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. Let’s get some breaking news
right now. Looks like a
waterspout off of Hallandale.
Getting trying to get a look at
some live images right now. You
see it there. Ever faintly in
the middle of your screen. Hard
to tell what else is going on
the moment but this is certainly
something that we’re keeping an
eye on right now. There’s a good
shot of it now. There we go.
That’s that’s much better. I
exactly what you want to see a
Friday. But here we are as we
monitor the situation. I we were
just talking a few minutes ago
about how everything seemed
brother we thought everything
was okay. And then there’s this.
But is a waterspout and it is
off of Hollywood Beach. So
something to monitor but. Let’s
hope it just kind of stays over
the water. Brandon, as we’re
looking at this with you talk us
about this. I mean, these
waterspouts, they to stay out in
the water for the most part.
Yeah. I’m not concerned about
this at all. This isn’t a
situation that we should
concerned about, but it’s
definitely interesting, see,
especially because we’re looking
at it from the vantage point of
sky and we normally don’t
capture these things. They
happen so quick. We Don’t have a
camera this good. Actually
Capture it when it’s out over
the water. Remember I showed
that picture a little bit ago
from Port Miami of a little tiny
waterspout. It’s just the
conditions that we have in place
today. These usually out when it
gets to the coast. I’m actually
curious to see how close to the
we are if they ever zoom out we
able to see that but it looks
like it’s pretty decently
offshore if we want to pull a
box up of radar, I can show you
of the showers that we have
moving in. These are small shot.
Actually, it like he’s panning
over right now. Maybe we see the
shoreline is okay. It looks like
it’s a few miles offshore. Yeah.
So this isn’t too concerning.
Every in a while you can get
these to hit the coast. And they
usually fizzle. Fizzle out can
be a little bit dangerous when
you have those strong wind gusts
and all those beach umbrellas
around. But it looks like this
is staying far enough offshore.
And you can see that heavy rain
there on the left side of the.
So yeah, we’ll get a couple of
showers this rolling in
especially Dania beach. That’s
actually where the showers are
off Hollywood Beach. But that
shower off to the left is closer
to Dania Beach. You get these
quick bursts of heavy rain and
an occasional waterspout and
this probably won’t be the last
one we see today either. Yeah.
As looking at this image,
Brandon, it is such an
interesting view because like
you said, hard to capture these.
They usually fizzle quickly and
they’re not exactly easy to
spot. What’s interesting, I’m
looking here live sky ten. When
you look the left side, you
could see where the showers, you
can see the storm right over the
water. But when he panned out
to, look at the beach. It looks
like the beach. Okay. And that’s
sort of what we’re dealing with.
South Florida weather wise.
Yeah, very isolated, small
showers today. Nothing too
widespread said. We’re not
looking at anything severe by
the time that these move onshore
. Definitely a real interesting
view. I’m surprised it’s still
actually hanging on a little bit
there. It’s lasting pretty. I
guess the question is here
whether or not if someone was at
the beach right now or maybe
let’s say they wanted to go to
the boardwalk take a walk right
now, you would emphasize this is
not something you need to freak
out about in any shape. No Yeah,
I would definitely keep an on it
just to make sure it doesn’t get
a little close to the coastline.
You Don’t want to run towards
this thing. Definitely can kick
up winds over a small on the
beach. But you can see that
spray ring is what we call it.
There at the surface. And look
how rapid those winds are. Those
are some pretty strong winds.
You can easily get winds down at
the surface like that with this
waterspout, 50, 60, 70 miles per
hour at the at the bottom in
that real small area, kicking up
all that sea spray. So a real
interesting view. But yeah, if
you’re down at the beach I would
keep an eye on it to make sure
it doesn’t come close to the
coast but I’m not too concerned
about weather elsewhere in south
Florida, too. And Brad, are you
surprised that we’ve been
talking for a few minutes now
that? It’s still pretty, pretty
we’re still getting a good view
of it that usually kind of in
and out quick. Yeah. Especially
On a day like today where you
get these small shower it’s like
this. We don’t have a ton of
instability here ingredients
there. But offshore definitely
do offshore of that warmer water
that’s out there. Normally These
are quick. Sometimes you can
barely even them by the time you
get your camera and, the app
out, they’re already gone. But
this one seems to be sticking
around for a while. This is a
more healthy one than that one
that I showed you from Port
Miami that we had to really
remember. We had to zoom in on
it to actually see the funnel.
