Sunday, August 23, 2020

Now There's Something You Don't See Every Day...

What may be a new record for number of waterspouts:
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That's the Gulf of Mexico.
For whatever reason they tend to happen off Russia as well:
Meanwhile, In Russia

The main story is a plane landing among multiple tornadoes
But we also included one of my favorite weather pics:

...This is, of course, a great excuse to dig up the big dog of waterspout pictures, from our post "Dear Kansas, I'll See ya and Raise: Five Tornados at one time off Novorossiysk, Russia":

Okay, waterspouts. if you're going to get all technical on me.

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I'm not sure about RT, their stories sometimes have a bit of a National Enquirer feel to them but I was told by an ex-pat that this actually happened back in August. Number five is curling in from the top left.

From
Russia Today:
No less then five tornadoes have sprung up just a kilometer out at sea from the port town of Novorossiysk....
The record is nine in one picture, over Lake Michigan.