“Hailstorm Alley” by Canada has just produced a storm with a visible scar from space.
NASA’s satellite images captured the consequences of a hailstorm that destroyed a region southeast of Calgary, Alberta, on August 20. The scar, approximately 125 miles (200 km) in length, is special visible because the vegetation at the end of summer “has matured and ecological,” agency agency written on August 28.
The western university in southern Ontario, which studied the storm strip of 9 miles (15 km) wide as part of its northern hail project, declared that the sequelae were “among the sausage” that the project had seen.
“The damage of the crops in this strip was total, with level grain crops and corn was mostly naked stems,” reads a statement provided to the Canadian public station CBC in a report on Sunday (September 7). “Even the areas or grasslands were sprayed, with exposed grass root systems and native shrubs naked and decelerated on their western sides.”
Alberta is not so prone to severe electric storms as some parts of the United States, NASA officials said, but hail events occur there each year.
The infamous Alberta hail storms occur both due to the elevation and the proximity to the rocky mountains, the Canada insurance counter states: “This mixture creates air full of moisture at a slower level, and very currents above the peaks.” And in general, the extreme climate in Canada and other regions is strengthening due to climate change.
The August supercell storm that caused this damage saw the winds buckled as the high axis of 93 mph (149 km/h), and hail is as large as the golf balls, according to NASA. The Terra and Aqua Satellites agencies took images of August 24, both using versions of the MODIS instrument (Moderate Resolution Image Spectroradiometer).
In addition to the losses of alfalfa, canola and wheat reported by some farmers, others had cattle problems. “They took half of my barn roof,” Curtis Harbinson told CBC, a cattle farmer in the Brooks area, Alberta, in another report on August 22.
Harbinson was in the field when he hit the storm, and remained in his tractor to get it out. After the “disoriented” emerged due to the unrecognizable landscape, Hey also found great harm of hail stones to his house: “I have no windows on the west side, nothing,” he said, due to the great amount, “he broke into ours, our stroom, our life, our lives, our lives, our life, our life, our life, our life, our life, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love Love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our love, our life, living, living, living, living, living, living, living, living, living, living, living, living, living of, living, living, living, living, living, living.
In August 2024, a highly punished Calgary-Karea hailstorm storm generated more than $ 2 billion ($ 2.8 billion cad) in insured losses, according to the estimates of the catastrophe and quantification rates Inc. cited in IBC.
But it is too early to know how much this new storm will cost, since “customers continue to explore their claims for damages and files,” said Yves Baptist, states that adjusting the coordinator with agricultural financial services, to the western producer of August 25.
