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A Tornado Over A Bay In Sydney?

Timology From Netherlands, joined Jan 2006, 216 posts, RR: 0
Posted (7 years 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 950 times:

Hi all,

was looking around with Google Earth and after watching same beaches and bays in Sydney, I struck on this:

It looks like a tornado to me, but not sure..

What you think? cheeky

btw, did a search on this wheter it has been posted before, but couldn't find anything...

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YYZflyer From Canada, joined Feb 2006, 3636 posts, RR: 5
Reply 1, posted (7 years 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 948 times:

Quoting Timology (Thread starter):
It looks like a tornado to me, but not sure..

How could it be tornado if you can see the ground and there are no clouds? Though the shape does look like it.

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Timology From Netherlands, joined Jan 2006, 216 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (7 years 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 945 times:

Quoting YYZflyer (Reply 1):
How could it be tornado if you can see the ground and there are no clouds? Though the shape does look like it.

then what else could it be? Maybe they got rid of the clouds etc, there's a vulcano somewhere (forgot which one) which was erupting and that was clearly visible too

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DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 3, posted (7 years 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 940 times:

It's an optical illusion so to speak. The foam from the crashing waves kind of looks like a tornado turned on its side.

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Redngold From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 6907 posts, RR: 51
Reply 4, posted (7 years 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 929 times:

Even if it was a waterspout, there would have been clouds... and the view from above would not look like the funnel shape you've shown us. It would look more like a dark spot and a circular or tubular shape coming up from the water.

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DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 5, posted (7 years 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 921 times:

It could be a "dust devil" where the wind swirls around but they usually don't get too big. Seeing that this is picture is by the water I'm still going with optical illusion from the sea foam.

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