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With all these LA threads, I thought I would create one for London/Southern England.
1. A 40C/104F day in July.
2. No measurable rain at all during the summer (1st June to 31st August).
3. F3+ tornado hitting a suburban/urban area.
4. 50cm snow fall.
In this order:
1. F3+ tornado hitting a suburban/urban area. (A much weaker tornado struck near Wembley a few years ago and it was in the news for weeks).
2. A 40C/104F day in July. (A record breaker would surely top the headlines, and be repeatedly quoted)
3. 50cm snow fall. (Yes.. especially, if this amount fell in 24 hours).
4. No measurable rain at all during the summer (1st June to 31st August). (This would be at the bottom of the list - long-term trends tend to be overlooked by the media in favour of one-off, single-day events).
Tornado would only hit a certain area and certainly not shutdown the city. The 50cm snow fall would completely shut down the city and delay flights all around the world.
The question is which would cause the biggest headline though. If we had a substantial tornado a lot of people wouldn't have a clue what was happening or that such a thing was even possible here so it would have the shock factor, whereas snow shutting down the city has already happened many times, so we're used to it.
Find it interesting how the Tornado option is in the lead. It's the only one of the four that has actually happened before (F2 hit in 2006, an F4 hit in the 11th century, and an F4 hit southern England in 1811). Tornadoes probably hit London's suburbs every couple of years, but most are F0 to F1 strength, the last one was in Jan 2012.
The snow would easily cause the most disruption though.
It's a pretty close call between the snowfall and tornado- The tornado would be dramatic and cuz lots of damage BUT it would only affect the people directly hit by it while the snowfall would affect a much, much larger portion so I vote for the snow by a SMALL margin.
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