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Severe hail, wind storm causes damage to farms in the Battlefords area
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — Thursday night’s severe storm with winds gusting up to 102 km/h in the Battlefords area caused significant property damage to a number of farms in the region.
Like much of Saskatchewan, many crops were already suffering from the prolonged heat and dry conditions, so the storm just compounded the problems.
Farmers dealt with toonie-sized hail pummeling their property during the height of the storm.
Charlie Smith who farms in the Rabbit Lake area, northeast of the Battlefords, says it was quite a night.