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    #1022
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Markcheese wrote: »
    I never knew there were places that didn't get 2 rides a day .... Also remember the tidal height in North West Australia as being massive ...

    Where about did you notice that: Ningaloo area?


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    #1023
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,930 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Derby, in WA, has a tide range of 11.8m, almost 40'. There is a large jetty there, which is on some pretty long legs. Not great to jump off due to the crocodiles and sharks.


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    #1024
    josip
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    cnocbui wrote: »
    Derby, in WA, has a tide range of 11.8m, almost 40'. There is a large jetty there, which is on some pretty long legs. Not great to jump off due to the crocodiles and sharks.


    Which reminds me of this map


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    #1025
    ursa actos
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭ursa actos


    Padraig Mor wrote: »
    Note also that the United States, while having no territorial claim in Antarctica, maintains a large base at the South Pole - overlapping the claims of all other countries.


    I was going to correct this to say McMurdo base was on the coast, but then I found the Amundsen-Scott base. That's me leanrt. From wikipedia;

    Since the Amundsen–Scott Station is located at the South Pole, it is at the only inhabited place on the land surface of the Earth from which the Sun is continuously visible for six months and is then continuously dark for the next six months. Thus, during each year, this station experiences one extremely long "day" and one equally long "night".


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    #1026
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,930 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    josip wrote: »
    Which reminds me of this map


    I'm from there. Ireland has Revenue, so it's a bit of a toss up. Lifelong, painful, parasitic infection, vs a quick and spectacular end.


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    #1027
    New Home
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    cnocbui wrote: »
    I'm from there. Ireland has Revenue, so it's a bit of a toss up. Lifelong, painful, parasitic infection, vs a quick and spectacular end.

    Does that mean you don't pay taxes in Australia? :eek: My, what are you, a big bunch of convicted felons? :pac:


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    #1028
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,930 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    New Home wrote: »
    Does that mean you don't pay taxes in Australia? :eek: My, what are you, a big bunch of convicted felons? :pac:

    Don't bleed taxes like here, that's for sure.


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    #1029
    Das Reich
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    France's longest border is with Brazil...


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    Brazil took it one time (at the time the capital of Portugal was Rio de Janeiro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_the_Portuguese_court_to_Brazil):

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_conquest_of_French_Guiana


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    #1030
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    starting to get maps of the earths core
    https://phys.org/news/2020-06-scientists-unexpected-widespread-earth-core.html


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    #1031
    Markcheese
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Where about did you notice that: Ningaloo area?

    Broom , ( north west ) ,didn't notice on the beach ,but you'd really notice it at the pier ...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    #1032
    JupiterKid
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    Locations in the world prone to tornadoes (in orange shading)

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    #1033
    greenttc
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    that tornado one is weird, i think i can only remember talk of one tornado in ireland, why are we in orange?


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    #1034
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    greenttc wrote: »
    that tornado one is weird, i think i can only remember talk of one tornado in ireland, why are we in orange?
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    #1035
    roosterman71
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    greenttc wrote: »
    that tornado one is weird, i think i can only remember talk of one tornado in ireland, why are we in orange?

    Probably part of the Good Friday Agreement


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    #1036
    Victor
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    greenttc wrote: »
    that tornado one is weird, i think i can only remember talk of one tornado in ireland, why are we in orange?

    https://www.thejournal.ie/roof-canopy-collapse-train-station-cork-1229627-Dec2013/


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    #1037
    dan1895
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    Victor wrote: »
    https://www.thejournal.ie/roof-canopy-collapse-train-station-cork-1229627-Dec2013/

    Some random passerby saying "it was like a tornado" does not make it a tornado.


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    #1038
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Also, one tornado seven years ago doesn't make the country "prone to" tornadoes.


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    #1039
    josip
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    Maybe they classify an Sidhe Gaoithe as tornadoes ?


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    #1040
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
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    I've seen multiple tornadoes in Ireland. We have lots but they're usually very small and don't cause much damage.


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    #1041
    cnocbui
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    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    I've seen multiple tornadoes in Ireland. We have lots but they're usually very small and don't cause much damage.

    Photos, or they didn't happen.

    Twiddly little water spouts don't a tornado make. If anyone can reference a tornado in Ireland with wind speeds in excess of 200 kph, I'd be interested.


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    #1042
    Tell me how
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    cnocbui wrote: »
    Photos, or they didn't happen.

    Twiddly little water spouts don't a tornado make. If anyone can reference a tornado in Ireland with wind speeds in excess of 200 kph, I'd be interested.

    From Wiki
    Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour


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    #1043
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Met Éireann seems a reasonable authority to defer to on this -
    In short, Ireland is not immune to tornadoes, and even if they are sometimes referred to as “mini-tornadoes”, they are still tornadoes. However, all tornadoes can be dangerous and on average there are 10 occurrences in Ireland each year. Ireland’s first documented tornado occurred near Rosdalla, Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath on the 30th of April 1054

    But basically if Ireland is considered to be prone to tornadoes, then it should put the rest of the map in context.


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    #1044
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,930 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Tell me how wrote: »
    From Wiki

    Ok, I'll settle for the 80m across and touching the cloud base and earth simultaneously bit then.
    Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), are about 250 feet (80 m) across


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    #1045
    josip
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    Wiki also says
    A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud

    So 'She Gee's don't cut it either.


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    #1046
    artanevilla
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    Seems I've accidentally wondered into the tornado thread.


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    #1047
    chosen1
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    cdeb wrote: »
    Met Éireann seems a reasonable authority to defer to on this -



    But basically if Ireland is considered to be prone to tornadoes, then it should put the rest of the map in context.

    Yea they are generally small but remember years ago, a friend of my dads had the roof of his house torn off by one. Freak occurance.


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    #1048
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


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    #1049
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


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    #1050
    Charles Babbage
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    #1051
    cj maxx
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    dan1895 wrote: »
    Some random passerby saying "it was like a tornado" does not make it a tornado.
    I remember as a young fella on the mountain bog you'd see ,and feel, dust devils.
    Mini tornadoes. They'd knock you over but that's about it.


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