Lighting display over the Gulf tonight?

LVFC

Amazing Chris. It looks like there is a wall up at Cape Coral Parkway.

Tami, I hope the pooch is wrong. We've had our quota for tornado's.

chris

Well, since it's still dry in the Sahara SW, maybe we need to appoint Sandy the K9 as lead forecaster. Laughing

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bob

I know the heat island effect is not really applicable to our area. But the rain patterns continue to be constant for the past several years. Less rain in SW Cape , more rain to our north and south. Maybe we are overlooking some heat island factors. Maybe there is more to the HI effect than we know. It just seems there is something going on with our rain pattern. In the past, everyone got dumped on.

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alorfi

In general, areas along the immediate western coast of Florida receive less rainfall during the summertime because the diurnal convection peaks in intensity further inland (the actual points of the boundary collisions). Some storms are weakened or die completely before ever reaching the coast.

Rainbird

Isn't that frustrating.. watching nice big colourful blobs march in on radar just to see them collapse before they reach you Rolling Eyes

We have the same thing happen hear in Darwin, rural areas get the goods moreso and we get the collapsing remnents, we call it the 'Palmerston Storm Shield' Laughing

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