We’ll be starting out in Sheridan, and will blast NNW up into extreme sw SK if tomorrow morning’s forecast conditions warrant. We began June 29th in Sheridan, WY, continued north through Montana, and entered Saskatchewan via U.S. 191 north of Loring.\u00a0 The landscape in this area is wonderfully beautiful and empty, and getting data via cell phone is sketchy.\u00a0 Fortunately, you can see forever, and we could see a semi-healthy cumulus field to our north.\u00a0 This was third time that I would be leading a tour into Canada.\u00a0 The other two times were into southwest Manitoba.\u00a0 This would be the first time, however, that we would be over-nighting in Canada.\u00a0 I had no idea how easy (or difficult) it would be to find a half dozen rooms for our group at the end of the day.\u00a0 I didn’t even know if my phone would work!\u00a0 We reached Swift Current around 00Z (6\u00a0 p.m. CST), and I went ahead and reserved rooms there.\u00a0\u00a0 This town is the only one of any size within about 100 miles, and I didn’t want to wind up struggling to find rooms in towns two hours away at 10 p.m., when the sun would be setting! \u00a0 As far as the weather was concerned, our cumulus field had dried up, but there was another convectively interesting area well to the north.\u00a0 In a “now post” to CFDG, I wrote:<\/p>\n Heading N out of Swift Current, SK, at 00Z…the cap is winning thus far, but we were kind of hoping for that up to now since we needed most of the day to get up here from WY.<\/em><\/p>\n Supercell and tornado parameters are excellent to our north some 50-80 miles, just NNE of a mesolow in extreme SW SK. A cell is trying to get strong E of Rosetown…we can see its backside, and it has yet to impress. Moisture convergence continues to be very strong in the vicinity of Rosetown, so we’ll keep heading north to try our luck. We’ll need all the extra daylight that we can get.<\/em><\/p>\n Northward we continued on Route 4.\u00a0 The speed limit on 4 had been a wretched 45 mph for much of the stretch between the MT\/SK border and Cadillac, but was now a reasonable 65 mph.\u00a0 CHECK THAT!\u00a0 The speed limit was posted in kilometers\/hr, whatever that is.\u00a0 We drove about an hour north of Swift Current to Kyle, and could see that somewhat smallish CB that was east to northeast of Rosetown.\u00a0 It was in a good spot for strengthening and becoming a supercell, but it was hesitant to get really strong.\u00a0 I was torn.\u00a0 We could drive another hour or two north and northeast to get on the Roseland storm.\u00a0 But, it would be moving northeast towards Saskatoon, and we would wind up three hours from our motel sometime close to midnight —- not an enticing proposition.\u00a0 So, when in doubt, eat!\u00a0 We found a cafe in Kyle and had a good meal.\u00a0 I went outside several times to look at the convection to the north-northeast.\u00a0 It was okay, but not exactly going bonkers.\u00a0 Gad.\u00a0 I was wishing that I had not gotten rooms in Swift Current.<\/p>\n After dinner, around 02Z, there was still plenty of daylight remaining.\u00a0 We went north to between Elrose and Rosetown, and the convection to the north-northeast was a little too far and not impressive enough to bother with.\u00a0 We had a new cell to monitor, to our northwest.\u00a0 This one was near Kindersley, which is about 30 miles east of the Alberta\/SK border.\u00a0 The Kindersley cell was smallish and reluctant to get really strong, and I felt that continuing to it would yield little excitement.\u00a0 We stopped and swarmed a very old and abandoned home somewhere north of Elrose along Route 4.\u00a0 The convection to the NNE went on to give Saskatoon a healthy dose of severe weather around midnight.\u00a0 The Kindersley storm split once or twice and remained puny.\u00a0 On our way back south to Swift Current, we observed numerous strong storms nearby with some nice lightning.\u00a0 These were elevated cells which were moving quickly northeast out of Montana.<\/p>\n The chase on June 30 was disappointing.\u00a0 We began in Swift Current, and headed east on the Canada Transcontinental Highway.\u00a0 The target area was a little east or northeast of Regina.\u00a0 My thoughts on the day after lunch at the A & W near Moose Jaw:<\/p>\n Not too sure if today will work out or not. We are heading east out of Regina towards an area of surface wind convergence, in the vicinity of Wolseley in se SK. Models aren’t too bullish on precip prospects. CAPE is good and upper winds so-so. Looks like a developing field of very flat cu to the east and northeast of Regina…plenty of sunshine otherwise.<\/em>
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\nWe continued east from Regina to Wolseley, where I reserved rooms for the night at the Banbury House Inn.\u00a0 Some healthy cumulus started to go up a little west of town, and I thought that we might be in business.\u00a0 The convection pulled us north from Indian Head (on Hwy 1) to Melville and Willowbrook (which is west of Yorkton).\u00a0 We stopped south of Willowbrook and watched some cumulonimbus towers try to strengthen, but the cap was too formidable.\u00a0 There were a handful of old, abandoned places to photograph while waiting for a substantial storm cell.\u00a0 We came up empty and gave up on the day near Willowbrook a little before sunset.\u00a0 Dinner was at a bar in Grenfell.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"