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Taken 10 minutes ago west of Delisle.
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Hit Edmonton about noon today. Raining like the skies have a leak.
Calgary as well. Also cold.
2010: The Western Canadian Summer That Never Was.
Yes, I just looked out at that wall of cloud. Could be interesting.
Awesome picture Kate!
Keep us posted on the landing.
Got the same thing here a 15 minutes ago.
For all the dramatic lead up, it turned out to be a pretty tame one.
Beauty pic – makes me feel like painting it.
We’ve got lot’s of lightning and a nice rain happening now in Weyburn.
probably $4000 hail damage to the wifes van today.
I dont expect to get through to insurance for a few days and expect weeks to get to the body shop
dents in the sides as well as the roof and hood, she says some cars in the parking lot where she was had their windows taken out.
cal2, where was the hail?
We got it at about 8.15 in Rosetown.Lots of lightning and noise and about 1/4 in of rain, no hail.
Nothing but rain here in North Battleford. Ominous looking clouds, though.
Cal2,
Same thing with my wifes car. Lots of damage to vehicles at her U. of Calgary parking lot.
We’ve seen a fair bit of “all hat and no cattle” here as of late… 😉
Anyone with tips on the proper useage of wet/dry vacs just in case the basement neeeds some help?
I just drove through about a 175 km of hard rain and 90 degree gale crosswinds from south of Edmonchuck to just north of Innisfail. The white’s now finally faded from my knuckles and the tingling in my wrists is gone. But I’m afraid the hand indentations on the steering wheel might be permanent.
Words of the day: “Hydroplane” and “Bumfuzzled”.
I do hope that runaway dog can find some shelter or its going to get real wet!
I notice that radar is showing redevelopment across western to south central SK and this may mean some heavy overnight storms even if the first round fizzled out. Winds are still blowing very strong westerly across Coronation to about Kindersley but by tomorrow I think this will be more of a heavy rain and hail issue for most regions of AB and SK, the upper level low is still back in BC but begins to stack up over top of the stalled surface low (which is near Lloydminster), a very similar set up to that enormous hail storm in Edmonton a few years back, but I would look for something similar a bit further east and south this time, some areas could see over three inches of rain tomorrow and heavy hail (the freezing level is very low and not much higher than the mountain passes this evening). All things considered, I expect tomorrow will bring more significant severe weather than today did. And the first round of storms will be moving into Manitoba overnight and Tuesday.
It has been freakishly cool across central Alberta as this system moved east, mid-afternoon temperatures at Red Deer were 7 C and it’s about that now in Coronation with gusts to almost 100 km/hr, sort of a fall storm that showed up in July.
Kate: That is one hell of a shot!! Great stuff!
bruce wayne riley:
My advice. Don’t plug wet/dry vac when standing in water that has risen above rubber boots.
We got hit hard tonight in New Norway, AB. So glad I finished grading our yard a couple days ago. This 70 year old foundation couldn’t take it anymore.
Re: Low level cumulonimbus cloud west of Delisle:
That type of cloud usually meand a plough wind is fast approaching. Lower the sails, batten down the hatches. Ask God for protection against lightning strike, make sure will is signed.
Well, it hit us in Western Manitoba around 330 am…. Just the right time to spoil a night’s sleep. The garden did need a rain again so come this winter when the pantry is full it won’t be so bad.
Knocked out power for over two hours here in the deep south of Saskatchewan. I think lightning hit a transformer or something. Hard to get answers.
wendy g.
If you check theweathernetwork.com/calgary there are a few vids showing the hailstorm in Calgary.
Quit whinning out there. The days of endless heat and sunny weather here in Toronto are tough to bear also. The chance of skin cancer due to having to wear few clothes is a real threat. I had to crank up the air cond a little just now as another sunny day begins.
I don’t know about you flatlanders. You always seem to be on about lack of moisture so we send you a wee sample of our west coast showers and you complain about that.
sorry. She was parked near Market Mall near the Uof Calgary. but fickle as the storm was, no damage at the house half a mile north
Tony RoBC:
See “Drainage, Lack Of” for the reason we don’t like torrential rains.
Garth
There’s nothing like the view of a storm on the prairies. I remember one as a teen when the sky turned a greenish purple, and it hailed like I’ve never seen before. That was scary.
That image is truly superb.
I think what particularly makes its composition “work” is the symmetry of the dark clouds over the green field.
Dave
100 miles west here near Woodstock, last week’s heat and humidity is now a series of thunder-dunders. This has been going on for a coupla days. The lawn was dormant…..now is going nutso….too wet to cut.
We never had such lousy weather before they invented them damn bows and arrows……
Tony RoBC at 8:36 AM : “I don’t know about you flatlanders. You always seem to be on about lack of moisture so we send you a wee sample of our west coast showers and you complain about that.”
