{"id":285077,"date":"2026-05-26T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285077\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:14:07","slug":"lightning-illuminates-sky-over-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285077\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Illuminates Sky Over Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lightning illuminated the sky over Tampa Bay, Florida, in the early hours of Tuesday, May 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">X user @TampaStorm captured this footage showing flashes of lightning and whipping winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLots of lightning with big thunderstorms to my west,\u201d @TampaStorm states behind the camera. \u201cYou see these beautiful lightning flashes \u2026 it is going to town!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a data-ylk=\"slk:National Weather Service;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSTampaBay\/status\/2059205103651807419\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service<\/a> (NWS) forecast scattered to numerous thunderstorms on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOver the next few days deeper moisture will arrive, leading to more numerous showers and thunderstorms at almost any time, with locally heavy rainfall possible,\u201d the NWS wrote on X. Credit: @TampaStorm via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning illuminated the sky over Tampa Bay, Florida, in the early hours of Tuesday, May 26. X user&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9662,2072,135,137,136,6977],"class_list":["post-285077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-lightning","tag-national-weather-service","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-thunderstorms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}