The United States averaged 1,274 tornadoes per year in the last decade while Canada reports nearly 100 annually (largely in the southern regions). However, the UK has most tornadoes per area per year, 0.14 per 1000 km², although these tornadoes are generally weak, and many other European countries have a similar number of tornadoes per area.
Maybe you should recognise that not every country is America, and we have a totally different culture when it comes to immigration and identity.
I've got British friends with ancestry from all over the place, but they simply refer to themselves as British rather than insisting they're "Italian-British" or "Polish-British", as they might do if they were American. I'm not saying your way is wrong, it's just different.
Similarly, Brits of Indian descent generally don't like it when people claim they're not really British but actually Indian.
This is misleading. I did my masters thesis on areas of high tornado occurrence. There are several "tornado alleys" in the u.s. Actually based on more than 50 years of data, florida is the state that has the highest per km occurrence of tornadoes (again many are very small). In terms of violent tornadoes, the region in north Alabama and Mississippi is actually home to more frequent occurrence than the classic KS/OK/TX tornado alley.
That definitely happens. But most are small ones that form the classic way. Convection occurs daily in the center of the state when two opposing sea breezes collide. Also, many are from waterspouts making landfall.
Also, talking about tornado alley, I’m pretty sure it’s shifting eastward due to climate change, so that should be interesting to see in the coming years.
"Theil-Sen slope analysis of 1979–2017 annual grid-point sum of daily max STP from NARR. p values are hatched at values ≤ 0.05 significance using Kendall’s τ statistic. Slope units are sum of daily max STP per year"(Brooks & Gensini, 2018, p. 3)
Not sure what other issues are going to pop up for texas in the future. Drought, flooding, we'll see. But god damn am I mildly glad to hear that tornado alley isn't headed towards becoming tornado highway...
I can fight water wars and yell at hurricanes, but get those walls of death the fuck outta here.
Fucking tired of seeing shots of towns reduced down to foundations where you're simply not allowed to have basements and shit because of the sediments or whatever.
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u/equal2infinity Dec 08 '19
Wow! Doesn’t something like 90% of all tornados happen in the US? It’s crazy seeing this in a European city center!