Summer of storms keeps Edmonton-area festival organizers on their toes
While Big Valley Jamboree is still waiting to see how the weather turns out, other festivals in the Edmonton region have already experienced Mother Nature's wrath firsthand.
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While Big Valley Jamboree is still waiting to see how the weather turns out, other festivals in the Edmonton region have already experienced Mother Nature's wrath firsthand.
Researchers with the Northern Hail Project deploying some new 'hail sensors' this year to collect information on size and impact of storms in Canada's 'hail alley.'
Alberta's two biggest cities have had starkly different weather over the past month with Edmonton getting nearly 25 times the amount of rain that's fallen on Calgary in July.
There are several overlapping advisories for both severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes, with storms expected to materialize in the late afternoon across central Alberta.
From hot and muggy to torrential downpours, it's been a dramatic few weeks of weather and now, a condition Albertans had hoped to evade has drifted down from the N.W.T.
Since the beginning of 2026, the Edmonton region has recorded 655.7 mm of precipitation — both heavy snowfalls in the winter and rain now — and the year is far from over.
The director of the Northern Tornadoes Project explains the work his research team does and what observations they've made about Alberta's 2026 summer storm season.
A red tornado warning was issued by Environment Canada around 5:30 p.m. Saturday for the County of Vermilion River, Alta., but was cancelled roughly 30 minutes later.
A severe thunderstorm swept across the Lac La Biche region, leaving a swath of destruction in the Lakeland Provincial Recreation Area and trapping a family near Seibert Lake.
Conditions are ripe for the development of severe thunderstorms that may generate strong wind gusts, large hail, heavy rain and possibly tornadoes, Environment Canada said.
The AgriStability enrolment deadline was April 30, but it has been reopened to give farmers impacted by excessive rainfall until Oct. 1 to sign up for assistance.
'There's water in places I haven't seen in literally decades. The mosquitoes are being produced from those habitats,' said Edmonton biological sciences technician Mike Jenkins.
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