The Northern Tornadoes Project recorded 86 tornadoes across Canada during the 2023 season, significantly less than the previous year’s 129 – a Canadian record for the most tornadoes documented in a year.
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Western researchers determine July 1 Alberta tornado was among most powerful ever seen in Canada
A tornado that sliced through a rural area south of Didsbury, AB on July 1 has been rated at EF4 by Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project.
Northern Tornadoes Project confirms 117 tornadoes for Canada in 2022
NTP researchers conducted 447 severe weather investigations using satellites, aircraft, drones and ground surveys and confirmed 117 for 2022.
Northern Hail Project recovers record-breaking hailstone
A Canadian record-breaking hailstone was recovered by the Northern Hail Project field team weighing 292.71 grams, eclipsing the previous title holder – a hailstone weighing 290 grams, collected nearly 50 years ago.
Severe weather experts join Western’s Northern Hail Project
Julian Brimelow has been appointed as the first-ever Northern Hail Project executive director and Simon Eng will serve as its research meteorologist.
Western-led research team tracks 100 tornadoes in 2021
Northern Tornadoes Project investigated 400 severe weather events in 2021, verifying 100 tornadoes across the country in 2021. This research surged the verified count of tornadoes in Canada by an impressive 170 per cent.
Tornado researchers expand scope to study hail
The research team behind the Northern Tornadoes Project, a partnership between Western University and ImpactWX, has launched the Northern Hail Project and they expect to be documenting the frozen phenomenon starting this summer.
Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project goes coast to coast to coast with new national scope
Western University is set to become Canada’s leading authority on tornado tracking, research and analysis thanks to a major expansion of its renowned Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP). The expansion has been made possible by a partnership with ImpactWX, a Toronto-based...
Northern Tornadoes Project launches most comprehensive analysis ever in Canada
A unique, Western University-led project to discover and decode tornadoes in remote Northern Ontario has spun into a nationwide mission to identify every Canadian tornado in 2019. The Northern Tornadoes Project identified nine tornadoes in 2017, which had previously...