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Ya we get those too
Last waterspout I know of was the Jun 1978 one that capsized the Whippoorwill on Pomona Lake in Kansas, where we know a little bit about tornadoes. You’d think the operator would have known better than to go out on the water with heavy thunderstoms forecast, but maybe he thought he’d be OK since no tornado warning was issued before the accident.
The ship wasn’t actually hit by the waterspout itself, but was pushed over by the peripheral winds, killing sixteen.
Mr. Watts, it just has to be global warming! It is 86 here in Orlando this afternoon and only a few weeks ago we had temps in the 40s! At this rate we will melt by fall! Besides that from last night until this afternoon the temp has gone up almost 25 degrees. In one day!
The Goricle was right!
Now don’t try any of the fancy scientist crap about cycles or such — I’m wise to your game!
🙂
Oh no! It’s a rotating mushroom cloud, come straight from Japan! It’s a nukenado! Got to take a hundred Potassium Iodine [sic] tablets! Gulp, gulp, gulp. Oh no, now I feel awful! Must be radiation sickness despite the Potassium Iodine! Gotta take a hundred more!
We get those up here in BC as well. I saw one on Stave Lake back in ’95. Global Warming™ was just a wee baby then.
Cheers!
Looks cool! Of course, *I* would be headed in the opposite direction just as fast as my two feet can carry me. ;->
Gee,what’s the big deal about water spouts? they are relatively common during spring
weather seen a few myself on the Pacific Ocean -from land and dock alike.
last one was in Coos Bay back in ’05….
I think it’s the radiation from the reactors in Japan …
make as much sense..
I saw a few in the Gulf in the Sixties. Pretty cool!
NO! NO, NO NO NO!!! Not global warming!! That is so, like, last year?
This waterspout was caused by anthropogenic climate change.
/sarc
pretty.
not so much when they come ashore.
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/bank1-t.jpg
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/Mvc-004f.jpg
Way cool to surf through one of those!
The freezing weather recently must have angered the ocean gods or Nancy, one or the other. They always spout off after.
Doing a quick “Bing” using ‘waterspouts’ ‘California’…seems they are common
Tempests have been know to escape the tea cup out at sea.
OMG! It’s Global Weirding!
Everything Al Gore told me is TRUE!
KIDDING!
As best I can tell, the waterspout is in the Pacific, not in the bay. It looks like off the coast of the Sunset district.
@Joseph – Don’t worry. The humidity will keep you from combusting.
“Nukenado”, ROFL!!!!
craziest waterspout story I read happened in the 19th century, same Naval types had a theory on how to break up a waterspout. So they sent an American warship (wooden) out to look for a likely storm that could cause one in the Gulf, with instructions to get as close to a waterspout as they could. They found one and headed straight for it. When the waterspout was almost on top of them they fired a cannon into it in the belief that would “break it”, somehow. Nope, didn’t hurt the waterspout a bit (there’s a surprise) but they did lose about a dozen sailors and suffered extensive damage when the waterspout barreled across the deck.
Just another glorious moment in military history.
Fukushima particulates combining with global warming.
;O)
I grew up in South San Francisco, and remember the occasional water spout on the Bay when I was a kid. My parents lived there until 2 years ago, and in 2005, almost exactly 5 years ago to the day in fact, I stood on their front porch with my brother Jon and watched the funnel cloud of the first SSF F1 tornado hesitate a few times and then dip from the clouds and touch down a couple of miles away on Spruce Ave. Having watched many tornado videos, that one was clearly a sprout. But it took off a few roofs. Here’s a Youtube video of it.
That was not a water spout as reported here on WUWT. It is really all of the CO2 being driven into the ocean from the atmosphere. Hopefully the AWG police will quickly cordon off this section of acidic ocean water so nobody gets acid burns. /sarc
They’ll either blame global warming, the Mayan 2012 doomsday prophecy, SuperMoon gravity, or all of the above. Natural variability of the weather system is far too rational for most people to accept, especially for people living in the San Francisco bay area.
Well, I for one BELIEVE there is a lot of hot air near and around San Francisco… 🙂
Pretty fun to watch these. I saw one back in the 1990’s in Oklahoma at lake Eufaula. It was thin like a thread and twisted all over the place.
Maybe climate people will understand vortices better when they can explain this image:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii14/sherro_2008/Jumbo.jpg
Seems to me there are far more important factors than sea surface temperature when hurricanes form. A fast jet stream way up high might also be a prerequisite.
Very cool! .. you know, we will likely get a lot more of those as the world continues to
warmcool …. /sarc