Dutchy

@aakashgupta Man do I miss Florida thunderstorms

Florida is a thunderstorm factory, and the reason is one of the most elegant atmospheric mechanisms on Earth. Every summer afternoon, the sun heats Florida's land faster than the surrounding ocean. That temperature difference creates two separate sea breezes, one pushing inland from the Atlantic, one from the Gulf. By mid-afternoon, those two walls of cool, moisture-laden air collide right over the center of the peninsula. When they meet, the air has nowhere to go but up. That convergence zone forces warm, humid air parcels thousands of feet into the atmosphere in minutes. The moisture condenses, latent heat releases, the updraft accelerates, and a cumulonimbus cloud builds to 40,000+ feet. The whole cycle from collision to lightning takes roughly 90 minutes. Lake Okeechobee adds a third breeze front pushing outward from the lake surface, creating even more convergence boundaries. Central Florida has so many colliding air boundaries on a typical summer day that thunderstorms become almost inevitable. The interior averages 100+ thunderstorm days per year, matching the Lake Victoria region in equatorial Africa and the central Amazon basin. The Pacific Northwest gets fewer than 10. The Pacific Ocean sits at roughly 50°F year-round, suppressing temperature gradients and starving the atmosphere of moisture. Thunderstorms need warm, humid air and a large temperature drop with altitude. The Pacific coast has neither. Seattle meteorologists get excited if a storm top reaches 20,000 feet. In Florida, they routinely hit 50,000. The entire map is basically a humidity gradient. The Gulf of Mexico acts as a warm moisture pipeline feeding the Southeast, while cold Pacific currents shut the West Coast down. That band of orange across the Great Plains? Warm Gulf air colliding with cold Canadian fronts along the jet stream, the same collision physics at continental scale. Florida gets a thunderstorm roughly every 3.5 days. Los Angeles gets one every 36.

@ScottABaily @atensnut A rip current can take you out hundreds of yards within minutes. I’ve experienced this first hand and a kite board had to save me I was probably a quarter mile offshore after 3-4 mins

@atensnut Fake, no way they’d be treading water that easy for that long

A father and daughter swept offshore in the Aegean Espanomi Bay……saved by a kite surfer. All captured on kite surfer’s camera.

@MoodleSoup1 @atensnut Sorry to hear that. This exact thing happened to me when I was 12-13. I was caught in a rip current way out in the middle of nowhere and a kite surfer saved me. Never got his name or anything. absolute legend. he saved my life.

@atensnut This brought me to tears. My 37 year old nephew, a very strong swimmer, got caught in a current and drowned off the California central coast. I wish someone had been there to save him. My only peace in knowing he is with the Lord.

@alexatobe @atensnut This EXACT thing happened to me when I was like 12-13 but I was alone

@atensnut Some people are placed exactly where they need to be without ever knowing why until the moment arrives. 🙏🌊

@atensnut THIS HAPPENED TO ME WHEN I WAS 13! I HOPE THE GUY THAT SAVED ME IS LIVING A FANTASTIC LIFE BECUASE HE SAVED MINE! If you saved a kid at honey moon island in Florida in 2008-2009 please hit me up id love to buy you a beer.

Brooo this happened to me when I was 13. I jumped in a rip current and a guy on a kite board came out of nowhere when I was screaming for help. There was no one else around. I hope that dude is doing great, he fr saved my life!!!

@Mudent12 @JimLift @McClane_rs You should be more of a hater being a Dave Tipper fan

@JimLift @Dutchy_Masters @McClane_rs Levity pissing you off “more than any other musical artist” is pretty crazy level obsessed 😂 😂 it ain’t that deep

This some hot garbage

@ReviewLightning More so about getting 6v5 reps. Also who cares about the other teams stats it’s all L’s or W’s at the end of the day.

I'm actually not a huge fan of pulling the goalie when you're already down by three. Just seems like helping the other team stat-pad.

@JimLift @McClane_rs Yeah agreed. Absolutely no sauce, just a bunch of low hanging fruit flips of already popular songs and 3 dudes “DJing” for an hour. I had to block them and any related content on here lol

@Dutchy_Masters @McClane_rs Levity pisses me off more than any other musical artist who has ever made music

@noahblair91 @M_quack15 @BoltsJolts Holy dumbass^^^^^

@M_quack15 @BoltsJolts And cooper

Regardless of what happens this post season, if JBB doesn’t go and get an actual serviceable backup goalie and a righty shot top 9 shoot first forward he isn’t doing his job.

@BoltsJolts Nobody cares about the backup goalie that should not be a focus. Secure a decent one, sure but Vasy is a work horse and we have other issues to worry about. Backup goalie is about last on our list of things to do.

@JimLift @McClane_rs Straight up bottom feeder djs/producers

@McClane_rs Excision and Levity 🤣🤣

@boolynoted Not only are you crazy BUT you’re ALSO RETARDED!!!!

am I crazy or does the door opening a tiny bit have absolutely no affect on this like hes going head first into the boards at high speed the injury is happening either way

@Stix617 Yeah those would’ve been high priority. The bigger events just don’t really have the draw for me anymore it’s way too much during MMW

@Dutchy_Masters Both were amazing - zero regrets making those my last two events of the trip

Factory Town crowd is really at it at it's worst when the event is sold out is what I noticed from this past week and Basel Just go to other venues and see djs that arent all over TikTok Crowd at Jolene last night was perfectly fine & same with the Skream pop-up and Louie Vega

Your insane Nikita Kucherov stat of the day: The @TBLightning forward has 93 points (28 G, 65 A) in his last 45 GP since Nov. 19. That’s more than the top scorer had on 25 different NHL teams for the ENTIRE 2024-25 season. It’s the best 45 games since Mario Lemieux (‘95-96).

@batkins67 @GinoHard_ Yeah let’s disregard the FOUR points he got before the EN… let’s just focus on the empty net goal!

@Dutchy_Masters @GinoHard_ Kucherov is great but also a goal suck, first guy out of the zone whether his team has possession or not

Kuch completes the hat trick with an ENG to make it FIVE (5) POINT NIGHT 🚨 This guy is insane 👏

@batkins67 @GinoHard_ McDavid also has 14 more PP points and is a weak team merchant

@GinoHard_ Playing wing he can definitely abandon his defensive responsibilities unlike a center. McDavid seems embarrassed when he scores an empty netter.

And this is why taking road trips from Florida is buns

seeing a beautiful girl drink a guinness is like seeing a dog skateboard