Recently we've had some news of tornadoes. We read about a tornado in Southern Alberta, around the Taber area. Then that night, we had a tornado in a Perth suburb about 5 km east of us. It did quite a bit of damage but I don't believe anyone was hurt badly.
From what I gather, tornados aren't very common here. They're so uncommon that some of the locals confuse them with cyclones (southern hemispheric version of a hurricane). Occasionally they do get a water spout off the coast (a tornado over the ocean) though.
It's been a strange weather year here. The summer was very hot and dry- even moreso than usual. The cyclones up north were particularly bad this year, although, they are not nearly as destructive as hurricanes have been the last few years in North America. We had the coldest day in Perth in 98 years (1.5 degrees). And now we've had a tornado. Bloody weather.
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