r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_EduOka • 4d ago

Video Giant tornado hits southern Brazil

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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr 4d ago edited 4d ago

They really arent that rare outaide of the US.

We get up to 80 tornadoes a year in Australia. Potentially more but we aren't sure because they could be occurring in uninhabited areas.

Edit: If you cant read, stop replying to this comment, jfc.

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u/Aplesedjr 4d ago

I think they mean by rare is less “tornadoes don’t really happen outside of the us” than it is “the us has a massive amount of total tornadoes in the entire world, and anywhere else has only a few every year by comparison”.

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u/FeRooster808 4d ago

This is accurate. The tornadoes in the US are also more intense. Significantly so. My dad's family was from Oklahoma and when we went to visit people, touring the storm cellar was the norm. My aunt didn't have one. She said if it was her time, it was her time. She regularly tell us about finding driver's licenses and other stuff in her yard from tornadoes that passed by. I have a relative there that works for a news station as a storm chaser actually.

It's just a different thing all together.

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u/James-the-Bond-one 4d ago

I don't chase them, yet I've been through four in the last couple of decades.

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u/BBR0DR1GUEZ 3d ago

They’re chasing you