Calling On All Countries About Your Weather.....
By CatsandDogs
@CatsandDogs (13963)
United States
May 25, 2011 3:16pm CST
I'm one that loves to learn something new about different countries and the different things that's done or different things that happens. Well lately in the midst of all these storms that we've been having all across the USA, it makes me wonder what the weather is like in other countries. Just the other day I told hubby that I had wondered if other countries had tornatos like we do here. He told me that he heard on the news that the USA has the most complex weather than anywhere else in the world. Well, if that were the case then Mexico and Canada would be the same because we're all on one continent. But, maybe not, I don't know. I don't wish anybody to have bad weather but it happens whether we wish it or not but I do wonder if other countries have tornatos too or even hurricanes. Hurricanes happen only on the coastal countries because it comes off the ocean. Tsunami's and land slides happen anywhere, I do know that because of what happened in Indonesia as well as 13 other countries in 2004 and the most recent one in Japan just last year due to an earthquake in the ocean. So what about tornatos? Do they happen anywhere too? Or is it just a USA type of thing?
Do tell! 
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8 responses
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
25 May 11
good discussion. i wonder to. strange thing, arizona says we dont have tornados, and yet we have "micro bursts" as they call it. 
how silly of them, as its exactly like a tornado for pete sakes.
who are they trying to fool? i might as well be back in ohio, where at least we have some nice cool weather. btw, hows your mom? did she have to get the bag?@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
26 May 11
Hi bunnybon, I guess Arizona authorities have to use a fancy words instead of what the rest of us call it. In other words, they have to be different. Hubby and I have been contiplating on moving to AZ once my parents are no more. Believe me, we're not wishing for it to happen any sooner than it has to but we all know our time on earth is limited. Anyways, we've wondered how it is there in AZ. The only thing is, we like trees, nice and tall ones and don't think AZ has them..... maybe in the northern parts? We're just so tired of the weather here in NC and VA. It's so cold in the winter and hot and humid in the summer. My hubby and I hate snow and it snows in NC. We wonder if we didn't pick a state south enough! LOL We don't want to be in tornato alley but we don't want to be on the coast either but somewhere where it's not too hot and definetely not too cold. Is there such a place??
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
25 May 11
I'm sure that parts of Canada has tornadoes and I have heard that Siberia in Russia also has them, but you hear less about them because of the lower population being affected.
Tornadoes (and therefore waterspouts) also form around hurricanes (typhoons in the Pacific) so I'm sure they do have them at least in relation with those storms.
Mexico, because of its more southern location, just as some more southerly parts of of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas probably have few tornadoes since the kinds of storms that prompt them happen less (cold, dry air hitting warm, moist air).
As for other places... I really don't know
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
26 May 11
In Texas, because the eastern Pacific storms can affect us, our weather men talk about them.
In far western Colorado with news coming out of Albuquerque they only talk about Atlantic/Gulf hurricanes if they going to strike, tho once in a great while one will enter the very southern part of Mexico or Central America and come out in the Pacific and re-intensify and could affect parts of New Mexico/Arizona because they can come up the Gulf of California
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
26 May 11
I thought Canada and Mexico had them being that we're on the same continet but wasn't sure. Hubby was telling me about how some other countries call hurricanes typhoons so maybe that's why I haven't heard of them before because they were called typhoons so really, I have heard of them just didn't know it. When we see hurricanes in the ocean, it seems that they're always heading for the USA.... maybe not always but it sure seems that way.
Thanks for clarifying that for me!
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
26 May 11
Yeah, I know they happen here in the USA but wondered if they happened anywhere else. I didn't know about Canada but suspected that they do. I hope to God you don't get hit tonight or any other time for that matter! I know you have to be right scared, bless your heart! I'm saying a prayer for you right now that you all come out safe....
