{"id":336287,"date":"2026-07-10T22:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336287\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:27:18","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-rattle-southwest-florida-are-you-being-impacted-weather-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336287\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms rattle Southwest Florida, are you being impacted? | Weather Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">SOUTHWEST FLORIDA (WINK) &#8211; The WINK News Weather Authority is tracking severe storms as they make their way through Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"lightning strike\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1290\" height=\"704\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Friday, severe thunderstorms began impacting all of Southwest Florida, causing heavy downpour and lightning strikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"3a289430-68c2-48d5-839e-ebb2ddccbc8a (1).jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"887\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WINK Weather Watcher: Adam Finney<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News has crews positioned across Southwest Florida for the latest updates. Got any pictures of the weather impacts?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/submit_news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Head over to our WINK News tips page and share your photo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/submit_news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">s\/videos with us.<\/a> They might even make it on air!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Image (1).jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"741\" height=\"418\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>College Parkway Bridge<\/p>\n<p>                                    WINK News<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Facebook, our team is asking how the severe thunderstorms have been impacting our audience. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1HQ971Kxdb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Download the WINK Weather app, stream the latest forecast or WINK Doppler 3x anywhere you go.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"viewer storm photo\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Tarpon Point Marina<\/p>\n<p>                                    Amanda Diaz<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Wanna become a WINK Weather Watcher? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/site\/wink_news_weather_watchers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you see any dramatic weather images that you want featured in a story online or on air, send them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/weather\/severe-thunderstorms-rattle-southwest-florida-are-you-being-impacted\/mailto:tips@winknews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tips@winknews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHWEST FLORIDA (WINK) &#8211; The WINK News Weather Authority is tracking severe storms as they make their way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1279,1521,4503,14111,98769],"class_list":["post-336287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-rain","tag-southwest-florida","tag-storm","tag-thunderstorm","tag-weather-hazards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336287","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=336287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}