The “brit*sh” aren’t allowed to claim Americans are stupid. It’s just not even close, the UK has more dumb fuckers per capita than the USA.
edit: OK, I guess it is close but in a dumbfuck-pointing-and-looking-at-the-sky contest my money is on the UK
edit again: For you downvoters, might I remind you that Doncaster is right in the middle of The Great Atlantic Garbage Patch. This silly bitch thinks Hamas are coming from Sheffield.
While UK is often called the USA of Europe, US still wins by a long shot. AFAIK no one had to give an official statement asking people to not shoot at a hurricane in the UK.
The UK can’t get hurricanes. Any storm that far away from the tropics, by definition, is not a hurricane (and is statistically likely to be far weaker and less destructive than a hurricane). So nobody would have had the opportunity to shoot at a hurricane in the UK in the first place.
In modern times, on average around 80 to 90 named tropical cyclones form each year around the world, over half of which develop hurricane-force winds of 65 kn (120 km/h; 75 mph) or more.[1]
Unfortunately, the UK appears to measure by gust (20-second) or hourly, so hard to compare exactly.
I’m not sure whether Storm Eunice qualifies, at least for mainland UK:
The map below shows the highest hourly mean wind speeds recorded from storm Eunice on 18
February 2022. Several coastal locations recorded an hourly mean wind speed of over 50Kt
(58mph), while Needles Old Battery (Isle of Wight) recorded a remarkable hourly mean wind
speed of 82Kt (94mph) for the hour to 1100 UTC at the height of the storm.
The great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties in England, France, and the Channel Islands as a severe depression in the Bay of Biscay moved northeast.
Sustained winds speeds greater than 121 km/h (75 mph) were recorded for over an hour in southern Britain.
If it has hour-long speeds over 75 mph, then it must have 1-minute speeds over 75 mph.
That being said, that’s the peak in the UK; the US has much stronger:
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was an extremely powerful and devastating Atlantic hurricane that struck the southeastern United States in early September 1935.
The storm made landfall late on September 2 near Long Key, at peak intensity, with an intensity of 892 millibars (26.3 inHg) and 1-minute sustained winds of 185 mph (298 km/h)
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It looks like the Great Storm of 1987 in the UK still doesn’t qualify, as per the UK’s Met Office, but that’s due to some technical characteristic, rather than because the wind speed isn’t high enough.
This storm wasn’t officially a hurricane, because they need specific conditions found in the tropics to form. But hurricane-force winds did occur in some locations in the UK during the Great Storm.
Hurricanes cannot form at the latitudes of the UK as they require much higher sea surface temperatures to develop than exist close to the UK. However, the UK is sometimes affected by extratropical storms as they move to higher latitudes, such as ex-Hurricane Ophelia in 2017. Occasionally, intense mid-latitude depressions can produce near hurricane strength winds. The most widely publicised such depression occurred on 16 October 1987, known as The Great Storm.
Jury acquits homeowner who fired shots to ‘get paraglider’s attention’
Flinn saw the paraglider, Matt Senior of Issaquah, sail past his living-room window last July 2. He told Douglas County sheriff’s deputies he emerged from his home carrying a 12-gauge shotgun and fired it into the air “to get his attention.”
Flinn told Senior, then hovering 60 to 80 feet overhead, to get away from his property. Senior, an 11-year veteran paraglider, swore at Flinn and threatened to come to his home and assault him. Flinn fired another round into the air as Senior departed.
In his summation, Flinn’s attorney, John Brangwin of Wenatchee, said other paragliders had passed over Flinn’s property that day, but sailed far higher. He called Flinn’s confrontation of Senior a defense of his property, and invoked the spectre of drones and “black helicopters” spying on citizens’ private lives.
“We can debate whether he’s a trespasser or not, because his feet are not on the ground,” Brangwin told the jury, referring to Senior. “… But at what point do you have the right to protect your home?”
The “brit*sh” aren’t allowed to claim Americans are stupid. It’s just not even close, the UK has more dumb fuckers per capita than the USA.
edit: OK, I guess it is close but in a dumbfuck-pointing-and-looking-at-the-sky contest my money is on the UK
edit again: For you downvoters, might I remind you that Doncaster is right in the middle of The Great Atlantic Garbage Patch. This silly bitch thinks Hamas are coming from Sheffield.
The difference is in the United States this woman would be in Congress.
While UK is often called the USA of Europe, US still wins by a long shot. AFAIK no one had to give an official statement asking people to not shoot at a hurricane in the UK.
No guns, no hurricanes. That checks out.
The UK can’t get hurricanes. Any storm that far away from the tropics, by definition, is not a hurricane (and is statistically likely to be far weaker and less destructive than a hurricane). So nobody would have had the opportunity to shoot at a hurricane in the UK in the first place.
That wasn’t really the point.
I think that the UK might technically have a few storms that would qualify as weak hurricanes in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_storm_of_1987
It looks like the US definition involves 1-minute sustained wind speed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone
Unfortunately, the UK appears to measure by gust (20-second) or hourly, so hard to compare exactly.
I’m not sure whether Storm Eunice qualifies, at least for mainland UK:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/interesting/2022/2022_02_storms_dudley_eunice_franklin.pdf
But the Great Storm of 1987 looks like it would:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_storm_of_1987
If it has hour-long speeds over 75 mph, then it must have 1-minute speeds over 75 mph.
That being said, that’s the peak in the UK; the US has much stronger:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_hurricane
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It looks like the Great Storm of 1987 in the UK still doesn’t qualify, as per the UK’s Met Office, but that’s due to some technical characteristic, rather than because the wind speed isn’t high enough.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who-we-are/our-history/lessons-and-legacy-of-the-great-storm-of-1987
https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/hurricanes
NERD!
We’ve got people who don’t like paragliders here too.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/jury-acquits-homeowner-who-fired-shots-to-get-paragliders-attention/
This is such an American thing to do
That’s some funny fucking shit.
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half of the population of any country is dumber than median
this must be statistically true