Lightning Strikes House Video... And High Humidity Returning?

We've talked a lot about storms the past few days because it's been stormy. We also had a video a little bit back showing the aftermath of a woman's car being hit by lightning. How about video of an actual lightning strike on a house?

This is video from NBC showing this Florida man's video. Impressive stuff.

After watching that... you're probably wondering when the next time we'll be seeing storms is. The answer to that is we'll be seeing a lot of isolated to lightly scattered storms over the next couple of days. The big story - and change from our less active period - is that we're looking for abundant humidity to move in.

It starts on Thursday - as dewpoints could be rising into the 60s once again. Then we see dewpoints possibly closer to the 70s Friday to Saturday depending on sunshine and rain totals. It could feel a bit more tropical Friday to Friday night, with humidity sticking around after that as well.
See that lighter green area? If you look closely you'll see the shades of green match up with those in the bar at the bottom depicting dewpoints 60-70 degrees. That is for Friday morning. With those types of dewpoints it is more of a surprise if we *don't* see rain/storms than if we do. Remember that dewpoints are a reflection of the amount of moisture in the air, you can read more about them on Wikipedia by clicking here.

Have a great night!

~KDLT Chief Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer