from the Atlantic or Gulf meets – often in the center of Florida, and near to us. We’ve seen an inch or two added to the pool but now this week, we’ve had more than three inches and even after Margaret emptied some last night, the water now has reached the rim which I guess is as high as it can go!
Here was yesterday which added a couple of inches:
And now this evening, as high as it can fill!
Impressive!
We knew that our new home was nicely located with a view over the wetlands, but we didn’t realize just how good our weather view would be – it turns out that living in (flat) Florida with the nearest trees a few hundred yards away gives us great views of both sunsets (examples: June, February) as well as the regular summer thunder and lightning – but it’s much harder to record lightning than sunsets!
Last night was spectacular; a storm maybe 20 miles west of us struck lightning both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground for at least an hour; we were too far to hear thunder except occasional deep rumbles, but we had a great view of lightning. This 1/2 minute clip is extracted from only 3 minutes of video I recorded:
Head to YouTube to watch in higher (full screen) resolution.
As the sun set tonight, we had fabulous distant cloud views – one cloud bank was lit by the sunset further to the west, while a second cloud bank towered into the sky; I assume I’m not the only person that thinks “face in the cloud”:
The amazing thing is that it seems these cloud formations were out over the Gulf, west of Florida – after the sun had set we saw regular lightning in the distance at the same position as the cloud “tower”, and Accuweather pinpointed the nearest lightning at 75 miles away! In the same direction, so I think it’s correct – you can see a long way in (flat) Florida!
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