well this is new

[the_siobhan]

Toronto has never had a tornado warning in the 50+ years I've lived here.

We just got our second one this month.

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[chasing_silver]

Are you in the north? I'm not seeing one for where I am in TO.

[sushispook]

What in the *fuck*.

Plus side: you might end up in Oz? Which... could be a more positive experience at this point?

[cincinnatus_c]

I gotta note that a tornado warning was issued for the city of Toronto by Environment Canada on June 17, 2017. That's the first one I've been able to google up ... if I were gonna bet, I'd bet there have been more (they're not all that easy to google, because EC doesn't archive them, at least not publicly, AFAIK), though I have absolutely no idea how many more. Criteria for warnings, and interpretation of the criteria, evolve over time--EC has gotten shit in the past for not warning, or not warning enough in advance, about tornadoes. Their position on warnings has generally been that they don't want to over-warn because people will learn to ignore warnings. I suspect that social-media-world has--maybe misleadingly, it's hard to tell--given a lot of people the impression that people's capacity for alarm is greater than previously believed.

[nicklausse]

We got the warning, got the storm, then lost power for a short time. The epicenter was apparently Milverton from what I'm reading. It was one of those things where it was noon and suddenly the sun went out and the sky went black and green. But it was mercifully short.

[mschaos]

wait, WHAT? a tornado in Toronto????

[silentq]

When I was living in Borden, there was a tornado that touched down in Barrie. The sky was green even where we were, it was especially scary since I was babysitting for a couple out to dinner in Barrie.
I've had a tornado warning in Boston recently as well, the weather is all kinds of messed up right now.