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.
Tornado project expansion to deepen understanding, save lives (Western News)
June 13, 2019
Western is poised to become the country’s leading authority on tornado tracking and research thanks to a major expansion of its Northern Tornadoes Project. With a goal of detecting and analyzing every tornado in Canada, project organizers know its findings will save lives, mitigate losses and strengthen our understanding of severe storm activity.
Before Canadian Scientists Can Study Tornadoes, They Have to Find Them (EOS)
March 22, 2019
A quirky thing about tornadoes is that over the past 30 years, their reported frequency—at least going by U.S. reports—has increased 30%. Of course, the last 30 years also correlate with the rise of Doppler radar, population growth, and cell phones.
Northern Tornadoes Project seeks every twister in Canada (The Weather Network)
February 25, 2019
The project is a partnership between engineers at Western University and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), and has, for the last two years, focused on sniffing out previously-undetected tornadoes in Quebec and Ontario. This year, the program is going national, with the goal to capture Canada's 'missing tornadoes'.
Ambitious research project underway to find every tornado in Canada this summer (Instant Weather)
January 15, 2019
A 2017/18 research project originally designed to only assess tornadic frequency in remote areas of Northern Ontario and Quebec is set to expand to include the rest of Canada this summer...
Meet Ontario’s tornado detectives (TVO)
January 14, 2019
Between the towering, twisting funnel cloud and the powerful winds, tornadoes may seem like difficult things to miss. But extreme-weather researchers believe that as many as 70 per cent of them go undetected in Canada.
'Please Do Not Take This Lightly' blows into the Artlab Gallery (Western Gazette)
January 13, 2019
On Jan. 10, the “Please - Do Not Take this Lightly” exhibit opened at the Artlab Gallery, showcasing artwork illustrating the danger and impact of tornadoes.
Twister-tracking Western University scientists to study every 2019 tornado in Canada (London Free Press)
January 10, 2019
Scientists in London — located in Canada’s tornado alley, Southwestern Ontario — will be spending 2019 tracking twisters from coast to coast, launching the most comprehensive analysis of its kind ever done in Canada...
