Land Of Living Skies

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Update:

Originating tweets are linked in the photos. If you have friends at Craven this weekend, send them a text. They may want to take cover.

Spotted just now surfing #SkStorm. We’re watching the skies tonight.

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  2. You do know that these thunderstorms and tornados are part of multi-thousand year cycles, that the planet heats and cools, life rises and falls, new species emerge as others die off, carbon dioxide levels rise, eventually, and create exponential new life as the orbit of the Earth brings it in closer proximity to the sun and melts the massive glacial ice sheets created when the Earth was farther away and nearly froze solid. What shall we call this phenomenum? Why, Climate Change!

  3. Edmonton’s close to the north border of Alberta’s tornado alley. We’ve been lucky so far this year.

      1. One story I heard was that there might have been two tornadoes instead of one. That explains the pattern of the damage. As far as I know, that’s never been confirmed.

        One reason was that the way storms are observed and tracked was different back then. The radar and data processing systems that are used now weren’t available. Now, it’s easier to make observations due to the ubiquity of cell phones as well as hams who are trained in assisting emergency services.

        That’s one reason why more tornadoes are being reported nowadays. Sorry, Climate Barbie, if more people can make observations and submit them, wouldn’t it make sense that more such phenomena will be seen?

      2. My aunt and uncle were driving around in Edmonton that day during the Tornado! I remember watching it on the news from Calgary at home and being terrified. The next day I remember my dad talking to my aunt on the phone and him asking her. Why the hell were you following it?

        Around that time there were a ton of Tornado watches and warnings in the back half of the 80’s all over Alberta. My family went camping a lot and I remember seeing funnel clouds near Pincher Creek and a few other places. After the Edmonton tornado I began to religiously listen to the Environment Canada weather on the Calgary Airport Arrivals / Departures channel because of what happened in Edmonton

        1. The Edmonton tornado was regarded by many as a fluke. It wasn’t until the one at Pine Lake that people started taking them seriously.

  4. It is. I wish I was out there taking photos like the ones in the Twitter thread. Big Sky Country, whether in Saskatchewan, or Alberta. Hiss of wind in the tall grass and grain.
    One of my memories, when I first arrived In Alberta (1975) was driving through the aftermath of a thunderstorm, on my way “home” from work north of Drumheller. A mile or so of foot deep hail stretching NW to SE to the storm still lumbering across the prairie. Like climbing into the refrigerator. On a hot, dry, July day it was refreshing. For the local farmers, well not so much on crop damage, but then that’s understandable from their POV.

  5. Radar for that area:
    https://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=XBE

    Run the animation. You’ll see that the storm in question weakened somewhat over past hour (and moved right over the radar site at Bethune SK) — could still be severe wind gusts and it could redevelop — but another cell ahead of it east of Regina grew stronger and looks like a big hailstorm on this radar. Would say that one is headed for the Broadview-Moosomin area, might post again if it looks like a threat to any towns. Will be moving onto MB radar at some point.

  7. These cells should weaken fairly quickly, the worst of them now crossing TCH near Grenfell SK, but there is not a very dynamic source of energy aloft, just a weak frontal boundary that will lose energy with the loss of daytime heating. That one cell looked quite nasty for the past hour Indian Head to Grenfell and there could be some hail damage reported in that area.

    I would expect a reload of this thunderstorm development Sunday afternoon and evening but a bit further east this time, spreading from southeast SK into western MB. There will be more energy available to these storms so they could be more widespread and severe.

  9. One thing I miss about the family farm.

    Sitting on the tractor ramp into the barn watching a thunderstorm coming from miles away. Smelling the ozone and then the rain and sometimes hail hitting the tin roof so loud it would deafen you. The temperature would drop several degrees. Afterwards the ground would literally steam, especially in August.

    We had beef cattle, so as long as the silly buggers took shelter, no harm done.

  10. Grew up spending my summers on Buffalo Pound Lake, north of Moose Jaw in the RM of Bethune. In the summer there would be an evening thunderstorm 2-3 nights per week. Lightning would occasionally hit the rocks up on top of the valley, the rocks would explode, and it would rain gravel down on the roof of our trailer in the coulee.

    We had relatives visit from Sweden one summer and they were terrified of these storms. To hear them tell it, they had hardly ever seen forked lightning, only sheet lightning.

  12. Storms like this most likely inspired the firsst climate frauds.
    “Heap big Darkness,GODs mad,give me meat and I will drive storm away”.
    Best scam ever and if lightning strikes and kills,”Too bad,they really pissed GODs off,the sinners”.
    The extremely gullible are still with us as are those who reward them, by ripping them off.

    And nothing enforces how insignificant and puny we are,like a massive thunder storm.

    Is it a coincidence that the most “Climate Gullible” are those from the air-conditioned havens of our cities,who have never had to ride out a storm?

    1. Precisely. M ost religions began as an attempt for mankind to explain the unexplainable of the times. Droughts, floods, moon phases/high tides, winter/summer, rainy season/dry season, eclipses, the ancients looked to the Heavens and saw moving stars and planets and if they could only appease the gods controlling them, gain favour with them, all would be well. Hence the Mayans and Gibson’s Apocalypto, , Zeus and his lighning bolt, Druids, right up to the major religions of today. For people who disdain these religions, who feel they are more virtuous and more enlightened than the plebeian masses, their religion is “Climate Change” and they have the exact same fervent faith and true belief of their dogma as any Aztec Priest at The Tlacaxipehualiztli

  14. Update on possible storms this evening, a line has developed in western SK and most of central, eastern SK will have some storms later this evening into the overnight hours. Current thinking is that they will maintain intensity most of the night moving into western MB after midnight.

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