A fast movement storm brought the size of the golf balls, winds above 90 km/h, damage to trees and power cuts located in the Calgary area on Sunday.
The Northeast of Calgary experienced wind bursts up to 93 km/h around 8 pm, according to Environment Canada.
Kyle Brittain, an independent climate journalist, told CBC’s The house’s house On Monday, the storm came from the foothills to the northwest of Cochrane to the Calgary area, before hitting Chestermere and Langdon, and other communities southeast of the city before dissipating in the Vulcan County.
“It was a very fast storm. It was difficult to keep up, and a very impressive -looking storm, since I was traveling east of Calgary, I think quite sinister, as well as entering the city,” Brittain said.
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Some Calgarians are cleaning and evaluating the damage after parts of the city were beaten with a hailstorm last night, and today, Calgary remains under a rain warning.
The storm was followed by a rain warning in Calgary the next day, that the environment and climate change that Canada projected on Monday morning would bring 50 to 80 mm throughout the day.
North Haven resident, Barb Heeb, said Sunday’s storm began silently before he collected so much in his neighborhood that he couldn’t see the houses on the other side of the street.
“The wind, the rain, the hail were simply incredible. And all the trees were losing all their leaves,” Heb said on Monday.
“It was just chaos. And then all floods also came, and it’s even worse today due to rain.”
The environment and climate change Canada says that the northeast of Calgary experienced wind guts of more than 90 kilometers per hour during the fastest power storm on Sunday night.
Heeb said that she and several of her neighbors have called the city to get help due to the amount of water in the community on Monday.
Calgary’s Water Services said that rainwater equipment has been responding to 311 calls related to drainage, including incidents where storm debris blocked rainwater entries.
The parks and the open spaces in the city reported on Monday that the storm had broken branches, foliage and bark of the trees. They said that the crews of the park were responding as necessary, and the irrigation operations were suspended for a few days due to the rain.
Andy Wolff was at Calgary Winter Club when he heard what rang like breaking glass. He quickly realized that it was a hail storm, and ran to control his car.
“I almost made the wind of my feet,” Wolff said.
“When I left the parking lot, it was like a snowstorm. It almost went aside and sweeping the parking lot. It was incredible. Mother nature has just opened.”
Tara Schneider, resident of the neighborhood of the northwest of Calgary, Thorncliffe, said the hail seemed to destroy the vegetation around his patio, and the hail seemed to be blowing at a 90 degree angle. But what was even more memorable, said Schneider, were the bursts of wind.
“The sound only made us think we were in a tornado. He had never heard that sound of a storm before,” Schneider said.
“We are not sure if we have any property damage. We have to do some cleaning today to investigate that, but I wanted to have not washed the windows on Saturday.”
Below is a collection of photos sent to CBC Calgary of residents who experienced the hail storm.
- Do you have photos of hailstorm? Send them to calgaryphotos@cbc.ca.
