I've seen waterspouts and you would never be able to get this close to them. It's almost calm all around this thing.

I don't know what it is but I would have been driving away from it, not towards it.

(08-03-2014 10:21 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  I don't know what it is but I would have been driving away from it, not towards it.

It's a perfect thin column that extends all the way into the clouds. I don't think it is powerful enough to lift a person off the ground. It has to be tornadic of some nature, but that is not a normal waterspout. I have heard about these and think they have a special name.

(08-04-2014 08:59 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(08-03-2014 10:21 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  I don't know what it is but I would have been driving away from it, not towards it.

It's a perfect thin column that extends all the way into the clouds. I don't think it is powerful enough to lift a person off the ground. It has to be tornadic of some nature, but that is not a normal waterspout. I have heard about these and think they have a special name.

Water devil. Most waterspouts are no more powerful than a dirt devil. A tornadic water spout usually starts on land.

(08-04-2014 09:27 AM)bullitt_60 Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:59 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(08-03-2014 10:21 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  I don't know what it is but I would have been driving away from it, not towards it.

It's a perfect thin column that extends all the way into the clouds. I don't think it is powerful enough to lift a person off the ground. It has to be tornadic of some nature, but that is not a normal waterspout. I have heard about these and think they have a special name.

Water devil. Most waterspouts are no more powerful than a dirt devil. A tornadic water spout usually starts on land.

Someone in the office called this thing a "Fair Weather" waterspout - a non tornadic version that is common in the Florida Keys. Very much like a land spout. So I think you are both right.

That is unbelievably cool.

That's the kind of thing I expect to see before summoning the Fantastic Four

(08-04-2014 12:58 PM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  That's the kind of thing I expect to see before summoning the Fantastic Four

It's a bit different than the waterspouts around here.
Here's a couple of dumb*** from CA that almost lost their lives.

I've seen some pretty big water spouts in the middle of the Atlantic.

Cloaked Bird-of-prey?