An Early Start to Florida's Lightning Season

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Strong thunderstorms developed yesterday afternoon and evening along Florida's East Coast. SLS' network of Jupiter Optical Lightning Surveillance (OLS) systems at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station captured many cloud-to-ground lightning events during the storms. Images below show lightning events near Launch Complex 36, 37, and 40. Clear-sky reference image overlays are shown for two events. These overlays are automatically generated by the Jupiter OLS systems.