Albertjweasel t1_j727jom wrote on February 3, 2023 at 3:28 PM

Honestly I’ve seen two tornadoes in the U.K. in my life, one was when we had the ‘beast from the east’ snow storm in 2011/ 2012 (I think?) and there was a a snow tornado on the hills where I lived then which was quite impressive to watch, just a few metres wide white funnel of snow which flattened all the grass and knocked some coping stones off a wall,

Then in 2018 me and my wife watched a funnel cloud form and touch ground over Pendle and move over the side of the hill for about 10 minutes before dissipating, that one had little mini tornadoes whirling around it,

Of course both of those were nothing like the scary bastards they get in the US, I really feel for people that have to live in tornado alley and keep one eye on the sky and an ear open for sirens, we are so lucky in the U.K. that we don’t really have threats like that

Edit: broke up the post into paragraphs so it wouldn’t just be one long post!

Exile4444 t1_j755bxp wrote on February 4, 2023 at 3:33 AM

The snowstorm was in 2010/2011 but the beast from the east was in 2018

Albertjweasel t1_j76gtuw wrote on February 4, 2023 at 1:12 PM

You’re right, I thought it was the beast from the east but maybe that because it’s used so much by the news, apparently we’ve got another one coming to the U.K., it’s going to be a very interesting year for weather watchers I fear

Exile4444 t1_j76xegu wrote on February 4, 2023 at 3:28 PM

Just a heads up there is no evidence for any kind of storm coming in the next month. Not saying in regard there will not be, just that there is literally no way we can know that dar ahead. News agencies such as the mirror always overexagurate their claims and literally directly misquote what met office posts and nothing is being done against and that truly makes my blood boil, literally no action whatsoever is taken against this.

Take last week for example, literally every agencie was posting about how their is a big snowstorm coming.

In reality, they took their information based on a model that showed when the pressure system would be strengthening at the continued theoretical pace an entire fortnight ahead that it was at that pace, (in which, by the way, is impossible to forecast that far ahead apart from slight indicators that it may be slightly more likely/likely) but that is obviously not going to happen as there are many models used for depicting completely entirely different things that proper meteorologists are aware of and they actually fixate on actual likely scenarios.

Worst thing is, once nothing happens the meteorologists are blamed for being even though this has absolutely nothing to do with them and entirely on what people click on like sheep.....

I even hear people saying, for example, 'it was forecasted to rain today but it did not yet again! These forecasters are always wrong' - when in reality if they would actually pay a bit more attention they would have known that there was only a 70% probability of rain.

Sorry for my rant haha, I just felt that I had to let it out somewhere 😅

Albertjweasel t1_j776dvd wrote on February 4, 2023 at 4:31 PM

You don’t have to apologise, I totally understand your anger about newspapers making stuff up and everyone taking as gospel truth, it makes my blood boil too, you’re damn right that someone needs to do something about media bollocks, my 80 year old father in law gets obsessed with bbc news in particular and gets himself in a right state when bad weather is forecast, he doesn’t even go out or anything, he gets rankled by things so easily and it’s because he reads the Mail and watches bbc, none of the things effect him directly but he still gets het up so easily!