April 8 (UPI) — A Boston-area man taking a walk near Castle Island captured video when he spotted a pair of unusual vortexes off the coast that may have been waterspouts.
Walpole resident Michael Bianculli said he was walking around Pleasure Bay on Tuesday morning when he spotted the phenomenon near the DCR Murphy Memorial Rink.
His video shows the twin vortexes traveling across the water toward him.
“That’s kind of wild. Is that a waterspout?” Bianculli asks in the video.
Meteorologists said the vortexes would have to reach the base of the clouds to be classified as true waterspouts.
“The spout seemed to go a lot higher than a few feet but not sure if it went all the way to the clouds,” Bianculli said in an email to WCVB-TV.
A.J. Burnett, a meteorologist for WCVB, said the twin formations in Bianculli’s video are unusual.
“What makes these waterspouts even more unique is that the closer waterspout seems to be rotating clockwise, which is opposite most funnels, spouts and tornadoes,” Burnett said.
