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Rain in Edmonton
- Thread starter Susquatch
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Having lived there, I found the weather to not be near as localized as it was in Moose Jaw. Rain or hail in Moose Jaw depended on what side of the street you were on, while a storm in the Edmonton area tended to be a horizon to horizon event.
I was returning FROM Edmonton, to the Jaw, coincidentally, when a storm was beating the living crap out of Moose Jaw. I actually parked my vehicle to sit on the side of the highway, as an absolute cartoon grade black cloud sat over the city, lightning flashing, and a column of falling rain, clearly visible. That storm downed several trees, and broke a LOT of branches off, along with the minor flooding it caused.
Another good example of how local the storm action there could be was when a hail storm destroyed the roof on my neighbor's house (and several past it, in that direction), but my house had no damage.
I was returning FROM Edmonton, to the Jaw, coincidentally, when a storm was beating the living crap out of Moose Jaw. I actually parked my vehicle to sit on the side of the highway, as an absolute cartoon grade black cloud sat over the city, lightning flashing, and a column of falling rain, clearly visible. That storm downed several trees, and broke a LOT of branches off, along with the minor flooding it caused.
Another good example of how local the storm action there could be was when a hail storm destroyed the roof on my neighbor's house (and several past it, in that direction), but my house had no damage.
It's the same way here. It's caused by Lake Erie and the Glacial Moraine along its north shore. I often get an inch of rain at my barn and be bone dry at the house. Over the course of a year, we get about 3 times as much rain on the back of my farm as we do on the front. It's downright wierd to walk along a rain wall 50ft to the north and stay dry 50ft south. If it only happened once, it would just be circumstantial. But it happens regularly.
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
Absolutely pouring down right now.
Doggggboy
Ultra Member
Forecasting rain for the nest 2 or 3 days now. Pretty late for hay but you may get something yet.Well i hope they don't hawg all the rain. Bloody dry here is SK. I have a hay field that won't get cut this year.
LOL! Thousands of Farmers Praying for rain. Guy in the sky says to himself, "This is too easy!"
It don't rain, but when it does, it pours!
Spent 11 hours on a tractor making hay happen today...
Weather forecast got changed to rain in the future, while I was mowing this lot... I think I want to date a weather girl. She starts out already understanding that she is gonna be wrong at least half the time, maybe more... Seems like a great place to start...