Waterspout? Dust devil?
Readers: Did anyone else spot anything like this in Harford County Saturday? Did anyone get a picture? If so, email it to me at frank.roylance@baltsun.com Thanks.
"Mr Roylance,
"My wife and I were driving westbound on US40 this afternoon (Saturday, 30 June), at about 1:45 PM. As we approached MD 543 in Belcamp (in Harford County) I noticed a thin, dark, mostly vertical column of SOMETHING rising from the vicinity of the Bush River toward the sky. I could not tell what it was, but I definitely saw this thing, and my wife saw it too. It did not last very long, and it eventually faded completely away. It almost looked like a shadow, but it moved and bent a little before it faded. It did not look like any kind of smoke that I have ever seen. We thought it sort of looked like a big, thin, dust devil.
"The sky was fairly clear, with no storm in the area, and no weird winds were obvious from where we were driving. Could this have been a small waterspout? Were the conditions today right for a waterspout to form? I know from a TV weather show that waterspouts form in a different way than regular tornadoes, and they are much weaker.
"Unfortunately, I did not have a camera on me at the time. Sincerely, Monroe Harden, Havre de Grace, MD"







