Funnel Cloud

At 7:55am August 10, 2005 I took this picture of a funnel cloud east of Boca Raton, Florida. This picture was taken from Glades Road heading east at the intersection of Airport Road.

I saw the funnel cloud forming about a minute earlier as I was exiting I-95 but I could not grab my camera until I got to the light. It was a great way to start off my day.

Below the funnel cloud picture is the Miami radar from about the same time. You can see a small cluster of showers approacing the coast in southern Palm Beach county that spawned this work of nature.

The event only lasted a few minutes but it is just amazing to watch. And as quickly as it formed it vanished.