I admit I had no idea they had tornadoes there. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/24/uk.tornado/index.html#cnnSTCText Tornadoes tear across Britain (CNN) -- Tornadoes ripped across southern and central Britain on Monday, tearing tiles off roofs and uprooting trees, Meteorological officals said. Farnborough in Hampshire, Luton in Bedfordshire, Nuneaton in the West Midlands, and Northampton were among the affected areas, the UK Press Association reported. In Farnborough, 20 homes were hit by a tornado, which pulled a roof off a garage and uprooted trees, firefighters said. At around 0645 GMT a tornado tore through Luton, north of London, ripping up gardens and roof tiles. A tornado hit Northampton just before 0600 GMT, uprooting trees and causing chaos on the roads, the Northampton Chronicle and Echo reported. A spokeswoman for the UK's Meteorological Office said weather conditions at the time of the storms were conducive to tornadoes. "The weather system that we are going through at the moment -- very windy with heavy rain -- is traveling across the country," she told the Press Association. E-mail to a friend fyi... http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/arc2007/alm07jun.htm Nation Period Total Tornadoes United States 1920-1998 44,417 United Kingdom 1950-1997 942 Canada 1950-1998 625 Argentina 1930-1979 368 France 1680-1998 294 Australia variable 239 South Africa 1905-1996 1998-9 195 Italy 1991-1999 158 Germany 1594-1999 136 Looks like for every 50 we have the UK gets one.
