Tornado in Wales
Bow Street, a few miles SE of us was hit by a Tornado last night…Apparently there were winds of up to 130 mph, trees were uprooted, steel portacabins lifted up and thrown onto childrens playgrounds, caravans overturned, chimney stacks blown off and a roof pretty badly damaged.
According to John Mason a local expert in Tornado’s it was a Category 4 tornado, which is quite strong for this country.
Luckily it struck in the early hours of the morning so no one was injured, but thousands of pounds wrth of damage have been caused.
My weather station here in Ynyslas was too far away to even register anything strange as Tornado’s are very localised phenomena, but as long as it didn’t damage anything it would have been interesting to see if the anenmoeter could have coped with the winds.
More info and pictures on the BBC.
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Now a tornado has hit London. No doubt that will get more news coverage than the Bow St. Tornado.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6217514.stm