The Northern Hail Project is the first of its kind to study high-impact hail events after chunks of ice as big as baseballs pelted parts of the Calgary area this week.
A research team from Western University is in Calgary this week gathering data from Monday's hail storm to better understand what happened, and hopefully avoid some of the damage in the future. Meghan Cobb has more.“We’re going to go back and look at the conditions that produced the storm,” explains Simon Eng with the Northern Hail Project .
“Maybe next time we’ll have a better chance at predicting exactly where it will happen and get a better sense if there’s the potential of something of this intensity.”They are examining the damage done, collecting data on the severity and asking about the types of siding and windows to better understand the type of materials less prone to damage.
“That information goes into possibly modifying building codes, the requirements for the types of materials people put on the sides of their houses and the materials they use for roofing,” says Eng.The group says data to this level of detail is similar to the data collected by the Northern Tornado Project but has never been collected for hailstorms. The research will allow the university to compare the magnitude of storms like Monday’s to other extreme weather events.
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