Buresh Blog: Soggy July making up for slow start to the wet season... Webb Telescope, oh my!

Buresh Blog

July 12, 2022 at 10:51 pm EDT

Jacksonville, FL — Updated every day through the hurricane season (June 1 - Nov. 30th) - “Talking the Tropics With Mike”.

After an unseasonably slow start to the wet season - Jacksonville had its driest June on record with only 1.17″ of rain - July is trying to make up for the shortfall in short order. Nearly 4″ of rain has fallen at JIA through July 12th with some areas reporting 5/6″+. July averages 6.77″.

The stormier weather has made for some gorgeous/interesting First Alert Skycam time lapses:

#firstalertwx so much going on in this beautiful First Alert Skycam time lapse from St. Aug: begins in heavy t'storm followed by double rainbows, strong new t'storm updrafts, more rainbows,golden orange/yellow sunset lit thunderheads then a nearly full ("thunder") moon rise pic.twitter.com/7TatdD8QF5
— Mike Buresh (@MikeFirstAlert) July 13, 2022

#firstalertwx classic midsummer time lapse from the Jacksonville Beach First Alert Skycam Network - strongest storm moves offshore at about sunset @ActionNewsJax @WOKVNews pic.twitter.com/rgr6tdlaEz
— Mike Buresh (@MikeFirstAlert) July 13, 2022

#firstalertwx one fine time lapse of storms + shelf cloud rolling toward - then over - Jacksonville Beach, First Alert Skycam Network @ActionNewsJax @WOKVNews @wmvisionks pic.twitter.com/r6jfgfyE4d
— Mike Buresh (@MikeFirstAlert) July 7, 2022

The first NASA images from the Webb telescope - the most powerful ever launched - have been released & truly are quite amazing! Details about the image below * here *.

Click * here * to see the difference between the Hubble (launched in 1990) & Webb telescopes - very telling! (one of the images below is the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 - Hubble on the left, Webb on the right. Track the James Webb Space Telescope * here *.