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    pandr Guest

    Default May 21st 2012

    May 21st 1979

    A tornado tore part of the roof off the annex of a wheat pool elevator in Regina, SK. It also destroyed a farmhouse and barn, and sent a truck flying across a yard. The farmer, who was working in a nearby field, escaped injury. The twisting winds drove about a dozen splinters of wood more than a metre into a house, overturned a stove and chairs, and created a 1-by-2-metre hole in the kitchen wall

  2. #32
    pandr Guest

    Default May 22nd 2012

    May 22nd 2004

    In a rare event, 2 tornadoes struck southwestern Ontario within minutes, just a few kilometres apart. The tornado that touched down near Stratford likely packed winds of 350 km/h, the fiercest to hit Ontario in 8 years. It was a miracle that no one was hurt. The storm uprooted giant trees and picked up a truck from a driveway, spun it around, and dropped it about 10 metres away on a lawn.

  3. #33
    pandr Guest

    Default May 23rd 2012

    May 23rd 1940

    Residents of Hazelton, BC, were surprised by the strength of a whirlwind. Its first mighty blast cut a path 10 m wide and took the roof off a fish storehouse. Some big logs were also carried 150 m away before hitting the ground and splitting in two. A family tried going outside, but the wind was so strong they could not get their door open. Two hours later, a second blast inflicted more damages.

  4. #34
    pandr Guest

    Default May 26th 2012

    May 26th 2009

    Across the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, large snowflakes began trickling out of the sky for most of the day. It was hardly a blizzard-the accumulation was mostly limited to car windshields and open fields. In total, 5 cm of snow fell, yet it was a record snowfall for this date. Most residents in St. John's were horrified by the sight of snow in late May.

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    Tornadoes cause millions in damage in Quebec

    26/05/2012 7:26:10 PM

    CTVNews.ca Staff

    Environment Canada has confirmed that two low-level tornadoes hit a rural area of Quebec, just northwest of Montreal, Friday evening, levelling buildings, uprooting trees and demolishing a 200-year-old church.

    An F-1 tornado travelling at a speed of 150 kilometres per hour swept through the town of St. Benoît de Mirabel Friday at approximately 8:15 p.m., said Environment Canada meteorologist René Héroux.

    This followed closely on the tail of an F-0 tornado with winds of 120 km/h that hit the town of Brownsburg-Chatham at approximately 8:00 p.m., said Héroux.

    The damage caused by the low-level twisters -- the scale measuring these tornadoes ranges from F-0 to F-5 -- is estimated to be in the millions of dollars. The storms tore roofs off of houses, smashed windows, uprooted trees and knocked electrical poles to the ground.

    In St. Benoît de Mirabel, the 200-year-old Grand Fresniere Presbyterian Church was reduced to rubble.

    The tornadoes also knocked down 35 to 40 hydro poles, cutting electricity in the region.

    The tornadoes were part of a series of storms and heavy winds that tore through the province Friday.

    Mirabel resident Johanne Aubin said she took her children into the basement after struggling to keep the doors to her home closed against the howling winds.

    "It lasted maybe three minutes," Aubin told CTV Montreal. "We used all our force to keep the doors closed, but the wind was just too strong."

    More than 30,000 Quebecers lost electricity Friday night as a result of the extreme weather. By noon on Saturday more than 90 per cent had had their electricity restored.

    According to officials, approximately six tornadoes hit the province every year.

    With files from CTV Montreal's Lori Graham and Camille Ross and The Canadian Press
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  6. #36
    pandr Guest

    Default May 27th 2012

    May 27th 1924

    During a heavy rain shower, a miniature cyclone passed through Wrentham, AB. In crossing the school grounds, it picked up 2 of the outbuildings and moved them a distance of 15 m. Other small buildings were knocked over, giving that part of town the appearance of a morning after Halloween.

  7. #37
    pandr Guest

    Default May 28th 2012

    May 28th 1950

    Winnipeg, MB's, great flood in the spring of 1950 was still an unreal memory to those affected by the greatest disaster ever to hit the province. Most of the 80,000 city and rural dwellers forced from their homes by silt-laden water were still assessing their losses, unable to return to their dwellings. The first of Britain's $310,000 in relief supplies arrived by air as a gift from the British people.

  8. #38
    pandr Guest

    Default May 29th 2012

    May 29th 2004

    Across the Maritimes, May's winterlike weather meant a busy time for companies delivering furnace oil. Consequently, customers had to wait 2 or 3 days for delivery. The unseasonably cool wet weather emptied golf courses on PEI. It was said that even the Scots among Islanders stayed home and practised their putting in the living room

  9. #39
    pandr Guest

    Default May 31st 2012

    May 31st 2010

    In northern and central Quebec, an early snowmelt, increased warmth, and lightning activity increased the forest fire risk. Smoke from forest fires blanketed Montreal, QC—the air quality index in one neighbourhood was more than double the record-breaking smog day in 2008. Smoke from the fires drifted 800 km south, prompting complaints about the smell of smoke from several US states.

  10. #40
    pandr Guest

    Default June 1st 2012

    June 1st 1901

    Soon after a homesteader built a log cabin in Priddis, AB, a whirlwind lifted its roof and top row of logs and set them down on the ground. When the man and his brother woke up, they could see the stars and got up to see what happened. The possible tornado also destroyed a curling rink and a granary.

  11. #41
    pandr Guest

    Default June 3rd 2012

    June 3rd 1910

    Near Cowansville, QC, an extensive frost killed entire gardens, except for radishes. Even melons and beans covered with sap buckets, dug in around their roots, froze. Locals said potatoes might grow again but would not increase much in size. One farmer swore never to plant anything again until July 1st; another complained that the climate was 10 months winter and 2 months late fall.

  12. #42
    pandr Guest

    Default June 5th 2012

    June 5th 2009

    Calgarians in Alberta faced a rare June snowfall. When the snow finally ended, it amounted to 3.8 cm, but it disappeared in a few hours. The blast of winter weather left 1,245 bare-skinned participants of The Underwear Affair covered in goose bumps. They had stripped down to raise money for cancer diseases that strike below the belt.

  13. #43
    pandr Guest

    Default June 15rh 2012

    June 15th 1955

    1955: A young lad from St. John's, NL, spent a day fishing alone northwest of Tilton, NL. By noon, the sunny day gave way to thick fog. He continued fishing, hoping it would clear in time to get home before nightfall. But it did not. He built a fire, but it could not be seen by the nearby search party. Soon, the fog lifted. He arrived home just as a large crowd was gathering to continue their search.

  14. #44
    pandr Guest

    Default June 16th 2012

    Juine 16th 1923

    A powerful cyclonic storm swept central Saskatchewan. Near Rosetown, a teenage farmhand was killed when his bunkhouse was tossed 50 m through the air. A farmhand asleep in another bunkhouse sailed 0.5 km up and over a haystack, unhurt until struck on the head by a barrel while crawling to shelter. A Saskatoon warehouse was unroofed, then gently moved across the street to a vacant lot.

  15. #45
    pandr Guest

    Default June 17th 2012

    June 17th 2007

    It was a soggy Father's Day in southern Alberta, breaking a 110-year-old rainfall record for the day in Calgary. Residents between Canmore and Cochrane were on flood watch after tributaries of the Bow River surged when as much as 70 mm of rain fell over the weekend. The drizzle and grey sky kept all but die-hard golfers away and prompted cancellation of a Father's Day drag race.

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