Video:
Massive and Rare Fall Tornado in Italy
29
November, 2012
Description
of the video by YouTube poster Daniele Carbotti roughly translated
from Italian:
"A
tornado was seen, pointed at the industrial port of Taranto, that
lifted considerable material from the ground... In fact, you see a
flash caused by damage to electrical equipment... Now you hear a lot
of ambulances, certainly within the industrial center to administer
first aid... THE KIND OF THING I HAVEN'T EVER SEEN. I just hope no
one was hurt."
The
whole of Italy and the western Mediterranean is under the sway of a
powerful fall storm. Weather observations from nearby Grottaglie show
stormy weather starting at 0700 UTC (through at least 1200 UTC)
Wednesday, including strong southeasterly winds, thunderstorms and
downpours.
The
climate of southern Italy is somewhat like that of California. The
weather is wet and, at times, stormy in the cool months and much
drier and quieter in the warm months. Rare tornadoes are consistent
with such a climate in late fall/early winter.
"There
have been a number of tornadoes in unusual parts of the world in the
last couple of months," AccuWeather Enterprise Solution Senior
Vice President Mike Smith said. "That is partly because there
are no tornadoes occurring here [in the United States]. Because we
have unusual high pressure over the U.S., there is low pressure in
unusual areas on other parts of the hemisphere."
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