It might be lower percentage in actuality as US is also known to have the world’s most advanced and extensive tornado tracking and documentation network
Open for tornados! Folks we got the government out of tornados' pockets. We're going to finally tread the tornados like responsible adults. We're going to get it tornadone.
> A Prairie province previously thought to be the tornado capital of Canada has been dethroned by Ontario, according to new data by tornado researchers out of Western University.
> Sills said researchers look at the climatology of tornados over 30-year periods. Between 1980 and 2009, Saskatchewan took top spot in Canada with 17.4 tornadoes per year.
> “We just did an updated version, a new 30-year period from 1991 to 2020, and lo and behold it's Ontario that comes up on top (with) 18.3 tornadoes per year,” Sills said.
> Sills said it appears that tornadoes are happening a little less in traditional “tornado alley areas,” a pattern that has been documented in the U.S.
> “More tornadoes (are) happening in the eastern part of the country, which is also the more populated part of the country. So that's not a good trend,” he said.
> “We have a lot going on as far as climate change and droughts and forest fires. All these are factors that come in that influence where tornadoes are going to develop.”
> CTV weather specialist Jess Smith explained that the ingredients for a tornado include warm moist air near the ground, cooler and drier air higher up in the atmosphere, and wind shear, a variation in wind speed and direction.
> “With more heat wave events happening earlier and earlier into the summer season and overall warmer summers, it’s reasonable to expect more thunderstorms that can produce tornadoes and tornadic activity,” she told CP24.com.
We’ve had so many tornados and watches and warnings lately. I’m in eastern ON and it’s been a ton of flash cells that last about 5 minutes - crazy wind and thunder/lightning and then nothing. I’m pretty spooked (and excited?) but mostly fear another Derecho storm like we had a few years ago. I was stuck in a treed in sideroad and it was terrifying. It’s been very humid but stormy, so perfect weather for tornados.
One big problem though is differentiating straight-line wind damage from tornado damage. The US is pretty rigorous about damage surveys and sends investigators from local NWS offices out to any area with significant damage, or at least collects aerial footage and analyzes it in-house. Canada, though, I am not sure it does any of this and probably operates on shoestring budgets. It's hard to develop a tornado climatology when you're not doing that kind of field work.
Fuck even the records are migrating to Ontario nowadays, can’t have shit in Western Canada
Nobody from Western Canada is moving to Ontario… quite the opposite
Fun (?) fact: Tornado Alley experiences more than 75% of all tornadoes in the world.
99% of tornadoes occur in the United States. Over 90% of tornadoes spin counter-clockwise.
Only 75% in the US, but almost all of the strong tornadoes.
It might be lower percentage in actuality as US is also known to have the world’s most advanced and extensive tornado tracking and documentation network
I guess it’s because over 90% of tornadoes occur in northern hemisphere
There are a few clockwise tornadoes in the northern hemisphere, but also a few counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.
In the US as well, the area with the most tornadoes has shifted hundreds of miles southeast (used to be Oklahoma, now closer to Mississippi)
These days, less tornadoes in the plains and more in the south
Nashville is getting hit hard by tornados this year.
Open for tornados! Folks we got the government out of tornados' pockets. We're going to finally tread the tornados like responsible adults. We're going to get it tornadone.
> A Prairie province previously thought to be the tornado capital of Canada has been dethroned by Ontario, according to new data by tornado researchers out of Western University. > Sills said researchers look at the climatology of tornados over 30-year periods. Between 1980 and 2009, Saskatchewan took top spot in Canada with 17.4 tornadoes per year. > “We just did an updated version, a new 30-year period from 1991 to 2020, and lo and behold it's Ontario that comes up on top (with) 18.3 tornadoes per year,” Sills said. > Sills said it appears that tornadoes are happening a little less in traditional “tornado alley areas,” a pattern that has been documented in the U.S. > “More tornadoes (are) happening in the eastern part of the country, which is also the more populated part of the country. So that's not a good trend,” he said. > “We have a lot going on as far as climate change and droughts and forest fires. All these are factors that come in that influence where tornadoes are going to develop.” > CTV weather specialist Jess Smith explained that the ingredients for a tornado include warm moist air near the ground, cooler and drier air higher up in the atmosphere, and wind shear, a variation in wind speed and direction. > “With more heat wave events happening earlier and earlier into the summer season and overall warmer summers, it’s reasonable to expect more thunderstorms that can produce tornadoes and tornadic activity,” she told CP24.com.
Hell yeah number 1 the rest of Canada can suck it!
Awwww crap.
Well I think there was 2 confirmed today in good ole Sask....
What a contest to win
We’ve had so many tornados and watches and warnings lately. I’m in eastern ON and it’s been a ton of flash cells that last about 5 minutes - crazy wind and thunder/lightning and then nothing. I’m pretty spooked (and excited?) but mostly fear another Derecho storm like we had a few years ago. I was stuck in a treed in sideroad and it was terrifying. It’s been very humid but stormy, so perfect weather for tornados.
One big problem though is differentiating straight-line wind damage from tornado damage. The US is pretty rigorous about damage surveys and sends investigators from local NWS offices out to any area with significant damage, or at least collects aerial footage and analyzes it in-house. Canada, though, I am not sure it does any of this and probably operates on shoestring budgets. It's hard to develop a tornado climatology when you're not doing that kind of field work.
It absolutely does. The Northern Tornadoes Project (led by Sills from the article) surveys every suspected tornado across the country.
Another win for climate change
Take off, eh?