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GALLERY: Electrical Storm, Aug. 18

GALLERY: Electrical Storm, Aug. 18

Observer Editor Chris Marchand spent a good portion of Thursday night in a field behind Tim Hortons pushing his shutter button and waiting for something spectacular to happen during 15 second exposures — every once in [...]

GALLERY: Nature’s light show, July 4

Lightning rips through the sky above the Dryden Airport during a rather vigorous Monday night storm which came through the area at dusk. The Ministry of Natural Resources reports the storm saw 7,000 strikes and dozens [...]

Humidity keeping fire hazard down

Although the forest fire rating was recently high to extreme, the current rainfall the area has received brought the rating down to low to moderate. Deb MacLean, of the Ministry of Natural Resources reports that the [...]