Strange But True!!!

Yes today we were hit by another strange Calgary weather phenomenon.  All day it had been warm, if a little overcast with smoke from the BC forest fires, but certainly pleasant.  Then Sophie went to let out Domino she spotted the unmistakable black clouds in the distance.   We decided that if a storm was on its way in we'd better close the windows, but little did we know that it was more than rain heading our way.


We have had some amazing storms since we moved here, especially in the last 6 months and a month ago there was an enormous hail storm in the North of the city with, apparently, tennis ball sized hail, yet we had missed it here.  As soon as we heard the first crack of thunder the heaven opened and the house was pelted with ping pong ball sized hail.  We'd never seen anything like it and the sound from inside the house was deafening.  The hail continued for around 20 minutes gradually getting smaller and smaller until eventually it became rain, but with the temperature having dropped to around 9 degrees, the hail took most of the night to melt away.


Below are some photographs taken from our back yard.