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The Alberta Hail Project was a research project sponsored by the Alberta Research Council and Environment Canada to study hailstorm physics and dynamics in order to design and test means for suppressing hail. It ran from 1956 until 1985. The main instrument in this research was an S-band circularly polarized weather radar located at the Red ...
Hailstorm Alley is a colloquial term referring to an area of south and central Alberta, Canada where hail storms are frequently produced. These storms frequently produce hail that is damaging to property. This area stretches from High River in southern Alberta, northward through Calgary, through Red Deer to Lacombe and then westward to Rocky ...
Red Deer replaced Edmonton as host of the Canadian Finals Rodeo from 2018 to 2023. [45] [46] Red Deer hosted the 2019 Canada Winter Games, leaving the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre [47] at Red Deer Polytechnic and the Downtown Servus Arena as legacy facilities. The city is the hometown to numerous Olympic and NHL athletes.
July 4 – an F1 tornado touched down near Red Deer, Alberta causing minimal tree damage and no injuries. [60] July 7 – an F0 tornado was confirmed near Estaire, Ontario [56] July 7 – an F0 tornado touched down near Valhalla, Manitoba, 114 km (71 mi) north of Winnipeg [56] July 7 – an F0 tornado was confirmed in Elbow, Saskatchewan. No ...
2013 Alberta floods. In the days leading up to June 19, 2013, parts of southern and central Alberta, Canada experienced heavy rainfall that triggered catastrophic flooding described by the provincial government as the worst in Alberta's history. Areas along the Bow, Elbow, Highwood, Red Deer, Sheep, Little Bow, and South Saskatchewan rivers and ...
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA; French: Agence du revenu du Canada; ARC) is the revenue service of the Canadian federal government, and most provincial and territorial governments. The CRA collects taxes, administers tax law and policy, and delivers benefit programs and tax credits. [4] Legislation administered by the CRA includes the Income ...
On July 14, 2000, at approximately 7 PM, an F3 tornado tore through the Green Acres Campground at Pine Lake in central Alberta, killing 12 people and critically injuring more than 100 others. Pine Lake is a recreational area approximately 25 km (16 mi) southeast of Red Deer, Alberta and 150 km (93 mi) northeast of the city of Calgary.
Tornadoes in Canada are enough of a threat for a public warning system to be in place, overseen by the national weather agency, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). With connections between Environment Canada and the Government of Canada, AlertReady is used for the public alerting method for various public hazards.