Alberta Foothills Weather

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 [...]

Since the last post, we have had three drops of rain and one rumble of thunder off in the distance.
Not so for the rest of the province. Just about everyone else in Alberta has has a thunderstorm or two pass over this week, with some good ones out in the Drayton Valley-Whitecourt area yesterday.
A strange [...]

Thinking that something might boil up and roll out of the foothills this afternoon, we were out in Sundre by 2, wandering around between there and Rocky Mountain house. A few good sized cells did manage to fire up but sat way out in the sticks and refused to move east. We hung around south [...]

Two more fine days to end May.
After a quiet day yesterday and an almost hot afternoon today, things began to brew in the foothills late afternoon and by 6 a few nice cells were heading east. A severe thunderstorm warning went out for the Airdrie/Crossfield area on a cell that was dropping nickel sized hail(pics [...]