Kyle Brittain Profile Banner
Kyle Brittain Profile
Kyle Brittain

@BadWeatherKyle

29,922
Followers
576
Following
9,513
Media
37,961
Statuses

Severe Weather Journalist

Calgary
Joined March 2014
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
It's cold enough in Calgary today that I used a frozen towel as a toboggan 😂
207
2K
11K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Calgary, Alberta this morning! Hot water freezes faster than cold water due to the "Mpemba Effect"! 🤯 #yyc
98
2K
11K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Kelowna is on fire.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
331
3K
8K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 months
It was like showers of Aurora pouring down over southern Alberta tonight! What an absolute delight 😍 #auroraborealis
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
51
987
8K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
9 months
It's THIS cold in Calgary
161
1K
6K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
6 years
Throwing a thermos of boiling water into the Manitoba cold turned out about as good as I had hoped for! #manitoba @weathernetwork
109
2K
6K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
I have never seen a vertical wall of smoke like this one near Fox Creek, Alberta on Sunday. And the strangest thing about this moment was I couldn't smell any smoke. #ABfire #ABfires
Tweet media one
250
2K
5K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
6 months
Just opened an old envelope and this bad boy fell out
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
232
142
5K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 years
It's cold enough in Calgary today that I played frisbee with my shirt! #yyc @weathernetwork
140
1K
5K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh
Tweet media one
62
446
5K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Unbelievable tornado NE of Stettler this afternoon! #abstorm Has now lifted at 455PM.
Tweet media one
166
863
5K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Un FREAKING real morning in Kananaskis Country!! 😱😍 #ShareYourWeather
Tweet media one
132
383
5K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Dusty, prairie twister in central Alberta today! #abstorm
Tweet media one
156
806
5K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Me after watching too much Cobra Kai
117
641
4K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
4 o'clock in the afternoon and dark as night, west of Spallumcheen, BC. Terrifying. @weathernetwork #bcwildfires
173
2K
4K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Incredible satellite imagery over western Canada this morning. Most of the province of Alberta sits beneath the most solid blanket of wildfire smoke I've ever seen. #abfire #ABfires
Tweet media one
113
2K
4K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Told you I'd put this barn in front of a beautiful storm this summer! 😍 #abstorm #stormhour @weathernetwork
Tweet media one
115
540
4K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
9 months
Calgary skyline at 730PM. Sure as hell is a lot of light coming from those office towers for a Saturday night with excess strain on the grid... #yyc
Tweet media one
119
619
4K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
SOUND ON: Lightning hits several buildings in downtown Calgary...including a close one! #yyc #abstorm #Shockwave
150
877
4K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Very serious situation unfolding in West Kelowna #BCfire
111
1K
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 years
ARE WE ON JUPITER #abstorm
131
730
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 years
Calgary, Canada this morning #yyc
42
447
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Lightning hit the CALGARY TOWER!! #yyc #abstorm @weathernetwork
Tweet media one
99
718
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
My dear Grandma passed today due to complications of Covid-19. She played a critical role in my life. So grateful I got to see her one last time ❤️
Tweet media one
503
61
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Owl catches DINNER! I watched this Great Grey haul 4 voles out of a foot of snow within 15 minutes this evening! Central Alberta.
122
417
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
UNREAL! Watching the Aurora above the bright city lights of Calgary was memorable! #yyc #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights
Tweet media one
30
367
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Confirmed...the tornado didn't do any damage. It stayed out over open fields, where it belongs. #abstorm
Tweet media one
96
201
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 months
That was the most incredible display of aurora I have ever seen. This was looking SOUTH from near Calgary, Alberta! #yyc #Auroraborealis
Tweet media one
23
253
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Documenting this OUTRAGEOUS pyrocumulonimbus on the fire north of Walhachin, BC! That's how you inject aerosols into the stratosphere! #bcfire @weathernetwork
Tweet media one
70
791
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
7 years
How seasons work in Calgary: Jan: Chinook patio beers Feb: -70 Windchill Mar: Snow Apr: More snow May: Why is it still snowing? June: Floods July: Hail wrecks your car Aug: Choking on BC smoke Sept: Snow Oct: Sun and +20C Nov: Fresh Hell Dec: Darkness and traffic #yyc #abstorm
60
870
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Still can't believe what I witnessed over downtown Calgary last night! #yyc #auroraborealis #northernlights
Tweet media one
32
250
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Terrifying night in the Okanagan Valley #BCfire
65
889
3K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Hundreds of observers in downtown Kelowna looking at the fire burning just across the lake #bcfire
94
980
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 years
INSANE Aurora, Calgary! #yyc
29
290
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
9 months
Boiling water, meet -47C! 🔊LISTEN to the sound Leedale, Alberta 🇨🇦
50
574
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Can we talk about those PURPLES tonight?? I was not prepared for that. 😍
Tweet media one
34
196
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Just an absolutely incredible display of Aurora for many hours straight this morning. The flickering and flashing was just otherworldly...
