May 9
3 feet of snow in Water Valley?!?
I’m quite impressed how well the forecast models came together on this storm and pinned the precip bullseye right where it happened. Still waiting for some updated snowfall totals from EC, but generally a stripe of 50+cm along the front range of the Rockies and the foothills from Grande Cache to Bragg Creek. Nordegg, Sundre, and basically anything west of Hwy.22 got a serious amount of snow. Calgary was right on the edge, 8-10cm with locally higher amounts to the west on the hills up to 20cm.
It will be interesting to see the impact of this on the Red Deer river, the James and Burnt Timber river basins both took a huge hit from this and they both feed the Red Deer. Might have to go for a spin tomorrow and see whats up out west.
Here’s a few pics from Anthony in Airdrie and a few screen captures from the Calgary news and The Weather Network.
Wow the foothills got hit bad!! Here in Central Calgary we got almost nothing. In fact all the snow that fell is gone! Had a thunderstorm around 4 oclock yesterday that brought some hail and lightning. It was quite enjoyable to see lightning after this long winter. But, wow that a lot of snow in some of those shots!
May 9th, 2008 at 3:53 pmAgreed PrairieChaser! All the storms this year have missed me by a few km here in Edmonton, but I think tomorrow I should see something. I really want to see some lightning around here, it’s been dull but warm! Next friday high of 25 degrees for Edmonton
I’ll email any photos I get of tomorrows storm(s) if they happen to you Pat.
May 10th, 2008 at 11:01 am