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  • Location: North York Moors
  • Location: North York Moors

I wonder why they call it that, it just looks like a weak tornado touching down, or a large dust devil.

There is a showery looking cloud approaching.

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  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL
  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL

According to the NWS, it goes along the lines of:

"A slang term for a short-lived, ground-based, shallow, vortex that develops on a gust front associated with either thunderstorms or showers. They may only extend to 30 to 300 feet above the ground with no apparent connection to the convective cloud above. They may be accompanied by rain, but usually are 'wispy', or only visible as a debris cloud or dust whirl at or near the ground."

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