Canadian Severe Storms Lab

Another NTP milestone - our first all-women damage survey teams Another NTP milestone - we had our first first all-women damage survey teams during the 2026 season

There it is - the first ever targetted polygon Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued by Environment Canada! West of Edmonton, AB.

This long-awaited new system for severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings is mostly going to affect warnings online and on cell phones, but it should substantially reduce the number of warnings for people not in the direct path of the storm. Its impact will grow when TV and radio fully adopt the approach.

On the flip side, if you get a storm warning on your phone now, you are most likely going to be affected. If you've gotten used to ignoring thunderstorm and tornado warnings because 'nothing ever happens', that is unlikely to be the case now. Take every warning seriously.

CSSL group outing to see the Blue Jays beat the Orioles in Toronto today. Dome’s open, sun’s hot, let’s go!!

A team-building board game competition and dinner at a local BBQ joint to end the second week of Canadian Severe Storms Lab training. The number of interns continues to grow each year. They’ll be busy very soon!

It's Emergency Preparedness Week, and your help is needed on a related letter-writing campaign.

Environment and Climate Change Canada's long-standing radar research program has been shut down. Without it, our new $180M national radar network will not reach its full potential, and known problems will not be solved.

Weather radar is the best tool a forecaster has when issuing the severe weather warnings that keep Canadians safe, and making sure that this tool is the best it can be is essential. We at the Northern Tornadoes Project also need high-quality radar imagery to track down Canada's tornadoes. The situation has us concerned.

If you'd like to help, please follow the link below to a letter writing tool. It will send two letters - one to the federal minister in charge of ECCC, and another to your local MP. Hopefully, the severe weather community can convince ECCC to change course on this!

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/reverse-the-loss-of-eccc-severe-weather-radar-science?source=direct_link&