And they can’t manage to keep the “lights” on.
This is what a tornado producing supercell looks like when the closest radar is down and the next 1 is 155 miles away. 1st photo is reflectivity 2nd is the velocity. Big time bullet dodged to city of Regina due to unwarned cell. Feel bad for the mets at @environmentca #skstorm pic.twitter.com/MiKz5fhRmb
— Craig Boehm (@Skstormchaser) May 28, 2023
Well who needs warning of a tornado,when Climate Change is the cause of all weather?
No point having early warning or accurate forecasts when you can instead lecture mindlessly about catastrophic climate change and burnish your credentials as a member of The cult of Calamitous Climate.
“Environment and Climate Change Can Ahh Duh’s Science”.
These pathetic ideologues can’t even keep accurate weather records,never mind timely forecasts.
But “Good enough for government” to the end.
They are so concerned with proselytizing about the dangers of a made-up threat that they ignore the real ones. Heads should roll over this. A prairie tornado at this time of year is no joke.
The imbeciles need to put more effort into TRYING to forecast the weather and less playing the stupid “climate change” game.
Don’t expect changes from fake conservative LibCon Poilievre.
Only the PPC will fix Canadastan back into Canada.
There was a general warning that severe thunderstorms could happen throughout the region, but too much to hope for that Environment Canada might actually issue an accurate warning of a tornado or other significant event. They’re too busy sending out serious “warnings” as in ‘it’s going to rain and might be heavy’ or ‘it’s warm so snow might melt and cause local flooding’ to actually assess any real threats.
Greatest job in the world. Have you ever heard of anyone getting fired at Environment Canada/
Environment Canada used to have a meteorologist at the local airport that had a pretty decent record at predicting local weather. Chretien cut their budget so he got let go. Now we get our weather reports from either Toronto or Ottawa, whoever posts theirs first. You can guess how accurate they are. I heard that happened across the country in the 90’s.
Once they got rid of everyone who had real field experience it was child’s play to stuff the Ministry to the gills with climate ideologues, and they never get fired no matter how badly they screw their jobs up.
There was more than “a meteorologist at the airport”: we had a fully-staffed weather office manned 24/7 at Research Park. Worked there as a summer student one year. Almost everything I know about how weather forecasting works…including for severe weather…I learned at their feet. Even they said that you need people in the ground with a feel for the local weather to make accurate predictions, and their record was pretty good, partly because they knew when to tweak their models and in which direction. They had almost nothing but disdain for the forecasters “in Montreal” working for The Weather Network as a result.
When they closed the office (I think in the mid-late 90s), forecasting duties fell to the Edmonton office, with a corresponding drop in accuracy, though some of the forecasters moved there, I think.
There was no climate change talk in the office that I remember, but it was the early 90s.
I so miss the days prior to climate change when the weather was perfect. No storms, no droughts. Just perfect beautiful days when a cow could burp or fart without any guilt or sour milk.
If you believe this maybe your a liberal or a socialist or globalist. Give your head a shake
A government that is actively planning to freeze citizens to death in the dark due to government-mandated energy poverty and shortages can hardly concern itself with a few deaths by tornado. If they had their thinking caps on, they would deploy a mobile MAID bus to the region. “Commit suicide now, and save yourself needless suffering from global-warming-caused extreme weather damage in the future. You’ll not have a care in the world. All the kids are doing it.”
But a bureaucracy, such as Environment Canada, can dance on their dead bodies as Climate Change [TM] brings growth, growth, growth!
We are fortunate to be in the coverage area of the American weather service. Environment Canada is usually behind the times when the warnings are issued. It seems like they can’t get involved until the storm cell crosses the border. I guess that is fine for the GTA and Ottawa to be adequately forewarned.
Not to be cynical, or in the least bit critical of our purple haired masters, but a tornado tearing a swath out of Regina would be great consciousness raising exercise for the cause of Global Warming. The bought and paid for media could puff it up, and those suffering from white guilt could get a deep slurp. No doubt the conspiracy theorists could say the radar station went down by design. And does anyone really care about the far white acid right wing fanatics who live there? Nope. I do not think Regina even has a street named after it in Toronto.
Junkets to sun-drenched places with beaches and/or snow-capped skiing destinations for the executive-level and high-ranking managers cost a lot you know. That $2B barely covers the five-star hotel rooms and gourmet meals.
Yeah but it happened in an area populated with Conservatives, so, who cares. A tornado there would have meant ‘they got what they deserved’.