{"id":556,"date":"2014-06-10T17:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/?p=556"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:53:33","slug":"may-22nd-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/may-22nd-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"May 22nd 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\"><!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery Start --><!-- - Version - 3.5.6 - User ID - 65051383@N05 - Photoset ID - 72157645087490181 - 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-55' id='afg-55' 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='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3918\/14200754307_e167444692_b.jpg' title='Off To The Storm'><img class='afg-img' title='Off To The Storm' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3918\/14200754307_e167444692.jpg' alt='Off To The Storm \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14200754307\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Talk about a chaotic start to the day!\n\nI lost, cancelled and then found my Visa, a process which cost me around 2 hours. Bwah!\n\nSo I was not in the best mood at the start of the day but after fun and games in Limon, Jen and I were westbound on I-70 towards Denver.\n\nToday was really just a landspout type day playing storms in the DVCZ (Denver Vorticity Convergence Zone) as they rolled off the mountains.\n\nThe first storm we intercepted was near Byers. It was just slowly beginning to ramp up as I watched it grow from a light rain shower into a mature storm.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5119\/14383847981_4a5bed9620_b.jpg' title='Inflow Aloft'><img class='afg-img' title='Inflow Aloft' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5119\/14383847981_4a5bed9620.jpg' alt='Inflow Aloft \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14383847981\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>You can see how the storm had some inflow growing aloft.\n\nIt was also beginning to really turn green in portions so hail stones were growing quickly.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3837\/14383849421_4543db4770_b.jpg' title='Jumping East'><img class='afg-img' title='Jumping East' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3837\/14383849421_4543db4770.jpg' alt='Jumping East \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14383849421\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>I had to reposition east as the storm took a strange jog towards me.\n\nAt the time I thought it was just building in an odd fashion but it was actually being pushed by a nearby outflow boundary that seemed to surge into area out of nowhere.\n\nThe boundary actually came from another MCS about 100 miles away that just suddenly collapsed and blew itself out.\n\nAt this point in time the storm here is producing 1-2&quot; hail.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5482\/14387191305_1b6df68bb8_b.jpg' title='Flash Flooding'><img class='afg-img' title='Flash Flooding' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5482\/14387191305_1b6df68bb8.jpg' alt='Flash Flooding \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14387191305\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Well after bouncing around with the storm for a while it eventually became a mess as other storms popped up and merged with it.\n\nWhat I was not prepared for was all the flash flooding!\n\nSee in Southern Ontario when we get 30mm of rain, even 60 or 70 mm of rain in under an hour there is rarely major flooding in rural areas.\n\nThe same amount of rain near Strasburg seemed to turn some roads into rivers.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5158\/14407370173_c2b80af6aa_b.jpg' title='Flash Flooding Continues'><img class='afg-img' title='Flash Flooding Continues' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5158\/14407370173_c2b80af6aa.jpg' alt='Flash Flooding Continues \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14407370173\/&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='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2914\/14200591608_b30cdb924d_b.jpg' title='Turn Around Don't Drown'><img class='afg-img' title='Turn Around Don't Drown' src='https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2914\/14200591608_b30cdb924d.jpg' alt='Turn Around Don&#039;t Drown \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14200591608\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>I'm not sure if leaning out of the window and shooting video on your phone as you're driven through a flooded roadway is a good idea.\n\nYou can never be absolutely sure how deep the water on a roadway is even if there is a flood gauge.\n\nWhy? Because you had no way of knowing if the road has been undermined since you can't see it!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3871\/14387193975_d4b2725cdb_b.jpg' title='Almost There'><img class='afg-img' title='Almost There' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3871\/14387193975_d4b2725cdb.jpg' alt='Almost There \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14387193975\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>These two did make it safely to the other side and it was great video but I still shake my head.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3899\/14200593858_a67acb235b_b.jpg' title='Driving Through'><img class='afg-img' title='Driving Through' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3899\/14200593858_a67acb235b.jpg' alt='Driving Through \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14200593858\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Another video caption of a car driving through a flooded road.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5569\/14200592628_993a742d59_b.jpg' title='Minor Flash Flooding'><img class='afg-img' title='Minor Flash Flooding' src='https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5569\/14200592628_993a742d59.jpg' alt='Minor Flash Flooding \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14200592628\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Here's another example of less substantial flooding. You can see the road is still higher than the flood water so it's probably a safe bet you can make it across.\n\nBut still, remember it's flowing water that's not standing still.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3908\/14200762547_cd70e94609_b.jpg' title='Flooding Continued...'><img class='afg-img' title='Flooding Continued...' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3908\/14200762547_cd70e94609.jpg' alt='Flooding Continued... \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/14200762547\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><a style='display:none' class='afgcolorbox' rel='example455'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3894\/14383856961_22d26f8cab_b.jpg' title='Keep Going'> <img class='afg-img' alt='Keep Going \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; 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