The chunks of hail ranged from the size of peas, dimes, nickels, golf balls, hen eggs, tennis balls, baseballs and softballs
“The Prairies are a magical place with thunderstorms, so I was expecting severe thunderstorms on Monday,” she said.
The softball-sized hail is not record-breaking in Alberta. The biggest piece of hail was 17 centimetres in diameter, which fell in Edmonton in 1987, Hoffman said. “You’ve got warm air below cold air and that creates some really turbulent mixing. Winds coming from different directions, at different heights, at different speeds. We had a developing low-pressure system over the centre of the province, so that was our trigger for thunderstorms.”
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