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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1415
Wonder if Cathy will have help from the kids for the survey?
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Hope the property owner
doesn't object strongly to Cathy poking around. Good reason not to bring the children but on the otherhand they are witnesses and emergency help.
Cute - Mrs Brown-Cow wanted Cathy to plant dormice. Fortunately our heroine has better ethics than that. Wonder if there will be some evidence of tampering in the lot.
"freak whirlwinds"
What's described damage wise is perhaps an F1 Tornado (73-112 MPH winds). I didn't know you had those in the UK. How frequent are they?
Freak or not so freak winds
There have been a number of tornadoes officially recorded in Great Britain over the last 50 years or so. They are definitely not rampant like in the US, but they do happen. A couple were particularly destructive. They also happen in mainland Europe. I saw the destruction of one that passed near Moritzburg (sp?), Germany (near Dresden). It tore up a lot of trees. The damage looked just like what we get in Arkansas. We had an F1 pass over us a couple of months ago. We were very lucky, but our neighbors were much less so.
Portia
Portia
Britain has more tornadoes than the USA..
At least according to some figures. Not on the same scale, I admit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/britain-turns-into-...
The Netherlands Tornados Not a Football Team
I read in some scientific report that the Netherlands is the country with the most tornados per unit area. Of course, it's a small country. The US easily has the most large tornadoes though India, China, Canada and Australia do get hit hard. Tornadoes, as waterspouts, sometimes accompany hurricanes.
I saw a tornado up close one time. It briefly touched down about 500 yards away, toppled a tree and caused a motorist to drive off the road into a ditch. I was a newspaper photographer at the time but my camera was securely in its case during the excitement. I honestly did not think of it at all for several minutes.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Predictive
He's using predictive software to decide where the conditions are favorable for tornado development. We've been using the same software for years in the U.S., and "favorable" conditions are no guarantee that a funnel will develop, much less a full-blown tornado. That's why we are called tornado "chasers". That's why the NOAA research teams using "DOW" (Doppler On Wheels) spend so many days out during the tornado season running around the countryside getting absolutely nothing.
That's why when it comes down to the final interpretation of data collected NOAA's first criteria is Mk 1 eyeballs on reporting. That's why the NWS has an extensive network of Trained Spotters, many of them Amateur Radio operators who can relay near instantaneous reports back to the NWS forecast office providing them with much needed visual reports they can weigh their predictive software and radar observations against. If we folded educated guessing based on modeling software together with radar observations of wind sheer and such into the official count then the numbers of funnels in the U.S. would increase at least 5 fold. Thankfully the NWS and NOAA rely on ground truth when making up their reports. In other words, If it isn't seen and no damage is found then it didn't happen.
Mind you, this only considers land-based funnels and tornadoes, I can't comment on waterspots, even those spawned by hurricanes. I haven't had any training in that area. Funnels and tornadoes generated by hurricanes are also unknown to me as the conditions that spawn them are considerable different from the ones in the Tornado Belt.
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Karen J.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Funny how people are when they come hat in hand
... the Cow was actually civil for a change. This is a good thing for Cathy for now this posh pretender will owe her one so it will be one less complication in Cathy's life.
Kim
cow pats
Funny, I have an odd feeling that somewhere in this Dormouse survey there's a big pile of brown stuff just waiting to be stepped in.
Kris
Do Leopards
ever change their spots? Find no Dormice Cathy and you may well soon find out!!
Hopefully Danny is well on his way to showing the school he is the next Ian Botham (hopefully not the drinking bit of it though!)He does seem to have a lot of talent for sport, And in this world that does seem to be a very good way of making lots of money, Unlike Trish his talents do not seem to be cerebral, So maybe sport might be his way forward, And with a supportive parents behind him who knows where it could end.... Winning the Ashes for England .... Captain of England's world cup winning team... Or Maybe winning Wimbledon (Well miracles do happen:))...
Kirri
Not a very sincere apology
for something that is related to career. still, Cathy's doing the survey.