Significant Severe Thunderstorm & Tornado Risk (Wed, Jul 20, 2022)
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2022:
Potentially two or even three rounds of widespread severe thunderstorms are expected to move through southwestern Ontario this afternoon and move east through evening hours into areas like the GTHA, Central Ontario, Niagara, Northeastern and Eastern Ontario. Several tornadoes would not be out of the question and perhaps even one or two strong tornadoes. Large hail (1-3cm), damaging wind gusts (120km/h+), frequent lightning, and isolated flooding are all on the table. Environment Canada has even issued a “High” risk and have now issued Tornado Watches. Remember, “Watch for a Warning”. Watches come first, warnings mean take shelter.
IMPORTANT: Please, take a deep breath. Please, do not panic. This isn’t the 1980’s where you didn’t find out about a tornado until hours after it happened. Our team will be live with you every step of the way on Wednesday via YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch tracking every developing storm and notifying those in the path of any rotation, tornado reports, damaging winds, and large hail on our free app Instant Weather and via our premium Text Message Alerts (if you don’t have PayPal, you can also subscribe to our text messages directly on our website, however, the PayPal option is automated so it will work immediately and we may not be able to get to everyone who subscribes via our website as we have to enter those in manually).
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Long story short, please have a plan if you’re in the path of these storms. It could get quite dangerous and the more prepared you are, the less intimidating it will be. Be safe, folks!
