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Downtown Toronto gets lit up by passing storm

Posted by Derek Flack / May 30, 2011

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Toronto Lightning StormSo that was quite the light show last night. Despite the fact that the worst of the storm passed to the south of the city, the CN Tower still got bombed pretty good. It's funny — you'd think it'd be easy to put together a photo gallery like this every time we get a significant thunderstorm, but it's actually quite rare that more than one or two photographers in the blogTO Flickr pool upload such dramatic photos of lightning hitting Toronto. So while we've already devoted our photo of the day to the subject, it only made sense to put a fully fledged gallery together. Check 'em out. Lead photo by reemond.

Toronto lightning stormPhoto by ~EvidencE~.

CN Tower LightningPhoto by Richard Gottardo.

CN Tower LightningPhoto by Edwin Chang Photography.

CN Tower LightningPhoto by Scapevision.

CN Tower LightningPhoto by Cobby17.

CN Tower LightningPhoto by tapesonthefloor.

2011528-lightning-tomms.jpgPhoto by tommms.

2011530-lightning-long.jpgPhoto by Liam Kearney.

Lightning Toronto StormPhoto by Natta Summerky.

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Fig / May 30, 2011 at 09:04 am
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Wow, these are amazing pics.
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kaboom / May 30, 2011 at 09:21 am
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What striking fotos.
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Malik replying to a comment from kaboom / May 30, 2011 at 09:42 am
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Nice pun! :p
("Striking" photos)
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TKS / May 30, 2011 at 09:55 am
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One of the reasons it's relatively rare to get these pictures is that the clouds are often lower than the top of the CN Tower. We used to have a clear view of the Tower from our apartment, and it was rare that a thunderstorm would look like this!

Great storm last night. Wish I'd had my camera on me.
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Jim Bowie / May 30, 2011 at 09:58 am
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Mu photo (Cobby17) and the (much better) photo by Natta are the same lightning strike. Pretty cool!! ... and big thanks to blogTO for assembling these cool pics.
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EJR / May 30, 2011 at 10:22 am
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Those last two photos are simply amazing. Love these photos!
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me / May 30, 2011 at 10:24 am
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Gottardo and Summerky are the best.
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Miguel Yopolo / May 30, 2011 at 11:03 am
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It is a wonderful show, and it can not be compared with the human's fireworks, mother nature is absolutly pretty...
I love Toronto and I used to live there;
greetings:
Miguel Angel Yopolo Ramirez
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Sandra M / May 30, 2011 at 02:06 pm
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Does anyone notice the outline of the face in Edwin Chang's photo.Look carefully to the left in the 1st lightning please tell me someone sees this.
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Derek replying to a comment from Sandra M / May 30, 2011 at 02:10 pm
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Creepy. Maybe it's the Mothman lurking in the clouds.
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@patbateman_ / May 30, 2011 at 02:18 pm
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it's clearly eddie from iron maiden
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BKtG6pLw-do/TL8oAZQjJdI/AAAAAAAAAMw/YXFqKzsA-4Y/s1600/Iron_Maiden_-_Brave_New_World.jpg
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Bongopix / May 30, 2011 at 02:23 pm
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great selections, blogTO! It really BRIGHTENED up my monday.... (how many lightning puns can we get on here?!)
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Dmitri / May 30, 2011 at 02:26 pm
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Here's few more (if you click through, you'll see the progression of the lightning bolts): http://dmitrisanimation.com/blog
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Luna / May 30, 2011 at 02:48 pm
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I knew it.
The CN tower is the Elder Wand!

http://images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/a/a8/Dheldervold.jpg
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david Acton / May 30, 2011 at 04:42 pm
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right on, these rock!
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nighthawkess / May 30, 2011 at 05:13 pm
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I see the face in the forth photo...and the hand as well..
kinda eerie like...great shots!!
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Adam / May 30, 2011 at 06:38 pm
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So do they shut the CN Tower down during one of these? I'd love to be right up in the pod..lol.

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Ola / May 30, 2011 at 07:10 pm
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What a great selection! Well done to all the photographers!
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Peter Rusling / June 5, 2011 at 06:19 am
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You do realise that lightning goes from ground to sky, not
the reverse ?
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Dmitri replying to a comment from Peter Rusling / June 5, 2011 at 08:39 am
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You know what, you are right! I was taking sequential shots of the lightning storm and after I've put them one after another in the slideshow I almost thought I did it backwards by a misstake. This is evident here: http://bit.ly/jHtasC -if you press the right arrow, you will see the progression of the bolt going from ground up to the sky.
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loek swinkels / June 9, 2011 at 06:44 am
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Wat is de natuur toch mooi.
Maar tegelijkertijd ook beangstigend, wat een kracht die veel kan vernietigen.
Jammer dat deze stroom niet kan worden opgevangen. Het zou kerncentrale's overbodig maken
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Cheryl Doyle / June 14, 2011 at 01:39 am
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It is like pics from Metropolis.
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Cheryl Doyle replying to a comment from Sandra M / June 14, 2011 at 01:41 am
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Oh my gosh, spooky.
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JOJO / June 24, 2011 at 09:52 pm
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Oh Sandra... I saw Casper's nasty uncle's face on the left of the first strike, complete with glasses..... hmmmm
The photos are great!
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