This one is pretty decent shot.
It’s a very cool looking
waterspout offshore, especially
when get the wide angle view of
it too, because When we first
took the shot live, it was
tightened around the spray, the
spray ring right at the bottom.
So in fact, it was so difficult
to make out what we were
actually looking at. But this is
the best view of everything so
far. You see how large it is and
the contrast the left side of
your screen, as you pointed out
earlier, to the right side of
your screen. So then when we pan
over to the coast, not really
noticing anything for someone if
you’re probably the beach right
now, but the contrast that you
pointed out is really important
that 50 to 60 mile per hour
winds. That’s nothing to scoff
at if. You were standing
directly in front it or right
next to it. Yeah. And that small
area right there and this is a
type of day where we get these
needle like funnels they’re very
thin pencil. Like we’re not
getting those big time
waterspout. But when we zoom in
like that, it’s just incredible
to see the sea spray. And you
can tell just how fast those
winds are rotating over that
small area offshore of Hollywood
Beach. It looks be, what, about
two or three miles offshore? No,
that seems right when we’ve been
to pan out here. But wow,
Brianna you can really see the
rotation when we get to the
actual water, the end of the
spout seeing that rotation from
the waterspout and it does look
like it’s moving it at least
from this vantage point. What
would that like? Although we
don’t see any anyone out in the
water, we don’t see any boats
out there. But what would this
be like? You are out in a boat
and you start to this. What are
some of those conditions if you
are in fact near this, the
water? Yeah. We have seen videos
, boats out around waterspouts,
very similar this and people
want to kind of get close it and
check it out a little bit. But
if this hits your boat, you
don’t want the last thing you
want. Is this to capsize, you
know, a 50, 60 mile per hour
wind local right at your boat
could easily overturn it. So
yeah, steer clear and just keep
an eye out it as it gets a
little bit closer to the coast
here it doesn’t seem like it’s
moving at all if we can do a
double box with graphics, I can
show you the radar that’s going
on because we are seeing a
slight uptick in some of the
showers this some heavy rain
that’s falling off or too we
don’t want that moving into
those same areas that. Had all
that heavy rain there in Dania
beach. I know we picked up about
a good inch inch a half of rain
from this train. Showers in
between Hollywood and Fort and
they just keep regenerating over
the same areas. I’m just
surprised this thing is still
going. It’s resilient. It’s been
probably about what, 5 minutes
now? So and while we wait for
the chance to maybe see the
radar that you’re going to get
that radar up, that maybe
helped. Brandon, I want to go to
something that you mentioned
earlier a couple times now. In
fact that this doesn’t tend to
last very long. What sort of a
high end projection on how long
these sort of sit out there? The
water, the ones we have seen
today have been very quick. This
one looks a little bit more
intense than the ones that we’ve
seen in pictures so far today.
So this could easily last, you
know, ten, 15, 20 minutes or so
before it out. And I’m actually
looking on radar. This thing is
so small and so thin. I can
barely see any rotation there on
radar with any of the showers.
So that’s why the National
Weather Service may not even
know this is there unless I’m
sure they’re watching our feed.
But you can’t see this thing on
radar because it’s so small. So
let me zoom in here and can see
a couple of those showers moving
between Hollywood and Fort
Lauderdale, going right on top
of Fort Lauderdale Airport.
Notice you’re not seeing those
big intense reds which we went
through last week. We saw some
of these funnel clouds move
through. That’s a very
environment. You got strong
super thunderstorms moving
through this area. Notice on
radar, lightning strikes popping
up these just some generic
downpours, but You get the
ingredients to come together
just right offshore over that
water. You get that little bit
of spin you don’t have friction
of trees, anything. It’s just
that flat water. You can easily
get those waterspouts to develop
and it makes for an incredible
sight if you’re down there
seeing something like this in
person. And Brandon, although it
does seem to still be pretty far
offshore, we’re still monitoring
it because again, we’re a bit
surprised it’s lasting this
long. But what saw to be the
ingress audience that would
allow this waterspout to move
toward the shore. Well we have a
little bit of wind shear in
place. It goes along with the
winds kind of upstairs here
along Florida coastline in this
tropical air mass, all this
moisture, we see hundreds of
these waterspouts throughout the
year they come in different
shapes and sizes a lot of them
come and go and people don’t
even know they’re there. But in
a case today, this is a pretty
decent that is getting a little
close to the coastline. You see
the radar there. These storms
moving kind of from east to
west. So they getting a little
bit closer to the coast. We
could see these get pretty close
to the coast and it’s not
unheard occasionally for some
these waterspouts to briefly on
shore once it hits the sand,
that would actually be
considered tornado and can whip
around those beach umbrellas.
