2 Years ago today...

2 years ago today I photographed this beauty as it came to the southwest outskirts of Red Deer. It came off the foothills northwest of Rocky Mountain House if I remember correctly, and pummeled Rocky with golfball sized hail. Sorry for the noisy image, it was shot with a very old school digital camera. Another image that I wish I shot with the camera gear I have now. I'm hoping to see ANY storm soon, as we've been in some cool arctic air recently. Maybe a chance on Saturday? Decent instability is forecasted with ok moisture up at 850mb and little bullseye on the surface, but theres no flow aloft and were under a ridge as I type this. H7 temps are at 4C at 0z which is breakable and there is a surface low up on the northern AB and BC border which hopefully drops a trough along the foothills for some lift. Surface flow is out of the southwest and weak, but maybe some upslope there for lift as well. The GFS breaks out precip along the southwestern foothills, so I guess we'll see as Saturday comes near. If a storm pops, it'll likely just sit there on the foothills. Who knows, it'll probably end up snowing.