The Northern Tornadoes Project
The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP), founded at Western University in 2017 with the support of social impact fund ImpactWX, aims to better detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada, improve severe and extreme weather understanding and prediction, mitigate against harm to people and property, and investigate future implications due to climate change. The NTP is one of several projects carried out under the umbrella of the Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory established at Western in 2024. Other CSSL projects are the Northern Hail Project and the new Northern Mesonet Project.
NTP partners include the University of Manitoba, Pelmorex's The Weather Network, Instant Weather and CatIQ. NTP also closely collaborates with Environment and Climate Change Canada and several Canadian and international universities.
The Open Data site for Western's Northern Tornadoes Project is an access point for our tornado data (ground, drone, aerial and satellite surveys and related assessments) and statistics, event assessment tools and public reporting. The NTP Dashboard is another, map-based access point. Non-commercial use of the data is permitted and encouraged. For commercial use, please contact us at ntp@uwo.ca.
The 2024 NTP Annual Report is now available!
The 2024 Canadian tornado season started Mar 16 and ended Nov 10 - the longest on record since at least 1980. And the 129 tornadoes for the year comes second only to 2022 when there was 131.
Press release here.
Link to PDF here.
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