Rare spring hail hits central and southern Saskatchewan

Parts of central and southern Saskatchewan experienced something normally reserved for the summer on Friday–hail.

“It doesn’t really matter what time of year, you can get thunderstorms well into late fall and in spring,” Environment Canada’s Justin Shaer said Saturday morning.

The thunderstorm system that moved through dumped small-sized hail, that looked snow-like.

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“Even though there isn’t much energy to have large updrafts and support large hail in the thunderstorms right now, there is enough with the low freezing levels to create hail quite easily,” he explained.

Shaer explains the combination of warmer temperatures mixed with cool air is the right combination to create thunderstorms.

He expects another system to hit the same areas along the northern grain belt and southern Saskatchewan on Sunday.

Shaer said it will likely be strong wind instead of thunderstorms and hail.