At the beach? The hail is about to be too… circled is a legit hail core, moving toward Jax Beaches, that with tons of lightning… time to get to the car.

This lightning is nothing to mess around with. Just get in your car and sit there if you have no other shelter options at the beach. Give it a solid half hour for these to move off shore

This is the next strong storm to watch... San Marco down to Mandarin. Lots of lightning, small hail possible too. Drifting to the east-northeast at 10mph

NHC tracking tropical depression 2 as of 5pm. Would become Tropical Storm Barry. Any bag tags to collect near Tampico?

Gotta be some gold in that stadium... gotta be.

Those enjoying Thom Bjorn and the boys at the US Senior open, we’re going to do some local news and weather on NBC at 6. So. Plan accordingly.

Well there ya go. But also… I ironed my shirt and will be talking weather at top of the hour too. Choose carefully.

The first yellow blob of the season on our coast. Low (20%) chance of some sort of tropical development over next 7 days. We’ve got an upper low lingering with a stalling front, and that COULD spin something up off the Florida/Georgia/SC coast. Looking like rainy end of the week

Lots of lightning and lots of rain downtown to San Marco and south right now. About an 1.5" per hour is the rate in some of the heaviest downpours, flood advisory for San Marco and downtown for street flooding issues.

Downtown over the last half hour. This lightning is nothing to mess with.

You can call me Ace how I’m gonna find this bird.

NHC bumped the blob area up to a 40% chance of tropical development... euro suggesting a moderate northeast wind setup this weekend whether there is development or not. -Fireworks looking decent, most thunderstorms Friday should be ending by launch time. -protect your fingers.

Some model looks for Friday & Saturday. These are official forecasts, but show general patterns of timing of rain and general position of the low by Saturday. Some off and on showers Friday afternoon, looking better by late afternoon/evening. Let's watch Saturday's rip currents

It’s my annual tradition on this day… paying homage to the greatest presidential speech ever given… WELCOME TO EARTH!!!

My 4th so far.

TD 3… likely to become Tropical Storm Chantal as it heads toward Edisto. Our impacts remain the same Saturday… with most convection on the east side of the system. Waves of quick moving downpours Saturday, and potentially getting gusts to 25-30 at the beaches. Happy 4th.

Tropical Storm Chantal officially named… doesn’t change our local impacts, but… checks another name of that list.

Hot and humid. Anyway, Happy National Day of Rock and Roll.

Sunrise alert this morning. Space X rocket launch creating some high, wispy clouds. Then, the lower clouds on the horizon are thunderstorms about 60 miles off shore. Great layers to the morning sunrise photos. Get after it!