A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for central and northern Alberta, covering multiple cities and towns, on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Environment and Climate Change Canada\u2019s (ECCC) watch stretches from Airdrie to Edmonton, and further north to Athabasca. <\/p>\n
The thunderstorms are expected to develop Thursday afternoon, and they may become severe with hail, strong wind gusts, and downpours.<\/p>\n
Officials say any thunderstorms that do develop will move east or southwest through the evening and overnight hours.<\/p>\n
The ECCC also warns that thunderstorms can produce tornadoes.<\/p>\n
While Calgary just misses the watch, meteorologists say there is a 30 per cent chance of showers in the city, and a risk of a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n
Friday also has a 60 per cent chance of showers and a risk of thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the ECCC says strong wind gusts can damage trees, buildings and overturn vehicles, and large hail can cause significant damage and injury. <\/p>\n
It issues thunderstorm watches when conditions for developing thunderstorms capable of producing damaging hail, wind, or rain are favourable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for central and northern Alberta, covering multiple cities and towns, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-21783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}