Seeking Hail Reports #skstorm: Several supercell storms yesterday across Saskatchewan potentially producing large, damaging hail. The Estimated locations of the largest hail are in the second post. (see MRMS #hail swath Below). Let us know if you saw or heard anything! 1/3

The Field teams had a successful mission today, intercepting some hailswaths east of Nanton #hail #hailresearch #abstorm #storm

The Northern Hail Project 🇨🇦 team had been hard at work collecting all sorts of #hail data for the 2024 field season. This thread will be updated weekly to show updates of the ongoing field operations. Check out the NHP weekly summary maps below ⬇️ #abstorm #hailresearch #summary

In partnership with Olds College of Agriculture & Technology, the @NHP_Field team has installed a hailpad at the Weather Station Array and field 18 at Olds College. These hailpads will passively record #hail impacts and will allow us to conduct post-event analysis of the hail sizes and intensity.

Congrats to Howard and Dylan for getting a working prototype for field deployment! Excited to see the results that come out of this!

The NHP Field Project 🇨🇦 team captured a vast amount of data today from a supercell that travelled through eastern Alberta. The team tracked the storm for ~4 hours and documented the hailswath dimensions, conducted UAV flights of hail and damage, and collected hail up to 48 mm. #abstorm

As a follow up from this event, here is a preliminary mission map, showing the radar estimated Maximum Expected Size of Hail (MESH). The teams’ tracks and where data points were collected is also overlayed. #abstorm #hailresearch

#WesternU's Julian Brimelow (Julian Brimelow) discusses the Northern Hail Project's research in Olds, Alberta which aims to improve hailstorm predictions and mitigate damage. CTV News Reports2NHP

The Northern Hail Project 🇨🇦 field team just collected some interesting looking #hail east of Lacombe, AB. This hailstone, for example, measures 58 mm across the nodes and was likely caused by an abundance of supercooled water within the storm. #abstorm #hailresearch

Here are some preliminary results from yesterday’s mission. The values next to the points on the map indicate the largest size of hail collected by the field team at that location. #abstorm #hailreseach

The UAV team is out near Consort, AB today with our multispectral NDVI mapping drone (DJI M300) completing a follow up mission of the crop damage caused by the July 13th hailstorm, where we collected 50 mm #hail #abstorm #hailresearch

Damage survey update: the field teams begun a successful hail damage survey today in Calgary, documenting some of the areas of most intense damage. They will continue to document the damage swath over the next few days. #abstorm #hail

Following a major storm in #Calgary on August 5, Northern Hail Project 🇨🇦 is leading Canada’s first-ever major urban #hail event investigation. Early findings show similarities to a 2020 Calgary storm, which caused $1.2B in insured damages. news.westernu.ca/2024/08/northe…

August 5th Calgary hailstorm survey update: here is an interactive map that shows damage contours of the residential properties impacted by the event in the city of Calgary, created from data collected by the NHP. #abstorm experience.arcgis.com/experience/e43…

It’s the last day of our 2024 summer internships for Northern Tornadoes Project 🇨🇦 and Northern Hail Project 🇨🇦! A bittersweet moment as this was definitely our best group yet, and they accomplished a lot of excellent research. Good luck to our 21 interns as they start their next school year!