One of the last things you may want to see before your airplane takes off is a tornado a few miles away from the runway. On Monday morning in Rome, minutes before my flight began to board, most passengers were looking out the window of the terminal at a waterspout (a mild tornado over water). Only one formed even though three others began forming from the same dark cloud, but they withered away.
Even though waterspouts are not as dangerous as tornadoes or tornadoes over water, it’s still scary to see one before your airplane takes off, especially if you have never seen something like it before.
In the video below you can see water being sucked up from the Mediterranean Sea into the sky by the waterspout. It moved quickly and it grew quite a bit.
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