And we know how populated a
Hollywood beach can get this
time of the year. And let’s go
back to that full screen because
it looks like we’re cutting off
that funnel. It should on the
right side of the screen, that
rain there in the background.
It’s moving, Brandon. I mean, a
little hard to tell, but it does
seem to closer and closer to the
shore now that we’re getting
this vantage point. We don’t
know whether. That’s just the
shift in perspective. Sky ten
versus sort of our eyes may be
deceiving us in terms of its
curvature or else. I know you
said maybe it’s not getting
closer, but is it moving at all
here. It’s definitely looks like
it’s about within a mile. I’d of
the coastline now the shower
activity is moving towards the
so this waterspout would be
moving along with it and these
things fizzle out when it gets
to the coast but I haven’t seen
much change in the structure
since. We came on with it. Yeah,
it’s holding strong. Brandon and
I have to say that. One thing I
notice is I’m looking at the
shoreline here again. This just
off of Hollywood Beach and I see
plenty, at least even from this
vantage point, from Sky, I see
lots of people on the beach. I
could see some of the beach
umbrellas with the beach chairs,
the towels, like it’s very to
see that. So there are people on
the beach right now no doubt
their cell phones out probably
trying get images of this which
is quite a sight to see and it’s
moving it’s definitely moving
toward the shore. So I do hope
those there know it might want
to get indoors. Now, don’t
stretch your time out there if
you can. But this is also a
worthy to kind of remind people
we walk in a way they’re getting
a lot boardwalk. Yeah they’re
exactly what they should do
they’ve been watching this thing
they see it getting closer and
case of it’s coming right at
you. It looks like it’s not
moving because it’s moving now
at the San Diego area in. Close.
Yeah, this one looks like it’s
going to move on shore, make it
onshore. I really the next few
seconds here mentioned also this
is a tornado once. It makes
landfall here. It touches
center. Yeah the this would be a
brief tornado. I’m look at the
here we go umbrellas already
rolling down the beach. You see
that? Yeah, we see it. You said
look at that. Just lifting it
right up. So you said about 50
mile per hour winds. We could be
expecting. You could easily see
50, 60, even higher depending on
the strength of it. That’s
right. On top of the well,
someone almost just fell on the
right side of your screen, their
chairs getting whipped around
chairs. It looks okay. I might
be done from what we saw. Well,
they might have finished is a
good moment to ask whether it
like what are the dynamics of a
waterspout that it is
technically a tornado the sense
that it made contact with the
sand everything else. How long
does it take to sort of
dissipate from here on out?
Sometimes it can last a while in
this. Like I told you, it’s not
going to last. And you can see
it’s already fizzled out. It
hits the land. It’s hitting
these buildings. The winds get
disrupted. Cuts more friction.
And it already out. The funnel
may still be their up by the
clouds, but I don’t see any
circulation at the surface. It
looks like Margaritaville that’s
on the bottom of that big white
building that’s looking. So this
is just north of Margaritaville
, in the middle of the Broadway,
right of that Broadway we were
talking about. And Brandon, what
what an example, how quickly the
weather can change. First
spotted this several miles. We
weren’t even sure if it was
going to make it to shore
because like you said, we rarely
see that but it took about,
what, 10 minutes for it to get
land. So what a sight to see
that. We were able to capture
this from sky ten. We have never
been able to an actual
waterspout landfall in that way
and see what it can do even in
those brief seconds what it can
do yeah you it didn’t take long
and I think that’s the biggest
danger about these waterspouts
is not so far inland near
buildings it’s right there on
the beach with all those
umbrellas. Imagine that big
umbrella stick blowing around
when sitting there on the beach
and it look most people had
cleared out and trying to get a
closer look. A few on the right
side of your screen are now
making their way back out to the
beach it looks like they’re and
that one at the top right where
we see the truck might have been
the person a couple of minutes
ago that we saw fall down when
it initially made landfall
there. So Hopefully that person
is doing. But it looks like just
based on general behavior,