6 Inches of rain in less than an hour - Edmonton Canada

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jeffsweather
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6 Inches of rain in less than an hour - Edmonton Canada

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I was looking through the UK weather news group and found a link to some photos of flooding from a storm in the 11 July that dumped almost 150mm of rain in less then 1 hour.:shock:

http://www.andrewhutchinson.net/edmonton/

Shows the Whitemud freeway looking like a river with iceflows and cars in it in the middle of their summer :!:

There is a story about the storm here
http://tinyurl.com/4yxo3

and some more photos here
http://tinyurl.com/69q3k

Wouldn't want anything like this in Christchurch!
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Michael
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Re: 6 Inches of rain in less than an hour - Edmonton Canada

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looks a bit like our summer in February(well at least in the Manawatu) :shock:
jeffsweather wrote:http://www.andrewhutchinson.net/edmonton/

Shows the Whitemud freeway looking like a river with iceflows and cars in it in the middle of their summer :!:

There is a story about the storm here
http://tinyurl.com/4yxo3

and some more photos here
http://tinyurl.com/69q3k

Wouldn't want anything like this in Christchurch!
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Thunder
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Unread post by Thunder »

The web makes the world a small place. ;)

People were talking about this on a hummer forum I know of. Apparently it's actually heaps of hail all fused together, it then began to break up giving that ice-flow effect.

Ahh, here it is. I found the email this guy wrote on the humvee.net forum with a link:
While not entirely Hummer related, I thought I'd share the results of a storm that passed through my city yesterday...

http://www.missioncontrol.ca/cgi-bin/Ya ... 1089602875

What looks like spring ice breakup is actually hail pellets that fused together!

Robert
Interesting indeed!
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Andy
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Unread post by Andy »

Thats is some serious damage

Thanks for the story ;)
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Fujita Phil
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Unread post by Fujita Phil »

Aaron wrote:The web makes the world a small place.

People were talking about this on a hummer forum I know of
Too true... my partner was on a feline forum and they were discussing this event also. One of the members lived near there
There is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.
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Gary Roberts
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Unread post by Gary Roberts »

From a Canadian friend...

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I don't know whether she took this picture herself, or if it's from a newspaper or what, but some pretty awesome stuff!
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