Water spouts
Update: those more expert than I, describe these as condensation funnels or landspouts.
Something quite uncommon appeared in the sky near Armidale this afternoon. A water spout (or two). It wasn’t especially hot today, nor did I notice any storms around. There were some localised rain showers in the area though.
As usual the high contrast between white and black in the clouds makes for challenging post-processing. The result is something that attempts to highlight the waterspouts rather than faithfully reproduce the lighting at the time.
Amanda Taylor:
Oh My GOD that is scary. I thought those only happened in USA, freak of nature definitely
4 November 2005, 10:01 pmJimmy Deguara:
Hi,
My name is Jimmy Deguara. Yes it is a landspout - not a waterspout - the weaker cousins of the tornado family. It develops under cumulus clouds or thunderstorms located along boundaries. They can often develop several at a time as we experienced on our recent storm chasing trip to the US -
http://www.australiasevereweather.com/tornado.htm
In one afternoon, we saw at least 8 - 10 landspouts a couple of tornadoes.
Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
6 November 2005, 3:13 pmMichael Cramp:
Hey,
I was so glad to see someone had captured it on film.
I was in a car driving past in a hire car at the time and thinking it was a twister forming up. Got the adrenaline pumping at the time.
Felt very special to have seen one with my own eyes.
Good shot. Where you in the car parked at the side of the road?
6 November 2005, 8:22 pmRegards
MC
Andre Dalton:
Hiya
Im very impressed - great shots - were these the only ones seen on the day? And could you give us an approximate location of where they were? I had a friend that lived on Ellowera Road….My father-in-law to be said he saw something funnel shaped to the south of Glen Innes aswell…
Cheers
Andre
7 November 2005, 2:09 pmsry i don't want to tell u:
I am doing a reserch report on water spouts and I saw this. I is really cool! The only thing that I was wondering is how are they water spouts of there isn’t any water below them?, but they still are really cool
Have a happy happy day!
9 May 2006, 2:04 pmsry i don't want to tell u:
ooooooooooooooooooooooooo sry i didn’t see the first caption!
Ta Ta for now!
9 May 2006, 2:06 pmmicky james:
Add some more details it was to short and have
14 March 2007, 8:05 amMicky James:
more details smaller pictures
14 March 2007, 8:08 amMicky James:
and talk more about how the waterspout forms and stuuf like that.
14 March 2007, 8:09 amShelti:
I have seen many cool tornadoes and twisters in my life but I have never seens anything like C.W.’s big butt
28 May 2008, 11:26 pm