Severe Weather

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:30 am

The summer has arrived, and for some that means months of severe weather. Usually, this does not include Alberta, but in recent years our weather has become more dramatic. This year in particular has hit us hard with severe weather warnings once a week or more.

This weekend Edmonton was hit with the worst storm on record. Tornadoes, hail, thunderstorms, and flooding. Here are some pictures from the storm:

http://www.ualberta.ca/~gregoryb/storm/

It has all cleared up now, but we still get severe thunderstorms at night. For some reason it is insanely hot this week too! Temperatures are as high as 30 degrees Celsius (86 F)!! (That's really hot for here.)

Anyway, I thought I would share those pictures with everyone. My house was not damaged. I hope Laura's house escaped damage as well. West Edmonton Mall got hit pretty bad; damage in the tens of millions of dollars.

PS - Those ice chunks are the hail that fell and later clumped together. The hails ranged from pea- to baseball-size.

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 12:59 pm

I live 15 minutes south of Edmonton and when this storm happened we didn't get a drop of rain. we had a sever thunderstrorm last night though. It woke me up at 12am and knocked our power out at 1am. It was still out when I went to work at 6am.

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:39 pm

That is good to hear. You must live near the airport then. We were out that way at about 6 AM that morning to drop my cousin at the airport. We saw some very suspecting clouds rolling in from the West.

I live just north of Edmonton. A tornado touched down a mere 10 minutes from my house. We did not get as much rain as Edmonton but some of our neighbours had flooded basements.

The thunderstorm last night was spectacular. It must have been hovering near my hosue because there was only a fraction of a second between the lightning and the thunder. I stayed up until 2-something AM to watch it out my window. I love thunderstorms!

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:42 pm

I love the Florida weather. In the winter, nice and cool. Fall through Spring: Lightning several times a week (i.e. the hockey team). In the summer, lightning every night.

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:53 pm

Fargo+Winter=very cold
yah, sure ya betcha

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:06 pm

last night in fargo the sirens went off... in the last 2 weeks the sirens have gone off like 4 times

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:45 pm

Sirens?

We have had more bizarre weather. Alberta is usually dry like a desert, but the past two dayshave been about as humid as a sauna! It's crazy.

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:56 pm

tornado sirens

.: Pj :. · Post by **.: Pj :.** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:00 pm

They predict bad weather for the next week

! Bad news for ISC 2004

!

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:10 pm

Just hope they don't wake you up at 1am for a tornado warning. Being in Hab 2 with smelly little kids is not fun.

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:47 am

So... umm... yeah... does anyone have some warm weather they would like to share with their fellow Canadians? It is the middle of August and today's high is a blistering 10 degrees Celsius!! (That's 50 F for you American folk.) Okay, that's nice and warm and all for October... but August... c'mon! Our usual high for this time is about 20 C or 70 F.

So... generous weather donations are welcome. Direct them to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Mother Nature knows where we are...

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:46 pm

wish i could help! buts its 50 here too!

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:05 pm

It started raining just as I got home today. Not a drizzle, real rain. The water evaporated from the roof almost instantly. You could see all the steam, it was pretty cool. Maybe I'll post photos later.

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:46 pm

it thundered and lightninged last night in fargo. unfortunatly no steam.

meg · Post by **meg** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:21 pm

it began raining here yesterday, and it supposed to off and on till saturday. grrrrr. have fun with it those to my right. lol.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:34 pm

It's storming now...

spacebarfie · Post by **spacebarfie** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:39 pm

i'm suppost to have thunderstorms for the rest of the week

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:49 pm

it just started pouring here...

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:45 pm

wow. were just rainy people.

meg · Post by **meg** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:33 am

oh you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day. lol.