Weather in Edmonton: K-Days rides reopen, storm monitoring no longer in effect

Festivals were temporarily closed Friday night In Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park, gusts of wind, rain and hail struck Edmonton

. Environment Canada issued a severe storm warning at 4:27 pm The city remained under a violent storm until 19:44.

Hail threats and strong winds will remain in the evening, said Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang Friday.

The storms all formed outside the city and moved inland, and a few others could enter Edmonton in a similar pattern, Lang said. Residents should stay indoors because of the risks of lightning.

Storms will extinguish once the hot, humid air of the city has shifted to the east, [65]. ] Localized floods, which have been reported in some areas of the city, may occur when the soil has been saturated with rain. Pea-sized hail can obstruct sewers and cause drainage problems to homeowners

Motorists should park indoors where possible to avoid hail damage.

Environment Canada watches the wind at 80 km / h in downtown Edmonton

Mr. Lang said that children's toys and outdoor furniture should be brought to the city. interior, because strong winds can turn yard objects into projectiles

"Be careful and stay inside," Lang said. "Then, if things get worse, people can go down to the basement."

K-Days suspends rides

At K-Days, which began Friday, all rides were stopped in the late afternoon. said that Carson Mills, director of communications at Northlands, had opened the fairs inside the Exhibition Center, where they had taken refuge.

Some attractions were reopened around 6:45 pm and people were allowed outside, but Mills said that if there was another severe storm warning, people would go back to the center.

Taste of Edmonton on the grounds of the Alberta Legislature announced at 5:20 pm it is closed for the evening.

Similarly, Interstellar Rodeo stopped at about 6 pm and asked festival-goers to stay under the canopy. At 6:30 pm, festival services reopened

LRT service was interrupted for four hours

LRT service between Southgate and Century Park stations was interrupted due to poor time. Contingency coaches have been set up to provide services between these locations. The LRT service was re-established shortly after 8 pm

The service outage occurred when a raised cross arm at 40th and 111th Street cracked and broke, falling on a power line and affecting the LRT, said Claire Graff, spokeswoman for Edmonton.

Fire departments also responded to a number of power lines and trees felled around the city.

About 80 customers in the Ottewell neighborhood were affected by a power outage at 5:18 pm. . The service should be reinstated at 8:30 pm

Breakdowns affecting Eastgate Business Park, Lambton Industrial, Morris Industrial and Southeast Industrial are no longer in effect, indicated the power outage warning of ######################################################################### 39; Epcor. ", Said Epcor spokesman, Tim the Rich, Friday

Storm watch, warnings outside the city

North, Minburn Counties, Lamont, Smoky Lake , Sturgeon and Two Hills The conditions were favorable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms capable of producing destructive wind gusts, hail and heavy rain, according to the National Weather Monitoring Agency

. emitted when weather conditions favor the development of thunderstorms that could produce one or more of the following: heavy hail, destructive winds, torrential rain.

On this day (1996-2017)

Highest temperature: 27.8 C (2008)

The lowest temperature: 7.1 C (1996)