How is this one different? It seems to be, if I could say, hype of it seems to be a little more pumped up than other ones.

Yeah, I mean, the whole thing is, is that the parameters, so the things we look for on the atmosphere, like lots of heat and humidity, some really strong winds in the upper part of the atmosphere.

And then, of course, as you go up through the atmosphere, you have this turning.

So the winds of the surface might be going to the towards the south, towards the northeast.

And when you go up really high, it's going to the southwest.

So that's that spin that gives the storms momentum.

um that spin and when they spin up and they in the core of the storm starts to spin we call it a supercell and those are the ones that can produce giant hail tremendous amounts of rain and tornadoes um and so the parameters are are sort of in that range today so it's definitely um one of the days that we've sort of looking at it going yeah these these numbers are definitely telling us that we have the potential for danger doesn't necessarily mean that you know we're going to have a ton of tornadoes or, you know, giant hail everywhere.

Are you looking at the radar and saying, hey, where's a better place to be or where?

That's what it felt like anyways.

Yeah, this one was interesting because quite often you get a little bit of warning.

You can see the clouds coming, but everything was so tight.

There was very little wind, and then all of a sudden the gusts actually hit, and I think that surprised me too.

It's a little bit unusual to have it that way.

A lot of people I talked with over the weekend, including at the Essex Fairgrounds, said that they, you know, it was just fine, everything was quiet, and then all of a sudden, boom, the winds hit.

It's a little bit unusual to have it happen that way, but when it does, it can do considerable damage.

Are our storms getting more severe with more wind here? Because it sure seems like these windy conditions, we've had them a few times this year, and it seems like things are changing.

What does that mean?

Well, it just means bad data.

I mean, that's really sort of the long and short of it.

What happens is twice a day, the balloons are launched to give us an idea of the profile of the atmosphere.

The balloons have basically an instrument package attached to them, and when you release them, they go up and they basically take measurements of heat, humidity, and pressure as they go up through the atmosphere.

And they eventually get to the top and they pop and then the bits come down and it's made out of cardboard and they're recycled, etc.

It's kind of a really fascinating way of gathering data.

What's the deal here? Why aren't those balloons going up?

Where were you when you were tracking this last night?

Well, I live up here in Guelph, and I got a text message from my sister-in-law as the storms had headed for Essex, asking me where the tornado was.

So I was up and watching this one.

I knew that there was the potential for some good storms in and around the Windsor area.

But those overnight storms can be quite scary, because when you have enough energy in the atmosphere to drive the storms to that extent... you can't see them.

And so you get that added level of danger of not being able to see what's coming, but still getting those really strong winds and potential tornadoes.

Could that be, like, if you really looked into it, I mean, just want to guess at the top of your head, is that like a climate change thing that we're seeing a change in these storms in the time of year we're getting them?

Yeah, I mean, it could be.

But can you tell us where this is coming from, where it's heading, how this will impact us?

Well, the name itself is pretty much gives you a clue as where it's coming from.

It's literally coming from the North Pole.

You know, that cold Arctic air is sort of usually – this gets a little bit weird, but you've got – it's almost trapped at the pole for a while.

But once in a while, you'll have the jet stream kink.

It sort of gets a bit of a bow into it, and it basically sort of surges down towards southern Ontario.

And that cold air floods down with it.

Is that right?