Western-led research team tracks 100 tornadoes in 2021

Drone image following EF2 tornado in Chatsworth, ON on June 26, 2021. Photo by Connell Miller Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) investigated 400 severe weather events in 2021, verifying 100 tornadoes across the country in 2021. This high impact research surged the verified count of tornadoes in Canada by an impressive 170 per cent. Comparatively, NTP verified 77 tornadoes in 2020, which increased the verified count by 166 per cent. Founded in 2017 as a partnership between Western and ImpactWX, NTP aims to better detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada, improve severe and extreme weather prediction, mitigate against harm to people and property, and investigate future implications due to climate change. Gregory Kopp, ImpactWX chair in severe storms engineering at Western Engineering, said NTP's tools and techniques to verify tornadoes in Canada has changed the landscape for extreme weather investigation. In fact, NTP launched the Northern Hail Project (NHP) last week, further strengthening the size and scope of their research across the country.
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