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Irene looked beautiful in Ottawa last night – I saw dozens of sky photos posted to Twitter from folks in Ottawa. Check out this video from Chris Rouffer , taken last night as the sun went down. There are three different videos in the clip below - each taken within minutes of eachother - from Canaan Road, Sarsfield Road and Dunning Road just east of Ottawa. ...

Thanks to John Tajima for sending this great photo of the double rainbow from earlier tonight. John and just about everyone on Twitter also took a photo of the rainbow, and you can see some more of them here . ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/IMG_2503.jpg) The temperature surpassed 40C at OttawaStart World Headquarters in Stittsville, Ontario. This photo was taken just after 5:00pm on Thursday. It was 36C in the shade. ** ** ...

Today’s guest post is from Kyle Smith , an Ottawa television producer and severe weather watcher. He’s been in the weather industry for over seven years, including work at the Weather Network, and he’s seen it all – from winter blasts to super cell storms. ...

Video posted by gastorch997 (embedding may be disabled for this video - click here to view ) The main stage at Bluesfest collapsed tonight during the Cheap Trick show. Various news outlets and people on the scene are reporting multiple injuries. ...

_ We’re on summer haitus this week & re-posting some good content from the past few years of our blog. Here’s one that originally appeared in June 2010 . _ ** ** Yesterday morning, Ottawa was smothered in smoke from forest fires in Quebec. ...

Jared Young shot this timelapse video on June 27 during that massive thunderstorm that attacked Ottawa. The clouds are menacing. All that’s missing is some AC/DC Thunderstruck for the soundtrack. (You may remember Jared’s incredible photo of a lightning strike at the Experimental Farm back on June 8. ...

** UPDATE: ** Here are some more images, sent to us by John Bradley . Here are a couple of photos of St-Hughes Church in Sarsfield , just east of Ottawa. The photos are from Ottawa Fire Services and used here with their permission. ...

WOW. Just got an email from Jared Young , who sent along this AMAZING photo during the storm – along with a few more here on his Flickr page . _ "One of them is only about 400m from where I was, but I could not find the exact location of the hit when I went to look for it. ...

Here are two amazing photos from Friday night, taken by Arne Berg , who graciously gave us permission to re-post them here. The fire in the distance of the first photo was that big blaze at the Kanata townhouses under construction. ...