On the weekends in the Leningrad region has noticed a tornado

On the weekends in the Leningrad region had seen a tornado. Vortex photographed and posted in social networks residents of Gatchina which is situated about 40 km from St. Petersburg.

The tornado "jumped" from the extensive cumulonimbus clouds. Funnel tube reaching down, but the ground never got. Therefore incident has done without victims and destructions.

Although tornadoes and tornado many associated with the Middle West of the United States, these weather phenomena are formed and in Russia, and from year to year more often. Summer 2017 was particularly rich in cases of observation of atmospheric vortices. So, in June, rotating column extending from the heaven to the earth, caught on camera in Taganrog. In the same month became popular videos from Miass, which is seen as out of the clouds comes the tornado. In July giant funnel spotted on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. In August, dust devils spun on the Novosibirsk reservoir.

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