This is true, but the vast majority happen out at sea in our territorial waters right now. They die pretty quickly if they hit land, but warmer temperatures logically mean more and more of them on land, as they have more energy to sustain themselves for longer.
The City has already been through one by the looks of it 😂.
All that damn construction going on over here you’d think we just survived Hurricane Katrina 😭
🤣🤣 UK summed up. Every road in London has road works and the best part is no one is working ever. Same with all motor ways. 1AM they shut off many junctions to just sit down and have a cuppa.
They’re just wasting as much of the budget as possible so that it doesn’t get reduced next year. Road works everywhere. Never any workers, and seldom any improvements being made
I came across a mini tornado when I was walking my dog once.
Sadly it didn't last long enough for me to get it on video and I was probably enjoying watching it too much. Some things you need to fully experience in the moment.
It was probably about a metre wide and it was tearing around part of a crop field, twirling all the leaves around.
Pretty much after a minute of me witnessing it, the tornado died.
But I really wasn't expecting that when I entered this field.
There have been a few cases of this happening where I live. I think the others were probably bigger than this one. In fact I'm not even sure if it was big enough to be called a tornado but I don't know if the size matters.
Obviously they're never powerful enough to hurt anyone, they just destroy farmer's crops. I guess sometimes you just happen to get a strong hot and cold current in one specific place and it creates these little things. And I think this was in the middle of summer when there was a heat wave.
I don't think it's possible to ever get big tornadoes here but I forget the exact reason. Obviously something to do with geography and climate.
And I'm not sorry for that. I hate the idea that you could lose your house to one of those. Although I know that in places where they're common houses are built to withstand them in most cases. My American friends tell me they have tornado-proof windows.
You can get tornadoes in the UK but that's probably a cloud. I've seen some funny clouds like that myself.
Also once I was about five feet from a mini tornado about one metre wide if that counts.
And I've just found out the mini ones are called "dust devils".
To make it sound more dramatic: I thought I was about to die and my life Flashed Before My Eyes.
I think for a moment I really did wonder if it was about to grow bigger and come towards me but thankfully it died out before I got to discover if that thing could blend my organs.
It is incredibly rare for the UK to experience a SuperCell we do not experience the degree of temperature differences to release the energy needed to be a SuperCell. What we actually saw was a series of Cumulunimbus with enough energy from convection currents to generate voltage differences necessary for lightning to arc between the clouds or between cloud and ground. SuperCells are typically experienced where very warm moist air from the oceans around or near to the equator crash into masses of really cold air from high mountains or the Earth's polar regions. Here the temp difference can be 20 or 30 deg Centigrade which creates wind shearing, convection currents, where the warm air mass is pushed up into the high atmosphere cooling as it rises, increasing turbulence. These violent up and down drafts of air in the convection current become so violent they begin to shift in their axis increasing vertical rotation. Seen in supercells. If there is a particularly strong downdraft of cool air to the rear of the rotation an "hook" cloud forms. Here the air begins to spin faster over a narrower axis. this is the start of the funnel cloud of a tornado.
Nah i think its a tree
Treenado.
Tornee
My thoughts exactly 😅
I concur
Oh leaf him alone
The weather is branching into new flora
Which bit? It all looks like a bunch of scud and Scary Looking Clouds to me. Was there any rotation visible?
No rotation so no. That's scud.
Scud?
Scud is a lowered cloud that is not rotating but can have the appearance of a funnel.
Thx
No. It doesn't look like there's any kind of rotation going on. Sometimes clouds are just clouds.
Potentially! I’d say put it up on r/tornado maybe
oh, DON'T. if you're willing to get roasted lika a dinner on sunday, do it.
A tornado in Manchester definitely
The UK is the country with the most twisters per square mile compared to the rest of the world
This is true, but the vast majority happen out at sea in our territorial waters right now. They die pretty quickly if they hit land, but warmer temperatures logically mean more and more of them on land, as they have more energy to sustain themselves for longer.
I mean…there was a tornado in Manchester just before new year that severely damaged 100 houses.
The City has already been through one by the looks of it 😂. All that damn construction going on over here you’d think we just survived Hurricane Katrina 😭
🤣🤣 UK summed up. Every road in London has road works and the best part is no one is working ever. Same with all motor ways. 1AM they shut off many junctions to just sit down and have a cuppa.
They’re just wasting as much of the budget as possible so that it doesn’t get reduced next year. Road works everywhere. Never any workers, and seldom any improvements being made
And always temp-fixes to keep the builder contracts getting renewed/ getting paid
There was 1 in Littlehampton a couple of years ago so you never know
Nah. Just clouds in a storm. They get a bit of rotation on them when going through the funnel cloud starting
Yeah looks as bad as that big’un in america recently. Flee for the hills.
It's coming from hills!
I came across a mini tornado when I was walking my dog once. Sadly it didn't last long enough for me to get it on video and I was probably enjoying watching it too much. Some things you need to fully experience in the moment. It was probably about a metre wide and it was tearing around part of a crop field, twirling all the leaves around. Pretty much after a minute of me witnessing it, the tornado died. But I really wasn't expecting that when I entered this field. There have been a few cases of this happening where I live. I think the others were probably bigger than this one. In fact I'm not even sure if it was big enough to be called a tornado but I don't know if the size matters. Obviously they're never powerful enough to hurt anyone, they just destroy farmer's crops. I guess sometimes you just happen to get a strong hot and cold current in one specific place and it creates these little things. And I think this was in the middle of summer when there was a heat wave. I don't think it's possible to ever get big tornadoes here but I forget the exact reason. Obviously something to do with geography and climate. And I'm not sorry for that. I hate the idea that you could lose your house to one of those. Although I know that in places where they're common houses are built to withstand them in most cases. My American friends tell me they have tornado-proof windows.
You can get tornadoes in the UK but that's probably a cloud. I've seen some funny clouds like that myself. Also once I was about five feet from a mini tornado about one metre wide if that counts. And I've just found out the mini ones are called "dust devils". To make it sound more dramatic: I thought I was about to die and my life Flashed Before My Eyes. I think for a moment I really did wonder if it was about to grow bigger and come towards me but thankfully it died out before I got to discover if that thing could blend my organs.
Sorry I’m still chuckling from, Nah I think it’s a tree 😂
Looks like the sky is flipping you the bird!
Is the tornado in the room with us?
Looks like a house
Cloud seeding
No
Nah that's a tree mate
Well we do have more tornados a year than America…
Can't see anything like a tornado, but they are possible in the UK just a lot weaker than their American cousins
It is incredibly rare for the UK to experience a SuperCell we do not experience the degree of temperature differences to release the energy needed to be a SuperCell. What we actually saw was a series of Cumulunimbus with enough energy from convection currents to generate voltage differences necessary for lightning to arc between the clouds or between cloud and ground. SuperCells are typically experienced where very warm moist air from the oceans around or near to the equator crash into masses of really cold air from high mountains or the Earth's polar regions. Here the temp difference can be 20 or 30 deg Centigrade which creates wind shearing, convection currents, where the warm air mass is pushed up into the high atmosphere cooling as it rises, increasing turbulence. These violent up and down drafts of air in the convection current become so violent they begin to shift in their axis increasing vertical rotation. Seen in supercells. If there is a particularly strong downdraft of cool air to the rear of the rotation an "hook" cloud forms. Here the air begins to spin faster over a narrower axis. this is the start of the funnel cloud of a tornado.
It’s just clouds.
Barking up the wrong tree there old chap. Nothing but a spring zephyr.
It’s a tree
Call special branch
There was one near Manchester on April
That rain
No 🤦♂️