CTV Winnipeg: ‘There was debris spinning’: Eyewitness shares close encounter with funnel cloud in Manitoba

As for the rest of the country, John Hanesiak, a professor of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba, says there are a number of factors that are leading to fewer tornadoes this year.

“We haven’t seen the four big ingredients that we need on any particular day that sort of come together as often as we normally do,” he said.

David Sills, the director of the Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University in London, Ont., says active wildfires could also be playing a role in the lowered activity.

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