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Old 08-15-2006, 08:38 PM   #1
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Looks like we have a decently powerful storm coming our way. It is absolutely BLACK to the southwest.

Keep an eye out for it.
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Old 08-15-2006, 08:52 PM   #2
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Doesn't look very powerful on radar.
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Old 08-15-2006, 08:54 PM   #4
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Old 08-15-2006, 09:00 PM   #5
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Yeah... it is pounding down over at the hospital here.
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Old 08-15-2006, 09:07 PM   #6
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Yep and there's more coming... we just had some thunder up in Central north Calgary...
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Old 08-15-2006, 09:16 PM   #7
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It was black, you could see white coming, then for about 3 or 4 minutes, I had a Purple Sky. I'm not sure I ever saw anything like this before.

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The sky is amazing. Beautiful colours... where I was I had rain and blue/purple/orange/pink/black sky. The rain and hail has stopped here but I think there will be more later.
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Old 08-15-2006, 09:19 PM   #9
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Wholly ****, that was the loudest thunder I've ever heard. Felt like a semi hit the side of the house.
Yah, the thunder is really banging in this storm.
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Old 08-15-2006, 09:20 PM   #10
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I can see it from the north here, a few flashes of lightning and some thunder up here, that's it.
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Old 08-15-2006, 09:23 PM   #11
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Nehkara, you live by Foothills hospital right? I live just up the hill from there in Varsity. Not a single drop of rain or hail. Sky has been all those color but considering how close you are, that's amazing.

Oh, and about 60 seconds after that first photo I posted I took this one. All the settings on the camera were exact for both photos.

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I actually am at work at the Foothills. Yah, we got a hard shot of hail and then strong rain for about 10 minutes and then it stopped abruptly and near the end I saw that amazing sky.
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then for about 3 or 4 minutes, I had a Purple Sky.
I love that sky. Was one of the wierd things to get used to seeing when I first moved to Calgary. Has something to do with the position of the sun, darkness of the clouds, and the mountains I think.

Nice bit of rain here in the SE. Thunder in the distance.
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Old 08-15-2006, 09:51 PM   #14
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Wholly ****, that was the loudest thunder I've ever heard. Felt like a semi hit the side of the house.
I was still at work 24 floors up downtown. Mother@#$@# it's a hell of a lot louder when you're higher up!!!!!
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Could have fooled me, Ken. I've heard many times about this crazy and myterious phenomenon of the Purple Sky, but I always thought for sure it had something to do with the Apocalypse! lol!

If I send this photo to my family and friends back in the Maritimes, they may believe me if I tell them the world is ending!
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Tell them it's ending, and to Certapay you all their money to try and stop it.
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Old 08-15-2006, 10:18 PM   #18
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It looks like a pretty good-sized rainstorm is forming along the mountains, it could hit us so we might get drenched tonight.
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bah. rain = no work.

boooo rain.
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Weird. I live in the NE. I play slo-pitch at a field just of 16th & Bowness Rd (in a school field). It was dry when I left, I go to John Laurie and south on Shaganappi. While I was waiting for the left turn (3 lights) it started to rain. As I went over Crowchild, it was pouring. When I got to the diamond (6:15) it was steady. Game was called, but by 6:30 it had almost completely stopped. When I got home again (Taradale) the ground was still bone dry.
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