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| The day started off with an isolated storm about 30km north of my place. The storm produced decent rain and a few cg's but the lowering was pure crap. There was some low and slow rotation but it was just not going to do it. To make things worse the storms was quickly going elevated as it hit cooler air from the rain to the south. |
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| The whole thing went elevated within 15 minutes... horrible! |
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| After getting back home Pat and I discussed the chase potential for the day and we figured why not give it a try. He Drove over from Kincardine and we met up near Waterloo. From there the chase was on. After several fail attempts at contact Bob Berry we decided to chase on our own. Thanks to some help from Mark Rozitis and Dave Patrick we managed to intercept a storm near London. |
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| Big TCU on the leading edge. |
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| The storm split and we took the 402 into the 401 where the TCU in the previous vid cap exploded and dropped a ton of crap in front of us. We slowed and let a cell to our south catchup and pass almost before heading south. |
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| As we headed south we saw the RFB and the rain core with a ton of fog and other crap around. |
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| The SW corner was ok but there was no lowering! A brief one did form but nothing to talk about. |
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| The lightning was the best part, cg's everywhere! We had a few strike no more than maybe 20 or 30 meters away and heard a lock crunch before the crash sound. |
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| The air was so moist odd outflow stuff
formed, like this stuff. All in all I would say it was really not worth it. The storms
came through way to late and did not produce. Even if they had it would have been obscured
and furthermore the haze and low level clouds made it very difficult. Special thanks to Mark Rozotis, Dave Patrick and Patrick Cool for now cast information/driving. |