Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Weather and Waterspouts 7.25.09

I'm a weather girl. I watch the news for the sole purpose of catching a glimpse of the weather, and I want to know the forecast and temperature outside regardless of the season. Maybe that comes from my dad, who has kept a farmer's weather diary for as long as I can remember, or perhaps its totally unrelated. Regardless, when weather hits in the islands, I am always curious. Usually it's 75-90 all through out the year with occasional squall lines passing through, particularly in the rainy season. This day as weather passed over, a waterspout started to form off to the west. We watched it from the beginning to end: the formation of the funnel cloud, the spraying on the ocean surface also forming a spiral stretching upward, and then, the dissolving of both upper and lower parts.

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