Tweet media one
27
225
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Absolutely spectacular sunset
Tweet media one
46
158
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 years
Man attempts to have picnic in Calgary in -30C Pasta freezes halfway through #yyc @weathernetwork
44
704
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 years
WILD night of Aurora, as seen from southern Alberta! Had a really exciting substorm just before midnight local time...the snow lit up green! #Auroraborealis #yyc
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
24
269
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Cochrane! These three bolts dropped all at once. Amazing. #abstorm
Tweet media one
58
382
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 years
I LITERALLY CAN'T EVEN #abstorm
Tweet media one
86
377
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Absolutely STUNNING Saskatchewan sunset this evening
Tweet media one
29
196
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
6 years
Day made! Someone knit a whole bunch of scarves and left them on a fence in downtown Calgary for people seeking warmth from the cold to use ❤ #yyc
54
539
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Behold...the heartbreakingly-beautiful display of #AuroraBorealis over Alberta, Canada on November 4. Watch with sound 💚
49
419
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
MIND-BLOWING sunset, as seen from Banff over Mt. Rundle!! #ShareYourWeather
Tweet media one
47
169
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
A woodpecker landed on me and then PECKED MY TOOTH #yyc
109
186
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Drone video of tornado NE of Stettler, Alberta this afternoon. Here it is at 5x speed. #abstorm
45
390
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 years
Welcome to Waterton Lakes National Park...home of blizzards, wildfires, and 100km/h winds #abstorm @weathernetwork
89
460
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 years
Aurora Borealis as seen from near Calgary, Canada last night! Wonderful colours and motion out there. #AuroraBorealis #northernlights #yyc
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
35
274
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
OOOOH! Part two is a dreamy RED! #yyc #ShareYourWeather
Tweet media one
61
266
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
OH MY WORD
Tweet media one
60
175
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 months
Hi, my name is Kyle, and I live in a place where there's 8 months of winter, and 4 months of smoke
94
169
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 years
Wow! East of Strathmore 930PM #abstorm
Tweet media one
40
228
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
The last few weeks in Alberta have been WILD #abstorm #abfire
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
35
359
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 months
Wow...beam me up, Scotty! Epic thunderstorm over Calgary! #yyc #abstorm
Tweet media one
43
200
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
NOW is the time for a drive through the Alberta foothills 🤩
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
20
200
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
This was a haunting scene, with a single tree on fire. Northern Alberta. #ABfire #ABfires
Tweet media one
39
387
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 months
My favourite moment from last night was looking north and waiting for things to blow up, and then turning around and gasping to see that the sky had cleared out with VISIBLE reds to our SOUTH! Got to share the moment with my wife and new friends.
Tweet media one
32
134
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
HUGE shoutout to all wildland fire crews from Alberta, out-of-province, out-of-country, and our military... You're doing an OUTSTANDING job out there in a very challenging season. THANK YOU, on behalf of all Albertans #abfire #ABwildfire
Tweet media one
22
358
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 months
The Jasper fire is so intense that it is generating its own thunderstorm, with lightning being detected south of Hinton. Fire-generated lightning also occurred with the Fort McMurray fire. #abfire #jasperwildfire
Tweet media one
47
815
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 years
That was the first time I've been live with @weathernetwork with a tornado in my viewfinder #abstorm
Tweet media one
35
228
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
EPIC sunrise in Calgary! #yyc #ShareYourWeather
Tweet media one
36
172
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
MONSTER pyrocumulonimbus in British Columbia this evening! Here's a snippet. #BCfire @weathernetwork
51
631
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
210 pound human versus a 193 KM/H GUST at Nakiska Ridgetop this afternoon! The strength of an EF2 tornado. It was a little stronger than I was expecting. #abstorm @weathernetwork
83
299
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Sadly, numerous structures have been lost along Westside Road, west of Kelowna. #BCfire
80
726
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
My GOODNESS Alberta! I don't recall a stretch in history where the Rockies were so photogenic for so many days! #ShareYourWeather
Tweet media one
22
119
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 years
Un BELIEVABLE #okwx
Tweet media one
49
250
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 months
Calgary Tower strike this evening! What is special is that this is an *upward* flash, along with the other two on the west end of downtown. #yyc #abstorm
Tweet media one
46
266
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 years
There's a chance I'll be staying up late tonight
Tweet media one
27
116
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 months
The level of paranoia in parts of society has reached a feverish pitch. There is no longer any room for natural explanations. Everything is a government conspiracy, from breaking water pipes, to triggering solar flares, to starting forest fires, to controlling the weather.
