Your reporters, on TV and on Radio 4, used the term "mini-tornado". There
was nothing "mini" about this perhaps Torro 4 tornado. Ask the injured, the
people without roofs, those with structural damage. A tornado is a tornado,
wherever it happens.
For years we've had to put up with this "mini-tornado" claptrap from the
BBC. Tornados happen worldwide. Perhaps if it had been central London you
would have used the correct term. A T4 would easily topple the London Eye,
would you have called that a "mini-tornado"?


Les

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Les Hemmings wrote:

Your reporters, on TV and on Radio 4, used the term "mini-tornado". There
was nothing "mini" about this perhaps Torro 4 tornado. Ask the injured,
the people without roofs, those with structural damage. A tornado is a
tornado, wherever it happens.
For years we've had to put up with this "mini-tornado" claptrap from the
BBC. Tornados happen worldwide. Perhaps if it had been central London you
would have used the correct term. A T4 would easily topple the London Eye,
would you have called that a "mini-tornado"?


Les



The term 'mini-tornado' is used so often that I think Joe Public now thinks
that real tornadoes don't/can't happen in this country, so anything
resembling a tornado must be a 'mini-tornado'.

Better education is needed. Although if educayshoon keeps decline at the
current rate, nobody will even now what a tornado is in 20 years.


--
Brian Wakem

The term 'mini-tornado' is used so often that I think Joe Public now thinks
that real tornadoes don't/can't happen in this country, so anything
resembling a tornado must be a 'mini-tornado'.

Better education is needed. Although if educayshoon keeps decline at the
current rate, nobody will even now what a tornado is in 20 years.


It doesn't help when you get this:
==
Thursday 28 July WEATHER WARNING Torrential thunderstorms moving
across Northern England including Lincolnshire could pose a danger to
life. The very heavy rain is accompanied by extremely gusty winds which
have already caused structural damage in The Midlands. Valid until 0000.
==

Torrential Thunderstorm? Extremely Gusty - from calm to T4-5???

Les
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www.uksevereweather.org.uk

Brian Wakem wrote:

Better education is needed. Although if educayshoon keeps decline at the
current rate, nobody will even now what a tornado is in 20 years.


It's the Military Fighter Jet isn't it g

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Keith (Southend)

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http://www.southendweather.net

Noticeable this morning on national radio bulletins that it is being
reported as a 'tornado' and/or 'devastating tornado' - no mention of the
'M' word!

Martin.

They (the media) still can't bring themselves to just call it a 'tornado',
this morning I have heard it called a 'freak tornado' and an 'average
tornado' in just one report.
________________
Nick G
Exe Valley, Devon
50 m amsl

"Martin Rowley" m wrote in
message ...
Noticeable this morning on national radio bulletins that it is being
reported as a 'tornado' and/or 'devastating tornado' - no mention of the
'M' word!

Martin.

You will be lucky to get any kind of professional weather commentary
from the BBC News. They have dumbed down just like everyone else in the
media, and sensational language is all that they know these days. Any
out of the ordinary weather is described as 'freak', and you can bet
that they follow the headline up with a comment such as 'experts are
warning that the worst is yet to come'. The problem seems to be that
they see themselves as untouchable - they never make mistakes, just
report the ones others make, so that if the worst is obviously well
past ? that doesn't matter because the 'experts' will be perceived to
be wrong, not the news team, when nothing else happens.
What has always worried me, is if this kind of mis-representation is
acceptable for when the weather is the news, just how many other
subjects are being reported so amateurishly? The terrorist threat?
Politics? Everything?

Brian Wakem wrote:
Les Hemmings wrote:

Your reporters, on TV and on Radio 4, used the term "mini-tornado". There
was nothing "mini" about this perhaps Torro 4 tornado. Ask the injured,
the people without roofs, those with structural damage. A tornado is a
tornado, wherever it happens.
For years we've had to put up with this "mini-tornado" claptrap from the
BBC. Tornados happen worldwide. Perhaps if it had been central London you
would have used the correct term. A T4 would easily topple the London Eye,
would you have called that a "mini-tornado"?


Les



The term 'mini-tornado' is used so often that I think Joe Public now thinks
that real tornadoes don't/can't happen in this country, so anything
resembling a tornado must be a 'mini-tornado'.

Better education is needed. Although if educayshoon keeps decline at the
current rate, nobody will even now what a tornado is in 20 years.



I was disappointed to hear Stewart McConie, one of Radio's more
cerebral DJs, refer to it as a hurricane, though I rather think it may
have been a slip of the tongue.



--
Brian Wakem

"Martin Rowley" m wrote in
message ...
Noticeable this morning on national radio bulletins that it is being
reported as a 'tornado' and/or 'devastating tornado' - no mention of the
'M' word!

Despite the devastating tornado last night's 1030 slot with Helen Willets
had no explanation whatsoever of what caused the event and did not even show
any synoptic charts or other data from the Birmingham area. Radio 4's 0800
news this morning also had very little to say about it and Carol Kirkwood on
Breakfast was too busy giving out the Fahrenheit conversions.

Now if the event had been in London....

David

What has always worried me, is if this kind of mis-representation is
acceptable for when the weather is the news, just how many other
subjects are being reported so amateurishly? The terrorist threat?
Politics? Everything?

Just wait somebody will blame it on GW and climate change they'll have
forgotten all about the Coventry and Selly Oak events.

Les
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Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk