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June 26, 2009: The sunset was so beautiful, I pulled off north of the 520 causeway, east of Cocoa, to snap some photos.	June 26, 2009: There's the Cocoa water tower, as seen over the Indian River Lagoon.	June 26, 2009: The reds were stunning.
June 26, 2009: More color in sky and water.	June 26, 2009: Palm trees are silhouetted against the sky.	June 26, 2009: Palms and a perfect Florida sunset.
June 26, 2009: The colors were amazing.	July 1, 2009: A storm over the Indian River dumps a big core of rain.	July 3, 2009: From the Eau Gallie area of Melbourne, Florida, I got my first look at a developing mammatus field after storms went through.
July 3, 2009: Here's the view looking west over the Indian River Lagoon.	July 3, 2009: As the sunset hit the mammatus, I dodged raindrops and stopped in Rockledge to get photos.	July 3, 2009: A slightly wider view...
July 3, 2009: Nothing but clouds and water.	July 3, 2009: This kind of mammatus display is so rare in Florida.	July 3, 2009: The edge of the storm's anvil can be seen on the left.
July 5, 2009: As storms and outflow boundaries collided over the Indian River Lagoon in Rockledge, just south of the 520 causeway, this feature formed.	July 5, 2009: A heavy rain core was just south of me.	July 5, 2009: The feature showed broad rotation.
July 5, 2009: The rotation became more intense, and this started to look like a real wall cloud.	July 5, 2009: The wall cloud couldn't quite get its act together.	July 5, 2009: The feature began to lose definition as the storms moved rapidly eastward.

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