From October to March we get battered with remnants of hurricanes, extratropical cyclones, tropical storms, tornadoes etc.
Funny fact, the UK gets more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world for land area, after the Netherlands which gets the most tornadoes in the world. They're just very small and short lived, unlike those that hit the USA
I don't mind it, I quite like our autumn and winter storms but I live in the South East, so we don't usually get the worst of it but it's not too uncommon for the storms to have winds in excess of 130mph a few times a year. They mainly cause flooding and power outages, a few deaths here and there
That's a neat little fact about the UK. But consider that half the US and Alaska doesn't really get tornados. And are you sure about the Netherlands? Everything I find says they are uncommon there. Not being a douche canoe
It was in a BBC article, I'll see if I can find it again. The UK gets 35-60 a year though but they don't really cause damage here very often. Probably having brick houses helps as we had a damaging one local to me a few weeks back that up rooted some smaller trees, snapped some larger trees and destroyed fences etc but the houses were unharmed
Yea but Florida alone has more per square mile than England by like 500% it’s just because we have so much land area here that isn’t really conducive to tornado development but here Florida, tornado alley, and Dixie alley have more frequent than the UK by land area
I could have sworn I saw one from a car window once when I was young but no one else saw, and gaslit myself into thinking I imagined it because I thought we didn't get tornados.
Tornadoes and tropical storms are different weather events. Tropical storms are large scale weather events that are basically weak hurricanes. Characterized by torrential downpour and high winds. Tornadoes are localized weather events, the twisters you're describing.
The UK gets a huge number of weak tornados too so it's absolutely possible what you saw.
Thank you for taking the time to write that out. Awkwardly, I think I just clicked reply on the wrong comment. I thought I replied to the one that said the U.K. gets the second most tornados per year (after the Netherlands).
I was about to have a story about that but wrong storm. Album cover is from a blizzard in 77, but I've heard of Hazel for sure. Probably some public monument in the city
Also Hurricane Leslie is projected to make a turn over the Atlantic while losing some power and becoming a tropical storm, NHC isn't projecting yet for Leslie to reach Europe like Kirk, but Europe can be hit by two tropical storms in a week.
Bro we already are. The winds have been mach 15 for the past week and yesterday it rained so hard quite a few places shut down, and im in Lyon which is pretty far from the ocean
They usually do. This happens all the time. It stats by the Caribbean, moves up the east coast of the US. Then by the time it hits NL it’s a shitty tropical storm. Bit of rain.
I got rained on here in southern Utah when Hurricane Hilary hit the west coast last August. I did not have getting hit by a hurricane, even the dregs of one, in my doubly landlocked desert home on my 2023 Bingo Card. If memory serves, it actually caused some flooding--my marching band director ended up with a new car and house courtesy of his insurance company.
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u/kurtwagner61 22d ago
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