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By Tiffany Goodwein

Wet and windy Wednesday weather hits Medicine Hat

Jun 15, 2022 | 4:10 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB– Gusty winds and rain moving through the city Wednesday toppled everything from trees to trampolines.

Over on the Southeast Hill, city crews were busy clearing fallen tree branches in Central Park.

The winds were so strong that city crews had to remove a heavy tree branch that had fallen on a parked car, smashing the back window. No one appeared to be hurt.

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Power was briefly knocked out this morning for 105 customers in the Veinerville and Parkview areas. The city says on Facebook power was restored at around 10:45 a.m.

Environment Canada says wind gusts reached 89 kilometres per hour in Medicine Hat, and this wicked Wednesday weather is all due to a low-pressure system coming from the United States.

“There is a low-pressure system that has come from the United States, specifically Montana on Monday, late Sunday, and it really intensified over Alberta, and really the prairies. It spread in an area of about 800 kilometres of rain in the province, and it is bringing really heavy rainfall amounts and strong wind gusts,” said Sara Hoffman, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.

Hoffman adds unlike other areas of the province, Medicine Hat has not experienced as much precipitation. So far just eight millimetres of rain has been recorded from the storm.

Environment Canada says the storm hammering much of the prairies is expected to ease tonight into tomorrow.

“Today it will start to make its way out of the province. We have already seen the low-pressure system itself come into Saskatchewan. So that band of rain that is lingering back, wrapping around the low lingering back in Alberta that should move out of the province ever so slowly tonight into Thursday morning but them we do expect some showery unstable weather to persist the next little while,” Hoffman said.

That showery and unstable weather may include parts of the weekend, Environment Canada says.