And that doesn’t count the devastating derocher that blasted through Ontario and Quebec on May 21, killing 12 people, injuring 12 and causing more than $1 billion in damages to buildings and thousands of trees.
Twenty nine tornadoes reached EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. An EF2 tornado is the third weakest on the scale, but can still be dangerous with wind gusts from 180-220 kilometres per hour.
In addition to the tornadoes, NTP reports a total of 94 downbursts in 2022, some of them packing EF2 intensity.
NTP’s executive director David Sills says his team continues to research the May 21 derocher.
It was “an extreme thunderstorm event that we will be studying for some time,” he said.
Founded in 2017, NTP’s goal is to better detect tornado occurrences across the country, improve weather prediction methods, investigate climate change, and reduce collateral damage from these natural disasters – whether it be property or people.
