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Old January 23rd 05, 03:27 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Jack Harrison Jack Harrison is offline
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The first one this
afternoon was even whipping up something that looked like a tornado,
but the cameras dont dwell for too long.


I tried a screen grab, but not very good.

I think it was a pretty impressive dust devil at the right hand edge of this
picture
http://www.itadvice.co.uk/weatherjack/cricket.jpg
not actually a tornado as intimated by the commentator

But again it really makes the point That looked bl--dy dangerous.
However, all that the umpires seemed to be considering was the light level.

PS David Gower just used the term "tropical storm"!!!
I suppose that is a bit too of a specialist term to expect him to get it
right.

Jack