Tornado Warning

[Iron Woode]

looks like all that heat and humidity from the southern US that has hit us is now producing severe thunderstorms and now a tornado warning for us here in London Ontario.

Environment Canada:

1:32 PM EDT Friday 19 July 2019
Tornado warning in effect for:

• London - Parkhill - Eastern Middlesex County

At 1:32 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm that is possibly producing a tornado. Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible.

This dangerous thunderstorm is located near Arva, moving southeast at 40 km/h.

Locations impacted include:
London, Ilderton and Arva.

This is a dangerous and potentially life-threatening situation. Take cover immediately, if threatening weather approaches.

The Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management recommends that you take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ONstorm@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.

For more information: http://www.emergencymanagementontario.ca/english/beprepared/beprepared.html.

This is going to be an interesting day.

 

[trungma]

I miss London, Ontario. Used to live there back in 2005 behind the Costco off or Wonderland Road.

 

[Iron Woode]

I miss London, Ontario. Used to live there back in 2005 behind the Costco off or Wonderland Road.

where are you living now?

 

[BudAshes]

looks like all that heat and humidity from the southern US that has hit us is now producing severe thunderstorms and now a tornado warning for us here in London Ontario.

Environment Canada:



This is going to be an interesting day.

We had a family business in Edmonton get partially destroyed by a tornado. Luckily no one was hurt but it did a ton of damage to green houses/trailers. Who would of thought there could be tornadoes that far north?

 

[sandorski]

Wear your ruby shoes.

 

[trungma]

where are you living now?

Vancouver now but I miss how less busy London was. I do not miss the snow though.

 

[Iron Woode]

the tornado warning has been cancelled.

We are still looking at unsettled weather for the next 48 hours.

 

[KMFJD]

We had a fire alarm and i walked out into the humidity and my glasses instantly fogged up

 

[Luna1968]

lol, you canucks. spring time here sucks with tornadoes.. i got some good video of rotation over my house last month forming a brief twister 1/4 mile away. I really need a tornado shelter.

 

[Exterous]

looks like all that heat and humidity from the southern US

We're merely retaliating for all the cold you throw our way. Be a better hat and we'll keep our tornados

 

[sandorski]

The next Beiber is ready for deployment.....

 

[FeuerFrei]

That's what you get for harboring all that chilly air.

Back in April, straight-line winds laid waste to this town. Buildings smashed and roads blocked by full size trees that toppled. Even the steeple of a church got buried point-down through the roof of the sanctuary.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's scary how Tornados are actually a thing in Ontario now. They never were before other than maybe super rare episodes but it seems they happen every few years like that one in Ottawa last year, or was it year before? Mostly down south mind you, for now... with climate change who knows how things will get even here. It hit like 30C today with a humidex of 35. Was brutal. Mind you even as a kid I do remember getting the odd day like this, but it just seems way more common now. The weather overall is also more sporadic. One extreme to the other within a single day sometimes.

 

[pcgeek11]

Yep, between the ticks and tornadoes your days are surely numbered.

The sky, it is falling.

 

[Iron Woode]

It's scary how Tornados are actually a thing in Ontario now. They never were before other than maybe super rare episodes but it seems they happen every few years like that one in Ottawa last year, or was it year before? Mostly down south mind you, for now... with climate change who knows how things will get even here. It hit like 30C today with a humidex of 35. Was brutal. Mind you even as a kid I do remember getting the odd day like this, but it just seems way more common now. The weather overall is also more sporadic. One extreme to the other within a single day sometimes.

actually, tornadoes have happened here for centuries if not longer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornadoes_by_province_(Canada)#List_of_Ontario_tornadoes