Tag: Weather

Horrific footage shows the moment when drivers on a major Canada highway were slammed with hail the size of golf balls on Monday.

Gibran Marquez was traveling on a central Alberta highway with two others when the trio had to pull over as their vehicle was hit with hail.

Marquez posted the video of the storm on Twitter that showed the passengers pulled over on the highway and ducking while chunks of hail break the car windows.

The video was captioned, ‘Last night 5km south of gasoline alley, horrible 17 minutes as it showcased the car windows breaking as hail hit the surface.

‘Put the backpack on your left,’ Marquez can be heard saying as he passes the driver the bag as a shield from the breaking windows.

The driver is shielding a female passenger from the breaking windshield in his arms as hail passes through the cracks of the window. People outside are heard screaming as the storm continues.

Coincidentally, the weather on Monday in some parts of Alberta was a high of 80 F and a low of 56 F, according to The Weather Channel.

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The United States is bracing itself for another heatwave today, with more than 100 million Americans under severe weather warnings as temperatures are expected to soar to 113 Fahrenheit in parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Nearly 20 percent of the US population, around 60 million people, are expected to see the dials rise above 100 degrees in the coming week, while the National Weather Service has also warned of thunderstorms and large hail.

In a statement on Monday, the Weather Prediction Center said: ‘Dangerous heat will continue to impact much of the central and parts of southwestern US today,’ where much of the region is experiencing extreme droughts.

And in the southeast, extreme heat will combine with humidity to raise the heat indexes above 100 degrees.

New York City, meanwhile, could see the longest heatwave in nearly a decade, according to Accuweather, with seven straight days of highs in the 90s or above. The last time that happened was in 2013.

The Big Apple’s energy company, Con Edison, is now advising residents to limit their energy use to avoid blackouts, and many New Yorkers were spotted Tuesday trying to cool off.

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South Florida was bombarded with torrential rain late Friday night and early Saturday morning as tropical weather moved into the region. Although the system didn’t reach tropical storm status, widespread flooding was reported.

According to AccuWeather meteorologists, downtown Miami recorded 9.7 inches of rain on Saturday morning. Key Largo and Biscayne Park saw higher totals, respectively, 11 and 11.6 inches. Outside of Miami, there were more reports of flooding, including Hollywood, Sweetwater, and Hialeah. On the Gulf Coast, Naples experienced flooded streets.

“It’s been a very busy night. We’ve been at this since five yesterday. 

“We’ve seen a lot of flooding. We’re still seeing people out of the road. We’re asking everyone to please still stay inside, there’s a lot of flooding. We don’t want people getting stuck in the water. We have eight high-angle rescue vehicles that are out assisting people that are stranded in their vehicles. We’ve seen a lot of abandoned cars. We’ve been about 125 storm-related calls since about 1:30 in the morning when this all started to transpire,” Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Lt. Pete Sanchez told local news WSVN.

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Badger’s trembling before the blast had alarmed William Swanson, made him stare through summer dusk up Lituya Bay, where the sound had originated. With his wife, he’d just visited Cenotaph Island halfway up the seven-mile-long, fish-shaped fjord indenting the Panhandle’s Lost Coast.

At 10:16 p.m., they lay anchored inside the mouth, in a cove behind La Chaussee Spit. Swanson, frozen in disbelief in the pilothouse, noticed Lituya Glacier had “risen in the air and moved forward so it was in sight,” still apparently solid but “jumping and shaking.” Then a wall roaring seaward razed opposite shores two miles apart. It combed Cenotaph and, five minutes after the big bang, grabbed Badger, lifting the 40-foot troller, surfing it like a giant’s Malibu shortboard, but stern-first, across the spit. From near the crest, Swanson saw treetops two boat-lengths below.

This mega-tsunami—none had been witnessed up to that day, July 9, 1958—the tallest wave ever known, crashed thunderously beyond La Chaussee, hurling spruce missiles, breaking Badger and four of Bill’s ribs. Fellow fishermen rescued the Swansons who, in underwear, had abandoned ship in a skiff. Another couple vanished with Sunmore at the entrance, leaving only an oil slick. A third, father-and-son party aboard Edrie rode spumed mayhem that busted their anchor chain. Avalanching had announced a wave-top two road lanes wide, which passed beneath them.

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