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No. We just complain about the weather, period. Doesn’t matter whether it’s too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry. It’s gotta be just right for the crops. Not only just the right amount, but just at the right time, too.
And preferably not on the weekends.
Lovely weather in Halifax. Really sunny and warm, but not hot, you know? There’s just a hint of fresh salt air in the gentle, flowered, fragrance-wafting breeze. And it’s extra nice because everything is so green, and the birds are chirping.
Mr. Fluffy has been outside photosynthesizing.
Yesterday was similar.
I feel for you guys, I really do.
Cloudy now. I seem to have single-handedly destroyed summer on the eastern seaboard with my boasting.
Hubris is stalked by Nemesis.
Is that highway 16 in the picture? Thought they paved that long ago.
Hey, see that black spot near the middle of the picture? That’s my dog who wandered off 3 days ago!
Great pic but that sure is a sketchy looking canola crop for the middle of July.
Syncro
Part 2 of this event is going to be just as interesting. There’s an enormous swirl of very cool, moist air centered around a dry “eye” feature located near Coronation AB so that much of Alberta and western SK can look forward to a day of heavy showers, gusty winds and local hailstorms developing out of this when daytime heating of the cloud tops gets them up into the freezing layers that are not very high up today (Nakiska Ridge west of Calgary is -2 C with a west wind gusting to 100 km/hr, that’s about 3,000 metres up but still, freezing levels in July are usually closer to 4,500 metres.)
Then there’s a sunny dry slot in eastern SK that will gradually fill up with unstable cumulus later today and create some isolated severe storms, and the old remnants of yesterday’s front in western MB getting ready to redevelop mid-day. There is a “high risk” tornado situation predicted for eastern ND and SD later today that will extend as a slight to moderate risk into eastern MB, so from Winnipeg south to the border watch out for severe storms this afternoon.
Looks like an easy 2-3 inches of rain in some parts of central AB with the moisture slamming back against the foothills, more like 1-2 inches in western SK but locally it could be a lot more if a more intense cell develops in the swirl. The biggest hail today likely to be close to the Battlefords south towards Rosetown and Biggar.
Most of the crops are sketchy looking this year – too much rain.
Here is an excellent article on the end game for the well and the
technology in place to pull it off.
From Drilling Ahead http://www.drillingahead.com/forum/topics/bp-relief-wellswhat-is-a
A relief well is not drilled to “relieve pressure and reduce flow of oil”,
This seems to be the most common misconception. The sole purpose of a relief well is to kill the well completely. To accomplish this the relief well has to drill directly into the 7″ casing of the blowout well at a depth of 18,000′. When this happens, a ‘window” is cut into the 7″ casing of the blowout well and heavy mud is forced into its wellbore. The heavy mud is calculated to counteract the force of the flow in the blowout well, In this case it should be between 14.4 ppg and 15 ppg.
The article isn’t that long and the embedded vids are great at showing what they are trying to accomplish and previous successes.
Kate, CBC had a guy from Environment Canada on just after July 1st. Probably the same guy as in March.
He said the same thing he said in March, warm all over Canada for the second quarter. Showed the same red map as I remember from March, too.
Nice photo. I got a look at a live version of it at Lyalta, AB, yesterday afternoon.
Many stations are likely to have their lowest July daily maximum in their period of record today in parts of central AB and SK. I think it has stayed below 10 C at Coronation AB since yesterday afternoon. Unreal, as the normal July high there is about 27 C. Still, we must fight the scourge of global warming, otherwise who knows how cold it might get.
We at least where not visited by hail in Edmonton. You should see the pools of water. great for our lakes though.
It’s a bizarro weather system, mild air from the north is pushing across Edmonton and raising the temperature from 10 to 15 C in regions just to the south of there. Meanwhile it’s about 12 C in Regina with a south wind.
Maybe we’re in the southern hemisphere now.
Watched Edmonton Global tv news at noon.
Marmot Basin webcam showed snow all over the place, up to 15cm of the stuff they said.
Late springs and early falls.
A baaaddd combination.
*Late springs and early falls*
Which would you say this is then?
For what it’s worth, Kate – that’s a great photograph. I’m a lifetime member of the Professional Photographers of Canada and a national print judge.
Image quality, composition, tonal values and the careful placement of the silos, telephone pole (at right) and the converging parallels of the road make for an obviously carefully crafted photograph of real artistic merit.
I give it an ‘excellent’ rating!
Well, thanks Guff! Nothing was that careful about the placement – storm fronts don’t give you enough time for that. I just figured I knew the best place to be to catch the thing coming when I saw it.
Hit Edmonton about noon today. Raining like the skies have a leak.
