This Is What It Looks Like When A Pair of Water Spouts Form on the Pacific Ocean at the Same Time

Thunder storms? Yup. Hail? Ok sure… but water spouts?

Well, that’s worth a post.

This morning I stumbled across this amazing capture on the Los Angeles sub-reddit, as taken by Brian Hawkins at around dusk of yesterday.

The image depicts a pair of water spouts forming off the coast of Redondo Beach just as a tiny sailboat passes by, creating an amazing, albeit foreboding, frame. The timing, it seems, had to be exactly right as Hawkins said in a post on his Instagram that the spouts dissipated within just 5 minutes.

A photo posted by Brian Hawkins (@brian.hawkins) on Mar 1, 2015 at 6:23pm PST

 

Also, here’s a link to a larger version of the photo if you want a more high-res view.

Water spouts, as it turns out, are pretty rare, but a number have been spotted over the past few days, along with accounts of mud-slides, hail storms, and other storm related phenomena.

Thanks for stopping by Winter!