Tornado: this happened near my hometown today

Subject: this happened near my hometown today
From: skarpi
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:15 PM

hallo , this picture was taken today not far from my hometown .
about 8km away .

http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/popup/mynd.html?imgid=509054;nid=1440349

sorry about the blue click .
does anyone have any doupt about the weather changes on this planet
still ?? this is goin on in Iceland in North Atlantic .
Never have I seen this before .

all the best Skarpi

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: kendall
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:18 PM

Can someone clickyfy this?

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:20 PM

http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/popup/mynd.html?imgid=509054;nid=1440349

OMYGOSH ToTo. This doesn't look like Kansas anymore.

Amazing photo, skarpi.

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: TheSnail
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:20 PM

http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/popup/mynd.html?imgid=509054;nid=1440349

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:20 PM

CLICKY

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: TheSnail
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:21 PM

Ha!

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:33 PM

Three of you all did Clickies at the same time !! Good Old MudCat !

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: Rumncoke
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:33 PM

Twisters are quite common in the UK - perhaps your climate is normalising after a long period of strangeness?

Anne Croucher

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 07:43 PM

I used to live in Kansas, so those are way TOO familiar to me. I'd think Iceland is not large enough and has the wrong topography for tornadoes to be common there.

Subject: RE: this happened near my hometown today
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 02:46 AM

I thought tornadoes happened only in the middle part of the U.S., but I learned otherwise. I've seen many here in northern California, but they rarely do much damage. Are there areas that just don't have tornadoes?

-Joe-

(yes, gargoyle, I moved it to the non-music section)

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: open mike
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 02:59 AM

in Nebraska (AND OTHER PLACES) these happen often enough that there is a warning system to alert people to take shelter. Sirens ring and on the t.v. and radio there are warnings preceded by loud signals to let people know there is an announcement by the nattional weather service.

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: Penny S.
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 03:32 AM

Apparently, the most common place for tornadoes is the UK. They aren't very big, though some can do damage. Most don't. I've never seen one, though I have seen a few possible funnel clouds not reaching the ground during a storm in Devon, where one was reported where I wasn't. I have also seen a waterspout off Dover.

Given the difference in scale, energy and damage, to pop up and claim more than America seems a bit thoughtless and pathetic.

Skarpi's is the sort we get, and since we get to share the jet stream at various times, it doesn't surprise me.

Penny

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: skarpi
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 04:42 AM

well , I was told today that this was number 8 this summer ??
hmmmm I hope you r right Penny , I cant get more trouble this year
the crisis are enough for me ...... .

kv Skarpi

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 04:59 AM

In a Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society paper, geographers Joseph Holden and Amy Wright argue that although there are 20-30 sightings each year, five times that number of tornadoes actually hit the UK; however, most are not reported because they are not seen.

In August 2006 this one was witnessed and photographed by many local people

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 05:01 AM

oops sorry! - the photo above was taken in Warwick

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: skarpi
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 06:05 AM

thats nice , darky cloud ..... hmmmmmor not ....

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 06:37 AM

Next, Skarpi, watch out for locusts...

Dani

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 06:49 AM

Actually the current best predictor of tornadoes is insects. They fly high or low depending on winds and radar will pick-up the bulk of insect swarms (radar watchers call them angels or somesuch). There was a programme on BBC4 recently about winds and a UK university has developed software to track the insects and extract meaning from sudden changes (ie impending tornadoes). The way they were talking it is free info on the back of an existing wind radar set-up and is ready to go live.

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: GUEST,Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 07:25 AM

I remember seeing one hanging over Wells in Somerset a few years back when on my way to a gig there.
Nobody there had noticed anything and it never made even the local news!

Also used to get a few when I lived on the Gower in South Wales. Storms coming up the channel from the west have a tendency to split and pass either side of the peninsula, so perhaps that is a trigger for starting the spinning?

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: GUEST,SINSULL
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 08:05 AM

One hit Jackson Heights when I lived there. Passed my street and took out trees, cars, a toll booth at a local car dealership (found about a mile away) and a supermarket window. A few injuries; no deaths.

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 08:06 AM

There was a funnel cloud in Ennis back in June:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0617/1224248982095.html

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 09:08 AM

I'm all too familiar with them. Grade school classmate was born in the basement during one; the family had gone there for shelter.

Just what Iceland needs now, Skarpi...tornadoes.

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 10:16 AM

Meteorological terms seem a little disingenuous to me. In the link above, it says that a funnel cloud is not a tornado because it doesn't touch the ground. Semantics, it seems to me. A tornado does not exist until there is a funnel cloud.

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 11:35 AM

Did that funnel cloud touch down, Skarpi?

http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/05-6-9-3805sm.jpg"

http://skydiary.com/gallery/chase2000/051600fatfunnel.jpg

Subject: RE: Tornado: this happened near my hometown today
From: GUEST,Cheri
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 06:47 PM

Dani-
Are you from Ocean City originally or close by? I know someone with your name that I haven't seen in years! She used to play word association on AOL some years back with me.