22-06-2017 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com

Environment Canada hopes to give emergency managers, public more heads up on thunderstorms

If you don’t get knee pain when a storm’s a-comin’, this might be the next-best thing. 
 
Environment Canada is rolling out an online tool that will give the public an extra heads-up about incoming thunderstorms.
 
The agency’s thunderstorm outlook, which is now in an experimental phase, gives emergency managers a 48-hour lookahead at developing storms instead of the watches and alerts that are typically issued the day of a weather event.
 
Kyle Foug&e
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