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Videos of the Massive Toronto Thunderstorm

Posted by Jerrold Litwinenko / August 10, 2009

Last night's insanely visual thunderstorm in Toronto resulted in a whole lot of amazing still photos of lighting, and now some decent videos are starting to trickle onto the web.

The video compilation above shows several separate and sped-up lightning strikes, but gives a fairly accurate depiction of the level of drama that lit up the skies for hours yesterday evening.

Other amateur videos (below) show what look like a really close strikes (close enough that the people holding the cameras nearly jump out of their boots).

Environment Canada just issued another severe thunderstorm watch for the GTA (2:20pm), so today may see more wild weather yet!

Videos by pingpang99, ragingradish, p4mela, and gwong1980 on YouTube.

Discussion

6 Comments

Jen Ford / August 10, 2009 at 04:06 pm
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I took the ferry from the island and biked home through all that. Yikes.
Bubba / August 10, 2009 at 05:31 pm
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check out
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/
for some wicked stuff.
guinness416 / August 10, 2009 at 08:10 pm
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Wow. That fourth video is wild. Wish I'd thought to film some of this, but I was cowering under my bed ....
FLook / August 10, 2009 at 08:59 pm
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man these are great, i knew somebody was out there takin pics
Angela / August 10, 2009 at 10:20 pm
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I was flying around the storm at the time, posisbly the best view I've ever had of a thunder & lightning sotrm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/angenose/3809826148/
Ross / August 12, 2009 at 02:03 pm
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The second video (the very close one) was shot by me on my front porch - it hit very close, probably around 150 - 200 meters away (estimated).

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