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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

WaterSpout caught on camera by Pakistani Fishermen

The fishermen, Mahar Gul and Nakhuda of the fishing boat ‘Hammal’, started recording the strange weather event on their cell phones but avoided getting close to the vortex created by the waterspout.


Waterspout - A rare weather phenomenon witnessed in Pakistani waters

-Photo courtesy WWF-PakistanA waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water. They are connected to a towering cumuliform cloud or a cumulonimbus cloud. In the common form, it is a non-supercell tornado over water.

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