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The video shows a tornado-like tube between the ocean and the clouds near Bay St. George.
Environment Canada Meteorologist David Neal says there is a good chance it was a water spout.
Neal says it is essentially a tornado that forms over the water and it is associated with thunderstorms.
He says they are not overly common but conditions can exist anytime there is a line of thunderstorms across the offshore.
Flooded street in Karachi on August 25
The flooding in Afghanistan's Parwan region following heavy rains has officially killed 25 people and injured 40, although a spokesperson for the province said casualties may still rise as rescue teams work to locate those buried under hundreds of destroyed houses.
The province called on the government to deliver aid and provide immediate support for workers digging through mud to reach those trapped.
© Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesWaves crash against the harbour wall in Newhaven, England.
Police searched for two people, one a canoeist, feared to have fallen into the swollen River Taff in and around Cardiff while a woman was pulled to safety from the Ely, another river in the Welsh capital.
Campers and caravaners were rescued by firefighters from sites in south-west Wales while premises were damaged by flood water and falling trees, and rail lines and roads were blocked.
The Met Office said a number of areas across Wales and the Midlands were hit by record-high wind speeds for August.
Comment: Less than a week ago Storm Ellen caused widespread damage across Ireland and parts of the UK.
Chairperson of Patarasi-4, Kali Bahadur Rawat, said that the farmers were headed toward the incident site. The details of the loss are awaited. Chief Administrative Officer Tek Bahadur Budhthapa said that the lightning hit the sheep on grazing land. Sheep rearing is the main income source for most of the locals of Patarasi area.
Budhthapa said, "Farmers will face problems in their livelihoods as lightning has killed all their sheep." Around 700 sheep had also died from continuous hailstone, rainfall and wind in 2070 BS in the district.
In Douala, the country's economic capital, flooding swamped the city's roads and damaged bridges, causing widespread traffic disruption. The districts pf Makèpe Missokè, Bepanda and Mabanda were among the worst affected, according to media reports.
Flooding also caused widespread material damages, including to hundreds of homes. Samuel Ivaha Diboua, governor of the Littoral region, told reporters that almost 900 families have been displaced due to the flooding.
The United Nations recently reported that heavy rainfall at the end of July caused rivers to overflow in Cameroon's Far North (Extrême-Nord) region, affecting over 5,000 people.
© Frankie LucenaThe red arrow points from Lucena's camera to the Gigantic Jets
Gigantic Jets are related to sprites, only much bigger. They fly out of the tops of some thunderstorms and can reach all the way to the edge of space. That's why some people call them "space lightning." They are a sign of intense electrical activity in the storm below.
"This appears to be a rare Type II Gigantic Jet event," says Lucena. Gigantic Jets come in three types. Type II events start out as Blue Jets, then transform into Gigantic Jets. The metamorphosis is not well understood. "Out of the more than 40 Gigantic Jets I've captured over the years in the Caribbean, only three of them might be Type IIs"--so very rare indeed.
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- 13 waterspouts seen over The Great Lakes
- Multiple waterspouts filmed swirling at once in Gulf of Mexico
- Record outbreak of 84 waterspouts last week over the Great Lakes
- 43% of Iowa corn, soybean crop hit by Monday's storm
- Three cranes collapse at India's biggest container port near Mumbai
Comment: This normally dry, hot and arid desert country has seen extraordinary heavy rainfall, flooding, thunder and hailstorms during the spring and summer this year as evinced by the following numerous video reports:
- Hailstorms and flash floods in Saudi Arabia
- Flooding strikes Najran, Saudi Arabia
- Thunderstorm causes flooding in Bisha, Saudi Arabia
- Heavy rain brings floods in Taif, Saudi Arabia
- Summer storm and flooding in Taif, Saudi Arabia
- Continuing storms and flooding in Taif, Saudi Arabia
- Summer storms and flooding in Najran, Saudi Arabia
- Summer storms cause destruction and flooding in Medina, Saudi Arabia
- Summer flooding in Jazan, Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabia's civil defense rescues hundreds from floods after torrential summer rain
Comment: At least 11 dead as Tropical Storm Laura causes severe damage in Haiti and Dominican Republic - nearly foot of rain in 24 hours