07-01-2023, 05:31 PM
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#3141
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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07-01-2023, 05:35 PM
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#3142
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
"Get a little closer!"
Screw that nonsense! You get a little closer! I'm going the other way!
I ain't messing about with any spinning air!
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It gets the chicks, man. I've actually followed the guy in that video on twitter for a while (at least I did when twitter worked), he's done very well for himself in that regard..
EDIT: hovering around 30 degrees just a couple hours ago, now it's 16 and super windy. That heatwave just stopped on a dime!
Last edited by Sainters7; 07-01-2023 at 08:26 PM.
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07-01-2023, 10:13 PM
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#3143
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: On your last nerve...:D
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We camp west & then slightly south of Didsbury (just a hair west of Elkton Valley) - last year it was the tornado maybe 5 minutes up the road from us, then today's tornado. We didn't get the tornado part but it got absolutely black here, high winds, about 30 drops of rain and then it tracked east and poof, bright and sunny again. We remarked how nasty it would be if it really got moving. Shortly after, we got the emergency alert on our phones. Wild day today.
I think we need to find a new camping spot, lol. We are so effed if anything ever hits out here, there's nowhere to go really. There's a deep-ish coulee a few hundred feet north of our trailer, I guess we could run for that and dive in. Otherwise, we're going whirling.
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07-02-2023, 01:08 PM
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#3144
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Franchise Player
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Yesterday was bizarre. Felt like the hottest day of the year all afternoon. Went to a friends’ for a BBQ at 5 pm and it was still absolutely roasting. By 7:30 we were all wrapped in blankets and sitting around a fire.
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Originally Posted by fotze
If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
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07-02-2023, 02:39 PM
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#3145
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Just got to Edmonton, the highway was pretty dicey. Intense winds is causing larger vehicles like trailers to sway. And it's Canada Day long weekend, so seemingly half the vehicles were trailers. And now it's smokey in Edmonton haha. Praying this doesn't move south over the next few days!
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07-02-2023, 08:51 PM
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#3146
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Yesterday was bizarre. Felt like the hottest day of the year all afternoon. Went to a friends’ for a BBQ at 5 pm and it was still absolutely roasting. By 7:30 we were all wrapped in blankets and sitting around a fire.
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Wrapped in blankets?!! It was a little cool last night, but let's be real, haha. I tossed on a hoody with shorts and was plenty warm watching the fireworks.
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07-03-2023, 07:28 AM
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#3147
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by jayswin
Wrapped in blankets?!! It was a little cool last night, but let's be real, haha. I tossed on a hoody with shorts and was plenty warm watching the fireworks.
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It was freezing Canada Day evening in the communities at the top of COP once the clouds and wind rolled in
People had blankets to stay outside (now they had shorts on from before) it was a 20 degree drop in like 90 minutes
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07-03-2023, 07:32 AM
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#3148
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Apparently a lot of that cold wind that came in on the evening of the 1st was the outflow from the big storms that rolled through the Red Deer area (that produced golf ball sized hail in some spots).
Last edited by Bigtime; 07-03-2023 at 09:08 AM.
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07-03-2023, 08:33 AM
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#3149
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by jayswin
Wrapped in blankets?!! It was a little cool last night, but let's be real, haha. I tossed on a hoody with shorts and was plenty warm watching the fireworks.
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It’s almost as if some people have different tolerances of temperatures..lol
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07-03-2023, 01:57 PM
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#3150
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Jason14h
It was freezing Canada Day evening in the communities at the top of COP once the clouds and wind rolled in
People had blankets to stay outside (now they had shorts on from before) it was a 20 degree drop in like 90 minutes
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I would have been fine in jeans and a fleece. But of course we were all in shorts and t-shirts because it was a sweltering 30 degrees when we left to go to the BBQ.
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Originally Posted by fotze
If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
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07-04-2023, 08:44 AM
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#3151
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So sounds like the initial assessment of the Didsbury tornado is that it was certainly stronger than an EF2. I am guessing they are determining if it could have possibly crossed over into EF4 strength, which without question would be remarkable- and a generational type of tornado for Alberta. History and probability suggests it will fall in the EF3 category.
To put in perspective, there are on average 20 or so EF3s a year in the US, and perhaps a handful of EF4s. There have been several years with no EF4s on record in the US.
They have suggested the category will be determined this morning.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...-ef2-1.6895578
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07-04-2023, 09:04 AM
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#3152
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Franchise Player
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Damn, they have just assessed it as an EF4. Largest in Alberta since Edmonton 1987.
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07-04-2023, 09:21 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Mckenzie Towne
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Just came to post the same. Wow.
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07-04-2023, 10:50 AM
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#3154
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Wow, so basically the difference between mass casualties and not was just the path it took. If that would have been a little further south through somewhere like Airdrie you probably could have seen 10-20 fatalities, easily.
Pine Lake was an example of one hitting a really bad area. A campground with nowhere for most to go. 12 dead, hundreds injured with a less powerful tornado than this one.
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On July 14, 2000, at approximately 7 PM, an F3 tornado tore through the Green Acres Campground at Pine Lake in central Alberta, killing 12 people and critically injuring more than 100 others. P
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07-04-2023, 11:37 AM
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#3155
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^^^ Yep. This drone photo sure demonstrates how close Didsbury and Carstairs came to some pretty devastating results.
https://i.redd.it/l1slnr3zos9b1.jpg
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07-04-2023, 11:38 AM
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#3156
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Franchise Player
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So I think summer peaked way to early this year.
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07-04-2023, 08:43 PM
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#3158
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
So I think summer peaked way to early this year.
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This is why I'll never complain when it's 30+ in Calgary. We only get a handful a year, this year it was early June, enjoy them when they come. Now we're back to seasonal highs of low 20's with rain in the evenings when you actually want to be outside.
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07-04-2023, 10:44 PM
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#3160
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Originally Posted by kevman
This is why I'll never complain when it's 30+ in Calgary. We only get a handful a year, this year it was early June, enjoy them when they come. Now we're back to seasonal highs of low 20's with rain in the evenings when you actually want to be outside.
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