Which one of these would cause the biggest headline? (tornado, snowfall, hot)

[B87]

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.

[Bottletree]

Snowfall I think as it would completely shut down London and the others wouldn't do that.

[B87]

1. Has never happened before in recorded history (though may have happened during one of the hot summers in the mid 1600's.

2. Has never happened, London's longest period without rain was 73 days in Spring 1891.

3. The tornado that struck London in 2006 was an F2, but an F4 struck central London back in the 11th century.

4. Has never happened. London's heaviest single snowfall got about 25cm, and the snowiest winter just under 50cm (drift depths don't count).

[Mac15]

A tie between tornado and snow

[Weatherfan2]

Tornado.

[Infamous92]

I'd say an F3+ (EF4+) tornado hitting London would definitely be the most newsworthy.

[ben86]

Hmm, good selection! Hitting 40C for the first time wouldn't be that much more newsworthy than the first 100F was, no rain all summer would be consistently in the news from about Week 4-5 onwards but never any one major headline, the tornado would be so far removed from what people expect they wouldn't know what to make of it, plus you'd get surreal pictures of devastated houses on every newspaper front page, but it would only affect a small area for a short period of time. The snow would be across the city and probably stick around for days, plus it would be in the news for ages even before it happens and we'd have no way of stopping it paralysing the whole city, but that's happened enough times with 10-15cm so the fact that there's more snow this time wouldn't be that big a deal. I go with the tornado for the shock factor.

[nei]

(3) sounds the most dramatic. Of the rest, (2) sounds the weirdest, but it's not a dramatic one-event.

[Galaxyman]

A 40C day makes headline news here So for London I will go for that. Hell, it'll probably make headline news here aswell!

[P London]

I voted for no rain all summer it would lead to forest fires and no rain all summer most probably equal loads of days close to 35c.

I don't really know what a F3 tornado is on a scale of seriousness.

Originally Posted by Galaxyman

A 40C day makes headline news here So for London I will go for that. Hell, it'll probably make headline news here aswell!

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