Hello Gerrit!

30 Aug 16 22:43, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 GK> We had a couple of tornadoes here this years, and some of them did.

 GK> But that's a different kind of weather phenomenon. What I wanted to
 GK> express is that we can have the same or at least very similar bad weather
 GK> here, we just do not call it a hurricane. Usually, it is called an "Orkan"
 GK> in German (remember "Lothar" in 1999 or "Kyrill" in 2007?). Interestingly,
 GK> both words stem from "Huracan", the name of a Mayan god of winds.

 The "Orkan"s we have are not accompanied by tornadoes, it are just extreme
 high winds. Well if you look at them they are circular as well, but all
 depressions are.

 We do have a tornado type of wind, but only very small. Occasionally roofs
 are lifted from houses over a stretch of a few  hundred meters. Here
 the are called "Wind hoos". Smaller ones are sometimes formed when a
 thunderstorm crosses a lake, it is a wondefull sight to see the funnel of
 water go up into the cloud. Unfortunately it comes down again as heavy rain.

Kees

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