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Just seen this, by the time I got te camera out it had started to go back up!!!!

What is going on with this weather ?

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We had one last week - smaller than that but a cardboard box I had put outside was whizzing around in the air.
Notts/Derbys border.
 
Is it really windy where you are? We saw one of these the other day but it wasn't windy so it might be a rain funnel? We saw one and then had the worst storm my grandma had ever seen and she's 86. The whole place was drenched and underwater in about an hour! Truly incredible!
 
Crickey! It seems that part of the world is getting a hammering and we really don't need it! My poor horse is already transforming into a bog pony!
 
Apparently the UK has more tornados per square metre than the USA. I've not seen one myself though. Fabulous picture.
 
Ooh! How scary but actually quite exciting, too! Have you sent it in the to BBC, yet? They were asking for crazy weather pics, yesterday.
 
I'm in Lincolnshire and we were hit by one 10 days ago near Sleaford. It damaged a farm in the village ripping off a roof and trampolines took off like frisbees and cleared houses!

I watched my horses from the window until I couldn't see them for the rain and hail and they just stood with their heads down and their bums against it. It didn't even move the leccy fence, but I hate to think what might have happened had we been on the other side of the village.

Look North came and filmed the following day.
 
That sounds scarey :(

Not heard if any thing happening here, maybe it dropped down in a field !! It was deffiantly on the ground when I saw it, but had started to go back up by the time I got my phone out :)
 
It's global warming. We're turning tropical. Remember when we had rain in spring, sun in summer, wind in autumn and snow in winter? Now we have warmish rain in winter and tornadoes in summer. We're all going to die!!! :o Or maybe not. But we're definitely turning tropical. Well that's what I think anyway.
 
:eek: we've had lots of wind in Kent and we saw some clouds scarily like that over gravesend/dartford way not long ago .. Crazy weather!!!!
 
Its terrifying, i used to have nightmares about tornado's ripping my house apart and then this pops up on facebook :eek: It was taken near Earlston.
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Nobody seems to know if it actually touched down or not but its freaky all the same.
 
Dont think they're much to worry about ;) I've seen the damage that a huge tornado left in Florida, it missed our holiday villa by only less than 1/4 of a mile. Was quite amazing the devastation, the trail it took was obvious - one house would be flattened and next door would be pretty much untouched! They're not funny though, they kill a lot of people :( I always wonder what happens to the horses in places like tornado alley?!
 
Wagtail said:
Apparently the UK has more tornados per square metre than the USA. I've not seen one myself though. Fabulous picture.
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Yup - I learned that a few months ago and shocked me. Coming from a place that gets fairly regular tornadic activity in the summer months (right before I left to move here, we had an F3 hit and destroy a town last August in Goderich), I was surprised! The US has the most tornadic activity of any country in the world followed by Canada however, if measuring by square metre, the UK outdoes all. What surprises me about it all is that there is no heat and humidity that usualy spawns those types of storms here.

Magic Melon - I was camping as a kid when we had a tornado rip through. I remember driving 2 minutes down the road the next day and seeing trees completely uprooted.
 
A small one took down some speakers at the village fete last year! Luckily dad's trusty old tent was spared :-)

That one looks quite big though, eek!
 
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