One heck of a lightning storm in hillsborough
 

one huge hit At about 7:30 and multiple smaller ones -- but still big --every few seconds. Hunker down folks.

Same in Sanibel...

At least we're not in Osceola -- over 200 strikes in less than an hour last night. But this is definitely a doozy.

In Pennecamp now...

Here in Gilchrist is bad too.

Darn, now I have to reset all the clocks.....:(

Looks like a surge took out our air.

OK, Pinellas just had a hit that was less then a 10th of a second flash to thunder, way too close!!!!

We had a HUGE bolt over here in Belle Aire about 10 minutes ago. Power is out.

Our power was knocked out in Lake Deaton. Even the air conditioner was knocked out. All is good now. This was our first storm...welcome to Florida!

four fire engines and ambulance have been in and out of Santiago this evening. Not sure if a house has been hit but we are also having a lot of lightning over here

Yep, the skies were lit up in BonnyBrook !
Hope it's nothing serious in Santiago.

When we first moved here 11 years ago these are the type storms we got every afternoon.
The frequency in recent years seems less.

Tonight is a good example of why this is called the lightning capital of the world.

I bet the meteorologists report in the thousands for tonight.

We had lots of lightening and thunder here in Duval. Lights went out for about 3 seconds. Enough to have to reset the clocks. We also got 1.13 inch of rain from that storm.