A Powerful System Rolls Through
Severe storms swept across southern Ontario on Wednesday, bringing hail, high winds and heavy lightning. Mark Robinson, a meteorologist and storm chaser with The Weather Network, says the sheer amount of lightning the storms generated points to how much energy was packed into the system.
What It Means
Robinson's on-the-ground observations underline a pattern meteorologists have flagged this season: increasingly intense summer storm cells moving through Ontario, capable of producing damaging hail and severe lightning in a short window.
No further details on injuries, damage totals or affected communities were provided in the source report.
Source: CBC
