Researchers chased storms, studying fist -shaped stones in Alberta’s ‘Ola Russhi Gali’

Julian Brimello has placed a replica of the mother of all hail-a pile takes your fist in the form of white drops, with the weight of two baseballs, which is accompanied by the power to migrate the corn fields into green and yellow meat.

Other researchers at Western University at Brimello and London, Onts, are using it in their research to better understand and predict the prevailing hailstorm activity of Alberta, and damage people and property.

Ola but Brimello says that when it is a hit in Alberta, it barely hits.

On Tuesday at the project’s open house at the Telos Spark Science Center, Brimello said, “It is very bad as I thought it could be in terms of damage capacity.”

He said, “The same day (2024) was a storm in the south, in the form of Calgary hailstorm and it dropped six to seven feet of corn crops at the point that our team was not sure that it was really corn,” he said.

“It was pummale in the ground.”

Look The Northern Oil Project surveys the damage caused by the recent hailstorm of Calgary

The “Helstorm Elle” runs from the high river, south of Calgary, from the north to central Alberta. This area sees more than 40 hailstorms every summer, causing a loss of hundreds of million dollars.

Brimello, Executive Director of Northern Hell Project – A branch of Canadian Serious Storm Laboratory of Western University – said it is probably the most active hailstorm area in Canada.

Last August, a storm in Calgary brought significant Jai, strong winds, heavy rains and localized floods, with almost one in five houses. Canada’s Insurance Bureau estimated the city to harm the city, considered the country’s second-eastern weather related disaster, $ 2.8 billion,

Oleestone, largely in the form of golf balls, hammer Termac at the Calgary International Airport, damaged the aircraft at Westjet and Flair Airlines, and forced them to 10 percent of their fleet for repair and inspection.

Brimello said that such hailstorm is underestimated in someone’s crisis. Last year, many small animals and pets were killed in Calgary, he said, and one infant died in Europe in 2023.

Research has seen stones collected on the scene, preserved in a mobile freezer, and later measured, weighed, photographed and perhaps repeated.

“More interesting stone we will scan 3D and then we can make prints,” he said.

Copies of many realistic hailstorms were displayed in an open house, from a walnut to a golf ball and larger than a big hand.

“It is a new record-shaped Canadian stone. It fell to Inficel in 2022,” said Bimelo. “It crosses 12.3 cm and weighs about 300 grams. It must have fallen at a distance of more than 160 kilometers per hour.”

Listen Researcher from Western University examined the hailstorm to hit Calgary earlier this month

The coordinator of the team’s field, Jack Hamilton, provides information about the size and size of the stones inside the storms.

Hamilton said, “It was long thought that a washing machine is like a storm through a storm in the cycle. But we are really learning that it is probably once, perhaps twice, that the halstone passes through the storm and collects all its mass in that one journey,” said Hamilton.

“It becomes larger and larger, and eventually the gravity ends and it falls. And it falls very fast.”

To get stones, they must first follow them.

Hamilton said that their chase vehicles have a protective coating against hailstorm and they are equipped with an electric detector for storm-ignition radar and security.

“Our primary objective is to collect as much data as we can probably,” he said. “We go behind these storms, and we collect hail falling behind it.”