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Enjoy the images, I will try and note if I didn't take them

This picture was taken on July 9, 2009 in Steinbach by Steinbach Weather contributor. The shot shows a shelf cloud over the city of Steinbach. Although the sky looks omnious, no severe weather was experienced on this day. The image below was taken by the same individual on this day.

This picture was taken on July 19, 2009 in West Winnipeg by a Steinbach Weather contributor. The shot is looking west at a storm around Riding Mountain National Park (over 200km away!). The picture shows an anvil cloud from a very severe supercell thunderstorm. This storm produced golf ball sized hail in Russell, MB and also generated very strong straight-line winds.

This and the following two pictures are of the Red River in April 2009 (the above picture is the town of Morris, pop. 1700). The noted flood is the second worst flood in the last century and displaced approximately 2500 people. Luckily for Manitobans, such as the ones seen in these pictures, flood advances, such as higher ring dikes and the Red River Floodway, have saved countless homes and prevented thousands more people from being evacuated. I did not take these pictures, nor do I know who did.

Canadian Port of Entry at Emerson

Flooded Areas south of the Perimetre Highway

This picture was taken on January 3, 2009 by a Steinbach Weather contributor. Snow fell throughout the day, and accumulated to 15cm by evening.

This picture was taken on September 8, 2008. The day was cool, with a high of 15, and a low of 4. The dewpoint was around 7 degrees for most of the day. Late in the afternoon, around 4 p.m., what appeared to be a shower was approaching Steinbach. The RADAR showed a very "shower-like" return, with a light to dark green colour on the screen. As the cell approached, the sky darken slightly and then it started to rain hard! A rainfall rate of 120mm/hr pummeled the ground, and the temperature dropped sharply, by almost 6 degrees. At the height of the storm heavy small hail fell to the ground and covered every surface. The best location to see the hail was on this chair, where is accumulated well. The lesson of this day was to never underestimate the potential of even the seemingly harmless convective storm cell.

This is one of two pictures submitted by a Steinbach Weather contributor. It shows the thunderstorm on July 5, 2008 building from behind. This is a Cumulonimbus cloud, or thunderhead that shows the rapid development of the storm.

This is the second picture from the visitor, displaying a beautiful overshooting anvil from the supercellular storms over South-Eastern Manitoba. On the edge of the cloud some mammatus cloud can be seen, a sign of a very severe storm. This picture was taken from McPhillips Street.

This storm was part of a line of supercells that passed through the Red River Valley and South-Eastern Manitoba on Saturday, July 5, 2008. Large hail of up to toonie size was reported around Steinbach, and regions in the Red River Valley. No extreme wind gusts were reported around Steinbach, but damage was reported just South of Grand Beach. These storms were capable of producing gusts over 100km/h. Tornadoes were also possible, and a rare Tornado Watch was issued mid-evening. There was one funnel cloud sighted South of Winnipeg, but there were no tornado reports that I know of. In Steinbach the wind gusted to 50km/h, and 7.2mm of rain fell in less than thirty minutes.

This is another shot of the storm's approaching shelf cloud. Just behind this shelf is where this storm really started. Heavy rain reduced visibility to about one kilometer, and the wind drove the rain into walls of water.

This picture shows the freezing rain accumulation from a major winter storm on April 24, 2008. Ice completely covered the branches, and some mini icicles formed off the branches. Cracking could be heard from above as the 40km/h winds shook the limbs.

A close up of ice build-up on a tree branch from the April 24, 2008 Storm.

Small shrubs looked like they were made out of ice, as freezing rain built up on the limbs. The ice was approximately the same thickness as the limbs on the smaller trees and shrubs.

This was an incredible thunderhead, with overshooting anvil that passed by on August 26, 2007. That evening a line of supercells roared across South-Eastern Manitoba and Eastern North Dakota. In the town of Northwood, North Dakota a tornado struck and killed a number of people. Here we only received strong winds, lightning, thunder, and large hail. Below is a picture of that hail.

This is the hail that fell with the supercells on August 26, 2007. The largest hailstone was a bit larger than a toonie. Most hail was about dime to nickel size, but some very large stones mixed in as well.

Elie, Manitoba F5 tornado. This extremely dangerous tornado occurred on June 22, 2007 in the town of Elie, West of Winnipeg. The winds in this storm were rated to be between 419 and 512km/h, the most powerful tornado possible! The rare combination weather features converged this day in June, allowing for the most powerful tornado in Canadian history to be recorded. This storm completely destroyed numerous houses in the town and also damaged a flour mill. Click this text to see a video showing the damage this tornado caused. Unfortunately I didn't see this tornado in person and therefore didn't take this image, I don't know the photographer.

The scene above my house on June 22, 2007. This is a mammatus cloud that occurred due to powerful thunderstorms in the area.

Picture of a total lunar eclipse from Salmon Arm, B.C. Unfortunately I couldn't take my own picture of this event, due to camera difficulties, but I did view it and it looked just like this.

This image taken by Tornado Videos.net was a large "wedge" tornado that occurred near Pipestone, Manitoba on June 23, 2007. This was rated an F3 by Environment Canada, which means the winds were between 254 and 332km/h. It should be noted that this tornado mostly hit open fields and if it were to have hit a building the actual speed of the winds may have been rated much higher. It is difficult to rate tornado wind speeds when it doesn't hit something that can be compared to previous events.

As I traveled through Saskatchewan in July of 2007, I was lucky enough to encounter this squall line. It was probably around 200km long, but not terribly wide. The conditions inside were the usual thunder and lightning, along with dime to nickel size hail and very strong winds. The sky turned this very ominous green colour as I entered. Upon exiting the storm the temperature had gone from around 30 degree and very humid on one side, to around 20 degrees and much drier after the storm.

On the other side of this thunderstorm this very strange looking cloud appeared. It was almost as though it was a thick fog. This cloud appeared to basically at ground level, but didn't extend up into the sky very far. It was also strange because it was completely different looking than any other clouds in the area.