ST. PETERSBURG, FL — 2011 has officially started, highlighted by an intercept of a powerful severe thunderstorm at my favorite spot, the Pinellas Point Boat Ramps. A warm front lifted through the Tampa Bay area overnight and stalled before starting to slowly sag back to the south. All of the […]
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TIERRA VERDE, FL — Usually when you hear of a lightning-less cold front, you just shrug it off as a rain event. The Winter Season Opener was definitely an exception to that rule! This front had an unusual signature on radar that tipped me off that it could be photogenic. […]
Read MoreFocus Shifts South to the Caribbean for the Fall Atlantic Hurricane Season. ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A summer season that started with a big bang in late May came to a rather wimpish close, thanks to a cold front that has brought a spectacular, yet very stable air mass into […]
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — Everything was in place this afternoon for some great storms to fire across the Florida peninsula. Around 4 PM, I noticed the skies to the NE were darkening, so I took a quick peek at the radar. There was a pretty nice looking line of storms […]
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A classic 5:00 Tampa Bay Slam hit the Bay Area this afternoon. Over Hillsborough County, the east coast sea breeze collided with the west coast sea breeze, triggering explosive thunderstorms that tracked west across the bay towards Pinellas County. I was a bit late going out […]
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — One of the best storms of the summer so far tore through the St. Pete area on Monday evening. To put the icing on the cake, too, the storm came to me, so I didn’t have to leave the house to intercept it! The storm surely […]
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Part 1 ZEPHYRHILLS, FL — I was originally targeting an area to the south on Thursday, down in the heart of Sarasota County. That area saw some great storms in the morning, but by afternoon the storms were ripe for pickin’ along the Interstate 4 corridor in Lightning Alley. At […]
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DUETTE, FL — A spectacularly beautiful rotating thunderstorm popped up over eastern Manatee County this afternoon. I departed from home around 4:45 PM for a quick observation of the storm at Pinellas Point. The storm was still blossoming, so I went for it, hitting the Skyway Bridge just after 5. […]
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TERRA CEIA, FL — First storm intercept of the summer around 3:00 this afternoon at South Skyway. Nothing terribly exciting, just a rather photogenic storm. The storm formed over downtown St. Petersburg in the early afternoon and moved slowly south. It had a weak mesocyclone for about an hour as […]
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — The system that brought the deadly tornado outbreak to Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday came ripping through Florida on Sunday and into Monday. The front brought tornado warnings into northern Florida on Sunday morning and progressed south with the front. The first line of storms arrived […]
Read MoreTHE INTERSTATE 4 CORRIDOR — A strong cold front ripped through Central Florida this afternoon, bringing strong winds, blinding rain, lightning, microbursts, and tornado warnings from Tampa to Daytona Beach. In Pinellas County, we saw mainly a rain/wind event, with a few rumbles of thunder (the majority of the lightning […]
Read MoreWEST COAST OF FLORIDA — Old Man Winter descended big time on the Florida Peninsula this Saturday morning, bringing cold rain, sleet, and snow to the majority of the Sunshine State. This weekend has brought back many memories for people of the 1977 snowstorm that accumulated as far south as […]
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