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Title: 'Ultra-rare' November tornado hits Vancouver, B.C., damage reported
Category: Weather
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2021-11-07 10:05:13
Canadian

[Strutz]

Crazy afternoon around my area yesterday. Lots of rain and wind of course and there was a huge flash of lightning and huge boom of thunder around the time of the waterspout sighting.

The CBC link below includes a video taken near UBC.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.6240644

Another storm will be upon us late tomorrow an into Tuesday. Oy.

[xerxes]

I never in my life thought there would be a tornado warning in BC much less in Vancouver. I always figured the climate and the latitude prevented that. Guess I was wrong.

[housewife]

When we were on the island it was very rare to see lightning tornadoes were unheard of

[DrCaleb]

xerxes xerxes:

I never in my life thought there would be a tornado warning in BC much less in Vancouver. I always figured the climate and the latitude prevented that. Guess I was wrong.

IIRC, anywhere it is possible for tornadoes to form. All it takes is 3 weather conditions to occur, and you get a tornado. (heating lift, upper cooling, and a cross or shearing wind)

But these conditions happen more regularly in certain areas.

[xerxes]

True that. Like I said, I never expected those conditions to happen on the coast.

[DrCaleb]

Nope. Just the new reality. Wild and weird weather.

I expected huge thunderstorms this summer when we had that heatwave, as temps above 26 usually mean t-storms. But there was no moisture, so no storms.

[Zipperfish]

We got lots of dry lightning during the heat wave, and some pyrocumulus clouds from the fires.

[xerxes]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Nope. Just the new reality. Wild and weird weather.

I expected huge thunderstorms this summer when we had that heatwave, as temps above 26 usually mean t-storms. But there was no moisture, so no storms.

Sad but true.

And yeah I totally expected some nasty thunderstorms after that vicious heatwave this summer. That’s the usual SOP for hot weather around here.

[Strutz]

They have confirmed that a tornado touched down on land at UBC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.6241724