The indexweatherthe week of, at best
Sea-breeze lightning over Tampa Bay
Fires when CAPE > 2000 J/kg AND storms timed near dusk
Photograph Muhammadphoto · CC BY-SA 4.0
The weekly build has been paused since October 6, 2026. The seasons and dates below still hold. Events are the ones the last finished build found, in the week of 2026-09-13, that have not happened yet — anything announced since is missing, and nothing here reflects this week's weather.
- Where
- Ballast Point Pier, Tampa
- Drive
- 45 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- June through September
- Peak
- July and August
- Certainty
- the week of, at best
- Drone
- no
How often we have called it on
We have not once called this on, across 6 Sunday builds. That is our own weekly verdict rather than a measurement of the trigger, and a condition that fires midweek can pass between two builds.
From the field
Lightning capital of the US; cells fire 3-7p on a near-daily schedule. Shoot the anvil from range at blue hour — the forecast picks the day, never the strike.