Patrick Boomer

#Alberta #abstorm weather watcher, storm spotter, tornado hater. Chased by foothills supercells since 1986. CANWARN wx spotter since 2001.

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

@Mennier @Washed_Up It's right in the middle of flowering, have seen canola partially recover from a similar beating at this point in the season but the wheat across the road is a complete loss

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

Truck is rockin in 40kmh+ nnw wind just west of Markerville. This was a beautiful canola crop a few days ago. Truck says 22C but it feels like 12. #abstorm

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

@treetanner @dartanner I bailed, eyes are burning it was terrible out there

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

Spotted the first obvious hail scar on Sentinel just nw of Markerville from the July 10 slow moving #abstorm
Not a very big one but it's ugly. @NTP_Reports

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

@lightningmanAB Oh man this brings back some memories of Rae's dad and grandpa. What a way to end it quite the shakeup

[Darren Howard @lightningmanAB]

Calgary doesn't let a little storm stop the party. #abstorm

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

Just tried to browse the abstorm tag and I can't do it. It is 99.97% spam, how can it be used for reporting?
Does anyone know if EC³ even watches this tag anymore?

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

Not thrilled about today. There are some beautiful crops and gardens out there.

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

July 5 Sentinel satellite view of the worst of the July 1 tornado track north of Carstairs, Alberta #abstorm https://t.co/gdjxyXt24v

[Northern Tornadoes Project 🇨🇦 @westernuNTP]

An NTP investigation, in collaboration with @ECCCWeatherAB, has concluded that the worst damage from the July 1st Didsbury tornado is rated EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, making it the highest-rated AB tornado since Edmonton in 1987.

Full details: https://t.co/IsCIDSoMuo

#ABstorm

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

Wow @CityofRedDeer excellent #CanadaDay #fireworks show at Bower Ponds this evening. 🤩
#RedDeer

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

#abstorm north of Rocky and an epic mammatus display on #766 sw of Rimbey

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

Another 22mm in the bin brings the #JuneMonsoon total in our yard to 113mm. After a week of sog the sky is extra fantastic blue this morning. #RedDeer #abstorm

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

We got thundered awake and a quick 18mm of rain in a pre 6am deluge in #RedDeer
#JuneMonsoon #abstorm

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

66mm of liquid gold in #RedDeer from this #JuneMonsoon event so far. #abstorm
7:30am June 15

[Real Tim Stahl @RealTimStahl]

Mini tornado at Huxley today. #abstorm

[Northern Hail Project 🇨🇦 @westernuNHP]

We have been busy analyzing the data from 2022. Here are all 469 major hailswaths detected by radar (S of 55 N) in Canada from 1 May - 30 September. MRMS MESH > 10 mm for 30 km + at least 2 pixels of MESH >= 50 mm. Longest swath ~350 km! Prairies = hail country. @noaa

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

@ShaneMuckey @ReedTimmerAccu found a lot of cool old stuff digging through boxes that haven't seen light for a decade or more

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

As this is the first day of spring, here is the earliest storm photo I could find in my photo albums. Instamatic mammatus shot from spring of 1972 looking towards Red Deer from Sylvan Lake. We used to call em hail bags.

[Patrick Boomer @ABfoothillsWX]

A lot of memories for me in this old barn. Hockey games against some future NHLers, Stampede wrestling with The Harts, Dynamite kid.. good times.