>>>>>I don't remember any other August here where the temps fluctuated so wildly in August:
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>>>>As opposed to "...any other August here where the temps fluctuated so wildly in
March"?: :-)
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>>>>Obviously you've never been in GB during August (or any other month for that matter!) :-)
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>>>+30 here today. Sky were clear until an hour ago. Weather warning is up as a cold air mass from the west is passing over the warm air. Thunderstorms, large hail and tornados are a possibilty, but usually they do not occur in this area . . . well, except for the F5 about 19 years ago.
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>>UK receives more tornadoes per year than kansas.
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>Got a link to support that?
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>My sister graduated from the University of Oklahoma, which is in Norman, the center of gravity of tornado reports in the US, and the home of the NSSL. I went down for a couple of days in mid-May one year for her convocation. The first evening I was there a front rolled through and several funnel clouds formed. During events like that the local TV broadcasters overlaid a local Doppler radar image in the top right corner of their regular programming. All the locals were VERY experienced at interpreting these images.
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>Kansas is next door to OK and AFAIK gets its fair share, and more, of fronts and severe weather. I find it hard to believe Blighty would get more. Maybe Bill Kuhn or someone else from Kansas could chime in.
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>Maybe what happens is that the population density in Kansas is low, so some tornadoes go unreported because they aren't seen or don't damage structures (because there is a low density of structures, too).
Check these out:
tornado risk factors
http://www.disastercenter.com/tornado/rank.htmBy state (to 1995)
http://movies.warnerbros.com/twister/cmp/states.html
