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Beautiful Tornados Pictures

A tornado is a vortex of extremely violent winds, beginning at the base of a thunderstorm cloud when the shear conditions are favorable winds in the lower atmosphere. Very small tornadoes may also develop under clouds of rain.
This meteorological phenomenon has a destructive power greater than that of a tropical cyclone per square [...]

A water spout is a meteorological phenomenon like tornadoes, which rises above the water rather than land. It is accompanied by winds blowing at speeds ranging from 80 to 100 km/h.
But Wednesday afternoon, not one but two water spouts were observed above the St. Lawrence River in the Montreal area.
The weather phenomenon is not common [...]