An unusual weather phenomenon resembling a tornado has been spotted across the UK as the nation was battered by thunderstorms on Thursday
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Weather watchers shared sightings of funnel clouds - described by the Met Office as"extended, spinning fingers of cloud".They reach towards the ground but crucially, never touch it - differentiating them from a tornado. Funnel clouds were spotted in northern England and the Midlands, including hovering above Humberside Airport and looming over south Lincolnshire, as well as Bedfordshire and Peterborough.A funnel cloud seen over Humberside Airport. Pic: Twitter/@sam181280Others spotted funnel clouds in the South East above Deal and Sandwich in Kent, as well as Basingstoke in Hampshire.
Explaining the phenomenon, Sky News weather producer Joanna Robinson said:"Funnel clouds are rotating columns of air that display a cone shape extending towards the ground from the base of a much larger cloud, often a cumulonimbus.
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