Florida Thunder Storm

As has been noted by Rob at the Inconsequential Opinion, one thing about living in Florida, compared to Britain, is that the Florida weather is generally very predictable.  At this time of year, for instance, the day starts out warm and gets hotter and hotter and muggier and muggier.  In the late afternoon, it will often rain, as the sky has taken up as much moisture as it can hold.  The process then pretty much repeats itself the next day and so on.

There are occasional bouts of more exciting weather, however.  Every now and then there is a thunder storm, for instance, when everything goes dark.  And I don’t just mean the sky - sometimes the entire neighbourhood power supply is temporarily knocked out and we have to rely on candles for an hour or more, which always reminds me of the British power worker strikes that I experienced as a kid back in the 1970s!

Anyway, the storm normally announces its arrival with the menacing sounds and flashes of thunder and lightning and then the sky lets loose a heavy rain shower.  Man and beast scramble for cover at this point.  I took some footage of a grey squirrel sheltering under our porch by clinging to the outside of the insect netting, which I found both amusing and somewhat cheeky.