Kristalderp t1_jdwg55r wrote
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> That make up the traditional tornado alley and then a 4th one across the rust belt south of the great lakes to the appalachians.
There is definitely one running into the South side of the Great Lakes in Michigan that people gotta pay more attention to on both the USA side and Canadian sides. With the east coast being plagued with more hot and humid summers as of late and the Great Lakes feeding the humidity, the rust belt and the St Laurence corridor in Canada is starting to get spicy. I live in Canada but when Michigan gets hit by a tornado, we start paying attention as it means that we're in for some shit within 3-6 hours as anything that hits near Detroit, will absolutely come up the St Laurence corridor and potentially affect approx. 56% of Canada's total population within 6-10 hours.
For example: The same storm system that dropped a tornado in Michigan last May that was EF2-EF3 later on dumped the strongest and most violent derecho we'd ever seen in Canada that killed 20+ people across Ontario and Quebec.
Im definitely keeping an eye to the skies this summer again as I can't trust the Canadian weather alert system. Its horrible compared to the NWS' alerts and with fast moving storms like that derecho, some only had a 2 min warning to GTFO inside and it wasn't enough along with the weather channels not knowing wtf was happening when you can clearly see its a Derecho on the doppler radars...
Drak_is_Right t1_jdwhis0 wrote
I didn't know that it was starting to extend farther north into that corridor, I just knew about the ones in Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, southern michigan, ohio
Kristalderp t1_jdwl4x3 wrote
It feels like it's been moving the past 5 or so years. I'm in Quebec and we used to get an odd tornado every 5 to 10 years. Now it's been 1 or 2 every year in may-june-july. Our homes are sturdier than down south, but I don't think my province or Toronto will give a F and be prepared for tornadoes until they get hit with a deadly tornado and face the consequences of not being prepared and safety. People out west know the signs of a tornado and get ready, but east coast doesn't or doesn't care and it's concerning.
When we once had an alert in june 2022 for a tornado warning (the ingredients are in place, same cell dropped another tornado in Ontario) and I spotted a funnel right outside my workplaces's window. I panic as its forming. Its inching down and coming towards us. my bf who works with me just goes to the window, shrugs and goes back to working at his desk as if its a normal storm. Even if it was coming towards us and I'm begging him to GTFO into the middle of the building with me that's far away from the walls or windows.
Thankfully didn't touch down near us, but my bf rightfully got a slap to the back of his head for ignoring me once he realized I was being serious, very much scared and showed him the photo I took of it and other funnel clouds and that one did drop north of us (that spawned from that funnel cloud) that he had a "oh, durrr" moment. 🤦♂️
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