Do you want to stay on the water???

Do you want to stay on the water during a thunder storm or when storms are in the area???


Umatilla boater may have been killed by lightning strike - News - Daily Commercial - Leesburg, FL

Dang, not good to hear. Thanks for the warning and the heads up. Prayers sent for family and friends.

If there is just a light rain I will stay but...thunder and lightning and I gonna get off.

Be gone if Thunder

I doubt he knew anything happened. But I dont understand people taking chances in bad weather.

Being from out of state he may not have been familiar with how fast conditions can change when our summertime coastal sea breezes converge. Praying for the family. I believe he was only 44 yrs old, too young.

meterology was my major my first two years in college. i learning lightning can strike up to 15 miles ahead of a storm. i always watch radar before going out, and during my time out. any thunder, i leave immediately. the following article disusses the dangers. https://www.weather.gov/media/gid/lightning.pdf

i was a meteorology student my first two years in college. i have been a boater and fisherman my whole life. lightening can occur 15 to 25 miles ahead of a storm without the warning of thunder nor of any rain. i see too many boaters waiting on the water too long when storms approach. https://www.weather.gov/media/gid/lightning.pdf