The weather in Tampa Bay has been whiplashing between sunny and stormy all holiday weekend, and Sunday in Sarasota was no ...

WINK News Weather Watchers and viewers sent in images of a waterspout off of the coast of Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel. Chief ...

Twin waterspouts were spotted swirling over the Manatee River in Bradenton and other Tampa Bay waters on Sunday afternoon. Mayor Gene Brown and his wife captured the rare sight of two waterspouts ...

In this Weather Wednesday we look at the difference between a fair weather waterspout and a tornadic waterspout.

Fair weather waterspouts form along the base of clouds, starting on the water's surface and don't typically include high winds or thunderstorms, according to NOAA.

Fair weather waterspouts tend to form under slow-moving clouds so they don't move very far or very fast, and they dissipate quickly over land.

Whereas tornadoes happen during severe weather on dry land. Fair weather waterspouts are more common. “Fabulous, fabulous,” Aleywine says of the Jamaican waterspout spinning in the distance.

A waterspout is a whirling column of air and mist that forms over a large body of water. They can form in conditions ranging from calm to extreme stormy weather. But, while fair-weather ...

What causes a waterspout? Waterspouts are whirling columns of air and water that usually form over the ocean. There are two kinds of waterspout: fair-weather and tornadic.

Wind speeds for fair-weather waterspouts range from 80 km/h to 200 km/h (50mph to 125mph) – significantly weaker than most tornadoes. A waterspout on Lake Garda in northern Italy, September 2022.

A fair weather waterspout will develop on the water's surface and work upwards as it grows. Tornadic waterspouts, meanwhile, will develop downward in a thunderstorm.

Fair weather waterspouts are weak, often dissipate quickly and do not cause major damage, according to the agencies, but tornadic waterspouts are more often associated with high winds, dangerous ...