Hail Storm July 11, 2004 Edmonton, AB
Thunderstorms drenched Edmonton with up to 100
millimetres of rain Sunday afternoon, at about 3:00pm. The
thunderstorms pounded the city with heavy rain, intense
lightning and hail the size of golf balls. Several intersections were turned into lakes, forcing
motorists to abandon their vehicles in metre-deep water.
The storm was the result of a reasonably common weather pattern, meteorologist
Rick Walls said Sunday. "It's not unusual. It just happens that
Edmonton was unlucky enough to be in the area where the downpour hit." A low-pressure system,
combined with moist unstable air and daytime temperatures of about 21 C, helped produce the
wicked weather. Large balls of hail made things difficult as it clumped together in the
fast-moving rainwater and clogged city drains. The stormy weather also spawned funnel clouds north
of the city and a tornado to the east that tore roofs off
buildings. No injuries were reported.
In a Geodetic chart the houses never change, as they are set for the geographic location of the place.
The four angles are most important. Their transiting rulers tell the story. The other houses and their transiting rulers help fill in the details.
In the Edmonton Geo chart, we must always consider Uranus -1st, the Sun -7th, Jupiter -10th, Mercury -4th. This Chart has the transiting planets for the time the storm hit.
The previous lunation's set up the scenario.
Transiting Venus, in the Geodetic chart is direct at 12 Gemini, the same degree of the New Moon chart where Venus was Retrograde at 12 Gemini. Uranus, ruling storms is at 6 Pisces square the GC 10/4 houses of public and private property. The Geodetic chart transiting Jupiter has reached 15 Virgo inconjunct Neptune, in the New Moon chart at 15 Aquarius.
The Full Moon chart has Sun conjunct the Geodetic chart 6th house of distress and the Moon is conjunct the Geodetic chart 12th house of tragedy. Neptune at 14 Aquarius is square the Geodetic chart 3/9 houses of the environment and transportation. Mars of destruction at 5 Leo is coming to inconjunct Uranus of violent storms at 6 Pisces.
