Alberta Foothills Weather

A cold front moved in from the SW later this evening so I went out to see if I could get a few lightning shots. Soon as I set up, the wind picked up and made it tricky to get a stable shot. The rain followed soon after.

This was the only excitement today. What a strange puffy it was. It was about the only cloud in the sky and it just sat there producing mammatus from thin air while a jetstream kept blowing it’s top off. It sat there for over an hour before dissolving.

Not much happened today, was expecting a bit more of a reaction to the front moving across today, but we did get a bit of a shelf cloud so I guess I can’t say it was a complete wash.

An interesting day today. We had some early convection that petered out before it could amount to much.

There was a nice trough coming across the mountains from the SW, so we headed down the Sundre way to see if anything would develop. Nothing really developed but a wet thunderstorm. This shot is looking SW over [...]

One cell passed by today, the only one in the province I think. It didn’t have a lot of snap to it, but it sure tried to get going. It had a small wall cloud for a few minutes but didn’t look like it was capable of doing any better so I sat on the [...]

Not much happening today. This cell blew up after it passed by here and died shortly after.

Waiting by the Red Deer river west of Innisfail, for the goods to arrive.

Secret weather forecast called for plenty of shear today. Good call… there was to be plenty of it.

Innisfail got a good soaking today just before we arrived to do some shopping.

Lots of spin today. Everywhere you looked, something was rotating. A bit warmer and we could have has some issues. I thought for sure I was going to see at tornado a few times today. A few funnels perhaps, but no tornadoes today.

A line of small thunderstorms formed up between here and Sylvan Lake this afternoon. It didn’t look like much on radar but i went out for a look anyway. Convection and subsidence were having a big fight and nobody was winning. Made for some interesting photos until subsidence won and cleared out the neigborhood.