For everyone who says that we don't have seasons in Florida, allow me to alter your impression.  We have tourist season, hurricane season, spring break season, mini-lobster season and, of course, rainy season.

It's rain season right now which means that we're used to thunderstorms just about every day.  Considering that Lake Okeechobee, a vitally important water source for lots of South Florida, is still about three feet below normal levels, the more rain we get, the better.

At work, we recently installed a newer, even more-state-of-the-art lightning detection system.  It pinpoints if lightning is close enough to be a danger to any of us, or visiting tourists, who happen to be wandering around outside.  Let a bolt strike within the target zone and that system's alarm goes off as loud as an air raid siren warning of a blitzkrieg.  (No coincidence that blitzkrieg means lightning war.)

I'm comforted knowing that I'm safe from getting fried by lightning.  I only hope my hearing survives the season.

But I digress. 

I love looking out at the water around our islands this time of year.  You can actually see individual storms.  Dark clusters of clouds hover over the ocean and the rain falls down in what looks like a black curtain.  Amazing.

After the deluge, as soon as I see the sun come out, I rush outside to look around for what is definitely one of Nature's most glorious gifts.

 

It always seems to me that the bigger the storm, the brighter the rainbow.

I love rainbow season in the Florida Keys.  Enjoy!

I love catching a rainbow live and in person. I caught a double rainbow when I was in Hawaii. Sadly, camera was MIA.

I love rainbows but with out a doubt the coolest thing I have ever seen on the ocean was a sunrise behind a curtain of rain off in the distance.

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