jedimika t1_iu8ab2z wrote on October 29, 2022 at 9:48 AM

Reply to comment by Danielnrg in TIL We are currently amidst the longest gap between EF5 tornadoes in history by Danielnrg

Look at the question a little bit different.

The US has more tornados than any other country, 1100-1200 per year. Canada is #2 with about 100 a year. Then conditions for our massive tornado count are a unique balance of weather patterns. As climate changes that balance could weaken/ break.

And while it would mean that this specific weather event becomes less common, others will become more prevalent. And the big hit is areas not used to certain events could get more. Texas has a hard time with blizzards, Maine has never seen a heatwave in the 110s.

NinDiGu t1_iu8wbss wrote on October 29, 2022 at 1:53 PM

> The US has more tornados than any other country, 1100-1200 per year.

Interestingly, the UK has more tornados than the US according to QI, but they are just much weaker.

As I rarely trust the fact checking on QI, as they almost always are wrong on facts about my area of expertise, I cannot imagine it to be true that GB has more tornados than the US, but they said on QI that there were more tornados in GB annually than the US.

bearsnchairs t1_iu8xatu wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:01 PM

It may say that the UK has more when normalized for land area, but that is a silly stat. The US is far far larger than the UK. The US has far more overall tornadoes.

NinDiGu t1_iu8ycnb wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:10 PM

That may have been it. I always have a cup of salt handy when watching the show.

I enjoy the show because in general I love panel shows, and there are lots of QI episodes to watch, but man the elves get so many things wrong, and Stephen even mocks people who know things. The specific examples that irked me was when Stephen Fry doubled down on his mistakes about German to a German speaker, and when he mocked Sean Locke for the interesting fact that banana plants are mobile (referred to as walking), which at least he was corrected on during the same show.

dlyselxicssuck t1_iu94g5d wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:56 PM

In less populated areas tornadoes can go unnoticed especially if there are no trained weather spotters. Sometimes concealed by rain or night they probably miss a lot of them.