Gui will soon post pictures of the trip that she, Rong, John, Emily, and I took to Montana and Alberta.
However, I thought I'd post this news item from near the area we visited. When we arrived in Glacier National Park the weather was bad with lots of low rain cloud cover and cool temperatures. A couple of days later the weather turned completely the opposite. Our rafting and horse back riding in Alberta were in summer conditions. Well, the rafting was chilly but the skies were clear. The next day horse backing riding the skies were clear and the temperature very warm.
Looks like we got of southwestern Alberta in time. The place where the twister touched down is an hour's drive from where we were so it wasn't extremely close. Here's a map showing the Wateron Lakes and Cardston area and the place where the twister touched down, the Taber area (Taber's claim to fame is a variety of corn named after it).
Tornadoes swirl around southwestern Alberta
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 Updated at 2:23 AM EDT Canadian PressLethbridge, Alta. Just days after heavy rains pummelled the area, severe weather again spawned tornadoes, hail and rain in southwestern Alberta.
Environment Canada reported several tornadoes were spotted near Vauxhall, Taber and Coalhurst on Tuesday.
There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Charmaine Weasel Fat said a tornado touched down in her father's field on the Blood reserve on Tuesday evening.
The funnel kicked up the dirt in the field, about 400 metres south of their home.
Ms. Weasel Fat and five other adults to grab the baby and leave the area.
“We just jumped in our vehicle and took off down the road,” she said.
“You could see the dirt flying left and right and it was coming toward us. It was scary.”
The funnel cloud came within six kilometres north of Taber, said Brad Mason, the town's emergency services director.
Vauxhall's fire chief Chuck Pozzo said if there was a tornado, it wasn't close to town.
He said he had no reports of damage.
“There was lots of hail, some the size of golf balls,” he said.
Environment Canada said the tornado was spotted half-way between Taber and Vauxhall and was on the ground for about two minutes.
Taber and Vauxhall are about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary.
News from Alberta 
