{"id":21234,"date":"2014-08-08T20:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21234"},"modified":"2014-08-08T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:42:34","slug":"airdrie-hit-by-nasty-hailstorm-while-calgary-sees-something-called-gustnado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/08\/airdrie-hit-by-nasty-hailstorm-while-calgary-sees-something-called-gustnado\/","title":{"rendered":"Airdrie hit by nasty hailstorm while Calgary sees something called &#8216;gustnado&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21235\" style=\"width: 795px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/airdrie-calgary-gustnado.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21235\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/airdrie-calgary-gustnado.jpg\" alt=\"Hailstorm and 'gustnado' in Airdrie, Alberta. Photo courtesy of Tracy Stinn via Mookalicious \/ Twitter\" width=\"795\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/airdrie-calgary-gustnado.jpg 795w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/airdrie-calgary-gustnado-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hailstorm and &#8216;gustnado&#8217; in Airdrie, Alberta. Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mookalicious\/status\/497572745039708160\/photo\/1\">Tracy Stinn via Mookalicious \/ Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CALGARY &#8212; Hail damaged homes and cars near Airdrie, Alberta, while something called a &#8220;gustnado&#8221; appears to have touched down on the outskirts of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>The nasty storm hit Thursday afternoon and evening, bringing with it hail as big as golf balls and a fair bit of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures posted to Twitter showed streets covered in so much hail it looked like a winter scene.<\/p>\n<p>In Calgary, a police officer reported seeing what he thought was a tornado touching down but quickly dissipating.<\/p>\n<p>However, Environment Canada says it was in actuality a spiral of high wind, or &#8220;gustnado.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No damage was reported from the phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY &#8212; Hail damaged homes and cars near Airdrie, Alberta, while something called a &#8220;gustnado&#8221; appears to have touched down &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[7230,1771,7229,7231],"class_list":["post-21234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","tag-airdrie","tag-alberta","tag-gustnado","tag-hailstorm","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}