Tag Archives: Weather
Australia Pelted With Grapefruit-Sized Hail
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It’s currently the middle of spring in Australia, and yet earlier this week the land of giant spiders, snakes, and crocodiles endured storms that pum...
Oct 22, 2021
Expert explains about the 'heat dome' hovering above B.C., Alberta and territories
Much of British Columbia, northern Alberta and parts of Yukon and the Northwest Territories are experiencing a "heat dome" that is expected to shatter high-temperature records over the next few days. ...
Jun 26, 2021
'Expensive, extreme:' Environment Canada releases annual Top 10 weather stories list
It was another year of record-breaking disasters and crazy, dangerous weather from coast to coast, says Environment Canada's senior climatologist. A vicious hailstorm in Calgary wrote off more cars th...
Dec 16, 2020
Dangerous road conditions shutdown roads, schools and bussing for Monday
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- It's officially a "Snow Day" for many students around south-west Alberta on Monday. Palliser schools will not be open and busses will not be running on November 9.Horizon School Div...
Nov 08, 2020
Wild weather hikes Alberta insured damages above national average at nearly $2B
EDMONTON - A series of severe weather events in Alberta this year has led to insured damages of nearly $2 billion. The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the industry is working to process nearly 10...
Sep 10, 2020
Southern Alberta hailstorm caused almost $1.2B in damage: insurance bureau
EDMONTON - The powerful hail storm that pounded homes, vehicles and crops across parts of southern Alberta last month caused almost $1.2 billion in insured damage. The Insurance Bureau of Canada says ...
Jul 08, 2020
More than 84-mm of rain in two days – and words of caution
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- After days of drab, wet weather, the sun was out to shine on Canada Day. That sun will be needed to dry out the fields and gardens. Environment Canada reports Lethbridge and the imm...
Jul 01, 2020
Mother Nature leaves her ‘Calling Card’ - with a variety of outcomes
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- Many southern Albertans were brought to attention Saturday evening by the Alberta Emergency Alert sounding a Tornado Warning on their cell phones.Environment Canada meteorologists w...
Jun 13, 2020
Groundhogs divided on winter weather predictions - Alberta looks good
The folksy, mid-winter tradition known as Groundhog Day saw Canada's best-known shadow-casting critters divided in their weather predictions on Sunday.Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Sam emerged from his b...
Feb 02, 2020 Groundhog Day - The Canadian Press
Wet, cold, and dark: Environment Canada names Top 10 weather events of 2019
Wet. Cold. In the dark. And puzzled.That about sums up how the weather in 2019 left Canadians feeling, says David Phillips, Environment Canada's chief meteorologist."It's almost as if normal doesn't h...
Dec 18, 2019