Tornado and wind turbine query

i live in manchester

 

I read somewhere that in Britain we get more tornados than most parts of the world, but ours rarely cause a problem because they are usually brief and comparatively weak compared to the infamous ones that wipe out great chunks of America.

One struck a few miles from me a few years ago when I was living down in Hampshire. I lived in Boredom, just near Farnham along with about half the people I worked with (living in the same town I mean). The other half of my colleagues lived around Alton, and our work was sort of half way between the two. I went in to work the next morning totally oblivious to the fact that anything had even happened, as there was not so much as a loose leaf off a tree, but half my colleagues weren't in. All the ones from the Alton side. Turns out a tornado had struck through the night and scatter some local woods, mature trees, all over the main road, thus blocking the route in.

 

Im a manc too Bexy,originally from middleton

 

i was originally from heywood

 

Ive done many a pub crawl there Bexy back in the day,The duke being my fav used to live on green lane aswell monkeyland x

 

Astounging joolz what a role model

 

Your not old enough to drink young lady there aint as many pubs there now,i believe heywood used have that many pubs in a square mile it was put in the guiness book of records...never seen a tornado there or in middleton though

 

i live in ramsbottom now and we have a pub round the corner it is very nice

 

Its nice there,i seen my 1st field of lahmas up there,it the big chimney still there?

 

yup

 

I was working in Birmingham July 2005 . I was walking across the workshop when I looked through an open door out into the street . I saw a rather dark cloud passing with lots of debris swirling round in it at quite some speed, about 100 yards away . Strange I thought ? It was a blooming tornado , one of the largest to ever hit the UK !
Luckily no one was seriously hurt , but it did remove a few roofs and turn some cars over.
News photos below.

 

Wow have you seen the forecast this weekend?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/natur...thunderstorms-and-lightning-to-ravage-Britain

i am not the only one that took the opportunity to photograph the tornadoes.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/04/uk-we...tain-before-weekend-of-freak-weather-4750517/

 

I'd of been so scared harry! glad you and nobody else was hurt x

I will be watching the weather forecast tomo to see if they have a better idea where the high and low will meet Im staying indoors

 

this was taken by one of my friends