Florida lighting Strike

This is a waterspout accompanied by a lighting strike, photographed over Lake Okeechobee in Florida. A sister of the tornado, waterspouts are generally less powerful. They occur when high layers of cool air blow across a body of water while warm moist air sweeps up from below. They appear as thin columns with the funnels sucking up water.

Waterspouts can vary in size from a few feet to more than
a mile in height, and from a few feet to hundreds of feet wide.

These water twisters can move anywhere from 2 to 80 miles an hour. Winds within the waterspout can spiral around at 60-120 miles an hour.

Waterspouts, like their land counterparts, can pick up and transport some interesting objects. They have sent showers of tadpoles in New York, and even toads in France. One in Providence, Rhode Island, rained fish down on the people, who promptly collected and sold them!

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