>>>>>>>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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>>Here's just one:
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/may/05/science.weather
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>>"We get reports of between 30 and 50 tornadoes in the UK per year," says Andy Yeatman, for the Met Office. "This is certainly one of the bigger ones, but it isn't that unusual." In fact, many more tornadoes are likely to go unnoticed as they pirouette across unpopulated land. Although the UK doesn't get the massive twisters seen in the US, it is estimated to have the most tornadoes per unit area in the world.
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>I don't get the 'per unit' part.
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>What unit?

Does it matter - if it's sq miles, acres, hectares, or what - so long as the unit area is the same throughout the sample.
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>We get that many twisters in a busy spring week in Kansas.