Bad Astronomy -
30 Mar 2015 18:17
A couple of weeks ago, a waterspout formed off the coast of a tropical beach in Brazil. The panic it evoked was merited ... kinda sorta. Here's why: I've seen dust devils in person many times (driving from California to Colorado years back, we saw a half dozen, one that was so big we were kilometers away when we first spotted it), and pictures of them on Mars(!). But I've never seen a tornado in the wild myself, or a waterspout ... or an ash devil, or a fire tornado. Y'know what? I'm not too ups...
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