A Question for all the European Folks

[kriadydragon]

Actually it's my mom's question. She's been curious as to whether or not tornadoes happen anywhere in Europe. I'm curious to know where else besides the US tornadoes happen. I know they occur in Australia but where else? Who else has to suffer tornado warnings, wall clouds, huddling in basements and leaky cellars and the terror of storm chasers screaming about how a tornado is heading right down the street you happen to live on? I hate tornado season :S

Comments

[a-pilgrim-soul.livejournal.com]

Tornadoes are actually incredibly common here in the UK but they are normally extremely weak and its rare for them to do any real damage. We get occasional wrecked garden sheds and I've seen one go through a field tossing bales of straw around but never known for there to be any injuries.

We're actually incredibly lucky here, we don't get extreme weather in the same way as the rest of the world does. Hence why the whole country grinds to a halt at the slightest snow fall.

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Hence why the whole country grinds to a halt at the slightest snow fall.

Heh, sounds like Texas;) If we got so much as a patch of ice on the road everything was canceled. While in Maine and Alaska kids are going to school in a near-blizzards.