WATCH | Alberta’s air war against hail damage

Last month’s hail storm caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to Calgary and the surrounding area, despite a decades-long project where planes shoot flares loaded with silver iodide into storm clouds to reduce the size of hailstones.

WATCH | Alberta’s air war against hail damage
Large hail on a lawn and sidewalk.

Last month’s hail storm caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to Calgary and the surrounding area, despite a decades-long project where planes shoot flares loaded with silver iodide into storm clouds to reduce the size of hailstones.