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Visit Skywatch Friday to see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies. It's always an amazing show and all brought to you by Skywatchers from all over the planet.
Tampa's late summer sky in all its glory.Visit Skywatch Friday to see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies. It's always an amazing show and all brought to you by Skywatchers from all over the planet.
Visit Skywatch Friday to see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies. It's always an amazing show and all brought to you by Skywatchers from all over the planet.
Today is Theme Day when we get to choose our best photo of 2009.Visit Skywatch Friday to see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies...even the cold wintry ones that can be so gray and mysterious. It's always an amazing show and all brought to you by Skywatchers from all over the planet.
Visit Skywatch Friday to see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies...even the cold wintry ones that can be so alutrirng and myterious. It's always an amazing show and all brought to you by Skywatchers from all over the planet.
The sky over our beautiful city is still solid gray and wintry-looking. Although it's not cold at all (I hate looking at that national weather map and seeing how cold other parts of the country are today), it does look though as if it'll snow at any minute. Notice that every slip has a boat snugly tied up and covered against the "nasty" winter day. Even a scene like this one with the water, yachts and the homes and buildings on Harbour Island has a dreary, sullen look without the glorious, blazing sunshine.
The blue sky and clouds over downtown Tampa looking out across the Hillsborough River from Tampa Preparatory School. The Cass Street Bridge,shown to the right in the open position, is undergoing a months-long maintenance and refurbishing. Media General and the tower of WFLA News Channel 8 can be seen past it.Visit Skywatch Friday to see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies. It's always an amazing show brought to you by Skywatchers from all over the planet.
This was Tampa's sky at 3:00 this afternoon. Not even a hint of a cloud...not even a whisper. This shot, taken from Bayshore Boulevard over Hillsborough Bay toward Davis Island is as exciting as our sky will get today and probably through the weekend. After Tropical Storm Ida left the state and moved up the eastern seaboard, high level winds pushed down and over the state and took everything in the sky with it. The whole Gulf coast of Florida is left with incredibly blue, BLUE skies. (And, very near perfect weather. Thank you!!)Visit Skywatch Friday to see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies. It's always an amazing show brought to you by Skywatchers from all over the planet.
By early evening today's clear blue skies, without a hint of clouds all day, gave way to these light and wispy clouds appearing from the outer bands of Hurricane Ida. Ida, which hit Nicaragua with 75 mph winds, is expected to be in the central Gulf of Mexico by midday Tuesday as a tropical storm. 
Columbia Drive, on Davis Islands, has a front row seat to all the comings and goings along the channels. From commercial shipping, naval vessels and tugs, to pleasure craft, sailboats and powered, of every size and description, it's always busy and entertaining. This is the water route that the pirate ship Jose Gaspar follows on its invasion of the city...and the hundred of smaller craft that follow.
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A cold front is moving very rapidly across the the Tampa Bay area from the northwest bringing heavy clouds, rain and - for Tampa - colder temperatures. This shot was made at 12:30 pm when the temp was 83-degrees. It's 81 now and our Saturday morning low is expected to be 55-degrees with a forecast high of 75. That is almost twenty degrees colder then it was a week ago...I think fall has officially arrived. Even the water was choppy and winds were picking up. NOT a good day to be out on the bay. (I took my shot for Tampa Florida Photo at 2:30 and the skies were already clearing as the cold front began to move past and south of us.)o see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies. It's always an amazing show brought to you by Skywatchers from all over the planet. 
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The small tidal ponds beside Westshore Boulevard near Bay-to-Bay Boulevard afford the homes a calm and peaceful view from the porch and yard.o see the beauty and wonders of the world's most magnificent skies. It's always an amazing show.
This building, perfectly round in shape - and nicknamed the beer can building by many locals, has always fascinated me and has been the subject of many photographs since it appeared in 1988 on the Hillsborough River at the intersection of Ashley Drive and the Kennedy Street Bridge. Known today as the Rivergate Tower, it is 454-ft (138m) tall and has 33 floors. Designer Harry Wolf based its measurements on the Fibonacci Code, the same numerical code referenced in Dan Brown's blockbuster bestseller book, The Da Vinci Code. Although you'll have to ask an architect or mathematician to explain it - and be prepared for a serious and reverential telling of its significance - at the start of the movie this code was left behind on the floor of the Louvre by the curator, Jacques Saunière, as he looses his life to the albino monk. In his last moments of life, he draws a circle and arranges himself like the figure in Leonardo’s most famous drawing, T
he Vitruvian Man. He then leaves behind an anagram and Fibonacci’s famous numerical series as clues. Apparently, to those in the mathematical know, the Fibonacci Code is very cool, as is Tampa's round office tower. I just really like it against our sky and as a unique and special part of our city's skyline.
It may rain like cats and dogs sometime today, with rain chances at 60%, but this sky looks like it wants to get in one last big show of blue heavens and billowing stacked white clouds. After days like this, a few dark clouds and rain may be just what we need to cool off a little and let the plants get a good soaking.
I actually had to wait several hours this afternoon for an actual sky to appear. Although dark and threatening storm clouds would have been great, it was a gray blank canvas. It was dark, totally overcast, and raining off and on for hours. After the storm and gray clouds moved away, giant white clouds began to fill the sky and the blue reappeared. It's a glorious evening in Tampa. This scene is of Marjorie Yacht Basin on Davis Islands.
A good solid storm system is moving east across central Florida from the Gulf of Mexico. Rains, some pretty heavy at times, have filled our skies and soaked our yards (and streets) all day. This was taken during a break in the clouds and showers.
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