{"id":550,"date":"2014-06-09T04:07:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/?p=550"},"modified":"2014-06-09T04:07:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:07:13","slug":"may-9th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/may-9th-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"May 9th 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery Start --><!-- - Version - 3.5.6 - User ID - 65051383@N05 - Photoset ID - 72157644657175363 - Gallery ID -  - Group ID -  - Tags -  - Popular -  - Per Page - 10 - Sort Order - flickr - Photo Size - NULL - Custom Size - 0 - Square - false - Captions - off - Description - on - Columns - 1 - Credit Note - off - Background Color - Transparent - Width - auto - Pagination - on - Slideshow - colorbox - Disable slideshow? - --><div class='afg-gallery custom-gallery-53' id='afg-53' style='background-color:Transparent; width:100%; color:; border-color:Transparent;'><div class='afg-table' style='width:100%'><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7358\/14157584724_ef783ac660_b.jpg' title='19Z-Sounding-CYXU'><img class='afg-img' title='19Z-Sounding-CYXU' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7358\/14157584724_ef783ac660.jpg' alt='19Z-Sounding-CYXU \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14157584724\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Today was one of those days, there was potential, but there were also a whole ton of question marks!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2903\/14177528633_c5bdfb1c73_b.jpg' title='CYXU-19Z-SRW'><img class='afg-img' title='CYXU-19Z-SRW' src='https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2903\/14177528633_c5bdfb1c73.jpg' alt='CYXU-19Z-SRW \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14177528633\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7356\/14157584505_84871f4af3_b.jpg' title='Heading West'><img class='afg-img' title='Heading West' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7356\/14157584505_84871f4af3.jpg' alt='Heading West \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14157584505\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>I took off westward around 1:30PM, I needed to beat the traffic coming out of Toronto and I wanted to be in position before the storms really started blasting off.\n\nIt was initially 24C when I left my house but then a short time later as I hit the escarpment in Milton I felt like I was running a fever. Then I looked down and saw that the temperature had jumped to 29C!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7305\/14134238736_37fa00c2da_b.jpg' title='Bowing Cluster'><img class='afg-img' title='Bowing Cluster' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7305\/14134238736_37fa00c2da.jpg' alt='Bowing Cluster \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14134238736\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>I eventually found myself just outside of Stratford. I was ready to intercept a cluster of storms that were rapidly bowing northward.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2909\/14177113383_91f90a2f02_b.jpg' title='Stratford Bow'><img class='afg-img' title='Stratford Bow' src='https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2909\/14177113383_91f90a2f02.jpg' alt='Stratford Bow \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14177113383\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The storm had no definition whatsoever, it was really mushy looking.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7393\/13970411438_4c5a57e285_b.jpg' title='Gobbling Up The Farms'><img class='afg-img' title='Gobbling Up The Farms' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7393\/13970411438_4c5a57e285.jpg' alt='Gobbling Up The Farms \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/13970411438\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Here's the rain foot gobbling up the farms.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7450\/14154187361_d02e01ce30_b.jpg' title='Impact'><img class='afg-img' title='Impact' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7450\/14154187361_d02e01ce30.jpg' alt='Impact \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14154187361\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Here's a video grab, the storm sure blew through! I recorded a 78 km\/h wind gust with my inspeed anemometer!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2929\/13970413508_53c9efdd6d_b.jpg' title='Backside'><img class='afg-img' title='Backside' src='https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2929\/13970413508_53c9efdd6d.jpg' alt='Backside \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/13970413508\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>This was the backside of the storm as it kept rolling north at full throttle.\n\nDespite all the warm air, surface interaction sucked.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5580\/14157549764_b4ef01c49d_b.jpg' title='Storm Two'><img class='afg-img' title='Storm Two' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5580\/14157549764_b4ef01c49d.jpg' alt='Storm Two \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14157549764\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>I kept pushing west and prepared to intercept the second storm cluster as it too began to bow out towards the north near Seaforth.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2939\/14157057375_7b1508a310_b.jpg' title='Seaforth Storm'><img class='afg-img' title='Seaforth Storm' src='https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2939\/14157057375_7b1508a310.jpg' alt='Seaforth Storm \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14157057375\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>As the storm came into view it had this mean look to it and seemed way more surface based than the previous storm.\n\nI spoke to a fellow chaser, Andrew Colvin, who was already on the storm and he reported much the same.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><a style='display:none' class='afgcolorbox' rel='example453'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5196\/14153712941_c5b83cafb4_b.jpg' title='Still Sort of Elevated'> <img class='afg-img' alt='Still Sort of Elevated \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; 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