May 31st 2002

"Severe Storms in Barrie"

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The images on this page are courtesy of Mark Rozitis, a reporter for Global News who is also a storm chaser.

Here you can see what appears to be a shelf cloud viewed from within (under) the storm. It has the classic precursor shape and boiling backside. Winds associated with a clouds as such are probably 100km/h and over.
mrk2.jpg (22066 bytes) Some more interesting dynamic clouds that are a result of winds shear forces and inflow. Quite possibly a shelf cloud slowly breaking down as it is overrunning outflow from another cell or the parent storm.
mrk3.jpg (46227 bytes) This is a site not that common! Winds that did this were probably well over 110km/h
mrk4.jpg (38170 bytes) Heh.. maybe Ontario Hydro will give the owner of this house a break on hydro considering the transformer burnt his lawn and the pole must have done some damage.

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