Thunderstorm in Montreal - June 25th, 2009 (Part 2)

This is part II of a video involving the same strong thunderstorm that was affecting parts of central and Eastern Montreal. Got some pretty cool cloud to ground strikes at about a 50 second to 1 minute interval. The storm was heading to the Northeast (at this viewing angle, I am facing Northeast), which caused the storm to skim us in the West Island. However, as it grazed our area, we received a brief heavy downpour of rain, some fairly gusty winds (about 60 km/h) and, of course, thunder and lightning. The storm further developed as it headed in the NE direction, and I heard reports of hail the size of almost golf balls (about 3 cm in diameter) in locations just barely 30 km Northeast of the West Island and heavy downpours towards the East End, and possibly close to the metropolitan area, too.

In Southern and Southwestern Ontario, severe t-storms were reported there as well, and two confirmed tornadoes were spawned from a couple of them - one was an F1 and the other an F2, which was reported in the town of Avon, Ontario. No fatalities associated with these storms, thankfully. :)

What a satisfying day this was, especially since t-storms have gotten off to a late start this Spring-Summer in many parts of Eastern Canada.

~Trav.~

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• Tornado
• Hail
• Torrential Downpour
• Thunder
• Lightning