Crazy weather! Moment TORNADO appears above a Scottish town after heavy rain and thunderstorms sweep the country – as locals say they’ve ‘never seen anything like it before’
- Locals shocked as ‘crazy’ tornado hit Midlothian, Scotland after rain and thunder
- The waterspout tornado was filmed raging over the town of Bonnyrigg last night
- Waterspout occurs when a tornado occurs on open water, the Met Office say
- ‘Tornadoes don’t just happen in Kansas,’ says geography teacher from Moray
Residents of a Scottish town were left stunned after a raging tornado appeared in the sky after heavy rain and thunderstorms swept parts of the country.
The waterspout tornado in Midlothian last night was captured on film as locals branded it ‘crazy weather’ saying they had ‘never seen anything like it before’.
However, a geography teacher from Moray told a shocked Bonnyrigg resident on Twitter that ‘tornadoes don’t just happen in Kansas’.
‘Tornadoes don’t just happen in kansas’: A rare waterspout tornado (pictured) in Midlothian, Scotland last night branded ‘crazy weather’ by locals saying they had ‘never seen anything like it before’
A yellow warning for thunderstorms was put in force by the Met Office until 11pm last night for much of central, eastern and north eastern Scotland.
The weather agency said the tornado was a waterspout, a type of tornado that forms over open water.
The weather formation was filmed in the town of Bonnyrigg, around eight miles southeast of Edinburgh city centre, at around 3.30pm yesterday afternoon, September 6.
The Met Office weather agency said the tornado was a waterspout, a type of tornado that forms over open water
A waterspout tornado is a type of tornado that forms over water.
Tornadoes start as funnel clouds, a cone shaped cloud extending out the bottom of a cloud.
Funnel clouds form when a spinning column of wind pulls in cloud droplets.
This makes a region of intense low pressure visible.
A funnel cloud does not become a tornado until it reaches the earth’s surface, and if it reaches a body of water it is called a waterspout/
The UK sees 30-35 tornadoes a year, but they are usually not strong enough to cause damage.
Source: Met Office
Mother-of-one Lisa Millar, 38, said: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it before.
‘It went on for about a minute or two minutes.
‘I have always wanted to see one, it wasn’t scary.’
Twitter user Karla Watt was shocked by the extreme weather which she posted a video of.
She tweeted ‘Tornado in Bonnyrigg’, appending ‘shocked face’ and tornado emojis to her post.
Geography teacher at Elgin High School in Moray replied, referencing the famous scene in The Wizard of Oz, in which Dorothy’s house is swept up by a tornado.
‘Tornadoes don’t just happen in Kansas,’ he relied to Ms Watt giving her a quick geography lesson.
‘With the right conditions, even in Scotland, can produce them.’
Twitter user Aisling posted a video of the passing Rosewell, Midlothian and wrote: ‘Never seen anything like it. It went right by our house. The video doesn’t capture how intense it was.’
Others shared their surprise, with one person writing: ‘Never seen a tornado before in Midlothian’.
Another Twitter user posted: ‘Tornado in Midlothian. Crazy weather.’
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