Rac80
The Belle of the Ball
It appears that Bill Nye doesn't know jack about tornados. he claimed in an interview on live tv that not many other countries have tornados, I guess he forgot about the UK and bangledesh.
PEMMARAJU: Other countries with tornadoes?
NYE: Well, there’s not that many other countries that have the configuration of North America to make tornadoes. And the word “hurricane,” you know, is a word coined in the Caribbean, like, so this is a unique, unique area in that regard. We have the Gulf of Mexico. We have this access for cold air from Canada or from the Arctic. And these two things conspire to move the jet stream, and then that helps carry this extra water vapor across this part of the North America. So, it’s a unique place, and you don’t have this kind, you don’t have tornadoes in Norway, for example. It’s just set up different, the weather’s set up differently. Here in the U.S. it’s a serious problem.
Well, not exactly.
Contrary to "The Science Guy's" odd view on this topic, tornadoes have been observed on every continent on this planet with the exception of Antartica. A study of insurance records across the globe finds tornadoes causing significant losses in Europe, India, Japan, South Africa, and Australia.
Although the United States typically has more tornadoes than any other country, as a function of land area, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom both actually have more.
Also contrary to today's conventional wisdom, Bangladesh is the nation with the most tornado-related deaths averaging 179 per year having also experienced the deadliest tornado in history on April 26, 1989, killing approximately 1300. That country has had at least 19 tornadoes that have killed more than 100 people, almost half the total of the rest of the world.
So much for "The Science Guy's" claim "there’s not that many other countries that have the configuration of North America to make tornadoes."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...t-many-countries-besides-us-hav#ixzz1NnThdnB5