Calgary as well. Also cold.
2010: The Western Canadian Summer That Never Was.
Yes, I just looked out at that wall of cloud. Could be interesting.
Awesome picture Kate!
Keep us posted on the landing.
Got the same thing here a 15 minutes ago.
For all the dramatic lead up, it turned out to be a pretty tame one.
Beauty pic – makes me feel like painting it.
We’ve got lot’s of lightning and a nice rain happening now in Weyburn.
probably $4000 hail damage to the wifes van today.
I dont expect to get through to insurance for a few days and expect weeks to get to the body shop
dents in the sides as well as the roof and hood, she says some cars in the parking lot where she was had their windows taken out.
cal2, where was the hail?
We got it at about 8.15 in Rosetown.Lots of lightning and noise and about 1/4 in of rain, no hail.
Nothing but rain here in North Battleford. Ominous looking clouds, though.
Cal2,
Same thing with my wifes car. Lots of damage to vehicles at her U. of Calgary parking lot.
We’ve seen a fair bit of “all hat and no cattle” here as of late… 😉
Anyone with tips on the proper useage of wet/dry vacs just in case the basement neeeds some help?
I just drove through about a 175 km of hard rain and 90 degree gale crosswinds from south of Edmonchuck to just north of Innisfail. The white’s now finally faded from my knuckles and the tingling in my wrists is gone. But I’m afraid the hand indentations on the steering wheel might be permanent.
Words of the day: “Hydroplane” and “Bumfuzzled”.
I do hope that runaway dog can find some shelter or its going to get real wet!
I notice that radar is showing redevelopment across western to south central SK and this may mean some heavy overnight storms even if the first round fizzled out. Winds are still blowing very strong westerly across Coronation to about Kindersley but by tomorrow I think this will be more of a heavy rain and hail issue for most regions of AB and SK, the upper level low is still back in BC but begins to stack up over top of the stalled surface low (which is near Lloydminster), a very similar set up to that enormous hail storm in Edmonton a few years back, but I would look for something similar a bit further east and south this time, some areas could see over three inches of rain tomorrow and heavy hail (the freezing level is very low and not much higher than the mountain passes this evening). All things considered, I expect tomorrow will bring more significant severe weather than today did. And the first round of storms will be moving into Manitoba overnight and Tuesday.
It has been freakishly cool across central Alberta as this system moved east, mid-afternoon temperatures at Red Deer were 7 C and it’s about that now in Coronation with gusts to almost 100 km/hr, sort of a fall storm that showed up in July.
Kate: That is one hell of a shot!! Great stuff!
bruce wayne riley:
My advice. Don’t plug wet/dry vac when standing in water that has risen above rubber boots.
We got hit hard tonight in New Norway, AB. So glad I finished grading our yard a couple days ago. This 70 year old foundation couldn’t take it anymore.
Re: Low level cumulonimbus cloud west of Delisle:
That type of cloud usually meand a plough wind is fast approaching. Lower the sails, batten down the hatches. Ask God for protection against lightning strike, make sure will is signed.
Well, it hit us in Western Manitoba around 330 am…. Just the right time to spoil a night’s sleep. The garden did need a rain again so come this winter when the pantry is full it won’t be so bad.
Knocked out power for over two hours here in the deep south of Saskatchewan. I think lightning hit a transformer or something. Hard to get answers.
wendy g.
If you check theweathernetwork.com/calgary there are a few vids showing the hailstorm in Calgary.
Quit whinning out there. The days of endless heat and sunny weather here in Toronto are tough to bear also. The chance of skin cancer due to having to wear few clothes is a real threat. I had to crank up the air cond a little just now as another sunny day begins.
I don’t know about you flatlanders. You always seem to be on about lack of moisture so we send you a wee sample of our west coast showers and you complain about that.
sorry. She was parked near Market Mall near the Uof Calgary. but fickle as the storm was, no damage at the house half a mile north
Tony RoBC:
See “Drainage, Lack Of” for the reason we don’t like torrential rains.
Garth
There’s nothing like the view of a storm on the prairies. I remember one as a teen when the sky turned a greenish purple, and it hailed like I’ve never seen before. That was scary.
That image is truly superb.
I think what particularly makes its composition “work” is the symmetry of the dark clouds over the green field.
Dave
100 miles west here near Woodstock, last week’s heat and humidity is now a series of thunder-dunders. This has been going on for a coupla days. The lawn was dormant…..now is going nutso….too wet to cut.
We never had such lousy weather before they invented them damn bows and arrows……
Tony RoBC at 8:36 AM : “I don’t know about you flatlanders. You always seem to be on about lack of moisture so we send you a wee sample of our west coast showers and you complain about that.”
