• Question: why are there tornados and hurricanes in America but not England.

    Asked by The masters to Joanna on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Joanna Bagniewska

      Joanna Bagniewska answered on 17 Jun 2016:


      For a hurricane, you need two things – warm water, and warm, moist air. When the warm air rises, it encounters cold air, and they clash very violently, resulting in a hurricane. In the UK there isn’t that much warm water or warm air, so we don’t get proper hurricanes.

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