It was, this Tuesday morning, sighted in lakes a trunk of water. On social networks there are several videos and photographs captured by those who passed there.
The water trunk was sighted by popular around 8:45 on Tuesday. The Port of Lagos Captaincy says, however, it has no record of any occurrences.
The district of Faro, of which is the municipality of Lagos, is under yellow warning until 15:00 due to rain.
What is a water trunk?
This relatively rare in Portugal is equated with a tornado, but occurs exclusively on large water surfaces.
It is “a often violent whirlwind” that raises water pics from the surface of the sea or rivers.
The result is a “nebula column or inverted nebula cone in the form of funnel,” explains the.