Ottawa has seen more than its share of tornadoes recently. Is this the new normal?
On Thursday evening, Simonot’s house stood in the way of a tornado, which, according to what firefighters later told him, filled his attic and needing a place to go, blew out through his roof.
The first tornado that I can recall in the Ottawa area happened, coincidentally, in the afternoon of the first Thursday in August, this one in 1994. I had just come out of the Valu-mart in Shawville and, carrying my groceries to the car, happened to look to the east.Article content These days, tornadoes — or “terrorists of the sky,” as Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips referred to them in a phone call with me on Friday — seem more and more frequent here. This may be, as Phillips suggested as one possible explanation, simply a matter of more people paying attention and recording and reporting them, especially as the city gets larger and more tornadoes are described as “Ottawa” tornadoes, as opposed to, say, a Metcalfe tornado or a Carp tornado.
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