Alberta Foothills Weather

Lightning struck a Bergen area couple’s farmhouse on August 18. The Worobetz home and contents were a complete loss after a bolt hit the house between 7 and 8pm during an intense thunderstorm. The community has quickly rallied to help out, with an auction planned for Sept.8 at the Bergen Hall. An account has been [...]

A total lunar eclipse began near 2 this morning. Just happened to be the coldest night of the summer here. Brr! The shots in this montage were taken between were taken between 3:07 and 3:56am. The second photo is at 4:28am, 50mm, f2.0, it was severe clear here last night, and the stars were just [...]

Large hail fell across portions of southeast South Dakota Tuesday evening August 21, 2007. The small community of Dante, in southeast Charles Mix County, took a direct hit from the large hail. Most homes in Dante sustained considerable hail damage, with holes punched in almost every roof in town.

Not much to see today.
There was a slight chance of a t-storm today as a low over southern BC spun a few waves across the rockies.
Around 6pm a little system moved east from Rocky so I went over a few miles for a look. It had a bit of a shelf cloud so I [...]

Environment Canada issued a tornado watch just after noon today after they received reports of funnel clouds near Bowden. A cold front was rolling in slowly from the NW around 2pm so I went a few miles west to have a look.
There were a few patches of rotation and some dangly bits, but no funnels. [...]

Every cloud in southern Alberta passed over the yard today.  For most of the day, the sky was filled with popcorn, a few tried to get going but there was no fuel. Still made for some good cloud gazing.

This little cell popped up almost right over the house today. They had been trying to get going all day, but were getting sheared apart below 10k. This one finally got going around 7pm and had beautiful structure on the back end so I followed it just east of hwy2 to see if it would [...]

Another nice line of severe storms tonight, these ones firing up around 8:30 in a line from Stettler to Camrose.
Still going up near Vegreville. The secret forecast mentioned a possibility for some hail for us, but it looks like we are only going to get a sprinkle of rain, if that.
Heavy rainfall warnings in effect [...]

A fairly intense line of thunderstorms moved off the foothills around 7 this eve and rolled northeast across Red Deer and area. It was so smoky today that you could not really see it coming, just a grey mass. Plenty of lightning, but it was a good distance behind the rain front and was [...]

Most of August has been spent in the cooler, with frost warnings at the end of the first week.
None here, thankfully, but Rocky and Sundre both got frost.
Not a single storm so far!
Last year August 10th brought us a nasty hailstorm.