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STORM STORY 28-29
Small and big… …
Waterspouts can be of different sizes—from just a few
feet high and a few feet wide to hundreds of feet wide
and over a mile high. They can move at a speed of 3–128
kilometres per hour. The wind speed inside it can be 96–190
kilometres per hour.
Waterspouts usually last for about fifteen minutes. A few can last up to
half an hour.
More than one waterspout can form from the same base of clouds.
These are called families.
As air rises, condenses, and falls, a Look what the water
visible funnel shape is created. brought ashore!
Did you Waterspouts, like tornadoes,
know? can pick up things and carry
them over a distance.
The Chinese
believed They have been known to
that air carry lizards, tadpoles, toads,
dragons and fish and drop them
fighting over land!
with each
Waterspouts are not as
other caused destructive as tornadoes,
waterspouts. but some of these can
be dangerous.
In 1856, it is reported
that a tornadic waterspout
appeared in Grand Harbour,
Malta, wrecking a number
of warships and killing six
hundred people. In 1970, a
yacht in the Gulf of Venice
was lifted and dropped by a
huge waterspout. Thirty-six
people lost their lives.
Stop! Or I’ll
breathe fire and
evaporate you!
May and September when the weather is warm.
Small and big… …
Waterspouts can be of different sizes—from just a few
feet high and a few feet wide to hundreds of feet wide
and over a mile high. They can move at a speed of 3–128
kilometres per hour. The wind speed inside it can be 96–190
kilometres per hour.
Waterspouts usually last for about fifteen minutes. A few can last up to
half an hour.
More than one waterspout can form from the same base of clouds.
These are called families.
As air rises, condenses, and falls, a Look what the water
visible funnel shape is created. brought ashore!
Did you Waterspouts, like tornadoes,
know? can pick up things and carry
them over a distance.
The Chinese
believed They have been known to
that air carry lizards, tadpoles, toads,
dragons and fish and drop them
fighting over land!
with each
Waterspouts are not as
other caused destructive as tornadoes,
waterspouts. but some of these can
be dangerous.
In 1856, it is reported
that a tornadic waterspout
appeared in Grand Harbour,
Malta, wrecking a number
of warships and killing six
hundred people. In 1970, a
yacht in the Gulf of Venice
was lifted and dropped by a
huge waterspout. Thirty-six
people lost their lives.
Stop! Or I’ll
breathe fire and
evaporate you!
May and September when the weather is warm.
