Behold mother nature and her glorious, twisted ways.
A waterspout was spotted in Tuen Mun and, thanks to the World Wide Web, we can all share in its fleeting awesomeness.
Appearing next to Ting Kau Bridge, which connects Tsing Yi to Tuen Mun Road — the phenomenon was caught on camera by someone called Tobias Chan (thanks Tobias) who filmed it from a building in Tsuen Wan West at around 11:30am.
According to Apple Daily, it moved northward, and disappeared after one minute.
The newspaper also reported that the Hong Kong Observatory received more than three reports of waterspout sightings in June, and prior to that it received one report of a waterspout sighting in August 2014.
Caused by unstable weather brought about by thunderstorms, a waterspout is a fast-rotating air column above water that extends down from the base of clouds, and are typically sighted during the rainy season between May and September.
And the storm clouds are brewing today. As of 2pm, the weather service had issued both an amber rainstorm warning and a thunderstorm warning.
According to the Observatory’s super specific records, there’s been 38 days on which waterspouts were sighted since 1959. The more you know, eh.
