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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Visitors to Devon would normally expect to have a few late, sunny days at this time.
However, Britain's bizarre weather took another strange turn when this spectacular twister twirled its way across the county's coastline, yesterday.
Witnesses watched as the mini tornado-style phenomenon appeared on the horizon off Torquay.
Local resident Alison Heather, 21, photographed the scene at 2.30pm on Wednesday and described it as 'breathtaking'.
She said: 'It was moving across the bay and you could actually see that it was drawing the sea spray up a couple of hundred feet in the air.
'It wasn't the sort of thing you expect to see here. It was breathtaking.'
A spokesman for the Western Lady ferry service said one of their skippers logged the twister at 2.20pm around two miles east of Berry Head.
He said:' The skipper saw a long thin formation come down from the sky, and when it was near the surface, water was sucked up to meet it.
'It was a bit spooky recall because on land here it suddenly went cold and dark for ten minutes. It was very unusual weather for this part of the world.'
Witness Dave Perry added: 'It was right on the horizon and lots of people were looking at it. It was like a giant water spout.
'First of all we thought it was a cloud but then we saw it was actually sucking up the water. I haven't seen anything like it before here.'
A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and the base of a cloud. [Oz cyclone yes?]
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