A family was heading back to dry land when two of the funnel formations suddenly sprung up. “It looked like something from a movie,” one of them said.

“It really was unreal!” wrote Jeni Scheid, who shared video of the incident with the Bradenton Herald. “Seemed like a movie ...

Wind speeds for fair-weather waterspouts range from 80 km/h to 200 km/h (50mph to 125mph) – significantly weaker than most tornadoes. Fair-weather waterspouts are usually short-lived and rarely ...

A waterspout on Lake Garda in northern Italy, September 2022. EPA-EFE/Sandro Benedetti. Fair-weather waterspouts are usually short-lived and rarely dangerous, though small boats and swimmers ...

After weeks of intense heatwaves and high sea temperatures, a freak storm off the coast of Sicily sunk a British-flagged yacht named the Bayesian e ...

Tornadic waterspouts, on the other hand, are far more dangerous and share many characteristics with land-based tornadoes.These waterspouts form during severe thunderstorms and can either develop ...

How dangerous are waterspouts? Tornadic waterspouts are the most powerful and destructive type of waterspout, National Geographic reports, and can pose a threat to life.

The rarer and more dangerous version of a waterspout is effectively a tornado formed over water, and these have been recorded in the Mediterranean before.

But these waters can still be dangerous — one of the reasons thousands of people die every year trying to migrate across it — and experts say it’s only becoming more so as human-caused ...

But it does not take a waterspout to make a bad storm dangerous. During both 2023 and 2024 oceans around the world have been freakishly hot. That can make storms more powerful and produce other ...

For those living along the coast, it’s not uncommon to see waterspouts, especially during the warmer months. But while they may make for dramatic photos and video, waterspouts can be dangerous.