Future of tornadoes changing in Canada, Ottawa twister shows

Emergency crews are cleaning up an Ottawa suburb after a tornado touched down on Thursday with little to no warning. Residents in Barrhaven, which is about 20 kilometres southwest of downtown Ottawa, continue to deal with the fallout of the twister that damaged at least 125 homes and left a trail of debris across the area.

Over the last few years, the Ottawa area has become familiar with the damage caused by tornadoes – in September 2018, a tornado registered on the intensity scale as an EF-3 ripped through Dunrobin, Ont., injuring 25 people, six of who had to be taken to hospital.

Historically in Canada, tornadoes are most common in the Prairies. However, researchers are noticing tornado occurrences moving more eastward – a “concerning” trend, said Connell Miller, an engineering researcher for the Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University.

“Before, we were seeing that the peak tornado area was the southern part of Saskatchewan, but we’ve been finding it’s shifted eastward, so it’s more in the southern regions of Manitoba, and the Ottawa and (northern Ontario’s) nickel belt region has been getting a lot heavier occurrence than we would have normally expected,” he told Global News. Kyle Benning has the details.

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