Holidaymakers experience freak weather in Wales

By Tom Farley, Fri 2 Dec 2011 - Published in Travel Insurance

People who opt to take a caravan holiday in December in the UK cannot expect to see the best weather whilst they are enjoying their break, but a tornado might just be a bit more extreme than normal.

Travel insurance customers taking a winter break in Wales were stunned earlier this week when a mini tornado ripped through a caravan site, causing damage to everything in its path.

The 80 mph weather anomaly left a trail of destruction and debris behind it as it even threw one caravan over 50 metres across the Sandy Beach caravan site, in Anglesey.

John Seymour-Jones, who owns the park, told the Daily Mail: "We went out and could just see a line of vans knocked over and a static van with its roof ripped off. There was a straight line where the tornado had come through, nothing either side was damaged. No staff were injured, we were very lucky."

Earlier in the week, freak floods hit the UK, and a mini tornado caused damage to buildings in a suburb of Greater Manchester.

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