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[Apollo11]

Hi all,

One of the biggest tornadoes in Europe ever happened yesterday...


"Czech Republic: Deadly tornado sweeps through villages"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57605651


This was very close to Austria and just 5 hours drive by car from me... [:(]


Leo "Apollo11"

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

One of the biggest tornadoes in Europe ever happened yesterday...


"Czech Republic: Deadly tornado sweeps through villages"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57605651


This was very close to Austria and just 5 hours drive by car from me... [:(]

Leo "Apollo11"

No worries - a five hour drive is a safe distance for you - tornadoes rarely go more than 100 miles on the ground.

Canada's first EF 5 tornado touched down at Elie, just west of Winnipeg and about six miles from me. Thankfully it only stayed on the ground for about a mile and tossed around a few combine harvesters before it dissipated.

Canoerebel was in a cafe near his home having coffee when a tornado ripped through about 150 meters away - much too close.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

One of the biggest tornadoes in Europe ever happened yesterday...

"Czech Republic: Deadly tornado sweeps through villages"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57605651


This was very close to Austria and just 5 hours drive by car from me... [:(]

No worries - a five hour drive is a safe distance for you - tornadoes rarely go more than 100 miles on the ground.

Canada's first EF 5 tornado touched down at Elie, just west of Winnipeg and about six miles from me. Thankfully it only stayed on the ground for about a mile and tossed around a few combine harvesters before it dissipated.

Canoerebel was in a cafe near his home having coffee when a tornado ripped through about 150 meters away - much too close.

I know that it is no direct danger to me (or other countries in vicinity) - I just wanted to point how Europe is really close together!


Leo "Apollo11"


Leo "Apollo11"

[btd64]

Good morning everyone....GP

[btd64]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

One of the biggest tornadoes in Europe ever happened yesterday...

"Czech Republic: Deadly tornado sweeps through villages"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57605651


This was very close to Austria and just 5 hours drive by car from me... [:(]

No worries - a five hour drive is a safe distance for you - tornadoes rarely go more than 100 miles on the ground.

Canada's first EF 5 tornado touched down at Elie, just west of Winnipeg and about six miles from me. Thankfully it only stayed on the ground for about a mile and tossed around a few combine harvesters before it dissipated.

Canoerebel was in a cafe near his home having coffee when a tornado ripped through about 150 meters away - much too close.

I know that it is no direct danger to me (or other countries in vicinity) - I just wanted to point how Europe is really close together!


Leo "Apollo11"


Leo "Apollo11"

When I was 11 I witnessed a small tornado go through a part of the town I grew up in. Pretty scary.
Then about 8 years ago while working, the tornado siren went off. I drove home because my wife was scared and I was close to there anyway. On my way home I was blown off the road by the wind.
A second time, the rotation of a possible tornado went over the apartment building I was living in and it sounded very much like a freight train going over head.
I have a healthy respect for mother nature....GP

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

Good evening friends. [:)]

Good to see you Per! Hope you are well!

[USSAmerica]

Good Friday morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

[RangerJoe]

I saw three small funnel clouds drop then ascend into the one cloud over a city. No harm, no foul, but the Tornado Siren went off. No one really ran and hid.

Another time at a university, a storm came through and three tornadoes were just starting to form. Imagine a circular wall like the sides of a bowl dropping from the cloud and that is what they looked like. A town about 30 miles or 50 kilometers away had three small tornadoes in the area.

Where I like now, we might get a weak F2 tornado but that is about it. Once a weak, however, the ground shakes. [8D]

[RangerJoe]

Good morning!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I saw three small funnel clouds drop then ascend into the one cloud over a city. No harm, no foul, but the Tornado Siren went off. No one really ran and hid.

Another time at a university, a storm came through and three tornadoes were just starting to form. Imagine a circular wall like the sides of a bowl dropping from the cloud and that is what they looked like. A town about 30 miles or 50 kilometers away had three small tornadoes in the area.

Where I like now, we might get a weak F2 tornado but that is about it. Once a weak, however, the ground shakes. [8D]

I think I know the formation you saw ...

[BBfanboy]

And here is one that I took of a threatening formation right over Winnipeg Airport, just a couple of miles away. It had spinning whisps of cloud coming from it but it never actually spawned a tornado.



Edit: Wrong Pic. OK - finally found it in the Google Cloud

[BBfanboy]

And what it looked like without the zoom ... note the hook in the cloud bottom.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

Summer solstice just passed. Midsummer evening tomorrow. Time for some heathen rites. [:'(][8D]

Midsommar. Time to show that we are all, more or less, pagans. [;)]

[BBfanboy]

Great masculine pole, but what is the big circle in the center for? [;)]

EDIT: UNP!

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I saw three small funnel clouds drop then ascend into the one cloud over a city. No harm, no foul, but the Tornado Siren went off. No one really ran and hid.

Another time at a university, a storm came through and three tornadoes were just starting to form. Imagine a circular wall like the sides of a bowl dropping from the cloud and that is what they looked like. A town about 30 miles or 50 kilometers away had three small tornadoes in the area.

Where I like now, we might get a weak F2 tornado but that is about it. Once a weak, however, the ground shakes. [8D]

I think I know the formation you saw ...

Actually, when I saw the tornadoes forming that hit near the town 30 miles or 50 kilometers away, I looked almost straight up. It looked like a large stainless steel bowl spinning and coming down from the cloud base.

The three funnel clouds that I saw another time had the classic funnel shape but were small and went back up almost immediately.

[Orm]

Good morning. Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Great masculine pole, but what is the big circle in the center for? [;)]

The origins, and reasons, for the pole is lost in time. There is proof that the maypole has been in use in Sweden since the 14th century (possibly earlier). Mostly due to laws forbidding the festivities that took place surrounding the pole. The cross-bar was likely added in an attempt to placate the Christian Church in Sweden. The suggestion that the pole had something to do with masculinity was suggested in the 18th, and 19th, century, but has been debunked. The theory that it symbolises a three is still alive.

There is a huge variation on how the maypoles are dressed according to local traditions.

It is likely that the maypole immigrated from Germany.

And, to answer your question; no one knows what the big circle in the centre is for. Maybe to make the pole look prettier? Maybe they added a circle in the medieval times to symbolize the roundness of the world? (Most poles in Sweden nowdays has abandoned the central circle)

[Orm]

The festivities do have a lot of activates for children. And, I suspect, that a lot of children are made during this night. And I know that many guys, and girls, are very happy this night.

I am to old for some of the tradtions. Like skinny dipping in the middle of the night. By that time I am usually asleep. [:D]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[btd64]

Good morning everyone....GP