What is a waterspout and what would happen if an object or even a person was to get caught in it?
In: Physics
A waterspout is like a tornado, but over water. I’ve seen one before, and it’s really freaking weird.
First, you’ll see a cloud getting a spike coming down out of it, which looks strange, because clouds are something you never think of as spikey. Then you’ll start to see the water below have a spike coming up out of it, which is even weirder as water is something you never think of as “spikey” either. Eventually the two will touch, and you have a waterspout.
The one I saw was in about the year 2000 when crossing the Howard Franklin bridge in Tampa. It traveled across the bridge and that broke it up and it dissipated, but it was one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen.
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