Regina's upgraded Weather Radar near Bethune is up & running.
It offers double the distance, up to 240kms, for tracking thunderstorms and instead of cycling every 10 mins, which is the standard for radar in the other parts of the country, this new radar cycles every 6 mins, very important for detecting tornadoes in the most prone Province in Canada for tornadoes.
This is a >$100 million initiative of the Government of Canada, in which the Radisson Radar near Saskatoon was upgraded 18 months ago.
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment...katchewan.html
Speaking of tornadoes, Alberta hit a two decade yearly high average number of tornadoes back in July when 22 tornadoes for the year were reported.
https://dailyhive.com/calgary/albert...-count-22-2019
Coincidentally 22 was the yearly high for tornadoes in Saskatchewan last year in 2018. This year though Saskatchewan saw one of it's lowest counts in years.
Looking at the map, surprisingly there was one tornado recorded in a part of the country which only occasionally gets them...
Quebec of all places.
