By Nigel Maxwell

Mother Nature unlikely to strike twice

Jul 19, 2011 | 12:17 PM

Good news for people who are recovering from Monday night’s storm, it looks like there is no repeat performance on the radar.

The forecast this afternoon is calling for sunshine and a high of 28 and, so far, no watches or warnings.

“If there is any sort of severe thunderstorm activity, it will be coming in more towards the southwest part of the province. Not that band of heavy convection that pushed north of you guys yesterday,” said Greg Walters, Saskatchewan's weather preparedness meteorologist, with Environment Canada.
Walters said there were reports of funnel clouds.

“Big River, of course, just west of Prince Albert National Park, we did have an unconfirmed sighting of a tornado and there was also a funnel sighting just east of Candle Lake,” he said.

The high winds and baseball sized hail can come with thunderstorms, said Walters.

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“What you really need is a lot of moisture or humidity and that really feeds these thunderstorms. The thunderstorm is like an engine that cycles the moisture up from the surface, it gets up to a very high level, well up freezing. And as the moisture tends to collide, it collects into hail stones. Now depending on how much moisture there is, these hail stones can grow to a very large size.”

Walters said Environment Canada will be investigating the funnel cloud reports.

nmaxwell@panow.com