Tag Archives Severe weather
Blizzards are inescapable but their costs aren’t always
The most expensive winter storm damage is largely preventable
Severe summer weather: tornadoes
Funnel clouds are usually weak, short-lived and rarely strong enough to touch down
Back to our look at severe summer weather
What makes a garden-variety thunderstorm an event to truly remember?
In the last issue we discussed humidity and dew point, and no, I did not realize at the time we were going to see some ridiculously high dew points during the short-lived heat wave that hit us on June 19. If you recall the article, life-threatening dew points have begun to occur in some subtropical
Is that a cold air funnel or a tornado?
Super cell thunderstorms, from which tornadoes usually develop, are tough to predict
Continuing with severe summer weather: Tornadoes
The peak tornado months within Canada’s tornado season are approaching
More on severe summer weather: Hail
You don't necessarily need a really tall thunderstorm to get the really big hailstones
Severe summer weather and tornadoes, Part 1
The skies offer some telltale signs that a severe storm may be en route
Severe versus air mass thunderstorms
Storms that don’t rotate or have any way to vent rising air rarely last long
Top five regional weather stories of 2016
Last fall’s heat wave was amazing in its duration — and by how much it broke records
A lot of severe summer weather in 2016
Manitoba, in an unusual twist, topped Alberta for the number of severe hail events in 2016