@AlbertaLeonidas
Alberta-Leonidas
4 months
After weeks of rain, the city of calgary is imposing water restrictions Has zero to do with a drought, it's control. It's totalitarian
Tweet media one
265
298
955
220
137
2K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Absolute BEAST rolling into Vauxhall #abstorm 838PM @weathernetwork
Tweet media one
44
281
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Mountains of water building behind mountains of rock! Absolutely stunning drive down the Kananaskis Highway of Alberta this evening. #abstorm
Tweet media one
36
181
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
CALGARY and its amazing skies! Aurora, lightning, noctilucent clouds, Chinook Arches...what's next? #yyc
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
17
178
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
But what's better than one owl? TWO OWLS! As I walked closer, someone else peaked around the corner 😍
Tweet media one
40
102
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Angry seas in Ucluelet, BC this evening! I have to admit, as a prairie guy, I am greatly humbled by the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, and the power of its waters #BCStorm
Tweet media one
53
176
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
5 years
An almost mystical scene this morning, near Gem, Alberta! #abstorm
Tweet media one
45
203
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Scary scenes from West Kelowna on Thursday #BCWildfires
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
30
366
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 months
WOW! 5 bolts just dropped at once in the hills NW of Vernon, BC! #bcstorm #bcfire
Tweet media one
35
193
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
After 6 months off to address my mental health, I am happy to begin easing back into work starting today! It's kind of personal, but I believe in normalizing discussions on mental health. I find them empowering, since we are not alone. Here's some things I've learned: 1/4 🧵
Tweet media one
68
25
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
This is SO nice. All of these lovingly-knitted warm hats and scarves have been left out on this fence in downtown Calgary for folks who may need them during the cold. 🥰 Shoutout to "Commuknity Cares"! #yyc
31
238
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Fire has JUMPED THE LAKE into North Kelowna #bcfire
104
589
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
A BOREAL OWL in southwest Calgary this afternoon!! I'm over the moon with excitement...as this may be a once-in-a-lifetime find!
Tweet media one
47
130
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
11 months
Holy smokes...look at those Rockies glow this morning! #yyc
Tweet media one
24
110
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
2 years
Oh my word
Tweet media one
36
114
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Let this autumn scene from Peyto Lake, Alberta cleanse your timeline 🤝
Tweet media one
26
169
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
6 years
WOW!! The Monarch butterflies have begun their fall migration and are covering trees in Point Pelee National Park! #butterflies #ontario @weathernetwork
22
395
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
TORNADO outbreak in southern Alberta! #abstorm Documented 8 tornadoes (mainly landspouts). Click for FULL VIDEO here:
25
311
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Oh my goodness
Tweet media one
13
85
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Not good...wildfire moving quickly down the slopes toward Okanagan Lake #BCfire
63
512
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Can you believe this structure? Another night of intense storms in southern Alberta! #abstorm @weathernetwork
Tweet media one
33
180
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
EMERGENCY situation for West Kelowna #bcfire
46
469
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
Enchant tornado 335PM #abstorm
Tweet media one
32
222
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
STEAMY morning in Calgary! Time to go freeze things. #yyc #shareyourweather
26
176
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Apocalyptic skies in Vernon, BC. Street lights have begun to turn on early in places. @weathernetwork #VernonBC
59
495
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
Transport truck TIPPED OVER in front of me not long ago, south of Granum, AB! Sole occupant is okay. Crosswinds have become very intense along this stretch of Hwy 2. #abstorm @weathernetwork
129
451
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
3 years
Driving out to BC today under this AWESOME Chinook Arch! Follow along for photos along the Trans-Canada today
Tweet media one
20
97
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
1 year
TORNADO number 6, Enchant #abstorm 338PM
34
256
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
9 months
It's-47.4C, or -53.3F This is what it feels like...
38
210
1K
@BadWeatherKyle
Kyle Brittain
4 years
UNREAL structure. Warm, humid inflow screaming into the storm west of Vauxhall #abstorm @weathernetwork 847PM
22
289
1K