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LondonChickThreads: 43
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Three people have been killed and several others injured in violent storms and high winds which have swept Poland.

BBC news
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yeah my bf called me this morning and said its pretty bad in some parts - up til now they have been having some very nice weather while its pissing with rain in the UK.
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The BBC site doesn't say where exactly this is happening though - where is worst hit?
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Upper Silesia, right in the middle between Opole and Gliwice
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Non-stop rain here. It was worse yesterday, but only because of a couple of (mild)thunder storms. It is difficult to report because I'm in the middle of the city and can't see beyond the end of the street.

Family up north (on the coast) have said today the weather is fine.
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Poland tornado
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Thanx Ryszard. That explains the weather here in Wroclaw too.
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It's been raining pretty heavily in Gdansk for the past two days and today is no different. Thunderstorms, but no tornados.
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Got some hail here in Krakow last night. Crappy weather all day.
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Are Tornado`s indigenous to Poland?
They`re common in the Midwest U.S., I`ve seen a few and there pretty intense!
telefonitika   Aug 16, 08, 08:14 /  #
They had golf ball sized hailstone in Krakow yesterday as well ..... !
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sledz:
Are Tornado`s indigenous to Poland?

Not at all, they are very rare.
Or maybe I should say: they used to be? 10 years ago there was absolutely none of them, but now they do appear from time to time.
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Danger storms this evening and night in pomorskie and warmia&mazury areas.
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Yeah, I just spoke to my parents on the phone, they told me it was thundering yesterday evening non stop for 2 hrs.
Btw, I saw a tornado in Scottish Highland two days ago (close to Inveraray). That's a quite unusual sight, innit ? (Scottish residents of PF should have something to say about it)
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At least it's just the meteorological phenomenon rather than the PF member.
It's up to you to decide which would be worse.

Sorry, Windyboy1066, it just had to be said.
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Bartolome, are you from inverary? I used to live there
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dnz:

Bartolome, are you from inverary? I used to live there

Nice place, but no - I stay in Glasgow, I was only working there (lovely Glen Shira , you're going to have a wind farm there).
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A little known fact per square km, the UK has the most tornado's in the world.
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dtaylor:

A little known fact per square km, the UK has the most tornado's in the world.

Eoearth says it’s Oklahoma that has that honor.
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dtaylor:
A little known fact per square km, the UK has the most tornado's in the world.


id like to see a source for this little know fact please
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dtaylor:

A little known fact per square km, the UK has the most tornado's in the world.


I heard this before, too, on the news.
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Wow it's been bloody hot all day here in Puławy with sunshine in the 30s, however in the last couple of hours we have had thunder storms with heavy rain. We had a tornado in Puławy back in 2001, which destroyed a lot of the trees in the park and took off a couple of roofs, but nothing really like that since thank god!!
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According to studies by the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (Torro), the UK has the most tornadoes for the size of the country in the world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/4510071.stm
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bbc:
Whilst the United States are home to the biggest and most destructive tornadoes, they have been recorded on every continent - even Antarctica - and the UK has the highest reported frequency per unit area, in the world


tornado
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Piorun:

Eoearth says it’s Oklahoma that has that honor.

Oklahoma is NOT a country.
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Bartolome:

Oklahoma is NOT a country.

In your original post you never specify what you have in mind country region etc. You may have had it in mind but………… :-)
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sledz:

Are Tornado`s indigenous to Poland?
They`re common in the Midwest U.S., I`ve seen a few and there pretty intense!

They're part of the missile shield deal,they're laying the ground for what's to come. only joking. condolences to the bereaved.
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Piorun:

In your original post you never specify what you have in mind country region etc. You may have had it in mind but………… :-)

Not mine, dtaylor's. Besides he wrote about the UK, not e.g. Northern Yorkshire or Dumfries & Galloway.
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dtaylor:

the UK


country...
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Sorry but it’s very confusing to the foreigner like myself. If I say you British then you tell me to be more precise like English, Welsh, Scottish. Since you said UK, and it’s all the same to me did you mean country, island, region. You should also be more precise remember, you are dealing with a foreigner.
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