Waterspout off Yangtze River mouth,
A waterspout is a small-diameter column of rapidly swirling air in contact with a water surface. Waterspouts are almost always produced by a swiftly growing cumulus cloud. They are a funnel-shaped or tubular portion of a cloud over the ocean or other body of water that, laden with mist and spray, resembles a solid column of water reaching upward to the cloud from which it hangs. Waterspouts are closely related to other atmospheric phenomena such as tornadoes, whirlwinds, and fire storms. Waterspout observed by crew of USS Pittsburg off the mouth of the Yangtze River, circa 1930. Photo by Stahl appears in "Flug Und Wolken", Manfred Curry, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munchen, 1932.
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