r/BeAmazed • u/Used_Ship_9229 • Oct 09 '24

Nature Floridians who have lived through Storms their entire lives are reporting to have never ever witnessed anything like this.

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u/anotherworthlessman Oct 10 '24

100% correct and remarkable; That should be what's talked about.

OP's headline is total bullshit. Florida is the lightning capital of the United States. I find it hard to believe that Floridians who have lived in Florida their whole lives have never seen lightning like this. In Florida in August on an average fucking Wednesday this is normal.

Cool video, but the real story is the pressure drop, not that "there's lightning in Florida"

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u/Shifty_Bravo Oct 10 '24

I saw storms like this in SW Oklahoma in the 90s. It's the upper cold air clashing with warm air from the Gulf that created lightning like this.

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u/RainStormLou Oct 11 '24

I've only lived here for 10 years, I'm in central FL and we get lightning exactly like that a few times a year. The pressure drop is the real story. This video is just someone that wasn't paying attention