09Z Analysis - A strong low with substantial dynamics aloft and a very large warm sector, fed by tons of daylight ahead of what was a rather narrow stretch of frontal cloud cover worked into Southern Ontario. With the low came some early season thunderstorms which had small hail but were highly electrically charged.

The storms were not propogating in the usual sense, instead they were bubbling up along theta-e lines and sort of drifting north. It was odd and meant the lightning was not situated anywhere predicatbly. Plus, it was 2AM and I was actually exhausted from Easter Sunday. So I was not in the mood for a drive and figured I would try my hand from the window.. without a tripod... which I left in the car.. DOH!

The initial lightning display was great!

But then as the storm cell drifted north, the bulk of the lightning decided to hide behind the front tree. Maybe I should have gone for drive???!!!!

And so the night went, the rest of the bolts hid behind the trees out of clear sight. Eventually I decided to call it a night and hit the pillow!

That was until I was awoken by the extremely hard rumbling cracking sound of small hail hitting the steel roof! I called it a night right after this.