Researchers identify 15 twisters that hit prairies on Canada Day (Phys.Org)
July 09, 2019
Two campgrounds in ruins. Houses lifted and shifted on their foundations. Thousands of trees felled as if by a giant meteorological axe. All told, as many as 15 tornadoes swept through northern Saskatchewan and Alberta during the Canada Day weekend, new findings from Western's Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) suggest.
Researchers examine Prairie twister outbreak (Western News)
July 08, 2019
Two campgrounds in ruins. Houses lifted and shifted on their foundations. Thousands of trees felled as if by a giant meteorological axe.
Tornadoes fascinate Western researchers who launch study project (London Free Press)
July 04, 2019
Dave Sills dreams about tornadoes all the time. Which is only fitting, since as the newly minted executive director of Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project, he will spend his time studying and documenting the storms, of which there are as many as 230 in Canada in any given year.
5 confirmed tornadoes have been recorded in Alberta this year (The Weather Network)
June 27, 2019
Late June and early July is the heart of tornado season for Alberta and as of June 27, the province has already had five verified tornado reports. This is approximately 32 per cent of the average annual amount of tornados that Alberta sees per year.
New technology allows experts to identify tornadoes in remote parts of Canada (Global News)
June 19, 2019
Access to a new constellation of satellites has experts at Western University searching for tornadoes across the country.
Northern Tornadoes Project goes coast-to-coast in hunt for Canadian twisters (The Weather Network)
June 14, 2019
In their quest to find every tornado occurring in Canada, Western University's Northern Tornado Project just received a big financial boost that has allowed them to go national!
Tornado alley childhood shaped meteorologist (Western News)
June 13, 2019
David Sills still remembers the smells and sounds of that mercurial evening in July 1980. It had been humid without relief for days when late-afternoon clouds began billowing from the west and racing towards Windsor.
Database helps put Canadian tornadoes on the map (Western News)
June 13, 2019
No longer will important information about severe storms across the country – information that could save countless lives – be simply gone with the wind.
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