Environment
This Huge Land Stain Near Calgary Was Made by Hail
A ferocious storm this weekend left a trail of hail 75 miles long in Alberta.
The city of Calgary lucked out during Saturday's foul weather, but the commuter town of Airdrie about 18 miles north did not – it got pounded like a gun-range target by a brutal hailstorm that left the icy land stain you see above.*
The National Weather Service office in Gaylord, Michigan, tweeted the image today with the appropriate description of "amazing." The hail swath measured about a half-mile wide but stretched on for 75 miles, to believe one weatherhead's account at Ontario Storms, which also has this nutso footage: