foxidrive
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Hang on Megabyte! This one is a doozy!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-watch-terrifying-moment-4950461
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-watch-terrifying-moment-4950461
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If I ever decide to fly again I wish that that pilot drive my plane!The skillful pilot manages to keep control of the plane and bring it in safely to land at the West Yorkshire airport
I'm not sure that Sydney Rd is wide enough !100 mph:
If I ever decide to fly again I wish that that pilot drive my plane!
Gee, 100 mph ! In AU, that would be 160.934 Kph . That is Fracking Fast !
I'm happy that you weren't affected as severely. I'm really scared of the thought of stuff like hurricanes
and we had only 75 kph winds a few years back that tossed a trampoline onto the fence and took a whole section down.
I'm not sure if Brisbane has hurricanes but a little bit further North does....
Ahh yes, my old age is showing and I forget which places have them and the other ones, as well as Typhoons.We does haveth the Cyclone !
OMG! I'm never going to NSW again, just in case they make it there too!Cyclones do make it as far south as Brisbane..
I forget which places have them and the other ones, as well as Typhoons.
Thanks TeeEm. Me knew that, I just forget which name to use and where.are all the same weather phenomenon
That was a shocker! We know someone who lives very close to that NSW place too.This is the furtherest south I can find that a Cyclone has travelled.
We does haveth the Cyclone ! ( Just like a hurricane but in reverse !!!! )
In Broken Hill we called them Willy Willies... England has had mini-tornadoes too
You mean it puts down things that hurricanes lift off the ground? ;-)
England has had mini-tornadoes too
Ya know how when you pull the plug to drain the water from your sink/basin/bathtub and it swirls around the drain hole in a circle ?
Well, in the land down under, the water swirls in the opposite direction... True fact !
Does water go down the drain counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
It all depends upon how the water was introduced and the geometric structure of the drain.
One can find both counterclockwise and clockwise flowing drains in both hemispheres. Some people would like you to believe that the Coriolis force affects the flow of water down the drain in sinks, bathtubs, or toilet bowls. Don’t believe them! The Coriolis force is simply too weak to affect such small bodies of water.
In his work “Sur les equations du movements relative des systems des corps” (1835) the French engineer Gaspard Gustav de Coriolis (1792-1843) first described this force. The Coriolis force is caused by the earth’s rotation. It responsible for air being pulled to the right (counterclockwise) in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left (clockwise) in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Coriolis Effect is the observed curved path of moving objects relative to the surface of the Earth. Hurricanes are good visual examples. Hurricane air flow (winds) moves counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This is due to the rotation of the Earth. The Coriolis force assists in setting the circulation of a hurricane into motion by producing a rightward (clockwise) deflection that sets up a cyclonic (counterclockwise) circulation around the hurricane low pressure. (For a more in depth discussion on hurricanes see NASA’s Hurricanes: Greatest Storm on Earth.)
What happens at the equator? The Coriolis force is too weak to operate on the moving air at the equator. This means that weather phenomena such as hurricanes are not observed at the equator, although they have been observed at 5 degrees above the equator. In fact, the Coriolis force pulls hurricanes away from the equator.
For a more detailed explanation of the Coriolis Force see Science World, http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/CoriolisForce.html
Yes. Downward.What about drunk people Do they spin in a different direction?
When I was a young'un, less than 10yo back in Broken Hill, I saw a fellow who was quite, shall we say, emotional, fall to the deck on the other side of the road from where I was playing with my brother outside the Tydvil* while the olds became emotional, and if you haven't been there to see how wide the roads are in Broken Hill, when my father-in-law visited he suggested there was a pub on every corner because by the time you cross the road you need one.Yes. Downward.