Alberta Foothills Weather

Still waiting for something interesting to brew up around here stormwise. Still no rain.
Saturday was a beautiful day, with the southern half of Alberta under a sunny ridge. A perfect day for a drive down to Kananaskis country. We went in west of Okotoks and Turner Valley, out the Sheep River valley and back, then [...]

Alberta’s first tornado of the season may have dropped late this afternoon in Provost. Or maybe Hanna.
Mostly squishy convection started early in the day over the foothills, much of it dying off before getting far out, but one cell riding the ridge south of Olds took off and kept going. I almost went after [...]

Summer arrived as it should, with a few rumbles of thunder, but it still feels like spring – not warm.
No rain worth measuring since the last post, and now it’s dry again. The grass is crunchy already, the duck ponds in the neighborhood are drying up, and the crops are in obvious need of some [...]

Lots to see today if you like big puffy clouds.
Before noon the cauliflower towers started to sprout to the east of the QE2, and by early afternoon there were a few healthy cells brewing to the north. A invisible lee trough had set up overhead in the westerly flow sometime last night or this morning, [...]

Some more rain would be nice.
Looking at the last 3 images below from the Drought Watch site, a lot of folks around the province are asking for the same. Only a few patches of good moisture in the whole land, and those got it all at once. The Red Deer Airport reported 45mm of rain [...]

Today was an interesting day in the neighborhood.
Starting off with a little teaser sprinkle/dewpoint booster early this morning, the temperature quickly climbed back up to the 25 zone and convection started up along the foothills again in the strange south/southeast flow. Waiting for something to break off and move out this way, our humidity dried [...]