Manitoba got another dose of wild weather June 15-16.
Worries about sandblasting joined earlier hail damage over the Father’s Day weekend. A powerful wind storm blew into western Manitoba overnight June 15, followed by strong winds that whipped soil airborne.
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In Sinclair, 14 km west of Reston, high winds damaged a local elevator.
Western Manitoba clocked wind gusts over 100 km/h June 16, according to Manitoba Agriculture.
Winds hit 123 km/h about 17 kilometres north of Deloraine in Manitoba’s far southwest.
Other reports include 101 km/h gusts at Fork River, 100 km/h at Souris and 92 km/h at Minitonas.
In central Manitoba and the Interlake, Austin saw 87 km/h gusts and Fisherton reported 79 km/h wind.
The wind follows major storms in the second week of June, which had brought large hail and tornado touchdowns to western and central Manitoba.
