Alberta Foothills Weather

Summer begins for real.
The heat finally arrived today, with 30C showing up at many if not most stations in Alberta, a number of records broken, and clear skies for hundreds of miles in all directions. Sat in the cool basement most of the afternoon wishing for something to fire up along the foothills, to no [...]

Things are warming up around here.
Better looking storms rolling out of the foothills now, a few nice cells around Rocky and up to Drayton Valley yesterday, then a lone cell today that tracked all the way from west of Caroline out past Three hills and is still going in Saskatchewan. Reports of golf ball sized [...]

Not much to report since the last post. A few beautiful days, a chilly and moist Sunday, then a few thunderstorms late tonight. Unsettled June weather, and about the same as we got last year but a bit colder. More of the same for the next few days apparently. 2:30am, just got back from chasing [...]

A bit more excitement around here today.
By noon things had begun to bubble up out in the foothills and by 2 there was a line of thunderstorms banging away just southwest of here. Not a lot of zing to anything I saw today, and we got nothing more than 10mm of soft rain but there [...]

An active day to the north, pretty sleepy around here.
Storms began to brew in the foothills north of Rocky Mountain house early in the afternoon, then a big one fired up just west of Rocky around 2pm and started moving east, so I went out for a look. By the time I got west of [...]

Not much weather to look at around here this weekend, a bit on the cool side yesterday but nice and warm today. Both days around 2pm a few little puffs tried to get going, but nothing happened and the evenings cleared right out. The only fireworks anywhere around here were part of Sylvan Lake’s 1913 [...]

After getting a nice warm day off yesterday from rain and storms, today things got off to a early start and by 2pm, thunderstorms were rolling out of the foothills all the way from Drayton Valley to High River.
I went out west a few miles to meet the eastward advancing line and was treated to [...]

With nothing much happening around here this afternoon, we headed off to check out the local rivers and see what was up before levels start dropping again. Lots of trees floating down them, but nothing terribly exciting after seeing the carnage of 2005. The floodgates are wide open at Dickson Dam, everything going into Gleniffier [...]

To mark the 1st anniversary of the blog, I thought an update was in order. It’s a work in progress and is making me learn more than I wanted to, but hopefully will be tuned up in a few days. Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
A year ago today we got our first good storms [...]

Nice day for watching cumulus eruptus today.
A low pushing in through southern BC lit up the cauliflower towers early this morning all the way from Lethbridge to about here, then off towards Rocky Mountain House. Almost everything worth looking at in Alberta today was within view. I didn’t see anything go over 30,000 feet, but [...]