Alberta Foothills Weather

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 of the season. Today, while a lot of other spots in Alberta got their first good storms of 2008, we were stuck at 10C in the wraparound rain belt with clouds scraping across the ground from the east, leaving another 30mm of rain.
Tornado watches went out this afternoon for a good chunk of central and southern Alberta, then at 5:50 a tornado was reported on the ground west of Edmonton near Seba beach. Warnings were issued but nothing else came of it. I’ve had no time to look at the forecast models, but Envirocan’s Red Deer page has the lightning bolt up again and a forecast high of 16 for tomorrow.

All this rain is starting to pile up, and Alberta Environment has now issued a flood watch for the Little Red Deer river to go along with high streamflow advisories on the Red Deer river west of Gleniffer Lake, and the Bow, Elbow, Highwood and Sheep Rivers to the south.

10 days, 5200 miles, and 7 states. Local storm chaser Brandon Brown has just returned for a week long tour with the College of Dupage storm chasing program and sent these beautiful shots over to remind us of what is on the way.