==================
No. We just complain about the weather, period. Doesn’t matter whether it’s too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry. It’s gotta be just right for the crops. Not only just the right amount, but just at the right time, too.
And preferably not on the weekends.
Lovely weather in Halifax. Really sunny and warm, but not hot, you know? There’s just a hint of fresh salt air in the gentle, flowered, fragrance-wafting breeze. And it’s extra nice because everything is so green, and the birds are chirping.
Mr. Fluffy has been outside photosynthesizing.
Yesterday was similar.
I feel for you guys, I really do.
Cloudy now. I seem to have single-handedly destroyed summer on the eastern seaboard with my boasting.
Hubris is stalked by Nemesis.
Is that highway 16 in the picture? Thought they paved that long ago.
Hey, see that black spot near the middle of the picture? That’s my dog who wandered off 3 days ago!
Great pic but that sure is a sketchy looking canola crop for the middle of July.
Syncro
Part 2 of this event is going to be just as interesting. There’s an enormous swirl of very cool, moist air centered around a dry “eye” feature located near Coronation AB so that much of Alberta and western SK can look forward to a day of heavy showers, gusty winds and local hailstorms developing out of this when daytime heating of the cloud tops gets them up into the freezing layers that are not very high up today (Nakiska Ridge west of Calgary is -2 C with a west wind gusting to 100 km/hr, that’s about 3,000 metres up but still, freezing levels in July are usually closer to 4,500 metres.)
Then there’s a sunny dry slot in eastern SK that will gradually fill up with unstable cumulus later today and create some isolated severe storms, and the old remnants of yesterday’s front in western MB getting ready to redevelop mid-day. There is a “high risk” tornado situation predicted for eastern ND and SD later today that will extend as a slight to moderate risk into eastern MB, so from Winnipeg south to the border watch out for severe storms this afternoon.
Looks like an easy 2-3 inches of rain in some parts of central AB with the moisture slamming back against the foothills, more like 1-2 inches in western SK but locally it could be a lot more if a more intense cell develops in the swirl. The biggest hail today likely to be close to the Battlefords south towards Rosetown and Biggar.
Most of the crops are sketchy looking this year – too much rain.
Here is an excellent article on the end game for the well and the
technology in place to pull it off.
From Drilling Ahead
http://www.drillingahead.com/forum/topics/bp-relief-wellswhat-is-a
A relief well is not drilled to “relieve pressure and reduce flow of oil”,
This seems to be the most common misconception. The sole purpose of a relief well is to kill the well completely. To accomplish this the relief well has to drill directly into the 7″ casing of the blowout well at a depth of 18,000′. When this happens, a ‘window” is cut into the 7″ casing of the blowout well and heavy mud is forced into its wellbore. The heavy mud is calculated to counteract the force of the flow in the blowout well, In this case it should be between 14.4 ppg and 15 ppg.
The article isn’t that long and the embedded vids are great at showing what they are trying to accomplish and previous successes.
Giant rocking horse facing west
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/data/satellite/goes_wcan_visible_100.jpg
(as of noon Tuesday MDT, this picture may look more like a beaver smacking Wyoming with its tail by tonight)
Kate, CBC had a guy from Environment Canada on just after July 1st. Probably the same guy as in March.
He said the same thing he said in March, warm all over Canada for the second quarter. Showed the same red map as I remember from March, too.
Nice photo. I got a look at a live version of it at Lyalta, AB, yesterday afternoon.
Many stations are likely to have their lowest July daily maximum in their period of record today in parts of central AB and SK. I think it has stayed below 10 C at Coronation AB since yesterday afternoon. Unreal, as the normal July high there is about 27 C. Still, we must fight the scourge of global warming, otherwise who knows how cold it might get.
We at least where not visited by hail in Edmonton. You should see the pools of water. great for our lakes though.
It’s a bizarro weather system, mild air from the north is pushing across Edmonton and raising the temperature from 10 to 15 C in regions just to the south of there. Meanwhile it’s about 12 C in Regina with a south wind.
Maybe we’re in the southern hemisphere now.
Watched Edmonton Global tv news at noon.
Marmot Basin webcam showed snow all over the place, up to 15cm of the stuff they said.
Late springs and early falls.
A baaaddd combination.
*Late springs and early falls*
Which would you say this is then?
For what it’s worth, Kate – that’s a great photograph. I’m a lifetime member of the Professional Photographers of Canada and a national print judge.
Image quality, composition, tonal values and the careful placement of the silos, telephone pole (at right) and the converging parallels of the road make for an obviously carefully crafted photograph of real artistic merit.
I give it an ‘excellent’ rating!
Well, thanks Guff! Nothing was that careful about the placement – storm fronts don’t give you enough time for that. I just figured I knew the best place to be to catch the thing coming when I saw it.