{"id":954,"date":"2016-03-29T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T04:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/?p=954"},"modified":"2016-03-29T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T04:09:15","slug":"march-28th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/march-28th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"March 28th 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery Start --><!-- - Version - 3.5.6 - User ID - 65051383@N05 - Photoset ID - 72157665972696730 - 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-89' id='afg-89' 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='example489'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1717\/25833698940_e4c515e58b_b.jpg' title='HPC-Mar-28-2016'><img class='afg-img' title='HPC-Mar-28-2016' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1717\/25833698940_e4c515e58b.jpg' alt='HPC-Mar-28-2016 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25833698940\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>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.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example489'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1681\/26013880252_7cb5be9b2f_b.jpg' title='Lightning Round 1'><img class='afg-img' title='Lightning Round 1' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1681\/26013880252_7cb5be9b2f.jpg' alt='Lightning Round 1 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/26013880252\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>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!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example489'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1719\/25503795103_5ded1ecda1_b.jpg' title='Lightning Bolts 2'><img class='afg-img' title='Lightning Bolts 2' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1719\/25503795103_5ded1ecda1.jpg' alt='Lightning Bolts 2 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25503795103\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The initial lightning display was great!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example489'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1597\/26080473866_f05af7976b_b.jpg' title='Hiding'><img class='afg-img' title='Hiding' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1597\/26080473866_f05af7976b.jpg' alt='Hiding \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/26080473866\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>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???!!!!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example489'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1610\/25833567300_aaf2c039fd_b.jpg' title='Still Hiding'><img class='afg-img' title='Still Hiding' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1610\/25833567300_aaf2c039fd.jpg' alt='Still Hiding \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/25833567300\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>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!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example489'  href='https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1581\/26080726436_94ffc55456_b.jpg' title='Hail'><img class='afg-img' title='Hail' src='https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1581\/26080726436_94ffc55456.jpg' alt='Hail \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/26080726436\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>That was until I was awoken by the extremely hard rumbling cracking sound of small hail hitting the steel roof! 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