
Environment
The research project trying to find every tornado in Canada
Tracking the country’s extreme weather events to answer the question: are storms getting worse?
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Environment
Chasing tornados may be the everyday work of storm chaser George Kourounis, but that didn’t lessen his adrenaline rush as a supercell storm turned into a violent tornado near Bennington, Kansas, on Tuesday.
“We could hear the roar!!” Kourounis tweeted as the tornado ripped past him during a Twitter interview with Canadian Geographic.
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