An Aug. 20, 2025 hail and wind storm carved a 15-km-wide, 200-km-long “hail scar” across southern Alberta, visible in NASA satellite imagery. The storm devastated about 425,000 acres of crops and grassland, with severe impacts near Brooks, and recovery may take a year or more.

A fast-moving supercell brought golf ball-sized hail and 113 km/h winds to Brooks, Alberta, toppling power lines, damaging homes, vehicles and crops, and killing two animals at a local fun farm. Cleanup continued Thursday as highways were disrupted and about 1,000 customers remained without power.

The large quantity of salt that had accumulated this year, 2021, was a lot more predominant and at a much higher quantity then has been observed in previous years.

We have experienced since Oct. 2 a very unseasonable Alberta winter. High snowfalls, a few Chinooks and certainly we knew some time ago we were in for an interesting spring ... but this is unprecedented...

Adam Turnbull found the fish growing around a ring of plastic.