Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP)<\/a> at Western University, said this year has seen the most tornadoes in the Prairies since the 1980s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cSometimes a lot of things happen at the beginning of the season and then not much happens at the end,\u201d said Sills.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if this pace keeps up through June, July, August, we could be looking at some record numbers of tornadoes here for the Prairies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exact cause of the increase in severe weather is difficult to determine, said Proctor, but he believes it is likely related to recent weather conditions.<\/p>\n
The contrast between Edmonton\u2019s heavy rainfall and the high levels of fire weather activity in the Northwest Territories creates a \u201cconsistent flow pattern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Environment Canada predicts severe weather by monitoring moisture, weather instability, sudden and drastic shifts in wind speed and direction, and weather triggers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what really had happened across the Prairie provinces is a very consistent sort of flow pattern, very consistent storm track and an atmosphere that’s been preconditioned to produce thunderstorms,\u201d said Proctor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thunderstorms often do not create enough wind shear to spin into tornadoes, he said. This year, there was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sills and his team are investigating the damage from the recent tornado in Dillberry Lake Provincial Park. He said the damage path from that tornado stretches from Killarney Lake in Alberta to Long Lake in Saskatchewan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty substantial damage, a lot of trailers that were either tipped over or destroyed,\u201d said Sills.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NTP is still working on determining a damage rating for the tornado, Sills said their findings should be posted on their Facebook page this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-795053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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