Who can tell me what an Alberta clipper is?
An Alberta clipper is a type of fast moving storm which occurs over the northern Great Plains and upper Midwest in the United States. They usually beset the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota,Wisconsin, as well as western Pennsylvania and New York, and in the province of Ontario. Most clippers occur in winter, but can occur outside of the season, generally, off-season clippers would occur in November. Formation Alberta clippers take their name from the Canadian province of Alberta. This is where they appear to descend from, especially if one is looking at a U.S. weather map, which frequently chops off the nation of Canada. These are storms which traveled over the Pacific Ocean on the jet stream, but lost a good deal of their moisture through the process of orographic lift as they come into contact with the mountains of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The storms arrive over the Canadian plains with little moisture, and becom
