{"id":949,"date":"2016-03-28T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T23:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/?p=949"},"modified":"2016-03-28T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T23:46:06","slug":"march-16th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/march-16th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"March 16th 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery Start --><!-- - Version - 3.5.6 - User ID - 65051383@N05 - Photoset ID - 72157666175378885 - 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-88' id='afg-88' 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='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1704\/25290758684_f0992e439e_b.jpg' title='Miserable Morning'><img class='afg-img' title='Miserable Morning' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1704\/25290758684_f0992e439e.jpg' alt='Miserable Morning \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25290758684\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Well, it started out as a cold, dreary, barely above freezing morning. This was the scene downtown as heavy rain along the impending warm front poured down in the still dominant cold, windy easterly flow!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1587\/25923457525_5dca56d976_b.jpg' title='Airport Warm Front'><img class='afg-img' title='Airport Warm Front' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1587\/25923457525_5dca56d976.jpg' alt='Airport Warm Front \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25923457525\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The warm front burst through around 3PM and cloudy, rainy, cold skies gave way to warmth and abundant sunshine. A shortwave moving in from the southwest was also bringing shallow instability with steep lapse rates and strong directional wind shear.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1515\/25828393811_24243dd35c_b.jpg' title='Storms North Horizon'><img class='afg-img' title='Storms North Horizon' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1515\/25828393811_24243dd35c.jpg' alt='Storms North Horizon \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25828393811\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Not a chase per say. I was at the airport due to work and the storm  associated with the shortwave slowly grew and came into view on the North-Western Horizon.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1654\/25923339255_8f46f60b1d_b.jpg' title='Airport Storm Coming'><img class='afg-img' title='Airport Storm Coming' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1654\/25923339255_8f46f60b1d.jpg' alt='Airport Storm Coming \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25923339255\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>A short while later the first of the storms was literally on top of my location at the airport! I could tell by the look of the storm that there were going to be some very strong surface winds.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1452\/25802585462_f257ff45d9_b.jpg' title='Dark Skies'><img class='afg-img' title='Dark Skies' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1452\/25802585462_f257ff45d9.jpg' alt='Dark Skies \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25802585462\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The storms looked mean but were basically just a mix of rain, small hail and gusty winds. You can see how this storm has a very cold look to it.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1470\/25294639853_7fc532bf2e_b.jpg' title='Seconds to Impact'><img class='afg-img' title='Seconds to Impact' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1470\/25294639853_7fc532bf2e.jpg' alt='Seconds to Impact \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25294639853\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The whispy ice rain bands about to hit!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1511\/25923458685_c8bd51664a_b.jpg' title='Wispy Rain'><img class='afg-img' title='Wispy Rain' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1511\/25923458685_c8bd51664a.jpg' alt='Wispy Rain \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25923458685\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Looking northwest, about to hit!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1515\/25622774410_537ed4af3e_b.jpg' title='Airport Storm Passing'><img class='afg-img' title='Airport Storm Passing' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1515\/25622774410_537ed4af3e.jpg' alt='Airport Storm Passing \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25622774410\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The storm blew through in literally 2 minutes producing winds of 95 km\/h!!! <\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1527\/25294642623_c87a73bfcd_b.jpg' title='Victim of the storm'><img class='afg-img' title='Victim of the storm' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1527\/25294642623_c87a73bfcd.jpg' alt='Victim of the storm \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25294642623\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>This poor umbrella became an instant victim of the storm!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example488'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1469\/25294643953_17ac9c73f0_b.jpg' title='Second Storm'><img class='afg-img' title='Second Storm' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1469\/25294643953_17ac9c73f0.jpg' alt='Second Storm \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25294643953\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Later in the day a second storm cluster began to move towards Toronto from Guelph.\n\nThe storm produced some heavy rain and lightning but fell apart as it entered the city thanks to diurnal cooling during the evening.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery End -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[2,70],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-storm-chases","tag-non-severe","tag-thunderstorm","content-columns-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sMpj-fj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}