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#1 Hostile

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Posted 06 May 2007 - 01:02 PM

I never hear of tornadoes anywhere but in the US. Do other countries have tornadoes. If they do, I never see it on the news...

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Posted 06 May 2007 - 04:04 PM

Well for one, I've heard from someone from Boston that the people in the US barely get any news about other countries than the US.

I do believe other countries have tornadoes. But usually they do not seem as extreme as in the US. Note usually.

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Posted 06 May 2007 - 04:53 PM

Tornadoes appear where cold and warm air clashes. This happens more often in the US, but not only in the US.
From wikipedia:

Tornadoes have been observed on every continent except Antarctica; however, most of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States.[4] Other areas which commonly experience tornadoes include New Zealand, western and southeastern Australia, south-central Canada, northwestern and central Europe, Italy, south-central and eastern Asia, east-central South America, and Southern Africa.[5]

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Posted 06 May 2007 - 11:30 PM

The UK officially has the largest number of tornado's per square kilometre, fact of the day there you go.
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Posted 07 May 2007 - 12:19 AM

thats because the UK is tiny

the reason theres so many tornadoes in the US (iirc) is because you have a combination of a desert and a jetstream in the one place riseing hot air, sinking cold air and the jetstream as a catalyst, makes the worse. I might be wrong there, it's been a while since I watched that docco.

to my knowledge we don't have any real tornados. we have a few mini ones which don't tend to do much damage (comparatively) they only rip the roofs of a few houses, and I don't think I've ever heard of a death from one. and we get dust devils, but never a full sized tornado.

that said we have cyclones, really fucking big ones, and usually atleast one every couple of years.
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Posted 07 May 2007 - 12:22 AM

UK has had a few, not major though. London had one not so long ago.

Kent even had an earthquake, i didn't feel it though, reckon i slept through it :)

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Posted 07 May 2007 - 01:31 AM

We actually have really really mild weather compared to what the rest of the world has to endure... But we make up for it by complaining about it more :)
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Posted 07 May 2007 - 12:55 PM

I guess i should feel lucky. There isn't really any crazy weather in Denmark. We get a storm every 4 years or so, but no tornadoes or anything. Also, no earthquakes or volcanos. But the weather is always so dull, and cloudy :/ It is never really warm in the summer, and it rarely cold enough for snow in the winter.
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Posted 07 May 2007 - 12:56 PM

I think they could appear anywhere. :) I mean, all that it takes is the right weather conditions to take affect and BAM one tornado for ya.
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Posted 07 May 2007 - 01:22 PM

it's probably the right punishment for not having signed the Kyoto agreement :)
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Posted 07 May 2007 - 01:56 PM

here in Venezuela we don't get tornadoes, instead we get a season of dry weather, and all of a sudden we get powerful rains, and floods :) you know, thanks to El Niño, remember 1999?


 


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Posted 07 May 2007 - 06:03 PM

it's probably the right punishment for not having signed the Kyoto agreement :p


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Posted 07 May 2007 - 10:43 PM

Not just generally the entire US, but the Midwest gets alot of tornadoes because of the flat plains...

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Posted 07 May 2007 - 10:45 PM

A massive tornado just blasted the US, 2.5 km wide, 320 km per hour winds and it traveled 35 km. It wiped 90% of one town right off the map.

http://www.physorg.c...ws97595519.html

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Posted 13 May 2007 - 06:27 PM

Is that that town in Kansas everyone's talking about? They got it bad. The midwest has it the worst, but we've had some pretty bad tornados in the south too.
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Posted 15 May 2007 - 04:50 AM

Cyclones are tornadoes same as typhoons are hurricanes...so yes tornadoes are worldwide

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Posted 15 May 2007 - 10:01 AM

Actually, cyclones, typhoons, and huricanes are all the same thing.
Tornados are different.
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Posted 15 May 2007 - 01:53 PM

dust devil's are a pain as well..but not destructive....sandstorms are though

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Posted 15 May 2007 - 10:54 PM

Actually, cyclones, typhoons, and huricanes are all the same thing.
Tornados are different.


Partially correct, but let me elaborate:

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- Tropical Storm: An area of unstable weather, where air rotates, and sometimes a precursor to a Hurricane/Cyclone/Typhoon.

- Hurricane: A Tropical Storm in the Atlantic Ocean which has winds above 74 miles an hour. (64 knots)

- Cyclone: Different only by location, a Cyclone is called such when a hurricane forms over the Indian Ocean

- Typhoon: Different only by location, a Typhoon is called such when a hurricane forms over the Pacific Ocean

- Tornadoes: Localized, violently destructive, cylindrically-shaped/funnel-shaped column of air, which may or may not "Touch Down", which refers to the the lowest part contacting the ground. Tornadoes are formed by "Super cells" - extremely strong, spinning storms. The tornado is actually invisible/partially transparent, with no/minimal clouds under most conditions. The color is predominately from debris collected during the strongest phases of the instability.

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Hope that helps. I wrote that myself, so I'm not risking any Copyright Infringement junk lol.

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Also, sandstorms are simply when high winds pull up a large amount of loose topsoil into the air.
Dust devils are essentially the same, but include a small amount of airflow in opposite directions, causing the sand to spin in the air.

People thought that god was angry, and was sending down devils made of sand to punish them. Maybe they should just have treated their land better?

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Edited by Simiswimm, 15 May 2007 - 10:58 PM.


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Posted 16 May 2007 - 12:19 PM

@ Dracaveli: you need to read more I think, the only things that cyclones and tornado's have in common is that they're circular and have an 'eye'


and we get more cyclones from the pasific then the indian ocian.

cyclones die very quickly when they come inland (respective to size and strength), tornados can survive both in and out of water.

dust devils or willy willy's are the same thing as a tornado but on a much smaller scale

never bothered reading about what a hurricane is but it's probebly very similar to a cyclone

cyclones are a hell of a lot larger then tornados and do far more wide spread damage, both directly because of the wind and because of the rain. though tornado's do more concentrated damage. (largest cyclone I can think of took up half of the north east coast of australia, and was a few years ago. It practically destroyed the lively hood of every farmer in northen queensland, had severe effects on our economy, and we're only recovering from it in the last 6-12 months)
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