© Twitter/@BVieira91Photos of the aftermath of the tornado reveal cars that were destroyed and even flipped upside down, shattered windows to homes and debris scattered across yards and driveways.
Several injuries were confirmed by police after an unusual tornado tore through the city of Barrie on Thursday afternoon, leaving a trail of damage in its path.
Barrie, located about 71 miles (115 km) north of Toronto, is a city in Ontario, Canada. According to the police, the tornado left several individuals injured and seriously damaged some homes.
The twister has been given a preliminary rating of an
EF2 with winds of 130 mph (209 km/h), according to Northern Tornadoes Project. It was on the ground for around 3 miles (4.8 km) and was over 300 feet (91 meters) wide. Additional damage surveys are planned for Friday, so the rating could change before it is finalized.
"The damage is catastrophic. It is significant. It is major," Barrie police spokesperson Peter Leon said, according to
CBC News.
Photos of the aftermath taken on July 15 revealed homes with chunks taken from the roofs, shattered windows and debris-littered lawns. Cars, in some instances, were flipped upside down.
The outlet reports that the tornado struck the city around 2:30 p.m., local time. Police were responding to multiple reports of damage in southeast Barrie after the tornado tore through.
Environment Canada's warning preparedness meteorologist Geoff Coulson said the tornado was confirmed on Thursday by the agency's data along with images shared to social media. Coulson said the agency does not yet have a good idea of the length or width of the path of damage.
Barrie Mayor Jeff Lehman took to Twitter to address the situation, where he thanked first responders and asked residents to avoid the area of Prince William Way and Mapleview, located in southeast Barrie, as emergency crews work to make sure those in the area are safe.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford also took to social media, thanking first responders and saying that his thoughts are with those affected by the weather.
"A big thank you to our first responders that are currently on the ground helping the situation. Please stay safe everyone," Ford wrote on Twitter.
Lehman told reporters that this is only the
third tornado in Barrie that he has seen in his entire lifetime.
AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alan Reppert said tornadoes in Barrie are not common, but they can still occur on occasion. He said strong winds and heavy rain are more common for the city to experience.Barrie experienced temperatures in the 80s F (27-32 C) the day the tornado formed. A cold front was pushing into the area, bringing rain and thunderstorms along with it, Reppert said.Reppert said the city is not forecast to receive any more severe weather in the near future.
Comment: Well, the model of cyclonic activity based solely on heat and moisture is outdated, and the likely explanation relates to our
quieting sun, increased
meteor dust, and the
changing behaviour of electro-magnetism on our planet.
In the book
Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadcyzk explain this in greater detail:
The accumulation of cometary dust in the Earth's atmosphere plays an important role in the increase of tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes and their associated rainfalls, snowfalls and lightning. To understand this mechanism we must first take into account the electric nature of hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones, which are actually manifestations of the same electric phenomenon at different scales or levels of power. Because of this similarity, we will refer to these three phenomena collectively as 'air spirals' in the following discussion.
McCanney describes the electric nature of hurricanes in these terms:
A simple model showed that these [tropical] storms formed when electrical currents connected between the ionosphere and the top of the clouds. [...] the reason hurricanes lost power when they approached land was that the powering electrical current from the ionosphere to the cloud tops and to the Earth's surface had no connection (anode) while over the ocean [...] so it drew up vast surface areas of ionized air from the ocean surface and sucked them up a central column (the spinning vortex was caused by the moist air rising 'up the drain') [...] whereas the land provided a 'ground' for the current and therefore it shunted out the storm's power source. [...] I also calculated that the warm water theory for hurricane development lacked sufficient energy to account for the energy in these massive storms. We later witnessed hurricanes on Mars where there is no water at all. Clearly, the warm water concept did not work [...]1
© Fred K. Smith, National Geographic.A waterspout parallels a lightning strike over Lake Okeechobee in Florida.
Once a rare phenomenon, waterspouts are increasingly common these days in some areas. At the same time, vortexes of water, fire and dust are appearing in very unusual places. There is pretty clear-cut evidence that cyclonic winds are all essentially electrical in nature. Heat exchange plays a role, but more as a side-effect to the distribution of electric charge potential between mediums - ground-to-air, water-to-air, fire-to-air, whatever. See also:
Comment: Well, the model of cyclonic activity based solely on heat and moisture is outdated, and the likely explanation relates to our quieting sun, increased meteor dust, and the changing behaviour of electro-magnetism on our planet.
In the book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadcyzk explain this in greater detail: Once a rare phenomenon, waterspouts are increasingly common these days in some areas. At the same time, vortexes of water, fire and dust are appearing in very unusual places. There is pretty clear-cut evidence that cyclonic winds are all essentially electrical in nature. Heat exchange plays a role, but more as a side-effect to the distribution of electric charge potential between mediums - ground-to-air, water-to-air, fire-to-air, whatever. See also: