Many onlookers caught a rare glimpse at one of nature’s truly rare phenomenons as a waterspout, a tornado like vortex occurring over water, hung around the coast neat Thorpeness and Aldeburg Saturday evening. Many residents took the opportunity to video and photograph this rare weather occurence.

Key Takeaways:

• A waterspout can be explained by meteorologists as basically a tornado over water.
• Waterspouts are similar to tornados because they both start out as a funnel cloud which is a rotating column of air under a storm.
• A waterspout was seen spiraling above the coasts of Suffolk, Torpeness, and Aldeburgh.

“Meteorologist and BBC Look East weather forecaster Dan Holley said: “Essentially a waterspout is just a tornado but over water.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-36941468