Warm, windy weekend ahead

A low-pressure trough lingered over southern Alberta on Thursday, ushering in cool northwesterly winds gusting up to 40 km/h and scattered showers. Rainfall amounts will be trace around Calgary, while the more intense storm activity was in north-central and eastern Alberta along the Saskatchewan border. This system did trigger a severe thunderstorm warning for the region of Winnifred just southwest of Medicine Hat as the storm cells built in intensity and posed the risk of producing strong winds