Alberta Weather and ClimateEspecially in Edmonton areaPersonal view and photos
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| The weather in Edmonton and Northern Alberta is much more exciting than the boring sameness that I am familiar with on the Pacific Coast. | |
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I have been visiting Alberta for several decades. I moved back to Edmonton in November 2007. From my rental apartment, perched eleven stories over the south rim of the North Saskatchewan River, I have a great view to the south. I can also peer west over the University of Alberta and east to the local Refinery Row. As seen on my other local web pages, the region has a lot of sunshine and some great sunrises and sunsets. There was some very cold winter weather that can continue into a late spring. In 2008 we even had some snow in early May!
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Fascinated with the daily thunderstorms in June and July 2008, I tried making putting my camera on a tripod and making some storm videos. I then experimented with grabbing images with the video editing software. The screen capture export makes a frame every 1/30 of a second. Often the lightening strike takes just one or two frames and is hard to capture.
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Some other lightening strikes take nearly half a second. The flash goes on and off as several strikes take the same pathway. This sequence looks south in evening of June 24, 2008.
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This sequence looks SW past the University of Alberta on morning of July 21, 2008. You can see it travel a great distance sideways.
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And here is sunrise and lightening on August 4, 2008.
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Finally a few more single frames.
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