In the blockbuster 1996 movie Twister, meteorologists successfully deployed small weather sensors into the heart of an active tornado to collect data and revolutionize severe weather safety. Previously the stuff of legend, a researcher from Australia’ …
Northern Tornadoes Project
Tornado researchers expand scope to study hail
Northern Hail Project furthers Western’s severe storm investigative strength
Expert insights: How to reinforce your house against tornadoes
Hurricane straps keep roofs on houses and can improve safety during tornadoes
Northern Tornadoes Project verifies 77 tornadoes in Canada for 2020
The team conducted 409 investigations, thanks in part to reports from everyday Canadians.
Western experts talk tornadoes: predicting, mapping, protecting people and property
Tornado and extreme weather experts Greg Kopp and Dave Sills took part in a webcast on May 21, 2020 to discuss the upcoming tornado season and how to best detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada.
Researchers examine Prairie twister outbreak
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.
Database helps put Canadian tornadoes on the map
No longer will important information about severe storms across the country – information that could save countless lives – be simply gone with the wind.
Tornado alley childhood shaped meteorologist
David Sills still remembers the smells and sounds of that mercurial evening in July 1980.
Tornado researchers expand scope to study hail
Northern Hail Project furthers Western’s severe storm investigative strength
Expert insights: How to reinforce your house against tornadoes
Hurricane straps keep roofs on houses and can improve safety during tornadoes
Northern Tornadoes Project verifies 77 tornadoes in Canada for 2020
The team conducted 409 investigations, thanks in part to reports from everyday Canadians.
Western experts talk tornadoes: predicting, mapping, protecting people and property
Tornado and extreme weather experts Greg Kopp and Dave Sills took part in a webcast on May 21, 2020 to discuss the upcoming tornado season and how to best detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada.
Researchers examine Prairie twister outbreak
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.
Database helps put Canadian tornadoes on the map
No longer will important information about severe storms across the country – information that could save countless lives – be simply gone with the wind.
Tornado alley childhood shaped meteorologist
David Sills still remembers the smells and sounds of that mercurial evening in July 1980.