June 7
5:30am arrived with a bang and two freaked dogs on the bed.
Moments after hitting the publish button on the last post, the rain started here and by sunrise had brewed into a little thunderstorm that was gone by 8. The rest of the day was spent under a low gray deck again. Mid-afternoon a squall-line/front looked to be pushing west all the way from Strathmore to Stettler, so I went east of Innisfail a bit to meet it in case there was a nice shelf or something interesting. By the time I got there it was already melting and there wasn’t much left of it but the rain by the time it got here. Christian in Airdrie caught the front in the 1st photo below as it was approaching around 3:30pm. The second shot is of the leftovers as it arrived at Innisfail near 6pm. 20mm of rain today.
Another nasty cell boiled up north of Stettler this afternoon, covering the ground east of Donalda with golf ball sized hail then sitting over the Rosalind area east of hwy 850 for a number of hours dropping large hail and heavy rain. Around 7pm it slowly started to move off to the northwest, taking over an hour to pass directly over Camrose, still dispensing large hail and heavy rain. Haven’t seen any photos on the news yet, but a pair of chasers from ExtremeWx in Edmonton took a run down to check it out and will have some pics up soon.
Hey Pat! Our chaseres have their photos of the chase up on the homepage. 3rd picture is the landspout they caught, still unconfirmed because the trees were in their way of telling if it was a touchdown or not. None the less, it came from the wall cloud and was rotating magnificently.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:40 pm