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Aug 31 2021
Severe Warned Storm between Strasbourg - Lumsden SK Canada
For me, this day was all a challenge! I worked until the early afternoon and then headed West! Days that I work, I sometimes find a challenge as I can't sit down and work on my forecasting as precise as I like to.
For a target, I seen 3 options - North of Regina, Moose Jaw area and South of Regina.
I chose North of Regina and headed towards Southey area.
Storms were firing up nicely and around Earl Gray, got some pretty structure forming.
Decided to get ready for the live stream! I had my car as the truck is already "put away" for winter mode. I quickly installed the RAM Laptop mount, only to find out and remember that I didn't change the holding claps as I got a new laptop, so there was no way it was going to hold - so no live stream!
That's fine, and away I went!
I caught up to the North moving storm at Strasbourg, where it looked better on radar than what it was visually (which has happened to me a few times this 2021 season).
Shortly after, it got weaker.
There was a beautiful system forming on radar near Eyebrow and was heading not far from me, so away I went once again.
I made my way to Duval and the West on a grid road to make my way to Liberty.
That was the end for me!
Unfortunately, I forgot about one thing - Last Mountain Lake. The road leads up to the lake, dead end (and is an over 1 hour detour to get to Liberty), so Game Over for that storm!
I sat frustrated for a bit trying to decide what to do next and possibly salvage the day so it wasn't a total bust!
While this was happening, my chaser friends were on a storm cell that formed South of Moose Jaw that at this moment was just showing stunning storm structure around Rouleau and coming Regina inbound!
I decided to backtrack and head towards it, but because it has been dropping a TON of hail, was trying to do so safely as my car does not have hail armor like my truck does!
I made my way down to Lumsden and then pulled into Seven Bridges Road to capture a beast heading right over me!
It was beautiful, but was moving so fast, and had so much rain coming with it, only had a couple mins to take photos.
From there I backtracked to Dysart and then South to Fort Qu'Appelle to get in front of the big storm system.
It worked, but I lost all daylight hours and the structure was then gone.
From there I headed home with the storm, stopping every now and then to catch some lightning shots!
It is rare that I feel upset when I miss a storm moment from my forecasting, and this unfortunately was one of those days!
I did salvage it somewhat, but sure would of liked to of been around Rouleau once I seen the reports of the beautiful structure showing up on social media!
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6 сен 2021
