Posted on 07/17/2013 12:05:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: What's happening over the water? Pictured above is one of the better images yet recorded of a waterspout, a type of tornado that occurs over water. Waterspouts are spinning columns of rising moist air that typically form over warm water. Waterspouts can be as dangerous as tornadoes and can feature wind speeds over 200 kilometers per hour. Some waterspouts form away from thunderstorms and even during relatively fair weather. Waterspouts may be relatively transparent and initially visible only by an unusual pattern they create on the water. The above image was taken earlier this month near Tampa Bay, Florida. The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida is arguably the most active area in the world for waterspouts, with hundreds forming each year. Some people speculate that waterspouts are responsible for some of the losses recorded in the Bermuda Triangle.
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[Credit & Copyright: Joey Mole]
Sometimes all you can see os a dìp in the bottom of the thundercloud and maybe some spray on the water until it gets into shallow water, then you see a black column shoot up from the water to the cloud as the vacuum hose sucks up the sand from the bottom. The ones O have seen are usually small and dissipate when they leave the water. I watched one pick up a fellow in a beach chair and toss him a hundred feet along he beach. He wasn’t hurt beyond a bruise and he said he got the wind knocked out of him.
Thanks arthurus.
George Zimmerman’s fault.
Nice tornado photo, btw :)
SHARKNADO!!!
WOW!
This is a keeper!
Thanks so much!
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If I was a kid again in a motorboat, I’d make a beeline for it, like every other dust devil I saw. I guess this is passable as an astronomy picture since it comes from NASA.
Great shot. We get em all the time down here.They usually last only a few minutes. I saw one last for almost an hour one day.
Awesome! Could it be these monsters are responsible for some of the missing boats in the Bermuda triangle?
Yep..that’s the way they look! Eek!
Hate to break it to whomever wrote the synopsis on waterspouts, but Tampa Bay is on the Guld Coast, not the Atlantic Coast of Florida.
The SyFy channel is running it again tomorrow!
Spread the word!
Yes. Separate sentence though. I did a double take too. Adding an "Although" would have clarified it.
I was on a commercial fishing boat in the 60s anchored 20-30 miles off of Pensacola. I woke up hitting the deck. My bunk had dropped and scooted out from under me. I ran out on the deck and and saw the western aspect covered up with strings and ropes up to the sky.The whole vessel was wet and water was inches deep on the deck and running out the scuppers. A skinny little rope of spinning water seemed to be only as wide as a telephone pole was crossing what seemed to be a few yards from the bow. Given the flat grey air and the featureless Gulf I really could not say how big or how far away it actually was. The rest of the crew came stumbling out of the fo’c’sle and the captain came out of the deckhouse with an axe which he put to the anchor rope which was a foolish and expensive move but he was still half asleep himself. I counted 18 of the waterspouts that I could see at one time. Surely there were others that were clear and not visible. I had heard it said by old fisherman that you should never be caught at dawn off Pensacola in September. Well it was early morning and it was September.
Heh heh, can’t wait for the sequel.
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