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
25 May 11
Catsanddogs hi I am still one of those here in the US and while we have had our usual May overcasts and will have June gloom again by
the start if the afternoon its sunny and warm around 75 which is just right for a light sweater. But what we have not had for a long time is an earthquake even a 3 or 4 on the Richter scale. so am wondering if we are in for one of a harder shaking. I do so hope not. Its been really nice here lately in southern Californina. We have not had a tornado in California for years and that one was on the outskirts of disneyland followed by torrential raining.I know as I was on my way to a
Garden Grove library and got thoroughly soaked. The librarian brought me a handful of paper towels as I was literally dripping water from my hair and face. I needed to be dry before I went to look for books. lol. I shuddered when I saw the aftermath of the tornadoes in Joplin Missouri. so much dam,age the city just plain flattened.And a number of people were killed too. sad.
the start if the afternoon its sunny and warm around 75 which is just right for a light sweater. But what we have not had for a long time is an earthquake even a 3 or 4 on the Richter scale. so am wondering if we are in for one of a harder shaking. I do so hope not. Its been really nice here lately in southern Californina. We have not had a tornado in California for years and that one was on the outskirts of disneyland followed by torrential raining.I know as I was on my way to a
Garden Grove library and got thoroughly soaked. The librarian brought me a handful of paper towels as I was literally dripping water from my hair and face. I needed to be dry before I went to look for books. lol. I shuddered when I saw the aftermath of the tornadoes in Joplin Missouri. so much dam,age the city just plain flattened.And a number of people were killed too. sad. 2 people like this
@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
26 May 11
Hi Hatley, I'm in the states too, on the other coast! lol I'm in NC and the weather has been pretty rocky here too but thank God we've not been hit with any tornatos.... yet. We've had some pretty close calls but nothing but heavy down pour and loud thundering and lightening and that's it but enough to scare the pants off of somebody. I've taken some pictures of one of the awful storms we had and at the time I was at my parents place and it scared the hell out of all of us! We just knew from the looks of the sky and the twisters that I got on my phone that it was really bad. It did hit a few places around my parents and a few nearby my house but thankfully, nobody was hurt or killed.
I feel so sorry for the people in Joplin MO. I really do. I can't imagine being in their shoes. How awful. Now I hope California doesn't have any earth quakes that are big. They have to be right scary! I've never been in one but what I've seen the damage is incredible. I don't see how anybody can survive those. Mother nature has it's own ideas of how the earth should be set up and she doesn't even live here! LOL
@gloryacam (5540)
• Philippines
25 May 11
Thankfully, we don't have big tornados here, else, the whole archipelago will be wiped out! But, we're having a lot of storms and a big typhoon is now going on. We're always fearful of a tsunami happening because it would also bring a vast destruction if we get hit by the smallest tsunami. I hope the weather gets better in time. And, I'm sorry to hear about the effects of the tornado in your country.
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
26 May 11
Oh my gosh, a typhoon is called a hurricane in our country, is there one heading your way now? I hope it turns and doesn't hit your country but instead go out into the ocean and maybe disapate. I'd be terrified if I lived so close to the coast because of hurricanes. I'm actually on a coastal state but I'm inland so I'm not near the ocean per sa but close enough. If I had it my choice, I'd be further inland or even the next state over but I'm here for now and am trying to make the best of it. Thanks for your concern for our country. It has been hit pretty hard lately.
@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
26 May 11
That's what I'm hearing, typhoons must be a world wide thing just called differently than hurricanes. Interesting but sad because I wish nobody has to suffer such awful storms but then again, it makes us very thankful to be here with our families providing that they lived through it too.
Welcome to mylot!! Hope you enjoy your time here!
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
26 May 11
From what i often hear in the news, tornadoes abound in USA. I haven't heard of other places that has tornado. Though, here in the Philippines it's typhoon that usually happens here.
But whatever they are, they are natural calamities and we should just take precautionary measures always to avoid their devastation. And let's just always pray for our safety from them.
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@original8 (107)
• Belgium
26 May 11
here in belgium never happened before to my knowledgen but the reason why they happen there in the USA is as simple as taking a candy from a child
your governments use the HAARP machine way to often to create the effects of weather and floods, storms...
i don't understand why the people in the USA just don't bust into the white house break it all down and take their rights back
would that not be a grand finale idea of total freedom?
i know fantasy :) but it feels really good =^p
