What's the Weather?

[Regina]

Are you in the Southern US PT? I'd be constantly in panic there tbh, tornadoes freak me out

I live near Austin, Texas. Tornadoes aren't normally a worry around my home, but we've had a few this spring -- it's a pretty active season this year.

But having been through both, I'll take a tornado any day of the week over an earthquake, so it's all good.

We do get small tornadoes in the UK (quite a lot actually I hear) but they're always so small they're not newsworthy. Only one I remember was one that hit my city in 2005 where some buildings got wrecked, but even then nobody died I don't think.

We don't often hear of European tornadoes over here, but I can't know whether that's because they don't happen often, or because American news so rarely covers foreign events.

Apparently, the UK actually gets the most tornadoes per year than any othey country, relative to its land area (America has more in sheer number, but spread out over a huge area). It's because they are always so weak here and rarely ever do any damage, that they don't even make the news here so they wouldn't over there. I've never actually seen one in front of me though, that's the odd thing. You'd think if we get more than any other country you'd see them quite often.

We do occasionally get small earthquakes as well, but never large damaging ones as we're not on any major faultline here. I remember one when I was 14 in the middle of the night, very strange and scary. It was like a humongous bang and then everything shook for like 10 seconds.