06-29-2010, 01:47 PM
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#21
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Well the pilots (who happen to be paid for their work) swear that it works!
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06-29-2010, 03:19 PM
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#22
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
I can't their link to the weather radar they use to work. Anyone else having the same problem? Their's is neat since it will show where the aircraft are as they seed the clouds, it also shows the projected storm path.
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Same problem.
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06-29-2010, 03:39 PM
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#23
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
^ This is purely unscientific and anecdotal, but it seems that hailstorms are less severe than when I was growing up. So maybe the witchcraft is working.
I remember a really bad one in the early nineties that, IIRC, was the most costly disaster in Canadian history until recently (form a $$ perspective). My folks' place needed new shingles, as did many other houses in Calgary.
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It must've been in 1996. My parents were were out for dinner and my brother and I were watching Cutthroat Island on VHS (movie came out in 1995). It was one of our first times being home alone without a sitter, and the storm scared the S**T out of us.
Looking at this Government website ( http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/res/em...l-sig-eng.aspx), it totaled nearly $400 million in damages for 2 hailstorms within a week.
1996 Estimated damage: $303 million + $87.8 million
for second hail storm map
Calgary, AB / July / Hail storm caused heavy flooding and extensive damage to property and automobiles. A second hail storm six days later added another.
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06-29-2010, 03:55 PM
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#24
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mccree
Same problem.
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I hope they get it up and running, I always bookmark it and watch the big cells coming through.
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06-29-2010, 04:25 PM
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#25
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First Line Centre
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oooo looks like there is a big one south east of Strathmore now.
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06-29-2010, 04:29 PM
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#26
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Looking out the window in Sundance I can't see anything significant. I'm worried too, my car is underground at work and street parked at night. Praying this doesnt turn into panel denting David Hale.
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06-29-2010, 05:06 PM
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#27
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: CGY
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I'm looking west over chinook mall right now. Where once was clean blue sky is now the forboding formation of what will undoubtedly come off like "The Day After Tomorrow."
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06-29-2010, 05:23 PM
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#28
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Watching 7ungo Giving Up Goals A 5 Year Old Could Stop!
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Live about an 1.5 hour east of Calgary and the once perfect blue sky is now dark and it feels like it has cooled down at least 5 degrees when I was outside last an hour.
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06-29-2010, 05:46 PM
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#29
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Had an idea!
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Hail off and on here in Pincher Creek.
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06-29-2010, 06:10 PM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Came out of nowhere here. Sky was clear then a shower came... sky looked ruthless but only a little bit of wind and hail. Radar showing some bad stuff to the north and there's toonie sized hail from Picture Butte to Vulcan.
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06-29-2010, 07:27 PM
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#32
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Here is that cell that was east of town, "Wee in YYC" got the shot from the Westjet building. According to the dispatchers there it was topping out around 57,000'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wee_in_yyc/
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The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to Bigtime For This Useful Post:
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06-29-2010, 07:45 PM
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#33
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First Line Centre
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Damn you Bigtime!
After I posted that, I remembered taking a couple pics with my phone and went back to post it!
Almost from the same spot too.
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06-29-2010, 08:22 PM
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#34
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Wind is picking up in NW Calgary.
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06-29-2010, 08:23 PM
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#35
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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So that's a storm cell, eh? I just thought it looked a bit like a mushroom cloud.
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06-29-2010, 08:28 PM
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#36
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In your enterprise AI
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Anvil cloud = bad stuff
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06-29-2010, 08:31 PM
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#37
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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SebC, that's a great freakin shot!
Yup, cumulonimbus cloud = death cloud.
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06-29-2010, 08:33 PM
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#38
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Calgary
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looks like one of the space ships from Independance Day coming down...
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06-29-2010, 09:04 PM
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#39
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
SebC, that's a great freakin shot!
Yup, cumulonimbus cloud = death cloud.
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Really cool.
That cloud looked much bigger live than in these pictures too.
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06-29-2010, 09:31 PM
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#40
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Estonia
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Just got back from following that cell. I caught up with it down around High River and followed it to Drumheller. Impressive to look at but not a great storm to chase, it never really got going. From the looks of things none of the cells in southern/cental Alberta did. Some dude called 660am and said it put out baseball sized hail near Strathmore but I never saw any.
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