No Boris, Collier County recently overtook Tampa Bay as Lightning Capital of FL.
Thunder storms are more prevalent and more severe in S. Florida.
The graphic does not really square with the statistics: Average number of days with precipitation in Pensacola is 76 per year. I would say that maybe a little over 50% of the days we have rain, it is accompanied by lightning. The average 66 inches of rain a year, keep our water table up, and the area green.
We like to say there is a reason they choose the location of Pensacola Air Station, and the home port of the Blue Angels. Good weather.
Pensacola Yacht club is well protected from Northers--perhaps the wind was out of the East. PYC is on the North shore--so no fetch. It is open only to the East, or South East.
November30 has always been the "end of hurricane season" officially. Out of the Top 54 cities in the US, Pensacola is 32nd. The top of the "least group". !8 storms since 1871. Again going to the Stats, November has as many hurricanes as July, August Sept (highest) and Oct. are the peak months. But Tropical storms hit every month of the year--the the only two months that hurricane have not formed in the US sector are Feb. and April. This year TS "Arlene" became the second Tropical Storm in April.