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Canadian Prairies Severe Weather Summary: July 2, 2021

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

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Agriculture

Prairie Climate Summary June 2021: Extreme Heat

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

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Agriculture

Canadian Prairies Severe Weather Summary: June 18, 2021

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

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Insurance

Co-op Hail and Weatherlogics Partner on Prairie Hailstorm Project

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’

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Road Weather Forecasts Help Winter Maintenace

Have you ever wondered why city and municipal crews apply different solutions on roadways based on the temperature and time of year? Weather plays a significant role in determining how effective a solution or abrasive can behave during the winter months, and whether crews should apply beet juice, a salt

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Insurance

Destructive Calgary Hail Storm

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

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Agriculture

Does it Rain 90 days After Fog?

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

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Agriculture

What Makes Our Agriculture Forecasts Different?

At Weatherlogics, we strive to provide accurate, detailed, and reliable weather forecasts to the agriculture industry. We understand the frustration with traditional sources of forecasts which can be confusing and lack detail and consistency, which is why we’ve developed our own forecasting service. Our forecasts are produced by our in-house

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Insurance

Hail series (Part 2): Storm patterns

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

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