On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:27:51 +0100
"Togless" wrote:

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/...066093288.jpeg

I reckon it was south of Hayling Island, about 19:00. My first ever
sighting of one, so I'm suitably thrilled :-)


When I was a kid and used to go to the cinema to see a western, I'd
always check the credits - this was in the days when they came at the
start of the film - to look out for "special effects". When I saw that,
I was pretty sure there was going to be a tornado somewhere in the
film. Imagine my surprise when, one Sunday in July in the mid-1950s in
Rushden, I saw a tornado in the distance just like the ones I'd seen in
the movies. At the time, I didn't know they occurred in this country.

The best display of funnel clouds that I saw apart from that one was at
RAE Bedford in August, probably 1964, when there were five visible at
the same time.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. Mail: 'newsman' not 'newsboy'.
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they're open". -
Lord Dewar (1864-1930)