Drifts of hail in Alberta
Grainews writer Gerald Pilger sent in this photo of a drift of hail in a ditch in the Rosalind area, not far from where he farms. Gerald writes: "This photo was taken near the Double Dam golf course Sunday afternoon, 16 hours after the hail and rain had fallen. I talked with one farmer on the edge of the storm and it hailed steady for 55 minutes, ranging from pea to golf ball size. All the fields in the area are completely blackened. The golf course greens are totally pitted from the hail. And the upper dam at the golf course was washed out. The night earlier a tornado touched down about 20 km east of this site. Fortunately we missed the hail and tornados and the 1.5 inches of rain we received is welcome."
Weekend rains also greatly improved the moisture situation in eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Our columnist Elaine Froese e-mailed to say they got an inch of rain over the weekend at their farm just north of Boissevain, Man. "Thank you God," she wrote. Winnipeg got a few inches over the past few days. Western Saskatchewan is also in good shape. Jay Peterson farms down near the U.S. border at Frontier. He says, "I would never complain about rain, however Friday through today it has drizzled slightly every morning and kept things damp not allowing us to do any in crop spraying."
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That's got to be the most hail I've ever seen in one place... I've never before heard of a hail storm lasting that long, uninterrupted.
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