I could probably never in my life get something like that again.' 'It was just the right place at the right time. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, positive lightning originates in the upper reaches of a cloud's anvil and make up less than 5 percent of all strikes. The 12-second clip of the blinding strike that sounded like firecrackers going off was played on MSNBC's Morning Joe and repeatedly on The Weather Channel. The so-called continuous current, or positive lighting, which was identified by the National Weather Service in Miami after seeing the video, hit outside Hite's apartment when she was taking video to show her family how bad the weather was. > RELATED: Why Florida's summer thunderstorms are unique, deadly Underscoring the atmospheric mayhem was an unusual bolt of lightning up to 10 times stronger than a typical flash that was caught on video by Boynton Beach resident Erica Hite on Sunday. The rainy season that doesn't officially begin until May 15 in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, comes with the kind of life-threatening lightning, tornadoes and flooding that have highlighted the area's weather since Friday.

Volleys of afternoon thunderstorms rocked South Florida the past several days, as punctual as the afternoon sea breeze and a harbinger of one of the state's most dangerous times of year.

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