The pictures from you sent to me on Facebook, Twitter and our CBC account this Weekend were spectacular. So for keepsake, I wanted to put the best of the best here on the blog, so we'll have them to look back on this Wicked Weather Weekend.

The thunderstorms on Friday on the West Coast were numerous with lots of thunder & lightning. We had a couple of great lightning pictures sent in, this one was taken by Murray, overlooking Corner Brook:

Lightning on the West Coast on Friday also struck and sparked a fire on one of the Marble Mountain ski lifts! Picture submitted by Ken Abbott.
And then came the Rain... Friday night a solid line of rain worked in from the South and it poured over Eastern, Northeastern, Central Newfoundland. This picture was taken in Gander on Friday night by Nathan Pardy. 
By Saturday morning, the thunder was roaring over St. John's & the Avalon. We had an intermission through the late morning, when the Sun came out which allowed the lower atmosphere to heat up nicely. Temperatures jumped into the low 20's with dewpoints into the upper teens by late morning, which provided the fuel as a couple lines of Storms fired up over the interior of the Avalon. For the weather weenies out there, here's the already unstable looking 12z (9:30 am) SKEW-T sounding from Mount Pearl. That nice morning heat up, with lots of CAPE and a solid lifted index were all big factors on Saturday.
The Radar. Watch the Storms fire up late morning and roll through Metro in the early-mid afternoon. 



Seeing the Storms head in, I jumped in my car and headed to good lookout at the East White Hills, where the sight was surreal. There were dark storm clouds rolling in from the West... and a sea breeze with fog rolling in from the East. That cooler sea breeze being sucked into the Storms, weakened that line as it rolled into the East end of St. John's.