Joshua Van Tassel

….because this is the sound we seem to be hearing every second day lately–

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Although we have been getting a lot of these little rain spells, they’re not as apocalyptic as we may think. In Canada, a severe thunderstorm is defined as either having tornadoes, wind gusts of 90 km/h or greater, hail of 2 centimeters in diameter or greater, a rainfall rate greater than 50 millimeters in 1 hour or 75 millimeters in 3 hours.

So, I guess we’re ok, for now at least.