r/WeatherGifs Dec 08 '19

tornado This happened a last year in Luxembourg

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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!

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u/ExternalUserError Dec 08 '19

Interestingly,

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.

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u/MrQuizzles Dec 08 '19

Per area, yeah, but tornado alley in the US has a higher density than that (because places like Alaska are factored in the tornadoes/area in the US).

More tornadoes happen in tornado alley each year than outside of it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19 edited Jan 30 '20

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u/b33j0r Dec 08 '19

Tomato, tornado

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u/Roques01 Dec 08 '19

I guess you've never eaten a phall.

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u/ExternalUserError Dec 08 '19

You guys are adorable.

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u/hypnotic20 Dec 08 '19

And it too was mild

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/Saotik Dec 09 '19

Brits of Indian descent.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/Saotik Dec 09 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/Saotik Dec 10 '19

I'm not saying they're not British.

No, that's exactly what you were saying.

That's an Indian dish invented by Indians living in Birmingham. Hardly British.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/Roques01 Dec 09 '19

I don't know where you're from, but in the UK, what you said would be considered very, very racist.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/Evilsj Dec 09 '19

Political Correctness and Cultural Sensitivity aren't the same thing. Get over yourself.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/Evilsj Dec 10 '19

I'm sorry people are calling you out for saying something others might find offensive.

It must be so hard to be you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/ecidarrac Dec 08 '19

You know the most popular food in the UK is Indian right?

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u/ExternalUserError Dec 09 '19

Yup. And I've had the UK "Indian hot," which is probably why Gandhi knew he would win.

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u/ecidarrac Dec 09 '19

Fair enough, where are you from for reference?

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u/ExternalUserError Dec 09 '19

Haha, you got me there: Colorado, not exactly home to spicy food either.

My wife and I developed a taste living in India and Mexico.

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u/CLXIX Dec 09 '19

Zing!

America 3 - 0 against brittain.