Tornado Watch

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Hey gang!

Our county is under tornado watch until 8:00 PM.

I got caught in the rain with no umbrella this morning. Gonna happen again, maybe.


UPDATE: Tornado video from Springfield

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Tornadoes are very rare in Massachusetts, and when they do appear it tends to be in Tornado Alley (approximately between Springfield and Worcester). Bostonians don't tend to consider them a significant threat.

The National Weather Service is right now tracking a tornado spotted this evening in Bellingham, which is the closest I've ever heard of one coming to Boston in twenty years.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

They're not that rare -- Mass. averages two per year.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

When you rank states by tornado frequency, Massachusetts comes in at #35. http://www.disastercenter.com/mass/tornado.html. They're just not that common.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Did you notice that Mass. is one of the smallest states, and that the page you quote says that per square mile, we come in fourteenth? :}

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Sure. I also noticed that for fatalities per square mile we come in first. I didn't see if they ranked us on tornadoes per unicycle, or on dollars of property damage per school crossing guard, but I'm sure those would be equally interesting statistics.