Thursday - August 19, 2010

Today In Weather History

Today in weather history ...

August 19, 1896

The famous Cottage City (Oak Bluffs) waterspout occurred off Martha’s Vineyard, MA.  The vortex was 3,600 feet high, formed three times, and was well photographed.

Martha’s Vineyard is a small island just off the coast of Massachusetts, right by New Bedford and Newport. It’s south of the Cape Cod peninsula, 60 miles south east of Boston and about 80 miles east of the end of Long Island Sound. Not exactly the kind of place you’d expect tornadoes. But they had one once, and it was a big job. Martha’s Vineyard is also where Chappaquiddick is, and the whole Kennedy compound. This waterspout never touched land, thus no Kennedys had the chance to be sucked into the vortex.

Waterspouts are like little tornadoes that form over water. Most are of the non-tornadic variety, but some can form the same way from thunderstorm clouds that a regular tornado can. Generally they are not dangerous, winds about 30mph, and rate a 0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.



Speaking of small tornados and thunderstorms, we have a new member. Well, actually a very old member who went away and has now come back. Banned, but now unbanned. Guess who?

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