Central parts of Saskatchewan experienced severe thunderstorms on Canada Day evening | 24CA News
Many Saskatchewan residents had their Canada Day celebrations halted as thunderstorms grazed by elements of the province inflicting harm and even energy outages.
Hafford resident Duncan Stead was inside his home when the storm hit yesterday night. He didn’t notice the extent of the harm till the storm was over.
“We didn’t even hear it. It was kind of crazy. Like the tree came down and didn’t even hear it happened,” mentioned Stead. “It was it was pretty heavy wind; it took a power line down. So, we (have) no power.”
Using a chainsaw to chop down the tree that fell over his home, Stead and volunteers take the day to clear the particles on and round his home. Stead was certainly one of many Saskatchewan residents who had been in related conditions all through the province.
According to Environment Canada, the storm developed off a low-pressure system that was in Alberta as that low pushed into west central Saskatchewan.
“That fired up quite a number of storms that moved through the Meadow Lake, Battlefords, Prince Albert and Prince Albert National Parks region,” mentioned Meteorologist Dan Fulton. “Lots of reports of hail from around the Meadow Lake area, lots of golf ball sized hail … (and) had a gust to almost 100 kilometres an hour.”
Fulton mentioned there have been numerous experiences of timber downed, energy outages, some minor structural harm reminiscent of lacking shingles on the rooftops. Environment Canada mentioned there have been no experiences of tornadoes however there experiences of hail and wind occasions normally triggered by sort of synoptic scale disturbances like low stress programs.
Reports of the extreme thunderstorms started as early as 7:00 p.m. and carried on till late within the night.
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