Weatherlogics is starting a new initiative to provide biweekly severe weather summaries for the Canadian Prairies. These summaries will include an overview of severe storms that have occurred over the previous two weeks. Summaries will be posted on our blog during the summer season weather season, concluding in September. Severe
Historic Heat Wave The Weatherlogics June weather story was a historic heat wave across western Canada. Extreme heat gripped the west in late June, resulting in a new all-time record high temperature for Canada of 49.6 C being set in Lytton, BC on June 29. In fact, Lytton, BC set
Weatherlogics is starting a new initiative to provide biweekly severe weather summaries for the Canadian Prairies. These summaries will include an overview of severe storms that have occurred over the previous two weeks. Summaries will be posted on our blog during the summer season weather season, concluding in September. Severe
Winnipeg, MB and Regina, SK (June 9th, 2021) – Co-op Hail Insurance and Weatherlogics have partnered in a hailstorm data sharing project for 2021. The new partnership between Co-op Hail and Weatherlogics will bring improved awareness, reporting, and damage assessment for hailstorms events that affect crops on the Prairies. Weatherlogics’
A destructive hailstorm hit Calgary, Alberta on the evening of Saturday, June 13, 2020. The storm produced hail larger than tennis balls in the northeastern part of the city, causing widespread damage. Vehicles had their windows broken, vinyl siding was shredded, and roofs were severely damaged. While this was a
Every year many people come up to us and ask this question: Is it true that it always rains 90 days after fog? To the meteorologist, this is an unexpected question, because nowhere does such a formula appear in any textbook. We usually reply no, albeit in a more polite
When forecasting the potential for hail, the first thing we look for is the potential for thunderstorm activity and the type of thunderstorms that are expected to develop. As mentioned in part 2 of this series, supercell thunderstorms tend to produce the largest hail and thus, there is a greater
In Part 2 of our hail series, we focus on storm patterns. If you missed Part 1, click here to read it. Viewed from the air, we can see that hail falls along paths known as hail swaths. These can be quite small – a hectare or so (a few
This post is part of a special three-part series about hail. Part 1 starts the series by discussing what hail is and where it comes from. Hail is frozen precipitation, born of the updrafts of thunderstorms. Updrafts are rising air currents, which combined with cold temperatures and water droplets, are
