Alberta Foothills Weather

Quite a nice day today, hit27C here this aft. We were expecting a trough to pass over earlier this evening, but it has hung up north of here and is slowly making it’s way to the SE. Mostly rain it looks like with maybe a sprinkle of lightning.
I put a couple panoramas together of yesterday’s [...]

For most of the afternoon, little popcorn cumulus clouds poured off the foothills, fading away once they reached hwy2. Then around 3pm a small cell formed up on radar west of Rocky Mountain house and headed ESE. It hit a patch of good convection west of Sylvan lake and blew up into a supercell quicky, [...]

Waited all afternoon and evening for the expected cold front to move through and finally around 10pm a line of thunderstorms rolled off the foothills and headed east, so we headed west to meet it. We had planned to go out as far as the Dickson dam area, set up the cameras and wait for [...]