{"id":1329,"date":"2017-08-04T00:39:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T07:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2017-11-22T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T23:40:34","slug":"august-4th-ottawarockcliffe-to-brantford-weather-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"August 4 – Weather Delay in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The afternoon weather in Ottawa seemed like a normal hazy summer day, with sunshine and lots of cumulus clouds. However, the situation in southern Ontario and at our destination in Brantford was quite different. A major system  was moving across the Great Lakes with heavy rain, strong winds, hail and lots of lightning. I called Flight Service for a weather briefing and considered going to Kingston. However, after hearing of a tornado watch in the area the decision was easy to stay on the ground. This gave us the opportunity to spend a little more time in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

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After checking in to the Lord Elgin we visited the National War Memorial, viewed the locks at the Rideau Canal and strolled through the elegant Chateau Laurier Hotel.<\/p>\n

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Later while having dinner the winds picked up quite a bit and it started to rain; the storm from southern Ontario was now reaching Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The afternoon weather in Ottawa seemed like a normal hazy summer day, with sunshine and lots of cumulus clouds. However, the situation in southern Ontario and at our destination in Brantford was quite different. A major system  was moving across the Great Lakes with heavy rain, strong winds, hail and lots of lightning. I called … Continue reading August 4 – Weather Delay in Ottawa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}