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*TORRO defines a severe thunderstorm as producing one or more of the following:
one or more tornadoes and / or waterspouts
hail with diameter of at least 20mm
non-tornadic winds gusting to 55 mph or more at surface (but which are not part of synoptic-scale straight-line winds of such velocities)*
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Fun fact: The UK gets the moat tornadoes in the world, by area.
Huh, apparently so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_climatology
The UK has the most annual tornadoes per land area per year, 0.14 per 1000 km2 (although these tornadoes are generally weak), and other European countries have a similar number of tornadoes per area.
But we do have a lot of castles
Excuse me, whiskey tango foxtrot? Have I been teleported to Florida?
Florida is notable for hurricanes. Tornadoes are mostly further north and west.
Tornadoes:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/AllTdots.png
Hurricane tracks since 1985:
Huh. TIL! Thank you!
Tango down in sector one alpha!
🤞 Please hit parliament 🤞
Not sure what to make of this - the met office doesn’t show any weather warning for this time and area that I can see
Oh, it says water spouts.
Never mind then
Nice
